You have a choice about the food you eat for meals and snacks: diet food, junk food, comfort food, fast food. When you’re eating right, you choose food based on its good nutrition and its value in healthy meals.
Take meat and poultry, for example. You know that these lean protein sources can be a staple of healthy diets, if you choose to eat them.
But you might need to know even more than just facts about good nutrition. Specifically, it is worth checking into the eating plans of the animals themselves.
Why should we care about whether our food sources are eating right or on fad diets?
Well, there have been studies conducted to find out how different diets of animals ultimately affect the nutrients available to consumers.
Milk that came from cows who grazed in fields, therefore naturally eating right, contained a tremendous amount of CLA (an acid that promotes healthy weight loss) as compared to milk from cows who were fed special diets in order to increase production.
Eggs produced by chickens that are allowed to eat what’s in their natural surroundings had a composition of healthy fats that is more beneficial to humans than the composition found in eggs of chickens that were forced to eat a special feed.
This same contrast of omega 6 and omega 3 compositions was found in bison meat, with the healthy ratio being present in grass-fed bison, and the unhealthy ratio in grain-fed bison.
Healthy eating goes beyond choosing baked chicken over fried. Know what choices you’re making in your healthy meals.
Tags: eating right, good nutrition
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