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Red meat x inflammation

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iellen32
iellen32

I just eat red meat now and then - avoid eating it regularly because it does not help the inflammation, just the opposite.

What is your experience on that matter?

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  • Anhaga
    Anhaga iellen32

    Posted

    I believe in balance.  But that being said I am a vegetarian because I do not want to eat suffering.  As I've said elsewhere I'm not anywhere near perfect - hello - leather belt, leather gloves. cry  But one does what one can.  Perhaps in another time, another place, where animals were respected and treated well before slaughter, it would have been different.  
    • EileenH
      EileenH Anhaga

      Posted

      I eat veal - because our local veal was born up a mountain and stayed with mum all its short life, drinking milk. Then it was slaughtered calmly by our local butcher. I use milk products and to have those there must be calves. The bull calves are killed at some point - but the ones I eat kept mum happy too.

      But for those who can't cope with that thought - that's fine too. Just not for me.

    • Anhaga
      Anhaga EileenH

      Posted

      I think that is so much more the way things should be.  Philosophically there is nothing wrong with eating meat.  If you think about it, when a human eats another animal, that animal becomes part of the human substance, and that should be considered a good thing.  My issue really is with the treatment of animals.  Humans have betrayed animals, the compact we made with them thousands of years ago that we would look after them, protect them from predators, and when the time was right kill them with gratitude and allow them to become part of us.  I literally cannot stomach the thought of industrial animal production.
    • EileenH
      EileenH Anhaga

      Posted

      Me neither - so I am very fussy about where I buy meat for me to eat. Lamb from the UK and this region is a bit like the veal from here - they live up the mountains all their life - the way it should be. But factory farming is evil.
  • maid_mariane
    maid_mariane iellen32

    Posted

    Here is my 2 cents worth. Unfortunately i had gained weight prior to pmr thanks to my husbands cooking and my lack of saying no, so just prior we started my way of cooking and our doctors which is no or reduced carbs, we eat cheese (we should own a cow), cream etc and i love my beef and don't shy away. We both eat eggs daily as my dr. Said have 3 for breakfast not 2.

    My husband's cholesterol is now the lowest ever as well as his other levels.

    I truly belive if you know your body you will eat what it needs. Prior to this we were doing gluten free pasta and we both felt better but now i use spaghetti squash for pasta. We have both lost weight and need to loose more but we don't feel deprived.

    I treat us us some great diabetic chocolate bars and do strawberry parfets for desert with homemade whipping cream and lots of it.😆

    I was always low in iron so meat is good for me and i like wild meat like buffalo, moose and deer on occasion however when we are away south i do nothing but fish.

    Good luck

    • EileenH
      EileenH maid_mariane

      Posted

      Oooh - will have to plan a visit to your neck of the woods too! That's how I eat - but my OH can neither cook nor will eat that sort of food. 
    • Anhaga
      Anhaga maid_mariane

      Posted

      For Christmas one of my friends was given a gizmo for making instant whipped cream.  It seems to work on the same principle as a soda siphon, so what you get is just "whipped" or, more accurately, aerated cream, and no chemicals!  I watched her use it, so simple!
    • maid_mariane
      maid_mariane EileenH

      Posted

      Both hubby and i love to cook and would love you to have a reason to come to Toronto, there has to be some symposium here for you to attend.😆

      Only problem is you would have to stay longer so we can not only show Toronto but our beautiful cottage county north with awesome white sand beaches and a chilled out relaxed living on our deck up there.

      Did my sales pitch work.lol

      I wish i could make it west but here is your incentive.

    • iellen32
      iellen32 maid_mariane

      Posted

      Yes, each one of us is unique we are all different and living in places where there are particular ways how they raise their cattle.

      There is no size fits all .

      This was the reason to place my discussion and I have been fully answered.

      I told my experience and got other ones own experience plus the location where they call home.

      I thank to all who directly or indirectly are giving me their personal contribution to my discussion. 😊

    • EileenH
      EileenH maid_mariane

      Posted

      If only we'd known this all sooner! How did we end up with 2 Canadian options in one year? It  isn't fair!!!!
    • maid_mariane
      maid_mariane Anhaga

      Posted

      Ive had the commercial versin for over 30 yrs and just bought another a few yrs back for our 2nd home.

      You can also make soda water too.

      Their awsome and the whipcream lasts long.😈

  • mphooey
    mphooey iellen32

    Posted

    I tried an anti inflammatory diet for three months and there was no change. Actually I don't have PMR any more, says my rheum. I have RA now. I actually had terrible knee flareups while on the diet and had to have one drained. 

    I still eat a healthy diet which doesn't include alot of red meat or carbonated soda but I don't fuss when I'm out to dinner. I eat because it tastes good, not just because it's "good for me."

    • iellen32
      iellen32 mphooey

      Posted

      Moderation as you do is a good thing. We must observe our own body's symptoms. They are for us as the Control Panel of an airplane😊
    • iellen32
      iellen32 mphooey

      Posted

      Moderation as you do is a good thing. We must observe our own body's symptoms. They are for us as the Control Panel of an airplane😊
    • iellen32
      iellen32 margo25238

      Posted

      The discussion brought an interesting variety of opinions based on the true different experience of each one of the participants.

      Some people can, some can't eat this or that kind of food.

      Again, thank you so very much for all your valuable replies.

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