As someone who follows a plant based diet, Beyond Burgers or the impossible burgers are not an example of a healthy plant based meal. They are awful for you; full of oils and chemicals. It’s a marketing scheme. And to clarify, I am a conservative( these diets sometime come with a stereotype). Pam Popper who Jeff has mentioned in prior bl…
As someone who follows a plant based diet, Beyond Burgers or the impossible burgers are not an example of a healthy plant based meal. They are awful for you; full of oils and chemicals. It’s a marketing scheme. And to clarify, I am a conservative( these diets sometime come with a stereotype). Pam Popper who Jeff has mentioned in prior blogs, has promoted and researched food in relation to health for years. She’s one of our main reasons why my husband and I did not take the jab. My main point is not to promote a diet but to point out how awful that substitute meat is for your health.
I am also a conservative who eats a plant based whole food diet - the data is undeniable regarding the health benefits of eating plants. But - the processed faux meats are bad news - as you say - full of oils and chemicals.
I've studied health pretty extensively and now belief 2 things about diet. 1 quality of the food is much more important than type, biggest example is animal fats. Because fat stores many toxins, the fat of animals raised on toxic CAFO diet adds alot of additional toxins to a person's diet, whereas animal raised on a natural diet for their species e.g. cows eating grass has fat that is a "superfood" in terms of nutritional value. And as MK says Beyond Burgers are not an ideal plant-based food. AT. ALL.
The other is that variety, particularly seasonal variety is healthy. This is why plant-based people often do better when switch to meat and hard-core meat eaters do better when go to healthy plant-based diet. Human evolved to eat a different type of diet at different times of year, times of less or no animal products, times of more, times of feast, and times of eating less. Switching things up now and then is good for us as long as stay with food as that's as natural as possible.
As someone who follows a plant based diet, Beyond Burgers or the impossible burgers are not an example of a healthy plant based meal. They are awful for you; full of oils and chemicals. It’s a marketing scheme. And to clarify, I am a conservative( these diets sometime come with a stereotype). Pam Popper who Jeff has mentioned in prior blogs, has promoted and researched food in relation to health for years. She’s one of our main reasons why my husband and I did not take the jab. My main point is not to promote a diet but to point out how awful that substitute meat is for your health.
I'll stick with my plant based cow diet. Grass fed and grass finished.
I am also a conservative who eats a plant based whole food diet - the data is undeniable regarding the health benefits of eating plants. But - the processed faux meats are bad news - as you say - full of oils and chemicals.
Agree and I love and support Pam and her organization. She definitely was a life saver during the lockdowns and now.
I've studied health pretty extensively and now belief 2 things about diet. 1 quality of the food is much more important than type, biggest example is animal fats. Because fat stores many toxins, the fat of animals raised on toxic CAFO diet adds alot of additional toxins to a person's diet, whereas animal raised on a natural diet for their species e.g. cows eating grass has fat that is a "superfood" in terms of nutritional value. And as MK says Beyond Burgers are not an ideal plant-based food. AT. ALL.
The other is that variety, particularly seasonal variety is healthy. This is why plant-based people often do better when switch to meat and hard-core meat eaters do better when go to healthy plant-based diet. Human evolved to eat a different type of diet at different times of year, times of less or no animal products, times of more, times of feast, and times of eating less. Switching things up now and then is good for us as long as stay with food as that's as natural as possible.