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Issue: #14
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March 26, 2012
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Volume 2, Letter 14
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March 26, 2012
Food Inc. the documentary. Why should you care?
As a physician and a consumer, I was appalled by a scene in the movie where an investigator has his hand in one of the 4 stomachs of a cow. He is looking into the E coli bacterial counts in the ruminant of the cow. He goes on to tell the listener that feeding a cow an unnatural grain based diet of corn instead of grass increases the colony counts of E coli significantly.
How does this go on to affect us? Some E coli are pathogenic (dangerous to us). O157:H7 is the notorious killer that we see in the news media. If the diet of a cow encourages E coli to grow, it only makes sense that it will encourage all E coli strains to thrive in cows. Then the dangerous bacteria can be increasingly transmitted by the feces as a contaminant in the commercially sold meats. The end result is disease in humans.
The industry solution to increased risk of E coli disease spread? You guessed it. Pink Slime.
From an LA Times editorial: link: � pink slime. "That's the less-than-thoroughly-accurate epithet bestowed on what the industry prefers to call lean, finely textured beef, which is made by salvaging the fatty scraps left after the animal has been butchered, putting it through a centrifuge to separate out the fat and treating it with ammonium hydroxide gas to raise the pH level and thus kill bacteria.
It's true, as some parents have noted, that the European Union allows pink slime only in pet food. But then, Europe doesn't allow a lot of things that are permitted in this country, including the use of synthetic hormones to raise beef cattle and the use of antibiotics to promote livestock growth. These might be just as bad or worse than pink slime, yet parents aren't fighting to have them removed."
So let me understand! We feed the animals food that they generally do not eat. It makes them less healthy and encourages growth of a class of bacteria that may cause disease, if ingested with the meat. Instead of returning them to a natural diet and improving butchering cleanliness, they add ammonia to the meat. Not for me.
My take home point today: Get to know the farmers market and the local butcher for meat that is grass fed, hormone free! Consumers can drive the discussion and encourage the industry away from unnatural practices.
I still love a good burger,
Dr. Magryta
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Human Microbiome
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As with the article above, we have similar bacterial changes in our intestines. Humans that eat a diet high in refined flours and sugars from corn and wheat are at increased risk for abnormal growth of E coli and other gram negative rod bacteria. These bacteria stress our immune system when they die. They cause a low level inflammatory response in our blood stream.
Bottom line: The American processed food diet has the effect of causing all illness to worsen depending on your genes and diseases. As with the animals, we were meant to eat natural whole foods!
Dr. M
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Recipe of the Week
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A delicious sandwich.
Ingredients:
1 or 2 slices of whole grain bread (you can see seeds) Spreadable guacamole or 2 slices of avocado 2 tomato slices 2 slices prosciutto 1 slice of organic havarti cheese A handful of sprouts Field greens Fleur de sel Fresh ground pepper
Combine all ingredients as you would any sandwich. Sprinkle with a touch of fleur de sel and pepper. Cut and eat.
*If you do it open faced with one slice of bread, put the prosciutto on top to hold it together.
Enjoy,
Dr. M
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Chris Magryta
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