‘Pink Slime’ Will Be a Choice for Schools

“It kind of looks like play dough,” said Kit Foshee, who, until 2001, was a corporate quality assurance manager at Beef Products Inc., the company that makes “pink slime.” “It’s pink and frozen, it’s not what the typical person would consider meat.”

J. Patrick Boyle, president of the American Meat Institute, defended the practice as a way to safely use what otherwise would be wasted. “BLBT (Boneless Lean Beef Trimmings) is a sustainable product because it recovers lean meat that would otherwise be wasted,” he said in a statement.

However, the substance, critics said, is more like gelatin than meat, and before BPI found a way to use it by disinfecting the trimmings with ammonia, it was sold only to dog food or cooking oil suppliers.

The low-grade trimmings come from the parts of the cow most susceptible to contamination, often close to the hide, which is highly exposed to fecal matter. But because the treatment of the trimmings – simmering them in low heat, separating fat and tissue using a centrifuge and spraying them with ammonia gas to kill germs – the United States Department of Agriculture says it’s safe to eat.

There is only one way to know for certain that “pink slime” is not in your beef: If your meat is stamped USDA Organic, it’s pure meat with no filler.

Otherwise, you can’t know from the packaging because “pink slime” does not have to appear on the label. And the USDA is giving no indication it will force meat packers to lift the veil of secrecy any time soon.

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There are easy and healthy alternatives to “pink slime” that are inexpensive and taste rally great. Jeff Novick has a new Fast Food DVD that is about to be released that will give you excellent recipes. You can also go to the recipe resources at Slender For Life™ for over 14,000 alternatives to animal fats.

I often hear from parents that they just don’t think that their family could ever go without chicken, fish, beef, pork or dairy products. Some, still think that eating animal proteins is healthy. They are not needed for nutrition and they certainly are not healthy. I really think that most people are eating animal fats out of habit – it’s our culture. Its a form of mindless eating – its just what people do. When you are mindful, it becomes easy to eat plant-based meals. You and your family can easily learn hypnosis and become the mindful eaters that will support the health and wellness for your family.

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Update, Sunday, March 25, 2012: Scientist who coined
“Pink Slime” reluctant whistleblower

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In spite of what Paula Deen said this week about moderation, the reality is that moderation is killing Americans. As a nation, we are fat and sick. Watch the interview with Paul Deen in my January 19, 2012, blog post and you can see that. Obesity and its related diseases like type 2 diabetes are preventable. Moderate change produces moderate results. Radical change produces radical results. Sanjay Gupta recently said that 100 hundred years from now people will look back at how Americans eat today and think that was radical. What were they thinking?! If you are ready for radical results in your life, discover what hypnosis for weight loss can do for you.

From Becoming Slender For Life

My recommendations for healthy eating are radical—and some would call them extreme. But look at it this way. Radical changes produce radical results. Small changes produce small results.

Over the years, I have consistently seen that people who make radical changes have the greatest success and tell me it was easy. They find it easier to just change, and they discover that any desire for the fatty foods that caused them to put on their excess weight very quickly vanishes. Those who make small changes are the least likely to succeed and have the most difficulty. Moderation may work for moderate people, but not for the rest of us compulsive, passionate, obsessive people.

Nutritionist Jeff Novick got this absolutely right when he wrote: “The concept of Moderation is killing Americans. On average, Americans are taking in less than 40% of the minimum recommended amounts of whole grains, vegetables, fruits and fiber. Yet, at the same time, they are taking in over 230% of the amount of saturated fat, added sugars, other fats, refined grains and sodium.

So, who can moderate?
Moderation would do absolutely nothing to improve these numbers.

What we do need is a dramatic increase in the amount of fruits, vegetables and whole grains while at the same time a dramatic decrease in the amount of Sat Fat, added sugars, fats, refined grains and sodium.

Moderation is only an excuse and rationalization which is being fueled by the clever marketing and advertising of the food industry to keep us doing the things we know we shouldn’t be doing and to keep us consuming their products, which in the end, is actually a major contributor to our ill health and early death.” Becoming Slender For Life pages 127 – 128.

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Hypnosis for weight loss can help you make it easy to change your eating preferences. Those foods that you have been eating that are causing you to be overweight are killing you. Hippocrates said “Let food be thy medicine and medicine by thy food.”  Plant-based food can save your life and help set your children up for a life of health. Do your part and promote healthy plant-based food.

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You are the fat you eat.

Fat is calorie dense, one tablespoon of olive oil has more calories than a pound of broccoli. In Becoming Slender For Life, I write, “Fat is normally measured two different ways—in grams, and in percentage of total fat calories. Usually, fat is expressed as a percentage of total calories, since food is consumed to satisfy our need for calories, not our need for weight. Groups such as the American Medical Association and the American Heart Association have recommended a 30 percent total fat calorie diet to reduce the risk of heart disease and many types of cancer. By their recommendation, no more than 30 percent of all the calories you consume in a day should come from fat. However, we do know based on the work of dietary health experts such as Dr. John McDougall, Dr. Neil Barnard, Dr. Dean Ornish and Dr. T. Colin Campbell, that fat calories should actually be no more than 10 percent of the total calories consumed each day. Sadly today, most Americans consume as much as 40 percent of their total calories as fat. While fat is an energy source, we hardly use any fat energy in our sedentary lifestyles. Instead, we store fat in our bodies like a pillow. In order to begin to release weight, most men and women need to consume less than 20 percent total fat calories. If you consumed 1200 calories in a day and if 20 percent of the calories were from fat, it would mean you consumed 240 fat calories. Since there are 9 calories in just one gram of fat, 240 divided by 9 equals 27 total grams of fat.

You may desire to release weight faster than this. If you reduce your fat consumption to 15 percent total fat calories, or 20 grams of fat per day at 1200 total calories, and you exercise, you may release about one to two pounds per week. At 5 to 10 percent total fat calories you will probably release about two to three pounds each week. Doing the math you can see that eating only 5 to10 percent total fat calories is a much more motivating way to achieve results.” ~ Updated second edition, page 129, Becoming Slender For Life.

Weight loss hypnosis will help you cut the fat out of your life and support you in choosing foods that are low in calorie density. With hypnosis for weight loss you can maintain a non-stop daily determination to reach your healthy weight. Be sure to check out Jeff Novick’s My Simple Recipes.

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Pros and Cons of Going Vegan

“It is a little bit of a change and whole lot of people know that they want to do it because they know if they do it they can get rid of all the cholesterol, all of the animal fat and they can be slim and healthy,” said Dr. Neal Barnard from the Physicians for Responsible Medicine. Dr. Barnard says a plant-based diet can help people lower their cholesterol, blood pressure, and lose weight. But it does require a lot of meal planning. Vegan convenience foods can help ease the transition, but dietitians say just because it’s vegan, doesn’t mean it’s healthy.

“If it comes in a package, it’s still a processed food,” said registered dietician Rececca Scritchfield.

All that food can still be packed with calories, sodium and sugar, so read labels carefully, she advised.

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The use of processed foods in any eating strategy should be minimized. Sometimes I hear from clients that they are trying to take short cuts to healthy eating by purchasing packaged vegan convenience meals. When I send them home to read the label, they rarely continue to purchase processed food.

In the news clip, the question is raised about protein. Just a few weeks ago I wrote Where do you get your Protein if you don’t eat Meat? where I pointed out that if you are healthy, it is impossible for you to have a protein deficiency if you only eat plant-based food. The question I always ask is, “Who do you know that has a protein deficiency?” The answer, “no one.”

My book, Becoming Slender For Life and its hypnosis CD set can support you in making the lifestyle changes necessary for your health.

My Simple Recipes ~ Jeff Novick, MS, RD is an excellent resource for simple, fast, inexpensive and healthy meals. To learn more about vitamin B12, read Vitamin B12 Deficiency—the Meat-eaters’ Last Stand, by Dr. John McDougall.

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~ Sanjay Gupta

Thank you Jean Enersen and KING 5 HealthLink for promoting healthy vegan eating.

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Dr. Sanjay Gupta discovers that you can eat your way to heart health. Dr. Gupta also supports what I have been saying for years: your genes do not preordain you to heart disease. It is much about lifestyle. Dr. Sanjay Gupta interviews Bill Clinton, Caldwell Esseltyn, and T. Collin Campbell. My book Becoming Slender For Life and the Slender For Life™ weight loss program advocates the plant-base lifestyle recommended by T. Collin Campbell, Caldwell Esselstyn, Dr. John McDougall, Dr. Neal Barnard and Dr. Dean Ornish. If you are ready to be heart healthy, Slender For Life™ can make the difference for you. If you missed The Last Heart Attack last night, here it is in it’s entirety.

Dr. Gupta affirms that research shows people who followed Dr. Esselstyn’s diet became heart attack proof, while people who dropped out of his program and went back to the standard American diet — died of or got sicker with heart disease. A plant-based diet works! says Dr. Gupta. Good food heals, bad food kills. It’s really that simple.

100 years from now when people look back at today’s Standard American Diet, they will think of it as radical.

In my book, Becoming Slender For Life I write that, “My recommendations for healthy eating are radical—and some would call them extreme. But look at it this way. Radical changes produce radical results. Small changes produce small results. Over the years, I have consistently seen that people who make radical changes have the greatest success and tell me it was easy. They find it easier to just change, and they discover that any desire for the fatty foods that caused them to put on their excess weight very quickly vanishes. Those who make small changes are the least likely to succeed and have the most difficulty. Moderation may work for moderate people, but not for the rest of us compulsive, passionate, obsessive people.

Moderation is killing Americans

Nutritionist Jeff Novick got this absolutely right when he wrote: “The concept of Moderation is killing Americans. On average, Americans are taking in less than 40% of the minimum recommended amounts of whole grains, vegetables, fruits and fiber. Yet, at the same time, they are taking in over 230% of the amount of saturated fat, added sugars, other fats, refined grains and sodium.

So, who can moderate?

Moderation would do absolutely nothing
to improve these numbers.

What we do need is a dramatic increase in the amount of fruits, vegetables and whole grains while at the same time a dramatic decrease in the amount of saturated fat, added sugars, fats, refined grains and sodium.

Moderation is only an excuse and rationalization which is being fueled by the clever marketing and advertising of the food industry to keep us doing the things we know we shouldn’t be doing and to keep us consuming their products, which in the end, is actually a major contributor to our ill health and early death.” Chapter 5, Becoming Slender For Life updated second edition, page 128.

Today, using food as medicine is radical. My prayer is that we don’t have to wait for 100 years for this to be normal.

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