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Dear John,
It's that time of year again - Super Bowl
XLVI will be here next weekend and now is the time to stock up
on your party essentials! Check out our
blog for some unique
Chicken Wing recipe
ideas, and be sure to visit our recipe section below for a
unique Marinated Kabob recipe that your guests will love.
We have all the ingredients you need for great super bowl
snacks that you don't have to feel guilty about indulging
in! Think
Beef Snack Sticks,
Organic Nuts & Trail Mix,
Burger Sliders,
Beef
Franks, even
Ice
Cream - to satisfy all of your picky Super Bowl palates!
Inflammation is a health issue that is the
root problem to many other serious diseases. We have been
seeing more literature come out lately about inflammation and
why it can be deadly. We know that keeping a good balance
of omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids will keep inflammation in
check. The ideal ratio is somewhere around 2:1, sadly the
Standard American Diet is closer to 20:1. So it is no
surprise our country is suffering from epic numbers of obesity,
diabetes and heart disease. Our friends at
Mark's Daily Apple
had a very helpful post up this week describing some of the
best anti-inflammatory foods and we were pleased to see some of
our favorites made the list, such as
pastured animal fat and
wild-caught salmon. Another great
option is the
Sockeye Salmon Oil, and it is our featured
volume discount item this week, buy at least three bottles and
save 15%!
The
USDA announced this week that for the first
time in over 15 years, they are
raising the standards on school
lunches. This is a great step towards tackling childhood
obesity. While the new standards are not perfect, they
are certainly a step in the right direction. We were very
glad to see a limit set on calories, and more attention paid to
fruits, vegetables, protein and reduced trans fats and
sodium. These regulations will be phased into schools
starting this year, stay tuned for more information.
Many of you probably read about a recent
Yahoo! article ranking the
"College Majors That Are
Useless", and we hope that you were just as shocked as we
were to see agriculture at the top of the list. While
this ranking was largely based on the author's opinion, it
frustrated us that they did not understand that without
agriculture, we would all be going hungry. The
agriculture industry is constantly changing and there are so
many new opportunities in niche markets like ours, that it
isn't really much of a niche anymore! Read the
full list here, and see a
great rebuttal from the
Huffington
Post. We'd love to hear your thoughts also - visit us
on
Facebook to share your feedback.
We picked up all kinds of
kitchen and cooking tips in this
great post from Whole9 this week that we just had to share
them! They interviewed some of the best minds in the
Paleo world who offered their secret kitchen insights to save
you both time and money!
Wondering what to do with the leftover
styrofoam coolers that your order arrives in? Then head
over to our
blog. We get asked this question
quite often, and have compiled a list of ideas in order to
reuse and recyle the coolers. We would love to hear your
ideas also! Just for leaving your
comment on the blog you will automatically
be entered to win a $100 gift certificate!
We've been working
hard to restock some of our staple items this month and all
pemmican is expected to restock tomorrow, January 30. We
appreciate your patience as we expand our processing facilities
to keep up with growing demand!
Warm Winter
Wishes,
John, Lee Ann, Tressa, Jennifer and
Amanda on behalf of the farm families of U.S. Wellness
Meats
Toll Free: (877)
383-0051
Direct Line: (573) 767-9040
Fax Number: (573) 767-5475
Email:
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Inventory
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The following items
restocked:  It's Back! Notice:
- As
of February 1, 2012, you may notice a slight increase in
certain beef products by no more than 5%. This is due to
increasing production, live animal and shipping costs that we
have been covering, and unfortunately have no choice but to
raise those prices slightly.
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Dr. Eric
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Question and Answer
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Hello Dr.
Serrano,
Both my parents and my three older siblings (in their 40's)
have high blood pressure and take medicine for it. My
41-year-old sister, who was just diagnosed and put on medicine,
is trim, moderately active, and does not smoke. How much does
genetics play a role and, as I approach 40, am I destined to
follow this route?
Any advice for me to avoid
this route and for them to get off of it is appreciated.
Thanks for all you do!
Nancy
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p style="margin-top: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Geneva;
margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 10pt;"> Dear Nancy, Thank you for the great
compliments and my answer to you is NO, you don't have to
follow the family route. The
majority of our genes are inducible, meaning 70% of them we can
make so they are something that we want and the other 30% we
can't, for example: the color of your eyes. You told me that your old
sister is trim, moderately active and does not smoke, but what
about her diet, stress, life, religion, happiness? All of the above affects
your blood pressure, and one very important detail about your
diet. It is not what you eat but what you absorb, and to
do that you need to make sure that when you are selecting what
you are going to eat, make sure it has the necessary balance
between fats, carbohydrates and proteins with all the
micronutrients necessary for optimal health. This means that
you might need to supplement your diet here and there with
extra vitamins or fats, but if you put everything together with
lifestyle and all of the above you will not have to follow the
same route. Start
with a good clean diet, faith, and top it with a good multi
vitamin like Food Multi IV by Innate (800-634-6342, you can use
code SER030) and a good probiotic with good fats like Alpha
Omega-3, (614-596-7994) and that will almost cover all the
necessary tools for an optimal life without need for drugs or
medications. I am 49-years-old and I don't take medicine even though
my dad and mother took medications. So please don't
panic, and continue reading US Wellness newsletters for more
information.
Good Luck,
Dr. Serrano
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This is a friendly reminder to
email health and wellness questions on any topic to eathealthy@grasslandbeef.com for the
Dr. Eric Serrano
M.D. question and answer
series.
Dr.
Serrano is an M.D. with advanced degrees in
nutrition, kinesiology and wellness and has worked with a
number of world-class athletes and has a large local family
practice in Ohio. Answers will
appear in future U.S. Wellness Newsletters under your first
name only.
Dr. Eric
Serrano M.D.
475 North
Hill Road
Pickerington, OH 43147-1157
Email Questions To:
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Dr.
Jeffrey Morrison, MD
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Fulfill
Your New Year's Resolution to Improve Your Health:
The
Case for Following a Detox Diet to Achieve Your
Goal
The
beginning of every year provides an opportunity to fulfill our
personal commitment to improve some aspect of our lives.
Many of us do this by making a resolution to lose weight, eat
healthier or even just be more mindful of our
environment. All of these aspirations are achievable long
term by using a detox diet to help make the transition to
optimal health successful. Here are some important things
to consider when choosing a plan. Why Detox?
We have created many
modern conveniences: from a technology industry that bring us
computers and cell phones to an agricultural industry that can
feed all Americans with food to spare. We are living in a
world that our grandparents would not easily recognize.
With all of our innovations, we've also created man-made
chemicals and toxins to facilitate industry productivity.
We have chemicals, heavy metals and plastics to make our
technology faster and lighter to pesticides and insecticides to
increase crop yields.
In fact, the EPA reports that over
70,000 chemicals are actively produced in North America and
10,000 of these are used in food packaging, wrapping and
storage. There is no place on Earth where man-made
chemicals and toxins are not detectable. And just like
leaves can collect in a rain gutter, toxins can accumulate in
us.
These toxins get stored in fat cells and in fluid in our
tissue. They cause inflammation, slow metabolism and
cause cells to malfunction. Symptoms of toxicity include
fatigue, memory changes, achy muscles and joints and weight
gain. If the accumulation of toxins exceeds a threshold,
diseases like diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure and
even cancer can develop.
These conditions can be avoided and
often times reversed with knowledge of how to make healthier
choices. I hope you find the following strategies helpful
in making healthier choices.
Detox Options - The Good and
The Bad:
It's almost impossible to turn
on the TV or listen to the radio, without hearing about how
celebrities have detoxed themselves skinny. From the
Master Cleanse to vegetable juice cleanses and even to complete
water fasts, people are losing weight fast on these
diets. In general, detox strategies fall into two main
categories, Juice Fasts and Detox Diets.
Read More...______________________________________<
br />
Jeffrey A. Morrison, M.D. is a practicing
physician, founder of The Morrison Center and The Daily Benefit
Program, an award-winning author of Cleanse Your Body, Clear
Your Mind, and a leader in the field of Integrative Medicine.
Visit, www.morrisonhealth.com to follow him on
Twitter, become a
fan on Facebook, and watch his videos on
YouTube. _______________________________________
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Recent
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Food Fried in Olive or Sunflower Oil Is Not
Linked to Heart Disease, Spanish Study Finds
Eating food
fried in
olive or
sunflower oil is not linked to heart disease or premature
death, finds a paper published in the British Medical
Journal Online.The authors stress, however, that
their study took place in Spain, a Mediterranean country where
olive or sunflower oil is used for frying and their results
would probably not be the same in another country where solid
and re-used oils were used for frying.
In Western countries,
frying is one of the most common methods of cooking. When food
is fried it becomes more calorific because the food absorbs the
fat of the oils.
While eating lots of fried food can
increase some heart disease risk factors such as high blood
pressure, high cholesterol and obesity, a link between fried
food and heart disease has not been fully
investigated.
So the authors, led by Professor Pilar
Guallar-Castillón from Autonomous University of Madrid,
surveyed the cooking methods of 40,757 adults aged 29 to 69
over an 11-year period. None of the participants had heart
disease when the study began.
Trained interviewers
asked participants about their diet and cooking methods. Fried
food was defined as food for which frying was the only cooking
method used. Questions were also asked about whether food was
fried, battered, crumbed or sautéed.
The participants' diet
was divided into ranges of fried food consumption, the first
quartile related to the lowest amount of fried food consumed
and the fourth indicated the highest amount.
During the
follow-up there were 606 events linked to heart disease and
1,134 deaths.
The authors conclude: "In a
Mediterranean country where olive and sunflower oils are the
most commonly used fats for frying, and where large amounts of
fried foods are consumed both at and away from home, no
association was observed between fried food consumption and the
risk of coronary heart disease or death."
In an accompanying
editorial, Professor Michael Leitzmann from the University of
Regensburg in Germany, says the study explodes the myth that
"frying food is generally bad for the heart" but stresses that
this "does not mean that frequent meals of fish and chips will
have no health consequences." He adds that specific aspects of
frying food are relevant, such as the
type of oil
used.
Source:
BMJ-British Medical Journal. "Food fried in olive or
sunflower oil is not linked to heart disease, Spanish study
finds." ScienceDaily, 24 Jan. 2012. Web. 26 Jan.
2012.
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Balsamic
Marinated Kabobs
Ingredients:
- 4 (8 inch)
wooden or metal skewers
- 1 pound package
New York Strip or
Tenderloin kabob meat
- 2 tablespoons
Worcestershire sauce
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher
salt
- 1/4
teaspoon freshly ground pepper
- 1/2 cup plus 2
tablespoons balsamic vinegar, divided
- 1 small green bell
pepper, seeded and cut into 1-inch pieces
- 1 small red bell pepper,
seeded and cut into 1-inch pieces
- 1 small purple onion,
sliced into 1-inch pieces
- 1 (8-ounce) package whole button
mushrooms
Directions:
- If using
wooden skewers, soak in water to cover 30
minutes.
- In a medium bowl, combine 1/2 cup balsamic
vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, garlic, salt and pepper. Place
beef in a resealable plastic bag or large shallow dish. Pour
balsamic mixture over steak, tossing gently. Cover and
refrigerate at least 2 hours (up to 8 hours or
overnight).
- Preheat grill to medium-high heat (350F to
400F).
- Remove beef from marinade and thread steak,
bell peppers, onions and mushrooms alternately onto skewers,
leaving a 1/4-inch between pieces. Drizzle kabobs with
remaining 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar.
- Grill kabobs, covered
with grill lid, 4 minutes on each side or until desired degree
of doneness. Serve immediately.
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company office is located in Monticello, Missouri in Lewis
County which joins the Mississippi River 140 miles North of St.
Louis. The company has branched from
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Grass-Fed Lamb,
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Poultry,
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