Dear John,
December has started out quite differently for us
here in Northeast Missouri this year. We kicked the month off with balmy 70-degree
weather! This is very uncharacteristic for us but we are certainly not complaining.
Things have cooled down a bit but we are still enjoying a very mild start to the winter season.
Now is a great time to stock up on some US Wellness favorites: our best-selling
Liverwurst is
on sale this week, along with our popular
back ribs and
shredded beef. All make great additions to any
holiday dinner.
This month we are excited to have Erin Shriver, author of the
Real
Food Renegade blog as our feature chef. As a recovering vegan and now a paleo expert, she
has a vast knowledge of food and we were honored to have her share some of her favorite
holiday recipes with us. Be sure to check out her
recipe page for some unique new holiday menu ideas and the bonus tallow soap
recipe she shared with us!
Is high fructose corn syrup consumption a precursor to
diabetes? A
recent study of 43 countries
compared the use of high fructose corn syrup and the rates of diabetes. Not surprisingly, the
countries that used high fructose corn syrup in foods had about a 20% higher rate of diabetes
compared to countries that don't use the sweetener. Read the
full article here for all the
details. This is yet another example of how important it is to read food labels and know
exactly what is in your food.
Good news in the paleo world this week - Mark Sisson
just released a new cookbook, Healthy Sauces, Dressings & Toppings. This would
make an excellent Christmas present and should be a staple in any paleo kitchen! Recipes
include everything from your basic condiments to dreamy concoctions destined to turn your favorite
basic meals into masterpieces. Head over to
Mark's Daily Apple now for all the details and a
special buying bonus - they are giving away a host of prizes just for ordering the book.
Are you doing all you can to prevent heart disease? Read Dr. Al Sears' article below for some very helpful tips to keep your heart healthy.
Within that article you will also find a 15% discount code active through Tuesday this week!
Please keep in mind if you need an order delivered before Christmas, it will need to be
placed no later than 10:00 am CST on Wednesday, December 19. We will not be able to ship on
Monday, December 24 or Tuesday, December 25 due to the holiday. If you will need items
delivered for New Year's, we highly recommend ordering by December 19th also. Both Christmas
and New Year's Day fall on a Tuesday, so we will not be able to ship Monday or Tuesday either
week. We appreciate any early orders to help ease the shipping strain during the holiday
season!
Winter Regards,
John, Lee Ann, Tressa, Jennifer, Amanda and Laura on
behalf of the farm families of US Wellness Meats.
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What Is Your Heart
Cure?
By: Al Sears, MD
Dear Health-Conscious Reader, I wrote the " Doctor's Heart Cure" book to treat my patients using lots of reports and advice
I was already using. I was surprised when a publisher out of Chicago told me that they wanted to
publish it, and I was even more surprised when it became a bestseller. But hey, who am I to
complain? When I wrote it, I wanted to tell people about a different focus on treating
heart disease, and that there is a real, existing cure. But people still ask me now...sometimes even
after reading the book. The cure is in there, but people aren't always getting the whole picture
because we've got a lot of the research that proves the cure works woven all through the book. So I decided to create this little guide to make that answer very clear and simple. Here's
what the cure is: take these seven simple steps: CoQ10: This is nutrient works wonders to energize the heart,
reduce oxidized fat in blood vessels, and destroy free radicals lurking in the heart. This nutrient
alone helps 50% of my patients get high blood pressure back to normal. And did you know that the
majority of people with heart disease are deficient in CoQ10?(1) To heal and energize
your heart, take 50 mg a day of the ubiquinol form of CoQ10 (it's eight times more powerful than the
old ubiquinone form). Because CoQ10 is a fat-soluble nutrient, take it with fat like cod liver oil,
Sacha Inchi oil, almond butter or
olive oil to make sure it's absorbed well. L-Carnitine: Every form of life depends
on carnitine for energy production within cells. And in your heart, carnitine reduces arterial
plaque, lowers LDL and raises HDL, for both healthy people and those with heart disease. You get carnitine from eating
red meat and natural
dairy products, but if you don't eat enough,
you'll want to take at least 500 mg of L-carnitine as a supplement every day. It's important to take
the L-carnitine form and not the synthetic D,L-carnitine, which interferes with the natural action
of carnitine...
Continue Reading...
Editors Note: Dr. Al Sears, M.D.
is a board-certified clinical nutrition specialist. His practice, Dr. Sears' Health & Wellness
Center in Royal Palm Beach, Fla., specializes in alternative medicine. He is the author of seven
books in the fields of alternative medicine, anti-aging, and nutritional supplementation, including
The Doctor's Heart Cure. To get his free special report on the proven anti-aging strategies for
building a vibrant, disease-free life, go
here now. You'll learn how to stop
Father Time without giving up the foods you love.
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A Dirty Secret about the "Gateway" Meat
By: Kelley Herring, Healing
Gourmet
Bacon...
It can transform bland
veggies... add flavor to soups... and elevate artisanal chocolates. In fact, this savory, salty,
smoky ingredient can make just about anything taste better.
Paleo-diet devotees proudly
wear shirts emblazoned with "I Love Bacon". In fact, it has even been called the "gateway meat"
because the flavor and aroma of bacon are so addictive and enticing that it has turned more than a
few vegetarians back into meat eaters.
We certainly love our bacon!
Americans
eat more than 18 pounds of bacon each year on average. And recently the bacon products market
has really begun to sizzle. From bacon soda to bacon vodka - and even bacon milkshakes - you don't
have to look far to realize that we are a bacon-obsessed culture.
But whether you enjoy
bacon for the indescribable flavor it adds to salads, soups and other dishes... or you prefer it
sizzled up by the pound, there is something you should know.
There Could Be
Super-Bugs in Your Bacon
According to the January 2013 edition of
Consumer Reports, an alarming 83 percent of pork products sold in grocery stores are
contaminated with harmful bacteria and drug residues.
Stephen S. Morse, Ph.D. is the Director of the
Center for Public Health at Colombia University. Commenting on this finding, here's what he has to
say:
"You always expect to find some bacteria in
any meat product. But those are usually harmless. I think the real surprise here was to find so many
potentially disease-causing bacteria."
Even worse is that 90 percent of the bacteria
were found to be antibiotic resistant "super-bugs"...
Continue Reading...
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Ed. Note: Kelley Herring is the Founder and Editor of
Healing Gourmet - the leading provider of organic, sustainable recipes and
meal plans for health and weight loss. Be sure to grab Healing Gourmet's free books - Eating
Clean & Saving Green: Your Guide to Organic Foods on a Budget (includes 100+ foods at the
best prices) and Eat Your Way Into Shape: Flip Your Body's Fat Blasting Switch and Melt 12
Pounds in 2 Weeks (includes a delicious 7 day meal plan!).
Claim your free copies
here...
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Iron Deficiency and
Cognitive Development: New Insights from Piglets
University of Illinois
researchers have developed a model that uses neonatal piglets for studying infant brain development
and its effect on learning and memory. To determine if the model is nutrient-sensitive, they have
done some research on the effects of iron-deficient diets.
"Iron deficiency is a major problem worldwide," said Rodney Johnson, professor of animal
sciences and director of the Division of Nutritional Sciences. "Infants who experience iron
deficiency during the first 6 to 12 months of age can have irreversible developmental delays in
cognition."
He said that, even in the United
States, iron deficiency is a significant problem. "Babies born to obese mothers are at risk for iron
deficiency," said Johnson. "Furthermore, the incidence of child obesity is increasing, and being
overweight or obese is a risk factor for iron deficiency. Overweight toddlers are nearly three times
more likely to suffer from iron deficiency than are those with a healthy weight."
Johnson and his collaborators took 2-day-old piglets and fed them
one of three diets. The diet for the control group contained the recommended levels of iron, the
second was mildly deficient, and the third was severely deficient.
The piglet brain grows to approximately half of its maximum volume in the
first 4 weeks of life. It continues to grow rapidly for the next 8 weeks, which is very similar to
the way that human infant brains grow in the postnatal period.
At 4 weeks, the researcher began testing the piglets in a T-shaped maze. In
an acquisition phase, piglets were trained to locate a milk reward in a constant place in space as
well as direction, using visual cues from outside the maze. Pigs on the control diet learned the
task quite well.
"Piglets provided the diet
severely deficient in iron just didn't learn the task," Johnson said. "It's a T-maze so they have a
50 percent chance of getting it right. Even after 6 days of training, they never performed above
chance levels. The piglets given the mildly deficient diet showed intermediate performance, but
their performance was not significantly different from that of piglets given the control
diet."
In the second phase of the test, the reward
location was reversed. The piglets were retested to assess reversal learning.
"We changed the rules so the piglets had to change their strategy,"
Johnson explained. "It's more demanding, cognitively speaking. The piglets fed an adequate diet
learned this task very well. However, piglets fed a diet severely deficient in iron continued to
perform poorly while those given a mildly deficient diet showed intermediate performance."
Johnson said that one of the strengths of this paper is that
it shows that this test is sensitive to a nutrient in a dose-dependent fashion.
The researchers then examined iron levels in different parts of the
brain. They found reduced iron levels in the hippocampus, a brain region that is important for
spatial learning and memory, of pigs in both experimental groups.
Johnson said that this work highlights a new translational model for
studying micronutrient deficiencies. Traditional rodent models are less suited for examining these
kinds of questions because they cannot be weaned early and placed on experimental diets. Pigs,
however, are a precocial species, which means that their motor and sensory skills are quite well
developed at birth. This facilitates early weaning and behavioral testing.
Johnson has recently received a 5-year NIH grant to do further work with
this model. "We are investigating the effects of maternal viral infection during pregnancy," he
said. "At a critical period during pregnancy, gilts are inoculated with a virus that causes
pneumonia. When the piglets are born, we study their brain and cognitive development."
University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer
and Environmental Sciences. "Iron deficiency and cognitive development: New insights from piglets."
ScienceDaily, 3 Dec. 2012. Web. 3 Dec. 2012.
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Athlete Corner - Scott
Mendelson Q&A
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 Finally Get Rid of 10-15 lbs of Stubborn Abdominal
Fat! By: Scott Mendelson
Scott,
All
I want for Christmas is a six pack- Santa did not deliver last year, but I guess that was the not
the typical gift request. Every year I pile on body fat during the holidays - 10-15 lbs and I
am able to burn that off by the end of March. However, I can never get rid of the next 10-15
lbs which are covering my abs. The rest of my body is very lean and every year I hit the same
roadblock. What can I do differently with diet, training, etc. so I can finally have a six
pack at age (44) for my trip to the Bahamas in April?
Jack
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Jack, We need to improve your nutrition and
training strategy starting in December to prevent the body fat accumulation and build fat burning
momentum for the New Year. Dr. Serrano and I discussed this topic in great detail during a
recent print interview which can be requested free of charge by emailing Scott@infinityfitness.com. There are many bad implications to
letting your eating go wild along with alcohol consumption during the holidays as this negatively
impacts key fat burning markers such as insulin sensitivity for weeks or possibly months in certain
situations. The bad eating habits in December are creating a hormonal environment that makes
body fat loss in the mid-section in particular very difficult for several reasons. We need to
reverse these trends! Thanks for sending your training and nutrition info which I left
out of this answer to save on space. You have been using the same tactics for a long time that
are no longer appropriate for your current needs. Just because they worked well a few years
ago does not mean they will work well now due to changes in many conditions. We will shift
your weight training from 90 minutes to 45 minutes per session by increasing efficiency in a number
of ways. Not only does this save you time, but it also drives fat burning hormones through the
roof while preventing over training. Your success strategy starts with preventing the 10
to 15 lbs of new body fat during the holidays leaving much less to be burned January 1.
Do not put your success off until January 1 as what you do now impacts your fat burning capacity a
month from now and beyond. Yes, you can get away with a few holiday feasts if you follow our cheat
meal rules proven to interfere with body fat accumulation at multiple levels despite BIG
EATING...
Continue Reading...
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Email Scott@infinityfitness.com to discuss your goals and for copies of the Cutting
Edge Nutrition Interview With Dr. Serrano, KISS Rapid Fat Loss Plan, Great Abs and Rapid Fat Burning
Tools Special Reports, and the 10 Minute Fat Loss Interval Workout. Check out our new
blog
for great tips, exercise video clips, success strategies and more !
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Dear U.S. Wellness,
Thanks for the lovely
bacon! I received it today and I couldn't be happier!
You rock!
Love,
Shelley
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| Recipe Corner | |
Pot Roast With Baby Vegetables
 Ingredients:
- 3 lb
Chuck Roast
-
Seasoned salt and lemon pepper
- 1 onion, peeled and halved
- 1 carrot, whole
- 1 cup
beef broth
- 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 2 garlic cloves, whole
- 1
rosemary sprig
- 2 thyme sprigs
- 1 pound new red potatoes
- 1 cup baby carrots
- 1 cup
boiling or pearl onions
- 1 cup baby
squash
- 1 cup button mushrooms, stems
removed
Directions:
- Sprinkle roast
with seasoned salt and lemon pepper to taste.
- Place onion and carrot in the bottom of a 5 or 6
quart crockery cooker or Crock Pot.
- Lay the meat on top of the vegetables.
- Pour in the broth and
Worcestershire sauce. Season with garlic, rosemary and thyme.
- Cover and set dial to low-heat. Allow to
gently simmer for 5 to 6 hours.
- Remove the cover and add the baby vegetables around the
roast. Sprinkle with seasoned salt and continue to cook covered on low-heat for an additional 1 to
1/2 hours.
- Substitute about 1 teaspoon dried rosemary and thyme if you don't have fresh
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This recipe and many others can be found in the
beef section on the
US Wellness Recipe page!
If you are a blogger or food artist and would like to
see your recipes published simply email them to recipes@grasslandbeef.com.
   
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US Wellness Cattle enjoying green pastures and
blue skies in Southern Alabama in November.
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