Dear John,
We hope everyone has plans to enjoy the last full week of summer! As another season too quickly comes to a close, we are looking forward to cooler weather, football season and bonfires! We have plenty of Beef Franks in stock for bonfire grilling season and just restocked the popular Pork Brats!
How important is a low-carb diet? Turns out, it may depend on who you ask. There are so many variations of the low-carb diet, and a recent article by health expert and best-selling author, Chris Kresser breaks down the different types of low-carb diet, and which might be most effective for you. We highly suggest checking out 7 Things Everyone Should Know About Low-Carb Diets for all the details, and we look forward to hearing your feedback.
What connection do certain carbohydrates have with digestive issues? Kelley Herring explores the Specific Carbohydrate Diet in her article below, and explains the unique connection between certain carbs and various digestive issues, we recommend reading this as well!
Be sure to check out the recipe section below for a new seafood recipe from our good friend and master chef Russ Crandall, of The Domestic Man. Cioppino (San Francisco Seafood Stew) features some of our favorite seafood fare and is a perfect cool-weather dinner. For more recipes featuring any type of protein, be sure to visit our Pinterest boards.
We appreciate your patience as we have worked to restock several of our best sellers this week. The Flank Steaks, Beef Snack Sticks, and both the 75% and 85% Lean Ground Beef are back in stock, and we expect to have more beef patties available next week. We are also expecting more Pork Bacon and Pork Breakfast Sausage to restock Monday afternoon, September 15.
Fall Regards,
John, Lee Ann, Tressa, Jennifer, Amanda & Laura on behalf of the farm families of US Wellness Meats.
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By: Al Sears, MD
Did you ever wonder why women can shop all day, and for men it drives them nuts? Did you know there are hormonal reasons for that? It's not just culture, it's evolution. Women have traditionally been responsible for doing the gathering. They get a surge of the feel-good hormone serotonin, and it gives them energy. The more they shop and gather, the more energy they get. They come home energized. For a man, you can see what happens out in the malls. After about a half hour, he needs to go get a cup of coffee, or else he just sits pathetically, slumped in a chair looking miserable. Being the hunter, he wants to bag the kill. So to have game in front of you that you don't get to catch zaps you of your male hormonal drive. The idea that men are from Mars and women are from Venus has always been part of our nature ... until now. Because that difference is disappearing fast. The unnatural world we've created isn't just society taking away the man's hunter instinct. Or modern stress taking away a woman's gatherer energy... We've created a world full of feminizing chemicals that act like estrogen. The result of that is even worse than male breasts and mega-menopause for women. These things are causing cancer. For example breast cancer rates are rising for women ... but today, more men than ever are being diagnosed.(1) The good news is even though getting cancer is more likely because of our modern environment, it's also more likely than ever that you can have successful treatment of it... Continue Reading...
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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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Digestive Issues? Avoid These Specific Carbohydrates
By: Kelley Herring, Healing Gourmet
Do you ever experience bloating, acid reflux, cramping, indigestion or other digestive distress?
If so, you're not alone.
In fact, it is estimated that up to 70 million Americans suffer from some form of digestive issue - ranging from chronic constipation to serious and even life-threatening conditions, such as Crohn's disease.
And while digestive issues can stem from a wide variety of causes, there's one factor quite often overlooked: Carbohydrates.
The Link Between Specific Carbohydrates & Digestive Problems
Carbohydrates come in several forms - monosaccharides, disaccharides and polysaccharides. Of these three types, the monosaccharides ("mono" - meaning one) are the only type of carbohydrate that doesn't require an extra step during digestion to fully break down. On the other hand, polysaccharides and disaccharides have additional chemical bonds, which make these forms of carbohydrates more complex - and therefore more difficult to fully digest, especially for some people.
Unfortunately, this partial digestion of carbohydrates can lead to many uncomfortable and even dangerous results - beginning with an overgrowth of bacteria and yeast in the gut... Continue Reading...____________________________________________
Ed. Note: Kelley Herring is author of more than a dozen books on nutrition and natural healing. She is also the co-founder of Wellness Bakeries, which has just released their newest product - Better Bread - a 100% Paleo bread mix you can whip up in 5 minutes flat.
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Potassium-Rich Foods Cut Stroke, Death Risks Among Older Women
Postmenopausal women who eat foods higher in potassium are less likely to have strokes and die than women who eat less potassium-rich foods, according to new research in the American Heart Association's journal Stroke.
"Previous studies have shown that potassium consumption may lower blood pressure. But whether potassium intake could prevent stroke or death wasn't clear," said Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, Ph.D., study senior author and distinguished university professor emerita, department of epidemiology and population health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.
"Our findings give women another reason to eat their fruits and vegetables. Fruits and vegetables are good sources of potassium, and potassium not only lowers postmenopausal women's risk of stroke, but also death."
Researchers studied 90,137 postmenopausal women, ages 50 to 79, for an average 11 years. They looked at how much potassium the women consumed, as well as if they had strokes, including ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes, or died during the study period. Women in the study were stroke-free at the start and their average dietary potassium intake was 2,611 mg/day. Results of this study are based on potassium from food, not supplements.
The researchers found:
- Women who ate the most potassium were 12 percent less likely to suffer stroke in general and 16 percent less likely to suffer an ischemic stroke than women who ate the least.
- Women who ate the most potassium were 10 percent less likely to die than those who ate the least.
- Among women who did not have hypertension (whose blood pressure was normal and they were not on any medications for high blood pressure), those who ate the most potassium had a 27 percent lower ischemic stroke risk and 21 percent reduced risk for all stroke types, compared to women who ate the least potassium in their daily diets.
- Among women with hypertension (whose blood pressure was high or they were taking drugs for high blood pressure), those who ate the most potassium had a lower risk of death, but potassium intake did not lower their stroke risk.
Researchers suggested that higher dietary potassium intake may be more beneficial before high blood pressure develops. They also said there was no evidence of any association between potassium intake and hemorrhagic stroke, which could be related to the low number of hemorrhagic strokes in the study.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture recommends that women eat at least 4,700 mg of potassium daily. "Only 2.8 percent of women in our study met or exceeded this level. The World Health Organization's daily potassium recommendation for women is lower, at 3,510 mg or more. Still, only 16.6 percent of women we studied met or exceeded that," said Wassertheil-Smoller.
"Our findings suggest that women need to eat more potassium-rich foods. You won't find high potassium in junk food. Some foods high in potassium include white and sweet potatoes, bananas and white beans."
While increasing potassium intake is probably a good idea for most older women, there are some people who have too much potassium in their blood, which can be dangerous to the heart. "People should check with their doctor about how much potassium they should eat," she said.
The study was observational and included only postmenopausal women. Researchers also did not take sodium intake into consideration, so the potential importance of a balance between sodium and potassium is not among the findings. Researchers said more studies are needed to determine whether potassium has the same effects on men and younger people.
American Heart Association. "Potassium-rich foods cut stroke, death risks among older women." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 4 September 2014. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140904183729.htm>.
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Athlete Corner - Scott Mendelson Q&A
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Strategic Training and Nutrition Plan Improvements to Maximize Body Transformation
By: Scott Mendelson
Scott,
I have consistently followed a clean diet and hard training routine for twelve weeks and during the last four there have been no progress. My diet is the same every day and the training has not changed besides swapping some exercises so what is the problem?
Michael
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Michael, The most common reason for plateaus includes a lack of strategic variety necessary to drive rapid fat burning and muscle repair. Check out the top tips for building strategic variety into your training and nutrition plans to maximize body fat loss, definition and performance on the blog. The human machine adapts very quickly to training and nutrition stimuli, so making the right program changes every six weeks is very important. You will also see a new video from Dr. Serrano discussing the importance of changing the food intake at least twice per week to maximize rates of fat burning on the blog. Macronutrient Cycling to Accelerate Fat Loss and Muscle Repair99% of people alternate between a "clean" diet and eating poorly, with no strategic improvements built into the plan. Just like training, the body adapts to nutrition stimuli quickly which is why macronutrient cycling is needed to prevent metabolic staleness, increase fat burning enzymes and to optimize fat burning hormones. Our clients execute dietary fat and carb loading days with simple plan adjustments to achieve these objectives. In addition to accelerating fat burning and energy levels, the carb and dietary fat loading provide a huge mental lift. When was the last time you made a strategic improvement to your nutrition plan? The Kiss Rapid Fat Loss nutrition plan features simple carbohydrate loading techniques to dramatically improve the rate of fat loss with high energy levels... Continue Reading..._____________________________________________
Email Scott@infinityfitness.com for a free copy of the 21 Rapid Fat Loss Nutrition tips and Kiss Rapid Fat Loss Male and Female programs including five days of sample eating.
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Customer Feedback |
 We just got our first shipment from US Wellness yesterday, and I have to say that I am so pleased with the whole process! We ordered a large shipment and everything was there and everything was still frozen. The meat tastes absolutely wonderful!
We will definitely be ordering more and at least once a month. Love it!!
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Cioppino (San Francisco Seafood Stew)
Ingredients: 
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1/2 onion, chopped
- 6 cloves garlic, minced
- 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes**
- 1/4 tsp dried basil
- 1/4 tsp dried thyme
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 large (28oz) can crushed tomatoes (or 4 tomatoes, chopped)
- 2 cups clam juice
- 1/2 cup dry white wine (chardonnay, pinot grigio, etc)
- 50 live clams, washed
- 1 lb raw shrimp
- 1/2 lb dungeness or king crab legs, cut at each joint
- 1 lb firm white fish (halibut, snapper, mahi mahi), cut into bite-sized chunks
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1/4 cup chopped Italian parsley to garnish
Directions: - Warm the olive oil in a stockpot over medium heat, then add the onion; sauté until softened, stirring occasionally, about 4 minutes. Add the garlic, red pepper flakes, basil, thyme, and bay leaves; sauté until the garlic is aromatic, about 1 minute.
- Stir in the tomatoes and clam juice; bring to a simmer and reduce heat to med/low. Simmer uncovered for 20 minutes to allow the flavors to marry.
- Add the clams and white wine. Bring to a simmer and cover, cooking until the clams have started to open, about 5 minutes. Stir in the shrimp and crab legs, then carefully add the fish pieces (don't stir after you've added the fish). Cover again and cook until the shrimp and fish are opaque and the clams are fully opened, another 3-4 minutes.
- Taste for salt and pepper, and garnish with parsley.
** 1/2 tsp of red chili flakes makes for a mildly spicy stew; I suggest adding or decreasing in 1/4 tsp increments depending on preference. You could always add a splash of Tabasco or similar hot sauce at the end to spice it up.
** Dungeness is traditionally used with this recipe, but it is hard to find here on the East Coast. Along with cutting the crab at each joint, you can cut along the length of a king crab shell with kitchen shears to make it easier to eat. Similarly, you can crack the dungeness shell with some crab crackers before adding them to the soup.
** Since using crab can significantly raise the cost of making this meal, consider adding in more fish or shrimp to save some dough. Some recipes call for mussels as well; you could always cut the amount of clams in half and replace them with 25 mussels. Calamari is also an option, add it with the fish.
__________________________ This recipe and photo are courtesy of our good friend Russ Crandall, author of the very popular paleo blog The Domestic Man and the cookbook The Ancestral Table, featuring over 100 classic & traditional paleo-friendly recipes.
If you are a blogger or food artist and would like to see your recipes published simply email us.
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Lakeside grazing on a sunny summer evening in Northeast Missouri.
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- There is a $7.50 handling fee upon checkout.
- The South Carolina Chicken Bundles, BBQ Sauce, produce and cookbooks ship from separate locations, so they are not included in the 7 lb weight minimum. The shopping cart will keep track and remind you if your order is under the 7 lb limit.
Weight Discount - Receive a $25 discount for every 40 pounds you order. This offer excludes items that ship separate such as the South Carolina Chicken, produce and fresh bundles.
- This is our way of saying thank-you for purchasing in bulk!
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