Healthier/Better Meat Choices

Healthier/Better Meat Choices:

Today, here we will talk about Lamb meat. First, we should know what is "Lamb"! Well, it's the same thing as Lamb, Hogget, and Mutton. But, Lamb is the the one which is less than 1.5 years old animal. Now, the Q. comes, is lamb meat healthy? Well, let's take a look at this. As we know any sort of red meats are not very healthy for us. For heart disease, the answer is pretty clear. Some of the red meats are high in saturated fat, which does raise blood cholesterol. High levels of LDL cholesterol increase the risk of heart disease. All meat, including poultry, provides important nutrients like iron, vitamin B and protein, and we do need them on a daily basis. The trouble is we've switched to a grain-fed farming system [from a grass-fed one] and that's what increased the levels of saturated fat in red meat. A 4 oz. of lamb meat has 275 gm. of proteins. Now, there is another factor to be noticed! We all prefer/enjoy eating the meat which is either deep friend or, sauted or, pan friend. But, I would suggest to cook your meat by broiling, grilling or, cooking in the convection oven. I personally do buy the lamb which is coming from New Zealand. Why? well, as we know it's the country where there is hardly any pollution, abundant grasslands, amazing technology for rasing the lamb & also most of their farmers believe in grass fed raising rather than grain fed, example corn. Yes, it's true that lamb meat contains a high level of saturated fat and sodium compare to other red meats. But, uptil now, this is the only edible meat from where there is no such report of any sort of  mass epidemic or, we can say scary diseases originated from! For example: Mad cow disease, H1N1 Flue, or, even Salmonella. Even if you eat the lamb meat which is rare done, chances of having a disease is very low. Infact there is no reported incidences from it. This lamb meat is a good source of vitamins, zinc, copper, iron and lots of other imp. elements we do need for our good health. And, another good thing about this lamb meat is that its fat has 50 % less saturated fat, compared to other animals! So, buy lamb meat instead of buying your traditional chicken, pork or beef.

Cheers~