I've been wondering about this, rather vaguely, lately,
so I thought I'd start a thread to try to explore it.
What does Peat say about the place of meat in a healthy diet?
For starters, and very basically:
does Peat consider healthy, quality, ruminant muscle meat to be high-quality protein?
I wouldn't have said so,
but it seems to me that I came across something of his recently where he said it was.
Seems like he then went on to qualify, perhaps,
that while it was high quality protein
that it posed other problems for humans--like phosphate to calcium imbalance.
I may be wrong about him saying ruminant meat is high-quality protein.
Maybe I dreamed it.
Peat thinks of muscle meats as a "refined food."
That is, humans used to eat the entire animal, which was much more healthy.
Selecting out muscle meats to eat amounts to an unhealthy kind of "refining."
I've thought that Peat would likely say that muscle meat eating is not necessary for health.
I believe he would say that it would be hard to construct a healthy diet without animal foods
like milk and liver.
But it seems to me he would not say the eating of muscle meats is necessary.
One does wonder why Peat, then, would seem to eat muscle meat somewhat regularly.
That may be explained easily by thinking that he eats meats simply because he enjoys or craves them--
not strictly for health reasons.
On the other hand, I've wondered whether muscle meats--despite the drawbacks Peat notes,
like phosphate:calcium imbalance and poor amino profile--
I've wondered whether Peat would say there are off-setting benefits:
certain healthy nutrients...?
As I mentioned above, Peat does say that the stressful effects of muscle-meat consumption
can be mitigated (some? entirely?) by consuming large amounts of gelatin at the same time.
If gelatin does thoroughly ameliorate the bad impacts of muscle-meats,
maybe Peat would say that--taken together--muscle meat + gelatin = high quality protein.
There is the iron content to be considered, especially with beef.
I wonder if Peat thinks it can be safely consumed on a regular basis
as a prominent part of the diet
and still be safe if eaten with coffee (to at least lessen the absorption of the iron).
You would think so, given that he himself seems to eat muscle meat regularly.
I may also be wrong about that assumption.
I think I've heard Peat say that he eats some meat almost every day.
And I've heard him say when asked what he had to eat that day: a "rib steak."
But I've also heard him refer to oxtails and oxtail soup--
which could, if consumed as a soup with gelatin present, be considered something other than a muscle meat.
So maybe the assumption that Peat eats some muscle meats everyday is a wrong one.
I realize these are somewhat rambling thoughts,
but...maybe they will serve as at least a starting point for discussion.
so I thought I'd start a thread to try to explore it.
What does Peat say about the place of meat in a healthy diet?
For starters, and very basically:
does Peat consider healthy, quality, ruminant muscle meat to be high-quality protein?
I wouldn't have said so,
but it seems to me that I came across something of his recently where he said it was.
Seems like he then went on to qualify, perhaps,
that while it was high quality protein
that it posed other problems for humans--like phosphate to calcium imbalance.
I may be wrong about him saying ruminant meat is high-quality protein.
Maybe I dreamed it.
Peat thinks of muscle meats as a "refined food."
That is, humans used to eat the entire animal, which was much more healthy.
Selecting out muscle meats to eat amounts to an unhealthy kind of "refining."
I've thought that Peat would likely say that muscle meat eating is not necessary for health.
I believe he would say that it would be hard to construct a healthy diet without animal foods
like milk and liver.
But it seems to me he would not say the eating of muscle meats is necessary.
One does wonder why Peat, then, would seem to eat muscle meat somewhat regularly.
That may be explained easily by thinking that he eats meats simply because he enjoys or craves them--
not strictly for health reasons.
On the other hand, I've wondered whether muscle meats--despite the drawbacks Peat notes,
like phosphate:calcium imbalance and poor amino profile--
I've wondered whether Peat would say there are off-setting benefits:
certain healthy nutrients...?
As I mentioned above, Peat does say that the stressful effects of muscle-meat consumption
can be mitigated (some? entirely?) by consuming large amounts of gelatin at the same time.
If gelatin does thoroughly ameliorate the bad impacts of muscle-meats,
maybe Peat would say that--taken together--muscle meat + gelatin = high quality protein.
There is the iron content to be considered, especially with beef.
I wonder if Peat thinks it can be safely consumed on a regular basis
as a prominent part of the diet
and still be safe if eaten with coffee (to at least lessen the absorption of the iron).
You would think so, given that he himself seems to eat muscle meat regularly.
I may also be wrong about that assumption.
I think I've heard Peat say that he eats some meat almost every day.
And I've heard him say when asked what he had to eat that day: a "rib steak."
But I've also heard him refer to oxtails and oxtail soup--
which could, if consumed as a soup with gelatin present, be considered something other than a muscle meat.
So maybe the assumption that Peat eats some muscle meats everyday is a wrong one.
I realize these are somewhat rambling thoughts,
but...maybe they will serve as at least a starting point for discussion.