Hi,
I live in a country where beef meat is very easy to get and quite affordable, while other things like shrimp and oysters are extremely expensive; only squid is affordable. So, I´ve always eaten quite a lot of beef, from a variety of parts, especially, shanks, ribeye, liver and some other parts I don´t know the name in English.
The main concern from a Peat point of view about beef meat is usually iron and tryptophan (and other AA like methionine and cysteine). So, other protein sources are recomended, like shell fish etc
However, when you look at the nutritional data, beef meat is not really high in iron, any shell fish has a lot more iron than beef meat. The only benefit of shell fish would be higher copper, but even here is not always true. Mussels have higher iron/copper ratio than beef (by far), oyster are better indeed but Squid is really king in that ratio.
On anti-thyroid AAs, it´s actually quite similar to milk, with a bit more cysteine, similar methionine and less tryptophan though it lacks the calcium in milk.
So, basically as protein sources I use beef meat daily 2 times per day (lunch and dinner), usually, plus milk and once a week squid. I remember reading Peat say that even he eats beef meat every day.
I don´t understand why sometimes, when reading Peat related blogs or forums it looks quite anti-beef meat.
What´s your opinion on the subject? I´m I missing something or is the nutritional data I´m looking at completely wrong?
I live in a country where beef meat is very easy to get and quite affordable, while other things like shrimp and oysters are extremely expensive; only squid is affordable. So, I´ve always eaten quite a lot of beef, from a variety of parts, especially, shanks, ribeye, liver and some other parts I don´t know the name in English.
The main concern from a Peat point of view about beef meat is usually iron and tryptophan (and other AA like methionine and cysteine). So, other protein sources are recomended, like shell fish etc
However, when you look at the nutritional data, beef meat is not really high in iron, any shell fish has a lot more iron than beef meat. The only benefit of shell fish would be higher copper, but even here is not always true. Mussels have higher iron/copper ratio than beef (by far), oyster are better indeed but Squid is really king in that ratio.
On anti-thyroid AAs, it´s actually quite similar to milk, with a bit more cysteine, similar methionine and less tryptophan though it lacks the calcium in milk.
So, basically as protein sources I use beef meat daily 2 times per day (lunch and dinner), usually, plus milk and once a week squid. I remember reading Peat say that even he eats beef meat every day.
I don´t understand why sometimes, when reading Peat related blogs or forums it looks quite anti-beef meat.
What´s your opinion on the subject? I´m I missing something or is the nutritional data I´m looking at completely wrong?