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Grass Fed Beef Health Benefits: Lower in Calories |
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Grass Fed Beef Health Benefits: Lower in Calories |
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| Because meat from
grass-fed animals is lower in fat than meat from grain-fed animals,
it is also lower in calories. (Fat has 9 calories per gram, compared
with only 4 calories for protein and carbohydrates. The greater the
fat content, the greater the number of calories.) As an example, a
6-ounce steak from a grass-finished steer can have 100 fewer
calories than a 6-ounce steak from a grain-fed steer. If you eat a
typical amount of beef (66.5 pounds a year), switching to lean
grassfed beef will save you 17,733 calories a year—without requiring
any willpower or change in your eating habits. If everything else in
your diet remains constant, you'll lose about six pounds a year. If
all Americans switched to grassfed meat, our national epidemic of
obesity might diminish. In the past few years, producers of grass-fed beef have been looking for ways to increase the amount of marbling in the meat so that consumers will have a more familiar product. But even these fatter cuts of grass-fed beef are lower in fat and calories than beef from grain-fed cattle. |
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