Featured Image Credit: YouTube/Dr. Eric Berg DC - Getty Images/Jordan Siemens
Topics: Health, Food and Drink, Viral
Joe Yates
Topics: Health, Food and Drink, Viral
When I tried to guess what the best superfood is, I initially thought it would be something light and full of nutrients like kale...and I couldn't have been more wrong.
At least according to Dr Eric Berg, a chiropractor who specializes in healthy ketosis and intermittent fasting, as he surprisingly claimed the number one superfood is not even green.
Taking to YouTube, the 59-year-old said: "Today, I’m going to tell you about the #1 superfood, red meat! Some people think green powder is the best superfood, but while it's very beneficial, it’s missing one important ingredient—protein.
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"Green powder has vitamin C, K1, beta-carotene, magnesium, potassium, and phytonutrients but no protein.
So what does he claim the 'number one superfood' is?
He revealed: "To optimize your health, you might want to start consuming grass-fed red meat along with your green powder."
Yes, red meat, something the US is all too familiar with already, as the average American consumes 124kgs of it each year, more than any other country on the planet - according to TheWorldCounts.
TheWorldCounts was created to raise awareness of important global challenges such as the consumer economy, the world population and the environment, and it claims that as many as 72,000,000,000 animals are slaughtered for consumption around the globe every year.
Anyway, I'm far from a vegetarian but it's certainly worth noting.
Berg continued: "Red meat is an excellent source of B vitamins, fat-soluble vitamins, iron, selenium, zinc, and DHA. Grass-fed red meat also contains phytonutrients. Red meat increases the antioxidant glutathione and is a potent source of carnosine, an antioxidant that helps prevent glycation.
"Protein consumption triggers the hormone glucagon, which stabilizes your blood sugar and helps counter the effects of insulin. Grass-fed red meat protein is the best source of protein.
"The protein leverage hypothesis states that animals, humans, and insects will continue to eat until they satisfy their protein requirement. This is why you will overeat if you consume junk food—it has no protein! If you have low blood sugar, you should consume protein, not candy!"
So what are the warnings that come with eating red meat?
Well, you'll already be aware of them, I'm sure, but the number one thing is it can lead to cancer.
Berg explained: "You've been taught that red meat is a dirty type of protein, red meat obviously causes cancer right? I mean
everyone knows that it's a carcinogen.
"It causes type two diabetes, colon cancer, heart disease - because all the saturated fat."
But really, it's only really processed meat that causes cancer - at least according to Berg.
He clarified: "Out of all the foods that give you the highest quality it's red meat - and of course I'm talking about grass-fed, I'm not talking about processed meat.
"[Scientists and the government] don't differentiate the two and no they have never proven that grass-fed red meat has caused cancer, heart attacks - there is absolutely zero proof."
So there we go...we can keep eating meat, guys.