75: Eating Meat During Pregnancy
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Episode 75 Content and Overview
Your diet has a huge impact on your health during pregnancy and the health of your growing baby. It can be a challenge to make sure you are getting the right nutrients and avoiding some of the wrong ingredients and foods. Grocery shopping and trying to decode labels and marketing claims brings a whole new layer of complexity to maintaining a healthy diet. This is especially true when it comes to buying beef, chicken, and pork. There are both risks and benefits to eating meat during your pregnancy. This is not a debate between a diet that includes meat and a vegetarian or vegan diet. This episode is about knowing what is in the meat you are eating to keep both you and your baby healthy during your pregnancy.
Included in This Episode
- Nutrients (protein, vitamin B12, vitamin B3, vitamin B6, zinc, selenium, iron, phosphorus)
- Antibiotics
- Antibiotic resistant bacteria
- Review of antibiotic use in food animals
- Environmental Working Group summary of antibiotic use in livestock
- Hormones
- rBGH (recombinant bovine growth hormone)
- Semen quality of fertile US males in relation to their mother’s beef consumption during pregnancy
- Nitrates and nitrites
- Maternal dietary intake of nitrates, nitrites and nitrosamines and selected birth defects in offspring
- Childhood brain tumors and maternal cured meat consumption during pregnancy
- Grass fed beef
- Review on 3 decades of studies comparing grass and grain fed beef
- Differences between grass fed and grain fed beef
- Beta-carotene
- Vitamin E
- Antioxidants
- Fats
- Omega 3s and omega 6s
- Crowd Cow – Get a discount on high quality grass fed beef delivered to your door
- Organ meats
- Environmental Working Group summary of labeling
- Understanding labels
- Raised without antibiotics
- Hormone-free
- rBGH-free
- 100% grass fed
- Cage free
- Free rage
- Natural
- Organic & requirements for organic animals
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