There are so many people who like eating red meat a lot but they cannot do it all the time because of the fear of putting on weight. If this is what is stopping you from eating your favorite red meat, then perhaps you don’t know much about one particular type of red meat which you can eat as much as you want without ever fearing any negative effects on health.
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We are talking about beef jerky!
Beef jerky is really in a class of its own. Even if you ate a lot of it, you won’t put on weight; on the contrary, you would lose weight! This is great, isn’t it? You now know about a kind of meat that actually helps you in losing those unsightly pounds.
People are still in the dark about how that can happen. But you should know that beef jerky isn’t the conventional type of meat. This is beef that has been sliced very thinly and then dried out completely and cured by smoking so that it loses all those fats present in it. It is a crispy food which has all the goodness of meat but doesn’t have any of those calories that the health magazines are cautioning you about.
And it does have high nutrition values.
Yes, that is true. Beef jerky is a method of cooking meat without retaining any of the fat in it, due to which the amount of protein increases. There are so many proteins in it that this food is actually good for those bodybuilders and other people who are looking at gaining dry weight in the body.
This is good weight! Beef jerky doesn’t make your body pile up on fat; it helps increase the protein level of your body due to which your body literally beefs up.
A lot of people ask whether they can live on beef jerky alone. Actually speaking, that’s a stupid question to ask. Of course one cannot live on beef jerky alone. In fact, no one can live on a single type of food alone. Not even apples!
There are stories of soldiers and astronauts and sailors living on beef jerky for a long time but that’s another matter. These people are accustomed to subsisting with whatever means are available to them. And whenever they get a chance, they do have their quota of a complete, wholesome diet. Most of them also carry vitamin pills and supplements with them.
The demands of our body can be met only when it gets its proper ration of nutrients. No one should attempt to live on only one kind of food, even if that food is the epitome of a particular kind of nutrient. Your body needs an assortment of different kinds of nutrients which no single food in the world can give.
So, no, you cannot live on beef jerky alone, but that doesn’t take anything away from its nutritive value. It is still a very healthy food to consume and should be a part of your healthy diet. With its great taste and high nutrition value, beef jerky is as near perfect as any kind of food can get.
Author Vee Surchin is an complete addict of jerky and has written about it consistently so if you also like beef jerky then look no further, because we have many different varietys from around Australia and we also have biltong all sampled and proven by Vee.