Healthy Benefits

When you eat grass-fed beef, not only are you doing something good for yourself, but you’re also eating with a conscious and promoting the proper treatment of cows. If you’ve been eating grain-fed beef for most of your life, you may feel confused right now, unsure of how to make a change to eating grass-fed beef. Don’t worry, as the world becomes more aware of just what’s going on with what’s on our dinner plates, the demand for grass-fed, free-range beef is on the rise, which increases its availability for you, the educated consumer.

potential cancer fighter

There are actually 16 different types of CLA, each providing a unique and highly important health benefit. CLA has been shown in numerous animal studies since 1994 to promote health and fight disease. From cancer fighting to weight loss, CLA is being touted worldwide as a “must have” in your diet for optimal health today and into tomorrow. Conjugated linoleic acids have been studied for their ability to prevent and treat cancer as well as obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.

CLA sources have proved their ability as cancer-fighting foods in multiple animal studies. As a study published in the journal Cancer pointed out CLA is unique in the fact that it comes from animal source since the majority of natural, anticancer substances are of plant origin. Additionally, animal-derived CLA’s “anticancer efficacy is expressed at concentrations close to human consumption levels.”

reduces heart disease risk

CLA is certainly one of the top highlights of grass-fed beef nutrition, and it’s been shown to reduce the risk for heart disease. This is just one of several heart benefits possessed by grass-fed beef nutrition that may not be true of other varieties of beef.

The main reasons why grass-fed beef can benefit heart health include: (7)

• Less overall fat and unhealthy fat
• Lower levels of dietary cholesterol
• Higher levels of  heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids
• More CLA
• More heart disease-fighting antioxidant vitamins, like vitamin E

improve blood sugar

Getting enough healthy fats in your diet is extremely helpful to keeping your blood sugar at a healthy level. Research published in the Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism in 2016 looked at the effects of the healthy fat CLA on insulin sensitivity in obese children. The randomized, double-blinded and placebo-controlled study found that 37 percent of the patients treated with CLA exhibited improvements in insulin sensitivity. In addition, muscles biopsies of the subjects treated with CLA showed an upregulation of the protein molecule IRS2 that mediates the effects of insulin on the body.