How often do you eat red meat??

I've been reading a lot about inflammatory foods and based on that, I'm dropping down my red meat consumption to once a week. (red meat is considered inflammatory).

Do you find red meat worsens your symptoms?
What foods do you eat as an alternative?

I eat it once a week....red meat is helpful with iron and during "that time of the month" we need iron. Red meat does not worsen my symptoms...as an alternative you would have to eat fruit and veggies that contain iron;

sun-dried tomatoes
dried apricots
fresh parsley
cooked spinach
dried unsweetend coconut
dried zante currants and raisins
olives
palm hearts
lentil sprouts
swiss chard

http://www.healthaliciousness.com/articles/fruits-and-vegetables-high-in-iron.php

I looove steak but try to limit it to 1.5 times a week. Red meat has always been easy on my digestive system along with any other kind of meat. I was a vegetarian when I got UC haha.
When everything upset my stomach I could always eat a little steak and feel better.

YMMV.

Red meat actually gives me better days.

Hmmm...maybe I'm wrong about my red meat theory. I assumed I was eating too much..maybe 5 days a week. I'm still going to try limiting to 1 day a week but it looks like it might not halve the desired effect of lessening my UC symptoms.

What foods will you absolutely not eat because they will cause a flare?

Yeah- I know limiting red meat will not cure my UC but it's part of the process I'm going through to better control things. I've eliminated dairy and limited sugar consumption. Red meat is next on the list. With the addition of fish oil and regular probiotics, I'm hoping to find the right combination.

there's one main ingredient that i just refuse to eat because of the pain it causes me and that's CAYENNE pepper. it burns my butt so bad that i want to put ice on it. i used to eat it because it had a nice flavor but now i just won't do it at all.

indy, i think the main thing you have to do for anti-inflammatory meats is buy grass fed and organic. red meat isn't inflammatory at all if you buy the right kind. it's the corn fed beef that creates way too much omega 6 fatty acids in the meat because cows aren't supposed to be eating that crap.

I'm in agreement that red meat is healthy and good. I personally do not buy meat from grain fed cows. What I source is grass fed and raised on pasture. It makes sense to me that an animal raised on what it is designed to eat should provide healthy food to us humans who are designed to eat it. A cow is not designed to be grain fed, it makes them taste good, but a grain based diet causes their gut flora to be imbalanced which in turn makes them vulnerable and prone to sickness. I don't think you get that bad E-coli strain in grass fed, pasture raised cattle. This just seems like common sense to me, I can't say one way or the other if I'm scientifically correct. I also just feel better eating animals that lived out their animal life in decent conditions.

That being said, you can try an experiment, try to limit or cut it out and see if things improve. I question "the studies" that show that red meat is inflammatory. How do you show that?

Madpotter...are you making fun of me?

I think the "paleo' arguments are really compelling regarding grains. Compelling enough that it makes sense to keep gluten grains out of the diet anyways. I think it very well could mess up our digestive tract, but not because we are like cows, it's because we are humans. We sure aren't designed to eat grass either.

Where are you in the discussion?

Are we talking "red meat" not fully cooked meat? If so then E coli is a scary thing.

Otherwise its meat everyday for me fully cooked. :)

mmmmmmmmmmm, meat !


i believe in blood (yes, the red kind) type diets - i think there are valid arguments for eating for YOUR body based on your blood type -

meat, gluten, dairy, etc. are only a problem if your body doen't like those things -

all bodies are not the same - if you don't believe me, look around

It's all gonna kill us in the end (no UC pun intended). You can die long and slow from too much beef and beer, or you can choke on some tofu...nobody's getting out alive. I should be a motivational speaker like that Tony Robbins dude.

My son the one without a colon,is now on his second 1/4 cow in about 3-4 months grass fed organic of course, he drove to Delaware on sat to get it from the farmer. I is all vacuum packed and frozen.
They had a good time at the 70 acre farm,with all the animals. He uses Craigs list to track down
organic meat that is for sale. He went Paleo about 6 months ago.
Old Mike