{"id":2469,"date":"2013-08-02T11:48:05","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T15:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=2469"},"modified":"2013-08-02T11:48:05","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T15:48:05","slug":"the-most-powerful-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/the-most-powerful-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"The most powerful medicine&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.speaking of miracles, as philosopher Wendell Berry was in the previous post&#8230;.what could be more miraculous than the power of just plain old food?\u00a0 (And of course what could be more difficult to find nowadays than just &#8220;plain old food&#8221;?)<\/p>\n<p>We noticed another major hamburger recall this week.\u00a0 They&#8217;re so frequent that the media hardly covers them any longer.\u00a0 And no one bothers to point out that all this tainted meat comes from government-inspected factories while the government is busy trying to\u00a0shut down\u00a0small farmers and processors.<\/p>\n<p>But the point of this is how to keep your medical bills down.\u00a0 Grass fed beef, of course.\u00a0 And particularly those cuts that very few people know how to cook.\u00a0 Of the roughly 75 families that buy our meat, only three have ever purchased organ meats:\u00a0 tongue, liver and heart.\u00a0 For their table, that is.\u00a0 A few use it for\u00a0pet food.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Paleo columnist Chris Kresser, who sums up the case for the major organ meats and even includes recipes you may wish to try.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chriskresser.com\/how-to-eat-more-organ-meats?inf_contact_key=5b07efe553addf0983ea01ed68f5cafffc265c5090001fd0ce16909a607be9e4\">http:\/\/chriskresser.com\/how-to-eat-more-organ-meats?inf_contact_key=5b07efe553addf0983ea01ed68f5cafffc265c5090001fd0ce16909a607be9e4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If organs are a bit more than you can handle, there&#8217;s always plain old steak.\u00a0 It&#8217;s good for you, too.\u00a0 Put it together with spinach and you apparently have a potion to ward off Alzheimer&#8217;s disease.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-2382262\/How-feasting-steak-spinach-cut-chances-Alzheimers.html?ito=feeds-newsxml\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-2382262\/How-feasting-steak-spinach-cut-chances-Alzheimers.html?ito=feeds-newsxml<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.speaking of miracles, as philosopher Wendell Berry was in the previous post&#8230;.what could be more miraculous than the power of just plain old food?\u00a0 (And of course what could be more difficult to find nowadays than just &#8220;plain old food&#8221;?) We noticed another major hamburger recall this week.\u00a0 They&#8217;re so frequent that the media hardly covers them any longer.\u00a0 And no one bothers to point out that all this tainted meat comes from government-inspected factories while the government is busy trying to\u00a0shut down\u00a0small farmers and processors. But the point of this is how to keep your medical bills down.\u00a0 Grass fed beef, of course.\u00a0 And particularly those cuts that very few people know how to cook.\u00a0 Of the roughly 75 families that buy our meat, only three have ever purchased organ meats:\u00a0 tongue, liver and heart.\u00a0 For their table, that is.\u00a0 A few use it for\u00a0pet food. Here&#8217;s Paleo columnist Chris Kresser, who sums up the case for the major organ meats and even includes recipes you may wish to try. http:\/\/chriskresser.com\/how-to-eat-more-organ-meats?inf_contact_key=5b07efe553addf0983ea01ed68f5cafffc265c5090001fd0ce16909a607be9e4 If organs are a bit more than you can handle, there&#8217;s always plain old steak.\u00a0 It&#8217;s good for you, too.\u00a0 Put it together with spinach and you apparently have a potion to ward off Alzheimer&#8217;s disease. http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-2382262\/How-feasting-steak-spinach-cut-chances-Alzheimers.html?ito=feeds-newsxml &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2471,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469\/revisions\/2471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}