QuestionI have the option of either
1) eating exclusively organic grassfed beef and bison, FROZEN, also very occasionally eating some WILD FRESH fish/shellfish
2) eating partly grassfed, partly grainfed organic meat (varied, fowl, beef, pork, etc.) FRESH alternating with some FRESH WILD fish/shellfish to balance out omega-3:omega-6 ratio to a certain extent (p.s.: I'm gluten intolerant) OR
eating solely FRESH WILD fish/shellfish
In your opinion, what is the best option?
Thanks.
AnswerDefinitely go for the option of prefrozen 100% grass-fed beef and the occasional nonfrozen raw seafood.
I, like many RPDers, have to eat prefrozen meats from time to time, and it isn't the end of the world. Freezing does cause very slight denaturing of the enzymes and the protein in the meat, and there is usually a slight loss in taste and a slight loss of water-content - and prefrozen meat, once thawed, tends to age much quicker than nonfrozen raw meat. However, freezing's nowhere near as bad as cooking, in terms of its effect on food - after all, enzymes are completely destroyed by cooking.
Some rawpalaeodieters I've spoken to have mentioned getting certain side-effects from eating grain-fed meat, and have blamed it on their gluten-intolerance - so, the 2nd option may not be as good.
The 3rd option of an all-seafood diet would probably not be a good idea. I did try doing an all-raw-seafood diet for c.6-8 weeks, at one point, but it didn't work for me - on the other hand I seem to do better, in terms of energy-levels etc., if at least some part of my diet(anywhere from 10-40%?) consists of raw, wild seafood.
At any rate, the animal-food-intake of the Palaeolithic diet seems to have been mostly made up of meats/organ-meats from large land-mammals, with fish/fowl only forming a much smaller part, by comparison - so I think the first option sounds like a better idea.
Hope This Helps,
RPG
