Assuming you’re not a vegan or vegetarian - which is think is great and I have no problem
if you don’t want to eat animals.
Assuming you eat a well-balanced, plant-based diet, I think it’s very healthy and good
for you.
However, for those that enjoy eating meat and love chicken, today’s video is going
to reveal to you why it’s one of the worst sources of animal protein, worthless in my
opinion and can actually be bad for you.
And this always comes as a shock to people when I tell them this, especially since chicken
is the most consumed source of animal protein:
The professional athletes and bodybuilders who seem to eat chicken almost every meal.
The person trying to live a healthier life, by NOT eating red meat (cow or bison) and
opting for the “healthier” chicken.
And by the way, a couple decades ago I also ate lots of chicken… until I found out what
I’m going to share with you today.
No Nutrients Chickens grow for 3 months before they’re
killed.
A few decades ago it would be a year, then 6 months and now only 3 months.
They’ve fast-forwarded the growth phase so they can grow and sell more.
And because of this accelerated growth, there are no nutrients in the chicken - it’s just
protein.
Unlike pasture raised beef or bison which can take a few years to grow and has lots
of vitamins, minerals, essential fats (CLA), creatine and other muscle-building nutrients.
I have all my athletes, especially the professionals and Olympic ones, switch out the chicken for
grass fed, pasture raised bison.
Even though they’ll eat the same exact calories, they ALL gain more muscle and lose more fat.
I also have them eat wild caught salmon 3-4x weekly for the omega fats.
But not more chicken!
No Difference In Cholesterol Lots of people stop eating red meat and switch
to chicken, only to find out that they see no improvements in their cholesterol levels
or very little.
One main reason for this is because the chickens are genetically modified in a variety of ways
and one of them is to have MORE fat, which contains more cholesterol.
Full Of Bacteria You can eat most sources of protein raw (beef,
fish, eggs, milk, even pork) - but chicken is definitely one that you never want to do.
In fact, over 97% of chicken contains “bacteria that will make you sick”.1
Chicken Is FAKE Meat The chicken breast is 3x bigger now than it
was a few years ago.
This is because of a few reasons.
The first it that the chicken’s DNA has been modified to have much bigger breasts,
since that’s the part of the chicken most people buy and eat.
Secondly, the chickens get “breast augmentation” done by going to China, getting pumped with
liquid, engorging the breast for an even larger size and then shipped back to the US for us
to eat.2 The in fact do this with shrimp as well.
Again, anything to make more money.
Cancer Causing Some of the other things chickens are filled
with, which the FDA admitted to3 -- is arsenic, a highly poisonous chemical that’s 4x more
toxic than mercury.
Arsenic is given to chickens because it causes quicker weight gain and less feeding, and
it also enhances the pink coloring in raw meat.
So now you know why it only takes 3 months instead of 12+ months, to have a chicken that
has over 3x the breast size and double the weight at an even lower price.
It’s fake, toxic meat!
Even the Labeling is Misleading
“Raised without hormones” is meaningless, since the USDA doesn’t allow their use with
chickens.
“Natural or Farm-raised” is also useless because it tells you nothing about how it
was raised, what they were fed or if they were treated with drugs or antibiotics.
“Free range” means that they can SEE the outside, even though they are fenced into
a tiny pen every day.
But if you are going to eat chicken, if possible get them from a local farmer - as rare as
that is.
Unfortunately, factory farming accounts for 99.9% of chickens raised for meat in the US.
Even if the chickens have been raised on free-range and organic farms, chickens often spend just
as much time confined to crowded spaces as those on conventional farms.
It’s simply a matter of economics and money - it has nothing to do with health!
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