Meat has always been an important part on our food menu due to its great health benefits.
Meat is well-known for strength that gives you for performing hard tasks and endurance, which cannot be accumulated without a regular meat intake.
However, there are some researches that claim that meat is not that healthy. It is not if you eat it too much, of course.
Zinc, iron, vitamins, and underweight are good enough reasons to start implementing meat into your regular nutrition. You should only beware of processed meat products, which are usually made with lots of additives and too much salt. Anyway, meat is a most common ingredient of every kitchen in the world, no matter how much vegetarian people speaks about bad side effects of using it in nutrition.
What is bad about meat?
Before we say something about the benefits of eating meat, which is all about widespread excesses, we should keep in our mind that there is the possibility of side effects that too much eating of meat products can cause. The worst side effect is cancer of the colon, which is highly connected with the amount of red meat that one uses in weekly nutrition. There are some researches, which report there is 30 percent more chance to develop bowel cancer for those who use to eat meat often than twice a week (about 100g).
Processed meat products
Products like sausages, hams, etc. carry a risk of cancer because, in the course of making those products, it releases carcinogenic compounds – heterocyclic amines, which are familiar to the science as the ones that cause many cancers.
What is good about meat?
Meat that we use in our nutrition is a muscular mass of pigs, cattle, and chickens. We all know that best ingredients of our food are the muscle tissue ingredients, so, the best way to intake it is to “steal” it from the animal that has
Vitamins
Meat is an excellent source of various B vitamins, including niacin, thiamine, riboflavin, vitamin B6 and B12. Vitamins of B complex play a huge role in the formation of tissues, production and maintenance of red blood cells and the nervous system. It also helps in the process of obtaining energy from other food.
Minerals
Meat is very good source of various essential minerals, such as iron, zinc and magnesium. Our body needs iron for hemoglobin, which is the protein in red blood cells that conducts oxygen to tissues and organs, and its healthy function dictates the health of the whole body. Zinc plays a significant role in the proper functioning of the immune system, and magnesium helps in bones formation and releasing the energy from muscles.
Proteins
Proteins are essential for our organism because they are helping in maintaining healthy bones, muscles, cartilage, skin, blood, enzymes and hormones. Proteins are an important source of calories and energy. You probably have heard that everyone that tend to get muscle mass eats a lot of meat, and combining it with proper exercise, they gain desired results in mass building. Meat contains many essential amino acids that our body can’t produce itself. For instance, plant proteins can’t provide such proteins as the meat.
Daily protein portion for both gender
Women older than 19 years should intake 46g of proteins daily and men older than 19 years should intake about 56g of proteins daily, no matter if plant or animal origin.
Best source of proteins
As we said, the best source of proteins is fresh meat of cattle, chicken and swine. There is also a lot of proteins in milk products, especially in whey (milk whey).