Save Money and Reduce Fat by Dr. Donald A. Miller

I mentioned elsewhere that soybeans have all the essential

proteins and fats we need for health. Also I have read that

a piece of land producing soybeans for direct consumption

can support at least 20 times as many people as the same

land producing meat by feeding livestock.

I have applied this knowledge by substituting soybeans or

tofu or tempeh for about half the meat I formerly used in

such dishes as stews, meat and eggs, and so forth.

If you are serious about losing weight, but don't want to

feel hunger, put a lot of unprocessed vegetables and fruits

into your menus, and replace a third to a half of your four

legged meat items with traditional soy foods. Also, cut out

all refined sugars, limit alcohols, be sure to eat whole

grain foods. And make a very rude noise at anyone who says

to eat "low carb".

Lets look at those suggestions in terms of money. At retail

stores, soybeans are now around US $1 per pound, and beef

cuts range from about US $2 to US $15 per pound.

Another comparison is that soy foods have zero saturated

fats, but beef cuts frequently often run from 10 to 50

percent saturated fat.

Center for Science in the Public Interest, with reports

on-line at www.cspinet.org, tells us "USDA allows ground

beef labels to make claims that would be illegal on other

foods." "Ground beef accounts for 45 percent of the beef

sold in the U.S. and it adds more fat -- and more artery

clogging saturated fat -- to the average American's diet

than any other single food." "The USDA allows no more than

10 percent fat by weight in most foods that are labeled

'lean.' But the USDA allows ground beef that is up to 22.5

percent fat to be called 'lean.'

I recently did the following junior science experiment. I

placed a pound of soybeans in a glass dish with more than an

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BIO:

Dr. Donald A. Miller is author of "Easy Health Diet" http://easyhealthdiet.com/diet.htm, "Easy Exercise All Ages" http://easyhealthdiet.com/eeaa.htm, and numerous free articles on health http://easyhealthdiet.com/articles/.
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