For years we've been told that, thanks to their high saturated fat
content, the foods for which evolution has adapted us -- grass-fed meat,
grass-fed dairy products, eggs from hens running on pasture -- are
unhealthy. In their place we eat processed factory foods -- and we've
witnessed a growing epidemic of disease, from type-2 diabetes to heart
disease and cancer.
It's now clear that the 'food revolution' was flawed. Saturated fat is
not the cause of heart disease or diabetes. Far more likely causes are
sugar and refined carbohydrates, low-fat spreads and vegetable oils. The
really healthy foods turn out to be the ones our grandparents knew to be
the best.
There's a simple remedy. We can make sure that the meat, dairy foods and
eggs we buy come from animals grazing on or running in pasture. This
will also put life back into our soils and wildlife back into our fields
and hedgerows.
This book is an urgent manifesto for grass-fed foods -- for your health
and for the planet.