WE ARE WHAT WE EAT...AND WHAT WE EAT EATS

WE ARE WHAT WE EAT...AND WHAT WE EAT EATS
For years, we have been told that fat makes us gain weight, increases our cholesterol and blocks our arteries. A more modern trend of medicine starts to contradict this principle and blames modern sicknesses...from modern food! As my very good friend and brilliant Doctor in Human Nutrition Guillermo Navarrete (@nutrillermo) says, "all those food products created by Nature, produce health and taste; all those products created/processed by humans, produce money". This is key. 
As a kid I remember my grandparents enjoying large pieces of acorn fed, 100% iberico pig back fat slowly cooked for hours by the skilled culinary techniques of my grandma. And let me tell you: none of them suffered from high cholesterol or any of the modern pathologies caused by the current alimentary habits. Bread? Yes, but made by my little town baker (1000 people -La Alberca, in Salamanca, Spain-) from mother dough. Sugar? little or none. Wine? A glass at lunch, by not? Oils? Yes, extra virgin olive oil, nothing else. 
When people refuse to enjoy our Bellota 100% iberico jamon because "it has fat" and then go to overeat at any of the modern fast food restaurant chains, I feel that there is something wrong with us all. 
We are not what we eat, but what we eat, eats (sorry @nutrillermo, this sentence is yours too, i know...). Fortunately, the way our Acorn Fed 100% Iberico pig is raised hasn't changed that much in the last few centuries (and if you still want a ham like the one made centuries ago, remember we also offer the 100% ORGANIC): they freely feast on natural/fallen acorns, grasses and anything Nature provides until they double their size. The fat produced by the animal comes from a natural diet, with high amounts of healthy acids (the oleic one, for instance - same as EVOO!) so, in addition to adding flavor to the meat, it has healthy attributes. 
 
If you want pig/beef or any other naturally fed animal with no fat, please, buy chicken. But then think: if we are what we eat eats, am I eating healthy?

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