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December 28, 2014
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We hope everyone reading had an Merry Christmas and is looking forward to a Happy New Year! 

Dairy is often a hot topic in the paleo/primal community.  We know that dairy is not suitable for everybody - but for those who do enjoy dairy - do you go low fat or full fat?  What is the difference?   Chris Kresser wrote a very informative article answering those questions, and explaining what implications full fat dairy can have on your health. 

Due to the New Year holiday, we will only be shipping on Monday and Tuesday this week.  FedEx will be closed on Thursday, so we will be unable to ship on Wednesday, December 31.  Any order placed before 10:00 am CST Tuesday, December 30 will ship and deliver this week.  Any order placed after the 10:00 am CST cutoff will be held and start shipping on Monday, January 5 when normal shipping resumes.

Can too much fast food have an adverse effect on your child's grades?  An interesting study has been done, suggesting there might be a link to fast food consumption and test scores in young children.  The full article is below. 

We had many of our sugar-free favorites restock this week, including Sugar-Free Pork Breakfast Sausage, Sugar-Free Beef Bacon, Sugar-Free Canadian Bacon and Sugar-Free Turkey Jerky.  We quickly sold out of this week's batch of Sugar-Free Pork Bacon, but do expect more to restock on Monday afternoon, December 29. 

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Fast-food Consumption Linked to Lower Test Score Gains in 8th Graders


The amount of fast food children eat may be linked to how well they do in school, a new nationwide study suggests.

Researchers found that the more frequently children reported eating fast food in fifth grade, the lower their growth in reading, math, and science test scores by the time they reached eighth grade.

Students who ate the most fast food had test score gains that were up to about 20 percent lower than those who didn't eat any fast food, said Kelly Purtell, lead author of the study and assistant professor of human sciences at The Ohio State University.

"There's a lot of evidence that fast-food consumption is linked to childhood obesity, but the problems don't end there," Purtell said. "Relying too much on fast food could hurt how well children do in the classroom."

The results remained even after the researchers took into account a wide variety of other factors that may have explained why those with high fast-food consumption might have lower test scores, including how much they exercised, how much television they watched, what other food they ate, their family's socioeconomic status and characteristics of their neighborhood and school.

"We went as far as we could to control for and take into account all the known factors that could be involved in how well children did on these tests," Purtell said.

Purtell conducted the study with Elizabeth Gershoff, associate professor of human ecology at the University of Texas at Austin. The results are published online in the journal Clinical Pediatrics.

Data from the study came from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort, a nationally representative study of students who were in kindergarten in the 1998-1999 school year. It was collected by the National Center for Educational Statistics.

This study included about 11,740 students. They were tested in reading/literacy, mathematics and science in both fifth and eighth grades. They also completed a food consumption questionnaire in fifth grade.

"Fast-food consumption was quite high in these students," Purtell said.

Less than a third (29 percent) of the children did not have any fast food during the week before they completed the questionnaire. But 10 percent reported having fast food every day while another 10 percent ate it four to six times a week. Slightly more than half of the children ate fast food one to three times in the previous week.

Children who ate fast food four to six times per week or every day showed significantly lower gains in all three achievement areas compared to children who did not eat any fast food the week before the survey.

However, children who ate fast food just one to three times a week had lower academic growth compared to non-eaters in only one subject, math.

"We're not saying that parents should never feed their children fast food, but these results suggest fast-food consumption should be limited as much as possible," said Purtell.

Purtell emphasized that this study cannot prove that fast-food consumption caused the lower academic growth observed in this study. However, by controlling for other possible explanations for this link, such as family background and what other food they ate, and by looking at change in achievement scores, the authors are confident fast food is explaining some of the difference in achievement gains over time.

In addition, because the study examined only changes in test scores between fifth and eighth grade it controls for all the early childhood factors that may affect test grades.

This study can't say why fast-food consumption is linked to lower grades, she said. But other studies have shown that fast food lacks certain nutrients, especially iron, that help cognitive development. In addition, diets high in fat and sugar -- similar to fast-food meals -- have been shown to hurt immediate memory and learning processes.

Ohio State University. "Fast-food consumption linked to lower test score gains in 8th graders." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 22 December 2014. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141222111605.htm>.
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Directions:

  1. To prep the brisket whether you are smoking it or cooking it in the oven you need to rinse it under cold water and pat dry.
  2. Use your yellow mustard and spread it evenly over your entire brisket and then rub in a liberal amount of the Caveman Rub making a nice crust over the whole brisket.
  3. If you can, wrap the whole brisket in plastic wrap and just let sit in the refrigerator for a few hours up to overnight, to let those flavors meld.
  4. When your ready to cook your brisket, ensure you pull it out of the refrigerator at least an hour prior to your starting to cook it.
  5. Once it has come to room temperature, melt together the butter and honey in the microwave.
  6. If you are smoking your brisket, get your smoker to around 200 degrees F.
  7. If you are cooking it in the oven, preheat your oven to 220 degrees F.
  8. Using a marinade injector inject that brisket with the honey butter as full as you can get it and this is where the steps split.
  9. If you are smoking it, now is the time to go put that brisket fat side up on the smoker and get ready to sit on your hands for close to 16 hours. That brisket needs to smoke for a LONG TIME and the more you open the lid, the longer it will take. After 5 hours I sprayed apple juice on the brisket every hour until the internal temperature reached 190 degrees F.
  10. If you are using your oven, wrap your seasoned and injected brisket tightly in heavy duty aluminum foil ensuring the fat side is up. Place in the oven and then leave it alone for like 8-9 hours. You are shooting for the same internal temperature of 190 Degrees here. I recommend prepping the brisket the day before and starting in the morning for dinner. It is almost a must to have a leave in a meat thermometer as well so you never have to open your oven.
  11. Once your meats are done let rest for about 10 minutes and then slice AGAINST the grain.
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