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  • I’m from a Roman Catholic background and have never heard of a religious restriction on animal fats

    I also don’t know what you mean by suet being burned, it looks clean and white and renders into tallow that is clear through to yellow depending on how good the animal’s diet was

    It can be older fat, so I can imagine it accumulating poisons if the animal has been eating poisons (I recall getting seasonal allergies out of season while I was burning fat, for example) but I have never read any research saying suet was worse than subcutaneous fat

    I know native Americans who made pemmican ranked the fats best to worst as

    1. marrow, best by far
    2. suet from around the kidneys
    3. suet generally
    4. subcutaneous

    You’d expect it to taste bad of it was bad for us

    Also I don’t trust religious food rules. If you want to argue food here your best off bringing good quality science (controlled trials for example) or at least some anecdote. Appeal to a religious authority isn’t very convincing

    I presume it’s from the first 5 books of the Bible, which seem to be shared by the abrehamic religions, could you refer me to the chapter and verse?

    Edit to add: if your religion bans a food I don’t think you’re wrong to avoid it, mine (of which I’m no longer a believer) advises to eat only fish on Fridays, which is good advice - ocean based foods are definitely healthy unless they have too much mercury

    2nd edit after looking it up, it’s a uniquely Jewish restriction. Wikipedia has more detail which is marked [needs citation]

    The main article points us at Leviticus (The Law) 7:23 to 25 which boils down to

    • Don’t eat the fat from oxen, sheep, goat
    • Don’t eat the fat of something that died (as opposed to was killed)
    • Don’t eat the fat of animals being sacrificed

    26 is don’t eat blood

    Jewish study almost certainly extends and clarifies this, Christianity doesn’t follow Leviticus so doesn’t notice these things

    I wonder if this is because it’s from a farming culture. High fat diets are dangerous if they are also high carbohydrate diets





  • Steak nutrients may not reach the bloodstream for roughly three to four hours, so timing a large steak several hours before training is the practical pattern.

    That can be difficult. Say my training opportunity is early morning To get a steak a few hours before is while I’m asleep, to get as close as possible it’s just before bed, but that makes me wake feeling like I had a lot of booze the night before, so the latest I can eat is a couple of hours before bed

    So 06:30 exercise can have food before it no later than 20:00 the night before, so I think any morning exercise I do will be fasted

    I’m sure it’s different for professional athletes, they can probably set their training to start late enough in the day without a day job getting in the way

    On the amateur end of things I don’t think fasted vs fed matters much