Ryan Vail thinks beef jerky is the perfect food for runners - Nutritionists, what do you think?

ukathleticscoach wrote:

Its high is salt, each serving has 2,790 mg, more than the recommended 2,300.

Also high in saturated fat. So much crap info on diet on internet not sure of %

Only a jerky would someone recommend something so unhealthy. It would be good for those who like a fad diet and think 'Dr Phil' gives good advice

As others have pointed out, there are many kinds of jerky. Some has lots of fat, chemicals, and sodium. There's also plenty of high quality, organic jerky out there that has sodium content in the 300-400 mg range.

Good jerky is an excellent food for runners. Sure, it's no better than just cooking some fresh meat, but it convenience matters, especially when you're trying to precisely time your nutrient intake. Lean protein can be particularly difficult to find when you're away from home. Personally, I always try to have some jerky with me if I'm in heavy training and I'm on the road for work.

Vail is not the "jerky", we are! .....for falling for this. He's only kidding. Being absurd. He's being a 'joker' not a jerky. Should have saved it for April 1st though. Now that beef jerky has been used, we're only left with cotton candy as a more absurd troll.

Omnivore wrote:

Run Beef

I LOL'd

I can't speak to jerky specifically, but getting away from the "I need energy, so I need to eat a ton of carbohydrate" ideology was the best thing I ever did for my running and overall energy level.

I'm the extreme Atkins diet type, but my energy level is definitely higher and more stable when I snack on things that are higher in protein rather than carb.

Animal Products such as meat and dairy may have a solid nutrition profile of carbs/protien/fat ratio, but they also have endotoxins. Endotoxins are the result of bacterial cell death, and it cant be removed by any conventional process such as cooking, boiling, drying etc. Endotoxins cause low grade inflammation, and if you constantly eat animal products, you will have an constant inflammatory effect.

"Low level bacterial endotoxin activates two distinct signaling pathways in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells" (Journal of Inflammation20118:4

DOI: 10.1186/1476-9255-8-4)

Background

Bacterial endotoxin, long recognized as a potent pro-inflammatory mediator in acute infectious processes, has more recently been identified as a risk factor for atherosclerosis and other cardiovascular diseases. When endotoxin enters the bloodstream, one of the first cells activated is the circulating monocyte, which exhibits a wide range of pro-inflammatory responses.

"Acute Inflammatory Response to Endotoxin in Mice and Humans"

(Clin Diagn Lab Immunol. 2005 Jan; 12(1): 60–67.)

Endotoxin induced a rapid physiological response in humans (fever, tachycardia, and slight hypotension.The physiological response (i.e., blood pressure, heart rate, and temperature) in humans in our present work is comparable to those of previous reports. The elevation in core temperature has been documented and confirmed by this study to peak around 3 h after endotoxin infusion and to stabilize an average of 5 h after endotoxin infusion (2, 10, 11, 17, 18, 22, 29, 36)

Meat is not a perfect food for Humans period. Calorie dense and nutrition poor.

I've stopped eating any kind of food and have converted to 100% renewable energy sources. Never felt better and no more pooping!

There are certain foods that are better than others. If you eat meat, then organic beef jerky is very good.

For those that say that eating meet is bad, how did the inuit survive on whale, seal and other fat forever?

AuthorrojoSubjectRyan Vail thinks beef jerky is the perfect food for runners - Nutritionists, what do you think?MessageAthletics Illustrated has a story out on Ryan Vail where it mentions he is looking for a beef jerky sponsorship as he thinks it's the perfect food for runners as it has a ton of protein but very few calories/sugar.

Nutritionists, could it become like chocolate milk? The next big thing in recovery?

Athletics Illustrated wrote:

“I’ve always loved jerky, but it wasn’t until last year that I really started looking at the nutrition contents and realized how rare it is to find so much protein with so few calories and little sugar. I even get to replace lost sodium at the same time,” shared Vail.

According to the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, beef jerky is high in protein while not raising your level of insulin, which is a hormone that signals your body to store fat....

“Beef jerky has a ton of protein and electrolytes and little fat or sugars. It’s the ultimate recovery food, plus it tastes great!”

Asked why he has had to endure the frustration of not being able to land a beef jerky sponsorship, he added, “Beef jerky hasn’t been traditionally thought of as nutrition for runners. You can’t buy bags of it at a specialty running store for example, so the route to sponsorship has not been well travelled. I’m looking to help bridge that gap!”

http://athleticsillustrated.com/editorial/ryan-vails-vital-missing-ingredient-to-athletics-success/

Web is sponsored by a jerky product

runrincerepeat wrote:

Meat is not a perfect food for Humans period. Calorie dense and nutrition poor.

Real men need to eat animal meat, especially red meat. That's the best way to become buff and ripped. If you eat plant-based diet, you will be scrawny fat.

Xfit_Idiot_the_Fake_One wrote:

runrincerepeat wrote:

Meat is not a perfect food for Humans period. Calorie dense and nutrition poor.

Real men need to eat animal meat, especially red meat. That's the best way to become buff and ripped. If you eat plant-based diet, you will be scrawny fat.

I regularly dine on 7-11 grilled hot dogs with lottsa toppings and a grape Slurpy Big Gulp and a large frozen Snickers for dessert and I feel fine.

You were probably eating crappy american cereals and sugar and think of that as "carbohydrates."

I like protein wrote:

I can't speak to jerky specifically, but getting away from the "I need energy, so I need to eat a ton of carbohydrate" ideology was the best thing I ever did for my running and overall energy level.

I'm the extreme Atkins diet type, but my energy level is definitely higher and more stable when I snack on things that are higher in protein rather than carb.

Stick to alkaline foods, root vegetables, drink water, low sugar. Some meat is fine. Eat real food. Basically the Tom Brady/Shalane Flanagan diet.

Resident MD wrote:

Where did he go to medical school? I always get a kick out of listening to the theories people who have no medical training have

It is great that MDs are there to help in emergency health care situations but outside of this scenario the help and advice MDs are able to give is much more limited in terms of usefulness. I don't think that having an MD training alone is going to enable someone to give advice on things like nutirion or running injuries that is any more useful than the advice Ryan Vail is able to give.

That's what you get when someone with no medical and/or nutritional training goes looking for a sponsor based on what he/she "believes". Very little nutritional value, lots of negatives as some previous posters have written. One needs to eat a variety of things to optimize performance as most people well know. Just what the optimal distribution of nutrients would be, IE fat, carbs, protein is still being debated. Based on my previous work and published research I have my own informed opinions but thats not the focus of the thread so I will not pontificate as I sometimes am prone to do.

Absolutely false. Meat is the only food category which can completely and healthfully sustain human life indefinitely. There is no human requirement for carbohydrate and there has never been a society that sustained itself on veganism, due to it's inherent nutrient deficiencies. A number of societies have thrived for millenia on virtually nothing but animal products.http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/241588

runrincerepeat wrote:

Meat is not a perfect food for Humans period. Calorie dense and nutrition poor.

The Unfortunate Truth wrote:

This is why American running under achieves.

Second post wins again.

For anyone who harbors any delusions of the vital need of our ancestors for meat:

http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/human-planet/videos/stealing-meat-from-lions/

Where's the beef? wrote:

For those that say that eating meet is bad, how did the inuit survive on whale, seal and other fat forever?

Meet? Meet? Common man!!!

The Inuit do not survive forever. Their life expectancy is substantially shorter than average Canadians. See citations below.

Just like how you could survive on only eating garbage; you can also survive only eating meat. But you will not live as long as others who eat a diet rich in vegetables, fruits, and grains.