QuestionI just ordered some lard. is this a good source of fat? can u compare it to marrow? I am vit d deficient. I cannot get a hold of fresh wild salmon. can i eat canned salmon once or twice a week from vital choice?
AnswerLard is a very unhealthy source of fat. Lard is not only cooked animal fat(and animal fats are worst affected by cooking in terms of the amounts of toxins resulting) but, also, lard is often sold in hydrogenated form, which is just terrible. Plus, lard comes from pig fat, and pigs are mostly raised on 100% grain-filled diets, with only a few being properly pastured on omnivorous diets.
Marrow, if raw, is a very good fat, but should come from 100% grassfed animals(generally hay and sileage-fed in the winter).
Re vitamin d deficiency:- Farmed salmon is extremely unhealthy for you, even if organic-raised. Standard, canned salmon will have artificial food-dyes such as (the carcinogenic) canthaxanthin. And any canned food is even worse for you than cooked foods as it is usually heated to a very high temperature in order to ensure killing off all the bacteria - the result is that there is very little nutrition in canned foods.
If you're not near the coast etc., it can be very difficult to get hold of decent sources of raw wildcaught seafood such as mackerel, oysters, or sardines etc. which are rich in vitamin D. Raw eggs are also rich in vitamin D. Most raw eggs come from chickens fed on 100% grain diets, which is not good as chickens are omnivorous by nature.And, generally speaking, RAFers don't do well if they consume large numbers of raw eggs a day, better to limit their consumption.
Your best bet re vitamin D would be to buy a genuinely raw cod liver oil, which has very high amounts of the stuff. The only one I know of is "Blue Ice " cod liver oil, which has a raw, fermented version. raw organ-meats also contain vitamin d, such as raw liver.
HTH,
RPG.
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