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Re: Lesson # 4 - The truth about nuts


Sara I agree with you. Below is a quote from the excellent book "A Delicate Balance - The Truth". There is actually tons more useful info in there, I have bought the ebook and DVD, they are both excellent. I won't add any comments because it speaks for itself. You can buy both these from http://www.adelicatebalance.com.au/ and for information my recent post here with nutritarian tips was mainly about Neal Barnard. He's another good guy. Here is the extract:

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Neal Barnard MD is a physician with 27 years of experience. He is the Founder and Chairman of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) in Washington DC.

Dr Barnard has spent his professional life conducting extensive research, writing and publishing the results in peer-reviewed journals and books. He has written over 40 articles and 9 books, to date. This is what Dr Barnard has to say:

“Eating animal products has killed more people over the last century than all the car accidents, all the wars
and all the natural disasters combined”.

But, you may argue, people have always eaten animals.

Not so. Eating animals was over the centuries, a privilege of Kings, Queens and the rich. The consequence was that Royalty and the rich have always been fat and sick. Until the advent of large-scale factory farming, eating meat was a luxury.

Massive factory farming has made it possible for everyone to have access to meat products. Meat consumption in the USA has increased from 170 Kilograms (375 pounds) per person, per year in the 1950’s, to 277 Kilos (609 pounds) per person per year today.

In China the rise has been even more dramatic. Starting at 4 kilograms (8.8 pounds) per person in the 1950’s, meat consumption has increased to 77 kilos (169 pounds) per person per year! Considering there are now some 1.3 billion Chinese, this represents massive numbers of animals killed worldwide.

Despite the historical evidence, many people still believe that humans were built to eat flesh from animals. This is also not so. The structure of our teeth and digestive system speaks to the contrary.

Plutarch, a Greek priest and philosopher, wrote some 2,000 ears ago, “ man has no curved beak, no sharp talons or claws, no pointed teeth... on the contrary, by the smoothness of his teeth, the small capacity of his mouth, the softness of his tongue and the sluggishness of his digestive apparatus, nature sternly forbids him to feed on flesh”.

All animals that feed on the flesh of others have very short digestive systems - about 3 times the length of their body. This enables speedy removal of decaying flesh, which can poison their body if it stays too long. They also have very acidic saliva and their stomachs produce large amounts of hydrochloric acid, which is necessary to digest flesh.

The human digestive tract is 12 times the length of our body. Plants and vegetables take longer to digest because of the fibre they contain. Meat has no fibre at all and so the nutrients can be extracted a lot faster.

Because of our long digestive tract, the meat we eat putrefies. Can this putrefaction with the resulting release of toxins and proliferation of bacteria be good for us ?!

Our saliva is alkaline and contains a special enzyme necessary to pre-digest grain. This degree of specialization takes thousands of years of evolution to develop. It is the result of human beings consistently eating grains. Our socalled canine teeth are canine only in name. Compared to carnivorous animals, our canines are not sharp enough or strong enough to tear cooked, let alone raw flesh.

Dr Barnard is not the only doctor pointing to animal protein and fat as the cause of our health problems.

Thousands of studies from the most prestigious medical institutions in the United States and around the world have been done, and published in equally renowned medical journals, from JAMA, Journal of the American Medical Association, the Lancet, the New England Journal of Medicine and many others – they indicate clearly how animal proteins and fats contribute to, and cause ill health.

While the nutrition experts around the world agree that animal-based diet is dangerous to our health, many members of the medical profession are not aware of this fact.

 

 
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