Roger, I fully agree with your address on the trans fat and sucrose issue.
But, you Roger, are a fine specimin indeed. One might even liken you to the physique of a cheetah, or whichever animal you please. You work like an animal, and use every potential benefit meat has to offer. In optimum health, one barely gets affected by Many of us are not fit or do not use it, therefore letting it hurt our health. For example, 80% of blacks and 20% of whites do not have lactase to digest cow's milk.
"Early humans were hunter-gatherers, they ate alot of meat and alot of complex carbs and fiber. That's what we're meant to consume."
Early humans fought to survive and did things out of desperation. Given a choice of food, I would not eat McDonald's unless I had $2 in my pocket. That's desperation. We are an advanced civilization right now, capable of eating multifacited groups of foods that will provide sufficient nutrition and prevent diseases. Meat today improves your chances of getting cancer and disease. But of course, today's meat is infected with horrendous chemicals and things that buffalo and deer our ancestors ate did not have. Cows are fed sawdust. Chickens are fed other chickens. 55% of animals are given antibiotics. 55% the US diet containing chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides comes from meat, 23% from dairy products, 1-6% grains, veggies, fruits. 99% of our mothers' milk now contains DDT. Only 8% of vegetarian mothers have this. Violet dye used to stamp meat for years is now banned as it was proven carcinogenic. In 35 years, the amount of male college students that were sterile jumped from 5% to 25% and sperm count is down 30%. The principal reason for sterility is pesticides. 94% of these pesticides are attributed to meat, dairy, fish, eggs.
And for the average man, the most common cause of death in the US is from heart attack. The risk of heart attack by a vegetarian: 4% Risk for raw food dietist: 0-1% I would guess that for the average man, meat is not a good source of healthy nutrition.
In 1950 the average Japanese consumed 5.5 pounds of milk and dairy... By 1975 that number had increased to 117.4 pounds. During that 25 year period, the average 12-year-old girl gained 19 pounds, grew 4 1/2 inches, and the average age of menarche went from 15.2 years to 12.2 years. How else do you explain this?
Rise in blood cholesterol from consuming 1 egg per day: 12%
Rise in heart attack risk from 12% rise in blood cholesterol: 24%
Roger, your cholesterol is 130, yet one simply eating a vegan diet and not physically working oneself a fraction of what you do can obtain a few points lower.
As for growth hormones in milk,
"After the rBGH milk is consumed, IGF-1 is not destroyed by human digestion. Instead, IGF-1 is readily absorbed across the intestinal wall. Additional research has shown that it can be absorbed into the bloodstream where it can effect other hormones."
This happens because the hormones are almost identical in human and bovine, thus readily available to hop across species. We saw this in the mad cow crisis (a result of cows eating dead cows, then us eating those cows).
Europe has BANNED hormonal milk from America, unless labeled as such. The FDA does not require labelling.
Also, 80% of cows treated with this hormone get udder infection, resulting in PUS which is NOT regulated by the FDA (they love the hormone), and is ready to infect a cereal bowl near you.
"Diseases which are commonly prevented, consistently improved, and even cured by a vegetarian diet include: Heart disease, strokes, osteoporosis, kidney stones, breast cancer, colon cancer, prostate cancer, pancreatic cancer, ovarian cancer, cervicalc ancer, stomach cancer, endometrial cancer, diabetes, hypoglycemia, kidney disease, peptic ulcers, constipation, hemorrhoids, hiatal hernias, diverticulosis, obesity, gallstones, hypertension, asthma, irritable colon syndrome, salmonellosis, trichinosis, etc."
Athletes who didn't eat meat
Only man to win Ironman Triathlon more than twice: Dave Scott (6 time winner)
Food choices of Dave Scott: Vegetarian
World record holder for 1 day triathlon (Swim 4.8 miles (7.7 km), cycle 185 miles (298 km), run 52.5 miles (84.5 km)): Sixto Lenares
Food choices of Sixto Lenares: Strict vegetarian
Athlete who most totally dominated Olympic sport in track and field history: Edwin Moses (undefeated in 8 years, 400 meter hurdles)
Food choices of Edwin Moses: Vegetarian
Other notable vegetarian athletes:* Stan Price (world record bench-press)* Carl Lewis (world¹s fastest man, 8 Olympic gold medals, 7 world records)* Robert Sweetgall (world¹s premier ultra-distance walker)* Paavo Nurmi (20 world records in distance running, 9 Olympic medals)* Bill Pickering (world record - swimming English Channel)* Murray Rose (world records - swimming 400 and 1500 meter freestyles* Andreas Cahling (winner - Mr. International body-building championships)* Roy Hilligan (winner - Mr. America body-building championships)* Pierro Verot (world record for downhill endurance skiing)* Estelle Gray and Cheryl Merek (world record for cross-country tandem cycling)* James and Jonathan deDonato (world record for distance butterfly stroke swimming)* Ridgely Abele (winner of 8 national championships in Karate, including U.S. KarateAssociation World Championships)* Peter Burwash (highest fitness index of any athlete in Canada)* Alan Jones (world record for continuous sit-ups - 17,003)151. Raw-foodist athletes:* George Allen (held the world record for walking form Land¹s End in Cornwall to JohnO¹Groats at northern tip of Scotland; he lives mostly on raw vegetables).* Barbara Moore (broke George Allen¹s walking record).* Fausto Coppi and Luis Ocana (world-renowned cyclists trained onraw-foods by French herbalist Maurice Messegue).* Dick Gregory (In 1974 he ran 900 miles (1450 kilometers) exclusivelyon fruit juice; a one-time American comedian, he is now a raw-food nutritionist who often works in thesport of boxing -- he has worked with boxers such as heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe.)* Joe "The Atom" Greenstein (American strongman who enjoyed wide popularity in the 1930s.)
On energy:
Length of time world's petroleum reserves would last (with current technologies) if all human beings ate meat-centered diet: 13 years
Length of time world¹s petroleum reserves would last (with current technologies) if all humanbeings ate vegetarian diet: 260 years
Principal reason for U.S. intervention in Persian Gulf: Dependence on foreign oil
Barrels of oil imported daily by U.S.: 6.8 million
Percentage of energy return (as food energy per fossil energy expended) of most energy efficient farming of meat: 34.5%
Percentage of energy return (as food energy per fossil energy expended) of least energy efficient plant food: 328%
Percentage of raw materials consumed in U.S. for all purposes presently consumed to produce current meat-centered diet: 33%
Percentage of raw materials consumed in U.S. for all purposes needed to produce pure vegetarian diet: 2%
Agriculture:
Human population of the United States: @ 300 million
Number of humans that can be fed by the grain and soybeans eaten by U.S. livestock: 1.4 billion
Percentage of corn grown in U.S. eaten by livestock: 85%; percentage of corn eaten by humans: 15%(99.999% of which is cooked)
Percentage of oats grown in U.S. eaten by livestock: 95%
Percentage of protein wasted by cycling grain through livestock: 90%
Percentage of carbohydrate wasted by cycling grain through livestock:99%
Percentage of dietary fiber wasted by cycling grain through livestock: 100%
How frequently a child dies of starvation: Every 2 seconds
Amount of potatoes that can be grown on 1 acre (4,047 square meters of land: 20,000 lbs. (9,072 kg)
Amount of beef that can be grown on 1 acre (4,047 square meters) of land: 165 lbs. (75 kg)
Percentage of U.S. agricultural land used to produce beef: 56%
Amount of grain and soybeans needed to produce 1 pound (or kilogram) of feedlot beef: 16 lbs. (7.3kg)
Amount of protein fed to chickens to produce 1 pound (or kilogram) of protein as chicken flesh: 5lbs. (2.3 kg)
Amount of protein fed to hogs to produce 1 pound (or kilogram) of protein as hog flesh: 7.5 lbs. (3.4kg)
Number of children who starve to death every day: 40,000
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