I meant McDonalds burgers. Yes, i eat whole wheat. But not veyr often… Also, i read a whole book on how in the meat industry, cows are taken off hormones/antibiotics long b4 slaughter time so that it is no longer in their systems…
I agree - It IS healthy 2 b vegan - 4 about a day or two. After awhile, it is NOT healthy. As stated in another post, only those who eat meat live beyond 100. I’ve known or read of a lot of vegetarians who die @ young ages, usually of cancer. Cancer cells (all of us have them, i’ve heard) feed on insulin. Insulin comes from the blood sugar being raised & carbs/sugars raise our blood sugar more than meat/protein/fat (fat doesn’t affect blood sugar at all). OUr bodies r made up of protein, fat & water, therefore meat and animal products r more body-friendly than most (and/or) excess carbs. In (i think) Greenland, there is a village of 3000 where the people eat very few carbs (there aren’t many available there); they mostly eat fish, even whale blubber… There is not ONE case of heart disease in the town… not one… Kind of disproves the “animal fat causes heart disease” argument…
Well we may eat more meat than we are designed to, but vegetarians eat less meat than we are designed to eat as well.
No, I don’t assume. Jesus Christ was a faithful Jew. All faithful Jews consumed lamb at Passover.My sister was a Seventh day Adventist for a while (she’s also a vegetarian who’s managed to reduce her bp and go off her diabetes medication on her diet) This religious group has been studied because their members have long life spans (they also don’t smoke, drink alcohol or coffee).
Anyway, you assume Jesus ate lamb at Passover. However, I have a hard time envisioning that since it was Jesus who said “I am the Good Shepherd, the Good Shepherd lays down his life for his sheep” . I just can’t imagine seeing Jesus eating the lamb he holds guarding in his arms.
u can have a hard time envisioning it but Jesus was a Jew and all Jews sacrificed animals and ate them. Also, the 7th Day A. are not as healthy as some people would like to think. I read this one article yrs ago that said something about them having a high incidence of a certain kind of cancer (can’t recal which kind). Also, Catholics, statistically, live longer than Protestants. Now that i think about it, i am sure more Protestants are vegetarians than Cahtolics. Catholics (like me) drink coffee & alcohol (tho usually not to excess). I read somewhere that coffee is the number 1 antioxidant. Alcohol raises HDL and red wine helps the body with insulin-resistance (which increases as we age & leads 2 heart disease, diabetes & other diseases). The woman who (once?) broke the world record for old age (@ 122 yrs), when asked her secret 4 long life, said, “olive oil and port wine”. Aside from the aforementioned benefits of wine, it also de-stresses a person… and stress is probably the biggest killer of all.My sister was a Seventh day Adventist for a while (she’s also a vegetarian who’s managed to reduce her bp and go off her diabetes medication on her diet) This religious group has been studied because their members have long life spans (they also don’t smoke, drink alcohol or coffee).
Anyway, you assume Jesus ate lamb at Passover. However, I have a hard time envisioning that since it was Jesus who said “I am the Good Shepherd, the Good Shepherd lays down his life for his sheep” . I just can’t imagine seeing Jesus eating the lamb he holds guarding in his arms.
So it has been stated, but stating it and proving it are not the same thing. Besides, the odds of living a century are small enough, that I don’t think it is a reasonable guage of how healthy a diet is. A better measure would be average life expectancy or mortality rates. As I have pointed out, Trappist Monks, who are lacto-ovo vegetarians routinely live into their 80s and 90s. It doesn’t, I think prove, that being a vegetarian increases life span, but it does prove that being a vegetarian is not inconsistent with a long life span.
Umm… we need some sugar in our blood. Its a basic source of energy for the body. The enemy there is too much starch and other simple carbs and sugar. A vegetarian diet that favor whole grain foods is not any likelier to cause elevated blood sugar levels than a high protien diet. In addition, vegetarian diets have been shown to lower the risk of certain sorts of cancer.
Irrelevant. Cows bodies are made up of the same things (more or less) as our bodies are, but they are obligate herbivores. If you gave a cow a piece of chicken, it would not eat it and if it did, its system would not be good at digesting it.
Maybe, maybe not. Again, you need to document your evidence. In any case, I could point out that Japan has the highest percentage of its population reaching 100 of any nation on Earth. Most of those who made it to that age lived on a diet that consisted mostly of white rice and vegetables accompanied by relatively small amounts of fish (say 3 or 4 ounces of fish a day).
There are healthy and unhealthy people who follow almost any diet. Some of it is good genes, or plain luck.
In re: the vitamin D question, aspawloski4th may have been mixing up the nutrients. It is vitamin B12 which is found mostly in animal products, and this is a serious vitamin to get deficient on. The only non-animal sources of B12 are brewer’s yeast and blackstrap molasses, neither of which is a staple in the diet of anyone I know.
yes it is true for b12 and a few other b vitamins as well, but it is common knowledge that vitamin D is almost exclusively from animal and fish sources. I know there are ways to get those vitamins and be vegatarian, bit to tell you the truth in my case. its too much work and too much fanagling. untill I start to see some heart attacks amungnst my relatives, who a big time meat eaters also, Im not going to worry about it. as long as low bloodsugar causes hunger to be a real hassle Im going to eat my protein! since the begining of my imediate family my dad has always eat lots of meat, for years every saturday he’d have a 40 oz steak for dinner and his cholesterol is double digit and the heart health is in great shape. his mother is 83 and has only double digit cholesterol. its genetics! my mother went on the atkins diet, while she lost a token amount of weight , Ive never seen her feel so well and have so much energy in my life. untill humans are treated better and no more unborn are aborted legally, Im not going to worry about animal rights or suffering.
it is only possbile to get about 1/2 of what you need of vitamin D from the sun on a given sunny day, you need other sourcess to get enough vitamin D.
A person can get sufficient Vitamin D by being outside for at least an hour (this from an MD friend) in the sun. If you are someone who doesn’t get “enough” from the sun, then you can get supplements. As for me and mine, I prefer the sun.
if your md is a typical md his knowledge of nutrician isnt up to date. Ive read from about a half a dozen different sources your skin gives you half of the vitamin d at the most. an hour in the sun would fry my mom and motherinlaw to a crisp, and isnt possbile this time of year here in grand rapids. and if you get too much sun you end up like my aunt whos skin looks like leather at best. my skin is just average european decent skin and I get burned in a couple hours.
You mean the sun isn’t shining now in Michigan???
B12 pills do next to nothing. Injections are the best. I know this because my grandfather is sorely lacking (he’s anemic) in B12 and goes to get these injections from the VA every 2 weeks. The injections are very expensive however.