Animal Based Diet - Very Unhealthy

[theBruiser500]

So I've had a few threads already about being vegeterian and different aspects, now here is one on the health aspects of it specifically. If you are interested in this subject at all you need to read this book:

The China Project

Note btw that at 24 reviews it has 5 stars, and if you use amazon frequently and use the reviews you will know this is not meaningless. This well written book cites study after study and shows how the Western, animal based diet is responsible for our heart problems, cancer, diabetes, and a lot more.

Here is an interesting statistic which I had to read a few times because it is so amazing. In a couple provinces in China, Sichuan and some other place like Guinshzio, with a populaiton of 220,000+, in a period of 3 years in the 70's there was not single case of coronary heart disease. Or this one, a famous doctor put 23 people on a whole foods, plant based diet after they had 49 operations because of heart based problems, and in the following 11 years, 18 of them didn't need another operation. The other 5 dropped out of the program and I don't remember exactly what happened, but I think they had health problems.

One more interesting thing. Rats are put on a diet of 5% calories coming from animal protein, and 20% calories coming from animal protein. The rats with 5% animal proten exercised on a treadmill in the cage TWO times as much as the 20% protein rats (vegeterians have more energy). Okay and one more thing for people that think animal protein is so important that vegeterians have problems getting it. Americans have 15-16% of their diet on average come from protein, Chinese have about 6% of their diet come from protein. Of that 15% about 80% of that is from animal protein. Of the Chinese 6%, only 10% comes from animal proten, the other 90% (!!) comes from vegetables or whatever else.

Read this book.

[miajag81]

What this excerpt fails to point out is that animals are delicious.

[slickpoppa]

Too bad Chinese people smoke like chimneys: link

[Jakesta]

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What this excerpt fails to point out is that animals are delicious.

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You are awesome.

[BusterStacks]

listening to socially inept hippies - very irritating

[Jakesta]

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listening to socially inept hippies - very irritating

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owned.

[nolanfan34]

That's too much to read, the ribeye steak I grilled tonight is OK to eat, right? [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

[mason55]

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That's too much to read, the ribeye steak I grilled tonight is OK to eat, right? [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

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Yeah this makes me think of the 25 different meat based dishes I ordered at the Tapas resturant tonight.

[theBruiser500]

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listening to socially inept hippies - very irritating

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owned.

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First of all jakester, his joke was not funny so I was not "owned." Second of all what does this have to do with being a hippie? This isn't about animal cruelty, this is about health, is it being a hippie to care about my own well being? Okay if that is the case I guess I am not a macho American like you.

If you don't want to read it okay. If you don't want to be a vegeterian that is okay too. What astounds me though is how poorly informed people are on this subject, not just because of apathy but because of misinformation. This is my small contributition, spreading awareness of the knowledge that is available. I want my friends to be healthy and live to be old with me.

[Jakesta]

You can't prove that a vegetarian diet is healthier than a non-vegetarian diet.

And I've never claimed to be a macho American.