You are what you eat.
Posted on 04/16/2002 1:40:40 PM PDT by Brookhaven
Mama says, "Vegetables are the Devil!"
"All things in moderation."
However, there are two times that I hated disliked 2 different people because of their vegetarianism. Both times, I was with a small group who were going out for a Chinese meal --you know the kind, where dishes are shared. (I take my Chinese food very seriously, and ordering a balanced meal is an art.) Well, we were ordering, and a voice pops up and says "I'm vegetarian!" It threw everything off! To accomodate one person (who didn't want to order her very own thing) we had things most people didn't want, just so she could have a taste of everything.
Why does it seem as tho most vegetarians are female. The ones that I know are mostly female.
You know something, THAT is our diet! Eggs, cream, lard, beef and pork. Throw in a little chicken and pizza too. My kids are looking MUCH healthier since we switched to WHOLE MILK. Now we just need a cow and chickens :-)
You are what you eat.
BTW, a deficiency in B-12 can cause M.S. and M.S. like symptons.
You have no idea what whole milk really is until you've had a cow. Growing up, I milked a Guernsey cow twice a day for years. She gave about 5 gallons/day and after skimming off as much cream as we possibly could, it was STILL richer than store-bought whole milk.
It takes some getting used to if you've never had it before.
Rattlesnake ain't bad... A lil' tough and gamey but good eatin'...
Well that's my experience too... Some of my buds in the local running club are vegetarian though, we even got a token full-out vegan... More likely than not that highpitched screech "oh I'm a vegetarian" does belong to a chick in my experience though...
I'd also like to point out that we were created to only eat fruit (this would include grain and legumes). After the flood animals were given to us to eat, as well as a shortened life-span. God much have flicked some sort of "switch" in human metabolism, and I now think that some meat in the diet is not only good but necessary. Although, living off of red-meat every day and every day probably is not the best idea.
Sorry, but this is very wrong for 2 key reasons.
(1)Margarine, vegetable shortening, processed vegetable oils (canola, safflower, corn, etc), are chemically damaged in industrial processing. The high heat of the processing shifts the "cis" unsaturated bonds to an unnatural "trans" form. Also, when veggie oils are synthetically hydrogenated to make shortening or margarine, those unsaturated bonds that missed during hydrogenation (saturated)are converted to "trans" configuration (because it's a hot process.)
These "trans" fats were not historically part of the human diet, they're biochemically new. Among other things, trans fats sabotage prostaglandin production, probably causing or contributing to allergies, asthma, cancer, and heart disease, among other things. When our forefathers lived on animal fats, these problems were very rare, even among the very old. But now they're epidemic. For more info, go here: How Vegetable Oils Took Over
(2) The vegetable oils, even healthful natural oils such as olive oil, lack certain key nutrients that modern Americans are typically deficient in, and that can only be obtained from animal sources.
For examply, nearly all of us have Vitamin D deficiency, as evidenced by the fact that almost all of us seem to need orthodontics nowadays (it was proven in the 1930s that malocclusion is ALL nutrional and 100% preventable by proper prenatal nutrition, yet your dentist was probably taught in school that it's "genetic".) And modern women have more and more trouble with childbirth due to narrowed hips -- again, a Vitamin D related problem. We definitely do NOT get enough Vit. D from the sun, especially if we wash regularly (removes the precursor oils) and wear clothes so we MUST get it from foods if we want the healthy bone structures of our ancestors. Lard, eggs, and butter, especially pasture-grown, are good sources of it, as are codliver oil and many seafoods -- but veggie oils contain no Vit. D at all. A good Vitamin D related story: Disillusioned with Veganism
Vitamin A is another one.... We're usually told that veggie-derived carotenes convert to Vitamin A in the body, but not everyone converts them equally well. For those who don't, preconverted vitamin A from animal sources (eggs, dairy, fish, etc) is essential. Similar comments apply to Omega-3 fatty acids -- not everyone can convert the vegetable-derived Alpha Linolenic acid into the DHA and EPA that we need, some people simply must get these from animal-fat sources or their health will always be poor.
I could go on and on about this topic (I'm a chemist, and I have an aspergerish tendency to talk too much), but I think I've made my point. The conclusion: Eat the healthy, natural animal fats your great grandparents ate -- butter (grassfed if possible), lard, eggs, and meat -- and you'll be just fine. For more info -- Great-Grandpa's Diet
Beware the hazards of hasty copy/paste
I've eaten lion and it actually has some white meat that tastes much like veal.
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