Food for thought

A few days ago I received an email from Peter, who resides in Sydney, Australia. He writes: "I stumbled upon your blog and read over many past entries. I too have studied nutrition extensively over the past 15 years." He adds, "On asking myself the simple question 'how does what you put in your mouth affect you?' I became a vegetarian in 1996. Up until then I was sceptical as to whether I could get all my nutritional requirements without eating animal products. After I moved away from home I still ate some animal products i.e. dairy and even fish on rare occasions. I was for the most part glad to remove animal products from my diet and the suffering that is attributed with them. As I gained greater knowledge about a plant based diet I became a vegan about two years after this. Being a vegan has opened my eyes to the huge variety of plant foods that are available to eat from the broad categories of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts and seeds. As suc

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A disease promoting diet? A cancer promoting diet? A health promoting diet? Or like most people, a diet somewhere in between. I have studied nutrition for 30 years reading books written by doctors in the know. I have consulted with these doctors through phone calls, emails, and through being involved on their listserves. I feel I have a good basic understanding of what food and drink is healthy, and what is not. Now when I look at an individual food or drink, I am aware if it 1) contains health promoting qualities, if it 2) contains disease promoting qualities, or if it 3) contains both health and disease promoting qualities. Generally if a food or drink contains any disease promoting qualities, I try to stay away from it. This is my contention: 'If a food or drink is considered to contain a disease promoting quality, it may promote some form of cancer. Any food or drink that affects your system in a negative way promotes some form of disease.' http://www.cancerproject.org/di

-if you're the cow's calf. ALL dairy foods- milk, butter, yogurt, kefir, cheese, cottage cheese, etc.- every product that contains the milk from a cow (or goat for that matter) has unhealthy qualities/chemicals that promote disease in humans. A cow's milk is INTENDED for a calf, not a person. A goat's milk is INTENDED for a baby goat, not a human. It isn't hard to understand then if people consume these products, they are being harmed, as it was not INTENDED for them! I was just in a Coborn's grocery store in Albertville, Minnesota. There was a sign by the cheese that said, "Dr. Oz says thumbs up to Gouda!" Dr. Oz and Coborn's is wrong. He does know a lot, but apparently there's much he does not know. If you've looked at any of Dr. Oz's books/recipes, he includes food from animals and other unhealthy ingredients. Re gouda cheese, he is mistaken. Dr. Oz is just plain wrong. He has not been educated. Any kind of cheese has unhealthy quali

http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2011/03/03/vegan-on-the-silver-screen/?hpt=C2 This is an article from CNN. (Thanks Brian!) What is quite interesting (and depressing) are the comments at the end of the article. Reading these is a dose of reality that there are SO many uninformed people out there in the world. These stubborn, close-minded people with their "I'm not going to change for anything" attitudes, these people addicted to unhealthy food and drink- will stand more of a chance of dying earlier than need be, than those who choose to adopt a plant based diet. Read Eat To Live, or Eat For Health- Joel Fuhrman, MD. If you do read either of these books- have an open mind. Please see the two entries before this one.