Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 All the information out there about people having nutritional deficiencies on a vegetarian diet is misguided and flat-out wrong. Unless, of course, for people are living on what I call a "junk food vegetarian diet," which is soda, chips and vegetarian processed food. Of course that diet causes nutritional deficiencies. But not a health-minded vegetarian diet. Even vitamin B12 is simple to get in sufficient quantities if you put your mind to it.
As a society, we can exist quite comfortably on a plant-based diet. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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 However, given that there exist such studies that have produced evidence that supports both a vegetarian diet and a non-vegetarian diet, it is my opinion that the common sense observation that it is natural to do both, is of equal validity. Whether you agree with this or not is your choice. Recommendations put forth in this book allow for both a vegetarian and a non-vegetarian diet. |
Ann N. Martin
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 Dogs can subsist on a vegetarian diet, but cats require a meat source of protein. Cats require much more protein than dogs, and kittens require more protein than a full-grown cat.
For dogs, vegetable protein does not contain all the amino acids that are required; therefore, a correct formulation of grains and other ingredients must be made if you plan on feeding your dog a vegetarian diet.
Indigestible proteins, such as those used in some commercial per foods (hair, feathers, fecal matter), obviously cannot sustain an animal. |
Elaine Magee
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 A vegetarian diet is linked to weight loss. What's this? A recent scientific review compiling data from 87 observational and clinical studies on vegetarian diets noted weight loss of up to a pound a week, and it didn't appear to depend on exercise or calorie count? Sign me up!
What's behind this? Well, vegetarians typically consume more than 50 percent of energy from carbohydrate-rich plant foods known for having some nutritional synergy (fruits, vegetables, legumes and nuts, and whole grain breads and cereals). |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 Vegetarian diet in mild hypertension: a randomised controlled trial. BMJ 293, 1468-1471.
180. Rouse, I. L., et al. (1983). Blood-pressure-lowering effect of a vegetarian diet: controlled trial in normotensive subjects. Lancet i: 5-10.
181. Sacks, F., et al. (1995). Rationale and design of the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension trial. Ann. Epidemiol. 5, 108-118.
182. Vogt, T., et al. (1999). Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension: Rationale, design, and methods. J. Am. Diet. Assoc. 99(suppl), S12-S18.
183. Materson, B. J., et al. (1993). Single-drug therapy for hypertension in men. |
Elaine Magee
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| Other cholesterol-lowering benefits of a vegetarian diet include a higher consumption of plant stanols (2 grams a day is ideal) and soluble fiber (reaching the recommended 25 grams a day is relatively easy on a vegetarian diet). You don't have to become a full-fledged vegetarian to see results, however. Try to replace meat-based dishes with vegetarian entrees a few times a week.
Focus on flaxseed. |
| Experiment with a vegetarian diet. A typical vegetarian diet includes many cholesterol-lowering foods, such as soy milk, soy burgers, oats, almonds, beans, and plenty of fruits and vegetables, all of which have been individually found to lower cholesterol levels. In one study, after 1 month, participants' LDL levels fell by 29 percent—a drop similar to that seen with some statin drugs. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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| Despite the clear BP effect of a vegetarian diet, it is not realistic to expect a wide-scale adoption of such dietary pattern. In addition, a vegetarian diet does not include all dietary factors associated with lower BP. Thus, the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) multicenter trials were designed to test the impact of whole dietary patterns on BP simultaneously while controlling for multiple nutrients, weight, and dietary factors [182, 183].
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Unless, of course, for people are living on what I call a "junk food vegetarian diet," which is soda, chips and vegetarian processed food. Of course that diet causes nutritional deficiencies. But not a health-minded vegetarian diet. Even vitamin B12 is simple to get in sufficient quantities if you put your mind to it.
As a society, we can exist quite comfortably on a plant-based diet. We can get everything we need in terms of nutrition -- including essential oils, vitamins, minerals and the like -- on a plant-based diet. We do not need meat to survive as a civilization. |
Andreas Moritz
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 In fact, a report issued by the American Medical Association stated that a vegetarian diet could prevent 97 percent of all cases of thrombosis leading to heart attacks.
Although a balanced vegetarian diet may contain larger amounts of fats, the fats do not seem to have any detrimental effects on the circulatory system (unless, of course, they are contaminated by harmful trans fatty acids). In contrast, overeating proteins of animal origin causes thickening of the liver blood vessels, which leads to gallstone formation in the bile ducts. |
Bill Sardi
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 Chemical Biological Interactions 128: 1-18, 2000] A vegetarian diet also would inhibit parathyroid hormone secretion. [Medical Hypotheses 61: 543-60, 2003] The provision of vitamin D with IP6 rice bran extract (phytic acid) remedies hypercalcemia and elevates the circulating concentration of vitamin D. [British Journal Nutrition 66: 251-59, 1991]
Vitamin D and multiple myeloma
Multiple myeloma is bone marrow cancer. Multiple myeloma remains an incurable disease for most patients, with a median survival of 4 to 5 years. |
| Furthermore the vegetarian diet is low in iron. Phytoestrogens also contain anti-growth factors that inhibit tumor growth and calm sex hormones that stimulate tumor growth.
The American Cancer Society says it has found no evidence that macrobiotic diet is useful as a cure for cancer in humans and strongly urges cancer patients to avoid dietary programs as the sole treatment for cancer. [CA Cancer Journal Clinicians 43:309-19, 1993] This is an odd statement because the National Cancer Institute backed a dietary regimen of 5 servings of fruits and vegetables. |
| Her therapy included vaccines derived from urine, enemas, digestive enzymes, vegetarian diet, mineral supplements, and stress reduction. Livingston-Wheeler came close, but fell short of a cancer cure. Bacteria, viruses and other germs are believed to cause 10 percent of all cancer. Her remedies should have been antibiotics and proven immune boosters. Her hit-and-miss approach was ineffective. Livingston-Wheeler was acting on the hunch there may be a hidden bacterium that initiates most tumors. However, she could never accurately identify that bacterium. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There are lots of great parents out there raising kids on a macrobiotic diet, a vegetarian diet or a zero-processed-foods diet. Many of those parents are home schoolers, by the way. Good job to all the parents who actually teach their children healthful eating habits! Keep up the goog work!
Unfortunately, those parents are rare. Most parents just buy whatever crap is being peddled on TV these days. And they feed their kids cancer-causing processed meats, hyperactivity-causing food additives and obesity-promoting refined sugars. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They are carnivores by designation, so when you put them on a vegetarian diet, you create a lot of problems and create symptoms you're actually trying to reverse. The only time a vegetarian diet is good for a dog or cat is as an interim diet. If they are having allergic reaction, then get them on as simple a diet as possible, and then reintroduce the meats to see which one they are reacting to.
Another case along that line is allergies. Dogs and cats have a lot of meat allergies today. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 Kruzel also recommended a vegetarian diet. Although Dolores's diet wasn't particularly an issue, he recommends that all of his patients eat according to their blood type system.
His greatest concern was Dolores's high Cortisol levels, which indicated a maladaptive stress syndrome. Even though she appeared happy and calm, her body was signaling that she was under a "Even though she appeared happy great deal of stress. After foi and ca|m, her body was signaling lowing her new regimen for one month, Dolores was sleeping that she was under a great deal through the night about half the Qf stf eSS. |
Ann N. Martin
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| For dogs, vegetable protein does not contain all the amino acids that are required; therefore, a correct formulation of grains and other ingredients must be made if you plan on feeding your dog a vegetarian diet.
Indigestible proteins, such as those used in some commercial per foods (hair, feathers, fecal matter), obviously cannot sustain an animal. Meat, fish, eggs (a complete source of protein), and dairy products provide many, if not all, the amino acids that your pet requires. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 Now let's sort out the decades-long debate between the animal protein diet and vegetarian diet gurus, with their conflicting "good foods/bad foods" lists. Both camps see the tree but miss the forest. What do I mean by that? The high-protein group points to all the anti-nutrients in grains, seeds, and beans, and proclaims how all this stuff will kill you. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Another major benefit of the vegetarian diet is that, statistically, vegetarians are thinner and healthier. On the average, vegetarians weigh about 20 pounds less than their meat-eating counterparts. According to the U.S. Worldwatch Institute, 1.1 billion people worldwide are underweight, and another 1.1 billion are overweight. In the U.S., 23 percent of adults are obese and 60 percent are overweight. But obesity besets poor countries, too, from Brazil to China. |
Elaine Magee
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| Consider a vegetarian diet. A review of vegetarian-diet studies noted that weight loss did not appear to depend on exercise or calorie count and could occur at a rate of 1 pound per week. Semivegetarian or lacto-vegetarian women had a lower risk of overweight and obesity, compared with omnivorous women, according to a Swedish study.
MORE MENUS THAN YOU'LL KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH
This section could be retitled "More Food Synergy Than You'll Know What to Do With. |
| In between, we'll look at three dietary patterns, studied here in the United States and Canada, proven to have many health benefits—the PortfolioEatingPlan, the DASH diet, and a traditional vegetarian diet. For all of these dietary patterns, the benefits come not just from one specific food or dietary characteristic. The magic, it seems, is in the mix!
MEDITERRANEAN MAGIC
Today, when you hear the words Mediterranean cuisine, a mental association with the word healthy seems practically automatic. |
| There is evidence that a vegetarian diet causes an increased calorie burn after meals, meaning plant-based foods are being used more efficiently as fuel for the body, as opposed to being stored as fat," notes one of the reviewers, Neal Barnard, MD, of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, DC. The reviewers also reported that vegetarians experienced increased insulin sensitivity, meaning their cells absorbed nutrients more easily.
Part-time vegetarians reap health benefits. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 You might like to consider the benefits of a vegetarian diet. However, a vegetarian lifestyle requires a great deal of thought, planning and dedication to ensure the food intake is well balanced. For instance, if you eliminate meat from your diet you must make sure you include alternative iron-rich foods or supplements. Making such a radical change to eating habits requires strong discipline. Ask yourself: 'Can I do it, how will it affect my system, and can I afford not to do it?' A consultation with your medical practitioner is advisable before coming to any decision. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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 Diet
A vegetarian diet seems to promote the production of androgens, such as DHEA and testosterone. Subjects on a high carbohydrate diet also showed a slight increase in DHEA levels.87 When a group of South African men were switched from their customary vegetarian diet to a Western-style cafeteria diet, researchers noted a decrease in DHEA levels.88
Obesity
DHEA was shown to have an anti-obesity effect on developing lean and obese laboratory rodents by decreasing adipose tissue weights, hyperinsulinemia, and food intake. |
Michael Pollan
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 Similarly, much of what we know about the health benefits of a vegetarian diet is based on studies of Seventh-Day Adventists, who muddy the nutritional picture by abstaining from alcohol and tobacco as well as meat. These extraneous but unavoidable factors are called, aptly, confounders.
One last example: People who take supplements are healthier than the population at large, yet their health probably has nothing whatsoever to do with the supplements they take— most of which recent studies have suggested are worthless. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 While it's certainly possible to be healthy on a vegetarian diet, it takes more planning than you might imagine. And many people—perhaps not all, but many—just do better with some animal products in their diet. It's been that way since the beginning of the human genus, and until our digestive "fuel tanks" undergo significant genetic alteration, I suspect it will remain that way. worth knowing
Urban legend department: Everyone thinks that the reason we get tired and fall asleep after Thanksgiving dinner is because of the tryptophan (an amino acid) in turkey. Nope. |
Jack Challem
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 If that's the case,a vegetarian diet may not be suited to you. Sometimes vegetarians eat far too many carbs in the form of bread, pasta, fruit juices, and sweets—and not enough vegetables.
You could consider glucagon the body's energy hormone, in contrast to insulin, which is the fat-storage hormone. Glucagon stimulates the release of stored sugar, called glycogen, and its conversion into glucose. (Most people have about sixty to ninety minutes' worth of liver glycogen, which can be used up in strenuous exercise.)
Glucagon also promotes the breakdown of both fat and protein for energy. |
David Wolfe
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 He specifically recommends a vegetarian diet at that point and, beyond age two, a vegan diet with an emphasis on raw plant foods. Dr. Spock's own vegetarian diet had given him "a new lease on life." He wanted the seventh edition of his book to be in the forefront of linking the consumption of meat and dairy with disease.
40% CHLOROPHYLL
Green Leafy Vegetables
20% SUGARS
Sweet Fruits
40% FATS
Fatty Fruits, Nuts, Coconuts, Seeds
To Feed Children center at 40:20:40
(Chlorophyll : Sugars : Fat)
Children naturally gravitate towards sweet, bright-colored fruits. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Multiple vitamin/mineral: follow label directions Green tea capsules: 1 capsule daily vegetarian diet or practicing safer sex if the partner has known genital warts may be advisable. It is considered very low risk for the virus alone to be transmitted between women, although it is theoretically possible. Both heterosexual and homosexual women ask about the risk of transmitting or contracting the virus through oral sex. Again, this is theoretically possible, and there are conditions when the HPV virus may lodge in the larynx and oral cavity. |
| Multiple vitamin/mineral: follow label directions Green tea capsules: 1 capsule daily vegetarian diet is more vulnerable to contracting HPV, and precautions are definitely warranted.
Smoking
Probably the single most important cofactor in the development of cervical dysplasia and cervical cancer is smoking. Smokers have a two- to threefold increase in the incidence of cervical dysplasia.81 Some studies indicate that the incidence compared to nonsmokers is even greater than that. Nicotine is actually concentrated in the glands of the cervix, where it then acts as a carcinogenic compound. |
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