On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 17:22:46 GMT, Heidrun Beer <[email protected]> wrote:
>Genetically, judging by his teeth and the length >of his intestine, the human body is a fruit-nut-grain >eater. NO!!!!! The human being is completely a carnivore -- almost a super-carnivore. The human digestive tract is even shorter (compared to body length) than a wolf/dog or cat. That means it's even more highly adapted to meat than any other food type than other carnivores. From: <http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/carn_herb_comparison.html> There's a lot of detail (and a table) between the two quotes, below. " Many people today aver that we are a vegetarian species, or at the very least, that we are able to live healthily on a diet composed almost entirely of foods of vegetable origin. This falsehood, for such it is, must be scotched from the start if the present unhealthy trends are to be reversed." "The gorilla is a herbivorous animal with a simple stomach. Robert Yerkes found that, in the wild, this vegetarian animal had many protozoa in its stomach which digested plant proteins and synthesised animal proteins. In captivity, however, Yerkes noted that these protozoa gradually disappeared from the gorilla's stomach. In this state, the gorilla was unable to synthesise its own animal protein, and had to be fed meat, milk, or other animal proteins to remain healthy. " >Meat is an emergency food in the first place! >A high protein diet leads to an over-acidic body >with all its problems, to name only osteoporosis. No, vegetables are the emergency food supply for humans. Our teeth allow a slightly wider range of nuts, etc. than is available to cats and dogs, but humans get sick on any diet than doesn't include a goodly amount of meat -- especially animal fat. >Vegetarian diet, on the other hand, can be eaten forever >without any negative consequences. Absolutely not! The human gets sicker and weaker with every passing year on a vegetarian diet (I'm assuming that no eggs are eaten with this diet, as daily consumption of eggs, by themselves, will be able to mostly counteract the vegetarian diet). > The person needs only >to make sure that vitamin B12 (which is produced by >bacteria in lactic fermentation of vegetables) is eaten >in sufficient quantities. In addition to B12, the body needs a large amount of mineral supplements that are human-assimilable, because plants can't supply these nutrients (which are mainly found in animal fat). Vegetarians are highly susceptible to calcium/magnesium loss, for example. I'm not saying the minerals aren't in the plants, it's just that humans can't use them. >Also the food must be organic, or certain minerals (iron etc.) >will have to be added. And basic reading about food must >have been done (for instance, to combine the right fruits >to make a complete protein, etc.) To get enough minerals from veggies, an enormous amount of food must be eaten. Unfortunately, the human digestive system can't absorb most veggie nutrients in the upper digestive tract (because the veggies are digested enough) and the human lower digestive tract doesn't absorb anything except pure water -- so no minerals are absorbed there. Geeze, this has been known for a long time. -- Dean -- from (almost) Des Moines -- KB0ZDF -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
