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Health Warning: Red meat can seriously damage your health
By Peter Simmons of One World Net
Meat eating has been a habit of homo sapiens since our ancestors came out from the forests and lived on the plains. Hunting and gathering was how early humans lived for millenia; their diet consisting of plants, fruits, roots and any animals they could catch and kill. They thus had a varied and balanced diet containing all the essential nutrients needed for good health. Sickness was treated with herbs they discovered, they were tough survivors. Fast forward to the middle ages in Britain and the aristocracy, who owned most of the land through violence and domination, ate more and more meat since they enjoyed hunting as sport, having nothing else to occupy themselves, and they looked down on the peasants and their diet of mainly vegetables with occasional meat. Vegetables came to be looked on as the peasants' food, not really fit for the high and mighty - especially when they discovered that peasants used their waste products [faeces] to fertilize their crops. As a result, a meal, especially a feast staged to impress visiting nobles, was composed mainly of different meats, sometimes as many as twenty meat dishes would be served, often with few or no vegetables. This unblanced rich man's diet led to bowel cancer being the principle cause of death among the British aristocracy including monarchs, hardly ever in the peasantry whose much healthier diet kept them robust, regular and fit. Even today, the rich eat more meat, considering it a luxury they can afford, and still heavy meat eaters suffer from bowel cancer, one of the biggest killers of those eating a western diet. It doesn't miss out on the poorer members of society, as sausages are implicated also along with other highly processed meat products. Among vegetarian populations such as the Hindus of India, bowel cancer is almost unheard of, as it is among vegetarians around the world. Those who eat some meat as a small part of a largely vegetables-based diet are similarly mostly free from bowel cancer. The conclusion is inescapable, eat lots of red or processed meat and risk bowel cancer. To avoid it, reduce the quantities of meat in your diet, switch to poultry and rabbit from beef and lamb, and increase the quantity and variety of vegetables in your diet. |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4662934.stm
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Thanks Peter, for an interesting and informative intel. I think the key word here is "balance".
Well done. Thanks. A person's blood type may need to determine it they eat red meats.
Great information, Peter. Having spent many years in basic farm life, I appreciate good food. Most of our meat was chicken, because we needed the cows for milk, not meat.
Thank you for sharing.
Best wishes.
Frederick
It seems to be coming out in the media more and more the dangers/disadvantages of eating red meat. Every time I read something like this I'm grateful that I have been a vegetarian since I was 17 (now 51). I think it's really key (for those who do eat meat) what you say about balance. Also what Dorothy points out in the comments... I currently live in rural New Zealand on two little organic acres in the midst of large commercial sheep farms. What I see happening around me as standard farming practice would be enough to turn me vegetarian if I wasn't already. And this is grass-fed livestock... no where near as bad as the perverted things that are being done on factory farms. If the rich in the middle ages were getting bowel cancer from eating too much organic, naturally fed meat, whoa I don't even want to think about what people are brewing up inside themselves eating too much factory farmed meat. I'll stick to my organically grown, in-season, heirloom vegetables, fruit and nuts. I may be a peasant, but I feast better than a king!
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