HIGH MEAT DIET (WHICH IS ALSO HIGH IN FAT) IS MAJOR CAUSE OF HEART ATTACKS, STROKES, AND CANCER
Meat is an incomplete source of nutrition. As a consequence, reliance on a meat based diet actually becomes a liability to human health. But meat is not only a liability for what it does not contain; it is also a liability for what it does contain; excess protein, fat, cholesterol, and blood, besides worms, microbes, and cancer viruses. (2)
Over three out of every four people in this country die of cardiovascular disease, (heart attacks & strokes) or cancer. We haven't always died so massively of heart attacks, strokes and cancer until after World War I, when we could afford high fat diets of meat, fish, poultry, eggs and processed foods. Back in 1960, sufficient research evidence was available to prompt an editorial Statement in the Journal of American Medical Association which said, a vegetarian diet can prevent 90% of our thrombo-embolic disease (blood clotting diseases of the head, heart and legs) and 97% of our coronary occlusions. (3)
Nearly everyone knows that Americans today eat too much fat. Around 40-45% of the calories eaten in the average American diet is from fat. Meat, especially red meat, is the single largest source of fat in the U. S. diet. For percentages of fat in certain animal products, see accompanying chart.
The Dietary Guideline Advisory Committee has proposed to limit fat intake to 10% of the calorie intake in 1990. The American Heart Association was totally in support of these new guidelines. If the American people would reduce their fat intake to 10%, we would see a large decrease in heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, and cancer.
FAT AND CANCER
Populations with a high incidence of cancer were always consuming high fat diets. The U.S. Academy of Sciences in Washington, D. C., says, "Of all the dietary factors that have been associated epidemiologically with cancers of various sites, fat has probably been studied most thoroughly and produced the greatest frequency of direct associations." In 2005 over 510,000 people in the United States, died of cancer, 1,397 people a day, or one every 62 seconds. The National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society have now clearly shown that the incidence of several cancers increases with the amount of meat and fatty foods consumed.(3) Women who eat meat daily have nearly four times as much breast cancer as those who use meat less than once per week. (5)
Fats elevate serum cholesterol and impede circulation leading to strokes and heart attacks. Fats increase the chances of getting cancer. Fats increase the chances of getting diabetes. Fats reduce muscular endurance. Animals store poisons in their fats. Fats delay digestion. Fats are fattening.
CANCEROUS ANIMALS SOLD FOR FOOD
Ralph Nader charges that the United States Department of Agriculture favors big "agribusiness", and therefore fails to protect otherwise defenseless Americans from bad meat, contaminated poultry and toxic pesticides. In most states, nearly unmonitored inspectors tend to be subjected, both to intimidation and bribes. As a result, they routinely approve for processing "4-D" animals - that is, animals that were dead, dying, diseased and disabled. (6).
CHICKENS – DON´T EAT THEM
Chickens today are commercially raised on many drugs! They are cramped into very small crates; they are not permitted to touch the ground or exercise; and they are full of diseases, especially cancer. Chickens bought by consumers are heavily contaminated by intestinal microorganisms from the animals, chiefly E. Coli. If the chickens have been fed antibiotics, those germs are usually resistant to antibiotics .(7) In addition to antibiotics and contagious infections, sometimes, chickens are subjected to contaminated feed. Chickens and eggs were contaminated by polychlorinated biphenyls in Idaho and Montana in 1979.
FISH - GOOD FOR THE FISH BOWL. BUT NOT FOR YOU
In several areas in the United States, the fish tapeworm (Diphyllobothrium latum), has been identified in man. Infection occurs when undercooked fish is eaten .(9).