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I vote for vegetarian/vegan. It's better for animals, better for the planet, and better for human health.
You can get a free Vegetarian Starter Pack if you're interested in trying. It has recipes, nutrition and health information, product tips, and a lot more. Sometimes they'll give you coupons too. Just fill out the form online and they'll put a Veg Starter Pack in the mail for you. Use any address - work, home, PO box, whatever works. Here's the link: Free Vegan Guide to Cruelty-Free Eating - Vegas Veg |
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I ate mostly vegetarian until I was pregnant with our sixth child. My midwife told me all her vegetarian clients bled more and took longer to recover. I did some research and decided it wasn't healthier after all, and added a lot more meat into our diet.
It made my husband very happy. Last year we raised our own cows, two of them, grass fed on our pasture, and had them butchered. We have two freezers full of meat now. |
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I eat lean and healthy meat, fish, etc.
However, I will say that we can't go back to non-mass produced, non-steroid injected, non-genetically modified food, there isn't enough food on the planet. Like it or not, (barring war or plague) we are going to have to increase our food production, it's that simple. IMO, the dumbest thing we ever did was block salmon with dams. Like, nobody could have seen that coming? Just sayin...
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According to what I've read, this is partly because of our sanitized food supply. In 3rd world countries, vegetarians get a lot more animal products in their food than most people realize- mostly because of bugs in grains, seeds, and produce. |
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Pregnant women and nursing mothers have to supplement for B12, you cannot get that from a vegan or vegetarian diet. Doctors recommend supplementation for iron and folic acid as well, but few iron pills are rich in bio-available iron. If your diet requires a pill to make up for what isn't in the diet, then I think that says something is wrong with the diet. |
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In fact, the average omni is more likely to be nutrient-deficient than the average vegan. So... the average person isn't actually eating the kind of diet you propose. That is, by your own definition, the vast majority of meat-eaters have "something wrong with their diet." Would you say that a person of color who lives above the 35th parallel and who therefore must supplement his diet with vitamin D at least during Winter has "something wrong with their diet"? Virtually any diet in that situation is going to require a supplement. Same goes for someone who has a fat absorbtion problem or someone who has PKU. There are a number of situations and conditions that require supplements in order to save human lives. So why do you have such a huge problem with using dietary supplements to save animals' lives? Sources: Vegan B12 deficiency: putting it into perspective | NutritionFacts.org Vitamin D — Health Professional Fact Sheet Iodine — Health Professional Fact Sheet Omnivore vs. Vegan Nutrient Deficiencies | NutritionFacts.org |
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Yes, the vast amount of typical diets have something wrong with them. I am no fan of the SAD diet, either, or in pasteurized milk for that matter. The government had to add vitamin D to the most vitamin D rich food on the planet because pasteurization removed it. But whole milk and butter from pastured animals is naturally high in vitamin D. People of color who lived north of the 35th parallel did not need to supplement their diets with vitamin D when they ate a traditional diet rich in animal fats and fermented fish oils. If it is your choice of diet that does not provide you with vitamins necessary for health unless you take pills, then that is not a natural, healthy diet. That is true whether you are eating the SAD diet (standard American diet), Vegetarian, or Vegan. The Vegetarian diet does not provide human beings with vitamins necessary for health. It's not that it doesn't provide enough of them, it's that there are some nutrients necessary for human beings which are utterly lacking in a vegetarian diet. Talking about people with special health conditions is irrelevant to my point- it's not their choice of diet that requires the pills, they couldn't do without supplementation if they only changed diets. But vegetarians would not have to supplement for B12 and other vitamins (and possibly nutrients science has not yet discovered) if they simply changed their diets to a traditional one which included animal products. There has never been a successful vegan culture. Vegetarian cultures were traditionally eating more animal proteins than they realized. government fact sheets are generally wrong when it comes to nutrition. These are the people who spent decades telling us that margarine was healthier than butter while margarine is actually a bigger cause of heart disease- they spent decades telling us that transfats were healthier than natural fats that human beings have been eating for thousands of years. They did this because they did not know about transfats (and because they were relying on cherry picked data). But what else don't they know? It's also not just vitamin D that's missing from vegan and many vegetarian diets. Beta Caratene is not a substitute for Vitamin A. Quote:
Red meat is the ONLY dietary source of heart-critical CoQ10. (Dr. Sears) Meat Protocol Quote:
Myths of Vegetarianism - Weston A Price Foundation Another problem with any diet heavy in grains is the phytic acid in grains and legumes. If these foods aren't prepared properly, they are binding to minerals in your digestive tract and rendering it impossible for you to benefit from those minerals. This is not limited to vegetarians, of course. Preparing properly includes soaking and rinsing, soaking in a light acid, or sprouting, or fermenting. Sprouted bread | The Sweet Beet Dr. Weston Price traveled the world to study indigenous cultures and find out what their diets were like. He fully expected to find that vegetarian cultures were more healthy, but that is not what he found. He was disappointed about it, but he reported the truth about what he found. Also see The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan; Folks, This ain't Natural by Joel Salatin; Mary Enig's works... |
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I recently learn the new thing. Most vegetable have high potassium which would give you a hard to breath or pain chest. It mean, you have to watch how much potassium you're take. Most common that potassium can be found from: tomato paste, orange juice, beet greens, white beans, potatoes, bananas and many other good dietary sources.
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women can't get pregnant , that is a lot of crap too! You just have to know how to eat a balance diet. I raised my child as a vegetarian and she was a very healthy child . |
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my son is veggi...i been toying with going on veggie diet for sometime..all i can say is my son alot more healthy than he ever been he runs 10miles a day and do marathons,he could not do that before he become veggie....but growing soya is also causing ecology problems as bad as so many cattle...
that was very intresting article and lot to think about |
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Check out these vegetarian , they do not look like weak to me! I did not lose any muscle as a vegetarian. I have seen meat eaters that are weak. |
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1. He retired in 2006. 2. He start on vegan diets 2010. You can beat Mike this time, he is pretty weak.
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It's perfectly possible to be very healthy and very active as a Veggie or Vegan. There are plenty of sources of protien, fats, vitamins and minerals for veggies, it's just a matter of being educated about what you eat. Clearly you don't have personal experience as a healthy Veggie yourself or you'd know this. There are unhealthy veggies who think that it's ok to just not eat meat - without replacing it with other veggie options ... These people aren't going to be nearly as healthy as those who make sure they are getting proper nutrition. The same is true for meat eaters who think that it's fine to be eating burgers and fast food every week. I've been Veggie for almost 20years - I'm in excellent health, and check in with a nutritionist every few years to make sure I'm getting the right mix of foods. All my doctors say I'm very healthy, have excellent BP, excellent heart condition, my blood work is fantastic etc. It's simply incorrect that being veggie or vegan is "muscle wasting" or unhealthy.
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Mr. Pearl is a former bodybuilder and 4 time Mr. Universe winner. He's an ovo-lacto vegetarian,which means he does eat eggs and milk products. I remember reading of a study showing that vegetarian middle-age women had stronger bones than their meat-eating counterparts. If vegetarians tend to have stronger bones or the bones are wearing down at a slower rate,it's possible that athletes could have longer careers as vegetarians. I'm ovo-lacto myself and have participated in numerous distance races from 5k to marathon. As a meat eater,I "hit the wall" at mile 17 in my 1st marathon when I was 22 yrs old. In my last 2 marathons,at age 35 and 36,as a vegetarian,I hit the wall at miles 22 and 23. Same training mileage,diet was different. |
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