Gabriel Cousens
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 Younger women who regularly eat red meat appear to face an increased risk for a common form of breast cancer, according to a large, well-known Harvard study of women's health published in the Archives of Internal Medicine November 2006. The study of more than 90,000 women found that the more red meat the women consumed in their twenties, thirties, and forties, the greater their risk for developing breast cancer fueled by hormones in the next twelve years. Those who consumed the most red meat had nearly twice the risk of those who ate red meat infrequently. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There are a lot of negative effects associated with the consumption of red meat, and this is why more and more people are now giving up red meat and moving to healthier foods like fish, free-range chicken, or better yet, plant-based proteins like spirulina or soy products like soy milk and tofu. This is where you'll get your best protective effect and disease prevention, and you will be helping protect the environment at the same time. After all, it's far less stressful on the environment to produce food as plants than as animals. |
| And you can't eat red meat without getting some animal fat.
Then, of course, there's what I call the vibration of red meat, which concerns the homeopathy of the meat, or the environment in which the cow was raised. Was it a natural environment? Did the cow have access to open fields, sunlight and clean water? Or was this a cow raised as part of a slaughterhouse operation, produced for the sole purpose of generating profits? If you eat cows' meat that has undergone that kind of experience, you are consuming a product that is tainted with the negative experience of the animal from which it came. |
| That's one way to get rid of red meat in your diet, but there are many other ways and I encourage you to experiment and see how you'd like to approach it. But the bottom line on red meat is that there is an increasing body of evidence supporting the notion that you can prevent cancer by pursuing a plant-based diet. If you want to be healthy, it's time to join the vegetarians. Maybe even join the vegans, if you have the courage. |
| Think about limiting or eliminating your consumption of red meat and instead nourish your body with the phytonutrients, phytochemicals, vitamins, minerals and even the living energy of plants. That's how you'll be the healthiest you can be. |
Gabriel Cousens
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| The study of more than 90,000 women found that the more red meat the women consumed in their twenties, thirties, and forties, the greater their risk for developing breast cancer fueled by hormones in the next twelve years. Those who consumed the most red meat had nearly twice the risk of those who ate red meat infrequently.4217
Men whose mothers have low beef intake, compared to men of mothers with high beef intake, are more virile. Sons of mothers with low beef consumption have sperm concentrations 24.3 percent higher than those of high-beef-consumption mothers. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Then, of course, there's what I call the vibration of red meat, which concerns the homeopathy of the meat, or the environment in which the cow was raised. Was it a natural environment? Did the cow have access to open fields, sunlight and clean water? Or was this a cow raised as part of a slaughterhouse operation, produced for the sole purpose of generating profits? If you eat cows' meat that has undergone that kind of experience, you are consuming a product that is tainted with the negative experience of the animal from which it came. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You don't want to be eating any hamburger or red meat at all. In short, if you avoid red meat you will also be doing yourself a huge favor in terms of avoiding environmental toxins. red meat consumption also promotes colon cancer.
I recall a recent study that showed fire retardant chemicals in massive quantities are now being found in the animal fats in red meat. That's because these fire retardant chemicals tend to collect in the fat tissues. These chemicals are found throughout our environment now. Cows are essentially accumulators and concentrators of environmental toxins. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| And within less than a year, any time I would see red meat at the grocery store, it would gross me out. I look at it and I realize what it is: a chunk of flesh sliced off the carcass of a living creature that has been ground up and stuffed into a box. Usually there's some blood running around in the container as well. Every time I would look at that I would get grossed out and think to myself, "Gee, is this really what I want to eat for the rest of my life? This sliced up chunk of a dead cow?" And the answer was, "No. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 Although you can switch from red meat to fowl and then to fish, you probably should try to stick with only one major food source for at least a week, allowing yourself red meat on the last day of the week. The simpler and more consistent your food intake is from day to day, the easier it will be to figure out if any of these food restrictions has an effect on your symptoms. Even if no single restriction makes you feel better, it's likely that the overall diet will; and as I said before, you'll also benefit from feeling that you've taken charge of your health again. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 After giving up red meat, junk foods, fast foods and other dietary atrocities, I no longer needed deodorants anyway.
Foods that make you stink
Let's take a closer look at the causes of body odor. What foods really cause body odor in the first place?
Red meat is the number one cause of body odor. red meat causes stagnation in the body; it putrefies in the digestive tract and releases all sorts of toxins into the bloodstream through the large intestine. |
Mike Adams
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 When the USDA wanted to tell consumers to eat less red meat, for example, the meat industry balked and, through the influence of Senators representing meat producing states like Texas, the advice to "eat less red meat" went through a miraculous transformation. "Eat less red meat" first became "limit your consumption of meats high in saturated fat. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Red meat is the number one cause of body odor. red meat causes stagnation in the body; it putrefies in the digestive tract and releases all sorts of toxins into the bloodstream through the large intestine. I've noticed that people who consume a large quantity of red meat on a regular basis tend to have much stronger body odor than those who avoid it. Some people tell me just the opposite -- they say it's vegetarians who stink because they run around wearing no deodorant whatsoever. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 Whey proteins protect more than red meat against azoxymethane induced ACF in Wistar rats. Cancer Letters. 2003;198:43-51. Belobrajdic D, Mcintosh G, Owens J. A high whey protein diet reduces body weight gain and alters insulin sensitivity relative to red meat in Wistar rats. / Nutr. 2004; 134:1454-1458.
Bounous G. Whey protein concentrate (WPC) and glutathione modulation in cancer treatment. Anticancer Research. 2000;20:4785-4792.
Bounous G et al. Immunoenhancing property of dietary whey protein in mice: role of glutathione. Clinical Investigative Medicine. 1989; 12:154-161. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| In short, if you avoid red meat you will also be doing yourself a huge favor in terms of avoiding environmental toxins. red meat consumption also promotes colon cancer.
I recall a recent study that showed fire retardant chemicals in massive quantities are now being found in the animal fats in red meat. That's because these fire retardant chemicals tend to collect in the fat tissues. These chemicals are found throughout our environment now. Cows are essentially accumulators and concentrators of environmental toxins. They eat tons of grass, literally, throughout their lives. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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| If you crave red meat, that's okay, but not more than once a week. Limiting red meat reduces your fat intake while still giving you a lot of protein.
Consider roasting a small turkey. You'll have plenty of leftovers for several lunches, either as slices to be eaten with mayonnaise or mustard or as turkey salad with mayonnaise, cucumbers, and onions. (Again, remember—no bread.) Vegetables with your dinner should consist of mushrooms, asparagus, broccoli, or green beans. No broad beans of any sort (lima, navy, Boston, or the like), which are starchy, and again no potatoes, corn, or rice. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Moving on, a little more than 18 percent reported giving up red meat. That's an encouraging number. It's almost one out of every five, and many of our readers may not have been eating red meat to begin with, so this is an encouraging trend. Obviously, I would like to see that number higher, but to a lot of people, giving up red meat is a difficult thing. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 So the science supports the idea that people should eat no red meat or very little red meat if any, but the ultimate statement that came out of the USDA was, "People should eat more red meat, as long as it's lean meat."
Ben: Then it's "safe."
Mike: Right. So this is how the scientific truths of health, nutrition and dietary choice get distorted and twisted by the political process -- the corruption of the collusion between the USDA and the very companies that it's supposed to be regulating -- and end up becoming a statement that is a great disservice to the health of the American people. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's about where red meat actually comes from and the mental distortions maintained by people who eat large quantities of animal products. So, a courtesy warning: If you're easily sickened by talk of meat processing, I recommend you stop reading this article right now and don't read another word. I especially recommend that you skip the second half, which contains very graphic (but true) language about the meat processing industry.
I have a question for all the red meat eaters out there -- people who eat steak, sausage, bacon and hamburgers: Why don't you eat cow's brain or pig's brain? |
| Thus, the simple act of eating red meat or feeding it to your family is self-insulting (at many levels).
Eating mammals is inhumane
Beyond the personal health consequences of red meat, I believe it is entirely unethical and inappropriate to raise any kind of mammal -- which includes cows and pigs -- for the purpose of consuming their flesh or organs. I am not advocating that we consume cow's brains, either. In fact, I believe that if we were a cultured society, a compassionate society and an advanced society, we would never use mammals as sources of food, entertainment or commercial revenue. |
| In a few years, the only people left eating large quantities of red meat will truly be the uneducated, ignorant consumers in society who either don't have access to good information about nutrition or are incapable of understanding it. I don't mean that in an insulting way, just a demographic way. There's always a segment of society that doesn't have the education or intelligence to figure out how to make healthy food choices. My point is that if you choose to buy and eat red meat, you are clearly labeling yourself as one of those people. |
Michael Pollan
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 In January 197 7, the committee issued a fairly straightforward set of dietary guidelines, calling on Americans to cut down on their consumption of red meat and dairy products. Within weeks a firestorm of criticism, emanating chiefly from the red meat and dairy industries, engulfed the committee, and Senator McGovern (who had a great many cattle ranchers among his South Dakota constituents) was forced to beat a retreat. The committee's recommendations were hastily rewritten. |
Mike Adams
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| When the USDA wanted to tell consumers to eat less red meat, for example, the meat industry balked and, through the influence of Senators representing meat producing states like Texas, the advice to "eat less red meat" went through a miraculous transformation. "Eat less red meat" first became "limit your consumption of meats high in saturated fat. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| In short, if you avoid red meat you will also be doing yourself a huge favor in terms of avoiding environmental toxins. red meat consumption also promotes colon cancer.
I recall a recent study that showed fire retardant chemicals in massive quantities are now being found in the animal fats in red meat. That's because these fire retardant chemicals tend to collect in the fat tissues. These chemicals are found throughout our environment now. Cows are essentially accumulators and concentrators of environmental toxins. They eat tons of grass, literally, throughout their lives. |
Gabriel Cousens
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| Those who consumed the most red meat had nearly twice the risk of those who ate red meat infrequently.4217
Men whose mothers have low beef intake, compared to men of mothers with high beef intake, are more virile. Sons of mothers with low beef consumption have sperm concentrations 24.3 percent higher than those of high-beef-consumption mothers. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 The Perfect Quartet
Vegetarians often lack L-carnitine in their diets (and most certainly lack D-ribose, which is primarily found in red meat and veal). Carnitine (carnis means "meat" or "flesh") is found in mutton, lamb, beef, red meat, and pork and in only tiny amounts in plant foods.
Though certain vegetables, meats, and fish contain CoQIO, we only consume a tiny amount in our diet, not nearly enough to have a clinically important benefit. Many people feel a lot better on an "energy" cocktail of L-carnitine and CoQIO. |
Gabriel Cousens
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| Those who consumed the most red meat had nearly twice the risk of those who ate red meat infrequently.4217
Men whose mothers have low beef intake, compared to men of mothers with high beef intake, are more virile. Sons of mothers with low beef consumption have sperm concentrations 24.3 percent higher than those of high-beef-consumption mothers. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 The fat content and density of red meat place a strain on the digestive system, as it is difficult for the body's enzymes to break it down, but red meat is a great source of iron. For good health, though, limit the overall amount in your diet, eat small portions, chew well and always remove the fat. White meat such as fish and chicken is more digestible, but do get rid of the chicken skin first—it contains too much fat.
Do yourself a favour and throw out the frying pan. Grilling will reduce the fat content in your diet. |
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