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resharing this post as i added the stuff below, since today i went to sprouts store (sprouts.com) specializing in whole foods and a lot of vegan and organic stuff and bought two huge bunches of kale (88 cents each), organic, i.e. cheaper and bigger than pesticide rich conventional kale at other stores, organic red cabbage, (29% more expensive than conventional one at most stores, 1.29 a pound).
Local whole foods stores, like Sprouts, also can have many things organic, like kale, at less than half the price of smaller bunches of kale at Vons or other non-whole food stores, so for cheapest organic stuff you need to go to the stores that have a huge amount of organic veggies and fruits. For some items organic or conventional won't make a big difference, as very little pesticides are used or they cannot get inside beyond the peel that is not eaten, but for some fruits or veggies, the difference is huge since organic can have way less pesticides (organic means using only 25 natural pesticides, conventional uses 900 man made and too many pesticides lead to neuron damage, IQ lower by 7 points, 4 times the risk of Alzheimer, double the risk of autism, 3 times the risk of Parkinson, double the risk of blood cancer, apparently as explained at https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/CsrqnabWAav). You will be shocked to find sometimes grapes at Sprouts (at least today) are cheaper than at any other store, even dollar store. In other nations, there must be cheap sources with lots of produce, you just have to ask around. One other advantage of organic is 5 times more biophotons and cancer tissues have very few or no biophotons. The link above explains alternatives to pesticides, which are bound to replace them, as solar/wind is replacing coal.
Local whole foods stores, like Sprouts, also can have many things organic, like kale, at less than half the price of smaller bunches of kale at Vons or other non-whole food stores, so for cheapest organic stuff you need to go to the stores that have a huge amount of organic veggies and fruits. For some items organic or conventional won't make a big difference, as very little pesticides are used or they cannot get inside beyond the peel that is not eaten, but for some fruits or veggies, the difference is huge since organic can have way less pesticides (organic means using only 25 natural pesticides, conventional uses 900 man made and too many pesticides lead to neuron damage, IQ lower by 7 points, 4 times the risk of Alzheimer, double the risk of autism, 3 times the risk of Parkinson, double the risk of blood cancer, apparently as explained at https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/CsrqnabWAav). You will be shocked to find sometimes grapes at Sprouts (at least today) are cheaper than at any other store, even dollar store. In other nations, there must be cheap sources with lots of produce, you just have to ask around. One other advantage of organic is 5 times more biophotons and cancer tissues have very few or no biophotons. The link above explains alternatives to pesticides, which are bound to replace them, as solar/wind is replacing coal.
Raw Vegan Food Pyramid and Weekly Updated post with my raw vegan journey started on August 20th 2016 plus lots of testimonials at the end from people who cured diabetes, cancer and many disease with raw veganism. This is a useful post even if you only try to go vegan and eat 20% raw vegan. :) I have more energy, enthusiasm and optimism and the science is on the raw foodists' side, because many cooked foods have thousands of times more toxic AGEs (compounds) than raw fruits and veggies as explained at https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/SbSnceNd17x (if you still cook, at least use boiling or water cooking-steaming, not dry heat or oven or frying or roasting, as these dry heat cooking methods can produce hundreds of times more toxins). :) I believe going raw vegan 90-100% is much safer and better than fasting for achieving some of the same benefits, for most people, as I explain at https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/VjEMuFHYRSm 💜😊💜 For the tastiest and healthiest cakes ever, see these 10 raw vegan cake recipes that require no baking which destroys biophotons, phytonutrients, vitamins, enzymes ► http://www.onegreenplanet.org/vegan-food/no-bake-raw-vegan-cakes-that-are-perfect-for-summer/ and also these 243 raw vegan cake recipes ► http://rawfoodrecipes.com/course/cakes/. Make these and give them to a meat eater and you'll convert anyone to raw veganism or veganism. Some people don't realize that all food you eat in a day can be made into raw vegan cakes. It will taste 100 times better than what people eat. People who don't look up nutrition amino acid content for foods don't realize that all protein they need can be gotten from things like zukini, watermelon and bananas (these 3 are my staple foods nowadays as i digest them easiest and are easiest to eat, have lowest pesticides, etc) :)
Once you decide to go raw, you can add the amino acids from the vegan stuff you eat and get an idea if you eat enough of each essential aminoacid. ► http://www.globalrph.com/aminoacid-rda.htm. I used it and i get on any day 10-50% more of each aminoacid if i just eat my typical veggies and fruits. The total amount of protein is about the daily recommended one, but individual amino acids can vary wildly, from 10 to 60% more than the daily needs. I am usually 10-25% higher for methionine + cysteine and leucine, these are mTOR activators that cause cancer if overeaten - especially leucine, 40-60% for lysine, tryptophan, 10-40% the rest - varies by day depending how much of certain veggies i eat as part of my pureed smoothies). Thus, I doubt I will ever eat any soaked grain ever again, buckwheat is a grain that can be eaten raw. You can calculate using nutrition data website (for example kale in 100 grams has 197 mg of lysine as shown at http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2461/2) with values for each aminoacid so you KNOW and don't need to make assumptions. It's always better to eat a little more, since absorption is not always perfect, nor numbers, etc. See 47+ foods with more complete protein than hamburger beef, many with more protein per calorie than grains (but also more bulky and with more water) ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/AA2XSSyoGZ1. Too much protein causes cancer, Alzheimer, rapid aging, acne, etc as explained at ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/XraJ9xYY2ih.
A BLENDER OR FOOD PROCESSOR MAKES BEING RAW 20 TIMES EASIER for beginners especially:
I got a 69 dollar powerful 550 watt Oster blender from walmart (https://www.walmart.com/ip/Oster-Designed-For-Life-14-Cup-Food-Processor/43223456) and I make a puree in 1 minute or 2 out of anything (add water when nothing soft around) including omega 3 rich seeds (flax seeds, chia seeds - these you can pre-soak in water for minutes or even hours if you have any digestive problems, in 10 minutes chia seeds absorb easily 5-10 times their volume in water and are super-easy to blend), kale (155 times more lutein than carrots), watermelon (often times 10 cents a pound at 99 cents only stores), carrots, zukini (more protein than most foods per calorie, 20 cents a pound organic, at some Spanish grocery stores) and all the good things. Key thing is add first the softer stuff, or water if nothing soft then add a few of the harder ones and last one, after your pureed everything, add kale. If you add all hard stuff and kale at once, it will take you 5-10 times longer to puree the same stuff. I found that when you puree watermelon or water or something soft and carrots, you can attain the same juice and pulp (except they are mixed) as you do with a juicer. A good blender can basically can shred the carrots as much as a juicer does - juicers and food processors use basically the same blade. When you puree stuff you eat the super-healthy pulp also that juicing fans discard; the pulp is very good since it has vitamins, fiber, etc. and it prevents a sudden rise in blood glucose, colon cancer, etc.
If you want to eat more raw vegan stuff, but cannot find cheap produce nearby, try the http://99only.com stores which have produce now too (they often sell the same exact stuff Whole Foods or Sprouts or other health food stores sell at 3-5 times the price; for example a 10-15 pound watermelon is only 1 or 2 dollar at 99only, zukini is 1 dollar for a 2-3 lb bag - that's 5-7 times cheaper than at many stores), the Spanish or Mexican grocery stores and supermarkets (like NorthMarket in Southern California, El Super, Superior Grocers, etc). These tend to have the lowest prices in America. Local whole foods stores, like Sprouts, also can have many things organic, like kale, at 88 cents, less than half the price of smaller bunches of kale at Vons or other non-whole food stores, so for cheapest organic stuff you need to go to the stores that have a huge amount of organic veggies and fruits. For some items organic or conventional won't make a big difference, as very little pesticides are used or they cannot get inside beyond the peel that is not eaten, but for some fruits or veggies, the difference is huge since organic can have way less pesticides (organic means using only 25 natural pesticides, conventional uses 900 man made and too many pesticides lead to neuron damage, IQ lower by 7 points, 4 times the risk of Alzheimer, double the risk of autism, 3 times the risk of Parkinson, double the risk of blood cancer, apparently as explained at https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/CsrqnabWAav). You will be shocked to find sometimes grapes at Sprouts (at least today) are cheaper than at any other store, even dollar store. In other nations, there must be cheap sources with lots of produce, you just have to ask around. One other advantage of organic is 5 times more biophotons and cancer tissues have very few or no biophotons. The link above explains alternatives to pesticides, which are bound to replace them, as solar/wind is replacing coal. In other nations, there must be cheap sources with lots of produce, you just have to ask around. There is no one store that's going to have every produce item cheapest - so you may need to go to 2-3 stores. If you live in California, being raw vegan is 10 times easier, since produce is everywhere, we ship it to other states, it's much cheaper too.
Asparagus has more fiber per 100 calories than most foods. Cranberries have more fiber in 100 calories than all fruits. Raw asparagus got 10.5 grams fiber per 100 calories (cooked asparagus only 9), compared to 13.3 for cooked mustard greens (12 for raw), 12.4 for raw romaine lettuce, 11.8 for raw collard greens (10.8 for cooked collar greens), 10.0 for raw cauliflower, raw green cabbage and raw cranberries, 9.0 iceberg lettuce, 8.8 cactus pears, 8.7 green leaf lettuce, 7.7 broccoli and chia seeds, , 6.9 zukini and carrots, 6.8 for purple cabbage and lentils, 6.4 for tomatoes, 5.8 for red kidney beans, 5.3 grams for pears , 5.1 flax seeds, 4.6 apples, 4.5 for papaya, 4.2 avocado, 4.0 kale, 3.3 cucumber, 2.9 bananas, 2.8 whole wheat bread, 2.7 rolled oats, 1.3 watermelon, 0.9 white bread, 0.3 rice, 0.0 eggs, milk, dairy and meat.
A FEW STUDIES SHOWING EATING MORE FRUITS AND VEGGIES, MORE WHOLE FOODS, LESS PROCESSED FOODS IMPROVES PRODUCTIVITY, EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL HEALTH, HAPPINESS:
Raw or mostly raw or healthy whole foods (minimally cooked at home) Veganism removes people's depression quite often since it removes the high omega 6 to omega 3 ratio, high arachidonic acid (the one that promotes brain inflammation), high AGE (advanced glycation end products) levels and provides more fruits and veggies. Many studies show that the phytonutrients in uncooked foods prevent brain oxidative stress and lower depression, boost happiness, etc. :)
Restriction of meat, fish, and poultry in omnivores improves mood: a pilot randomized controlled trial. ► Nutr J. 2012 Feb 14;11:9.► free paper ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3293760/.
A worksite vegan nutrition program is well-accepted and improves health-related quality of life (mental health and physical functioning too) and work productivity. ► Ann Nutr Metab. 2010;56(4):245-52. ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20389060.
A 10 corporate sites randomized controlled trial of a low fat VEGAN nutrition intervention program in a multiethnic adult population reduces depression and anxiety and improves productivity, emotional well-being, daily functioning, quality of life: the GEICO study. ► Am J Health Promot. 2015 Mar-Apr;29(4):245-54. ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24524383 ► free paper ► https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Suruchi_Mishra2/publication/260193549_A_Multicenter_Randomized_Controlled_Trial_of_a_Nutrition_Intervention_Program_in_a_Multiethnic_Adult_Population_in_the_Corporate_Setting_Reduces_Depression_and_Anxiety_and_Improves_Quality_of_Life_The/links/57711f2608ae6219474a3620.pdf
Higher intakes of unhealthy foods during pregnancy predicted mental health problems among children. Children with a high level of unhealthy diet postnatally had higher levels of mental health problems. ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24074470 ► J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2013 Oct;52(10):1038-47
Higher prenatal maternal depression symptoms were prospectively associated with higher unhealthy diet, both during pregnancy and the postnatal period, which, in turn, was associated with higher child dysregulation up to the age of 7 years. ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25524365 ► Psychol Med. 2015 Jul;45(9):1851-60. ► free paper ► https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/files/51486970/PSM_D_14_00520_PinaBarker_manuscript.pdf
The more fruits and veggies people ate the lower the depression ► free article ► BMC Psychiatry. 2017; 17: 15 ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5237480/. Those eating 5 servings of fruit a day were 3.5 times less likely to report being depressed than those eating less than 5 a day.
The more pizzas, sausages, hamburgers, muffins, doughnuts, croissants people ate, the more depressed they were likely to be, sometimes by 40% ► Public Health Nutr. 2012 Mar;15(3):424-32. ► free paper ► https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/CF02E46F44CFC28D5F4D151FAD39EC77/S1368980011001856a.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3520090/ free paper found depressed adults have lower fruit and veggie intake. "Increasing fruit and vegetable consumption may help reduce psychological distress in middle-aged and older adults." ► free paper ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5353310/ ► BMJ Open. 2017; 7(3): e014201..
A randomized controlled study found that "Providing young adults with high-quality fruits and veggies resulted in improvements to their psychological well-being over a two-week period. This is the first study to show that providing high-quality fruits and veggies to young adults can result in short-term improvements in vitality, flourishing, and motivation. Findings provide initial validation of a causal relationship between fruits and veggies and well-being, suggesting that large-scale intervention studies are warranted." ► free paper ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5291486/ ► PLoS One. 2017; 12(2): e0171206.
An interventional study found that "consumption of fruit was associated with lower anxiety, depression, and emotional distress than consumption of crisps/chocolate." ► free paper ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4428353/ ► Front Nutr. 2014; 1: 10.
"For each 200g a day increase in fruit and veg, the risk of getting each health outcome was decreased by: 8% for coronary heart disease 16% for stroke, 8% for total cardiovascular disease, 3% for total cancer, 10% for all-cause death. The study focused on 800 grams which is 4 times that." ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/behindtheheadlines/news/2017-02-23-five-a-day-of-fruit-and-veg-is-good-but-10-is-better/.
"In middle-aged participants, a processed food dietary pattern is a risk factor for depression 5 years later, whereas a whole food pattern is protective." ► free paper ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2801825/ ► Br J Psychiatry. 2009 Nov; 195(5): 408–413.
"This critical review on the associations between the intake of vegetables and fruit and the risk of several chronic diseases shows that a high daily intake of these foods promotes health. Therefore, from a scientific point of view, national campaigns to increase vegetable and fruit consumption are justified." ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3419346/ ► Eur J Nutr. 2012 Sep; 51(6): 637–663. ► free paper with almost 300 references.
"A habitually poor diet (e.g., increased consumption of Western processed foods) is also independently associated with a greater likelihood of or risk for depression" ► free paper ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4167107/ ► Am J Public Health. 2014 October; 104(10): e31–e42. When they say western foods they refer to "processed or fried foods, refined grains, sugary products, and beer" as explained in the referenced paper https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20048020/.
Harvard website says at http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/nutritional-psychiatry-your-brain-on-food-201511168626 that 95% of the happy hormone serotonin is made in the digestive system and vegan diet promotes good bacteria, while processed junk foods and meat and dairy promote bad bacteria that influence serotonin production. Depression is 25% to 35% lower in those who eat a traditional diet versus a junk food processed diet, as the traditional one has grains, legumes, fruits, veggies, fiber.
Higher blood levels of omega 6 arachidonic and adrenic acids (typical of processed animal source foods, meats, dairy which provide preformed adrenic and arachidonic acids, absent from vegan foods) increased the risk of major depression and even suicide among pregnant women ► free paper ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4239694/ ► J Affect Disord. 2014 Jan;152-154:76-82.
Low fat diet (typical raw vegan) lead to better mood compared to low carb diet (typical high meat high dairy diet) ► Arch Intern Med. 2009;169(20):1873-1880 ► free paper ► http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/1108558.
Vegetarians reported significantly less negative emotion than omnivores, even if they are less DHA and EPA (the body produces more DHA and EPA from ALA when intake is lower) ► Nutr J. 2010 Jun 1;9:26. ► free paper ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2887769/.
"Consumption of a carbohydrate-rich, protein-poor evening test meal during the late luteal phase of the menstrual cycle improved depression, tension, anger, confusion, sadness, fatigue, alertness, and calmness scores..." since carbs boost the serotonin production, the happy hormone ► Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1989 Nov;161(5):1228-34. ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2589444
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THE RAW JOURNEY - GLUCOSE READINGS AND EXAMPLES OF SMOOTHIES
On August 20th I started my new 100% raw food eating habit (mostly smoothies - if i do things a that are hard i noticed adding some water to the blender makes the smoothie 10 times faster without the need to add soft fruits or veggies; zukini, tomatoes, watermelon, cactus pears, cauliflower, low fat so no avocados and coconut) - one can puree anything one eats, it will make it easier to digest and one needs to eat less to get the same cellular energy effectively (this is for proper food combining explained at https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/Vw36T29vs4t, after you eat fatty avocados - it may be better to wait 5 hours before eating again, to let the slow digesting fat get out of the small intestine) and so far blood glucose is perfect after eating only watermelon first night (3 slices, glucose 98 two hours later), 5 big bell peppers next morning at 8 am (about 300 calories) - glucose 101 about 1 hour later, 3 zucchini at 1030 am (144 calories) - glucose 104 after about 1 hour, 1 coconut at 1:30 pm (probably 1000-1300 calories) - glucose 104 after 2 hours exactly, 5 zucchini (210 calories perhaps) at 645 pm, glucose 92 at 8:45 pm, 2 hours later. After 1 hour glucose is highest and must be below 140, after 2 hours must be below 120. To test your glucose 1 or 2 hours after eating for just pennies each time, see how at https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/5ocD2zDyUkW.
On August 27th I pureed with a blender 6 pounds of zukini (mostly water and 435 calories and 36 grams of high quality protein, score 89, higher than lentils 86, milk 85, tofu 68, soymilk 25) and got glucose 103 one hour afterwards, which is excellent, given that it is well below 140 healthy limit. With raw vegan foods, i need less than half calories with vegan cooked foods for the same cellular energy. :) Why? See below. It took me 15 seconds to puree a cantaloupe (cut it first in smaller pieces of course). Makes it easy to drink and digest. Zukini takes longer, 80 seconds for 1 lb. After eating 2 cantaloupes pureed, and letting 1 hour pass, glucose was 87. Lower than usual, maybe because i had a brief walk, not sure. I will repeat this test many times with cantaloupes and watermelon and measure with a food scale exact carb intake, to better understand what goes on. This is really good, since 1 month ago eating watermelon would make it go to 140 easily. 87 vs 140 is a difference. On August 28th, i ate puree (i only eat puree made with the blender, so much easier) of some things and glucose was 86 after eating: 636g of cauliflower or 159 calories or 12.7 grams of excellent 103 score protein, and 848 grams of zukini or 10.2 grams of excellent score 89 protein, 136 calories, and 270 calories of cantaloupe (787 grams total or 6.3 grams of protein), some tomatoes, etc, total 695 calories. 23 grams of complete protein and 12 grams of incomplete protein. i got a food scale from walmart, so i can calculate protein and calories more exactly. perhaps i should not have combined cantaloupe with those, but i personally think when you puree it, it's very different. :) normally i only eat one thing at a time. :) If you cut a cantaloupe in 8 pieces and put it in a blender, in 15 seconds you get a drinkable puree - 1 cantaloupe is about 2 glasses of about 16 oz. Way faster than eating it the normal way.
On August 29th i blended in 10 seconds into a liquid 5.3 lb of watermelon (without the peel, 720 calories, 200 grams of carbs total, 150 grams of sugars total) and glucose was 104 one hour later, well below 140 healthy limit. Additionally, 4 hours earlier, I ate another 2.5 lb of watermelon (340 calories), so that was in the pipeline too. This was done on purpose to test glucose after a lot of watermelon, since I saw on youtube a lot of people eating 12 bananas and having blood sugar around 100 afterwards - saying that raw veganism cures insulin response in many people. :) Those 8 lb of watermelon mean about 21 grams of protein of score 52. Watermelon is a very complimentary protein to zukini (score 89, far better), since zukini doesn't have 100 score (like cauliflower has) due to lower threonine, but watermelon has about double the threonine per gram of protein as zukini. So eating both daily will make zukini super higher protein than milk 85 score or lentils 86 score. Also watermelon has about double the lysine of zukini, and lysine is a very important amino acid, even if not the low one (Threonine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threonine is the only "lower" one in zukini) in zukini, but missing in other vegetables. Watermelon has double the arginine per gram of protein of zukini too, but some amino acids 3 times less. Also, watermelon proline level is 25% higher per gram of protein compared to zukini - http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2639/2 - and proline is actually very important to a lot of biological functions too. Watermelon with a score of 52 has more lysine, threonine and arginine than even avocado - http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/fruits-and-fruit-juices/1843/2, with a score of 129. So watermelon - http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/fruits-and-fruit-juices/2072/2 - compliments any veggie low in these 3 amino acids. Just for those not aware, beef in hamburger is a medium protein quality of only 79, much lower than 103 of cauliflower. http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/beef-products/6197/2
I found on August 30th that adding some tomatoes and cauliflower into a blender makes it super-easy to make a cauliflower smoothie (cauliflower alone in a blender simply won't make a smoothie or it will take eons to ground up instead of 40 seconds it takes with tomatoes) that has 25 grams of high quality protein in 1250 grams - the weight of a medium cauliflower - (score 103, versus 79 for ground beef or 85 for milk) - better protein than beef and milk, imagine that. :) Tomatoes also have beta carotene and lycopene. Cauliflower is 25 cal per 100 grams, tomatoes 18 calories per 100 grams, so they are a perfect combo for eye health and raw vegan protein with all the biophotons, enzymes and other healthy compounds destroyed by heating over 50 centigrade, etc. Having a blender makes going raw vegan so much easier, i wish i knew that years ago. :) Cauliflower got 8 grams of protein per 100 calories with score 103, zukini got 7.5 g protein/100 cal with score 89, pinto beans 6.3 g protein/100 cal with score 96, garbanzo beans 5.4 g protein/100 cal with score 106, lentils 7.8 g protein/100cal with score 86, milk 5.3 g protein/100 cal with score 85, tomato 5 g protein/100cal score 52. It's a lot easier to go raw vegan or vegan with a blender. :) You can puree cauliflower if you add a watery veggie/fruit like zukini or tomato or some watermelon or cantaloupe (sometimes even 99 cents only stores have cauliflower, 1 big 4 lb one for 1$) and eat it in 1 minute, whereas with eating cauliflower raw normally takes you 15 minutes to eat same amount. Same for zukini and other foods that have more protein per 100 calories than lentils or beans - it's way easier to eat enough to get low calories raw vegan protein with a blender than if you do it without making a puree with the blender, even if you spend 2 minutes extra to puree it and wash the blender. Most people won't bother chewing that long. You can also puree carrots mixed with something soft, like tomato or zukini or cactus pear (the purple cactus pear has more anthocyanins and anti-oxidants than the green one, just like purple cabbage has 2800 times more anthocyanins than green cabbage) and you get a deep red or deep orange puree. Carrots alone are hard to make into a puree, they are too crunchy like cauliflower. You could mix them with tomato or other things too. Carrots have 27 times more beta carotene than watermelon per 100 grams (41 calories vs 30 for watermelon) but watermelon has 4500 times more lycopene - so it's good to eat both, if you are into carrots a lot. :) Carrots have 4 times more beta carotene than cantaloupe per 100 grams and 41 calories versus 34 for cantaloupe per 100 grams. Carrots are ultra hard to eat in non-puree form, so a blender makes it 30 times easier. Carrots have 217 times more alpha carotene than cantaloupe. :) Tomatoes have 2500 times more lycopene than carrots though, and lycopene is essential for eye health. Grapefruit also has 1400 times more lycopene than carrots.
On September 1st, I ate about 1000 grams of cauliflower and 8 bananas in a smoothie at once and glucose was 112 one hour later. I haven't eaten 8 bananas at once in more than 5 years, due to fear of glucose spiking, etc. I was shocked the glucose was so low. Anyway, i don't like bananas, and will probably never eat 8 bananas at once again, or once a year. :) But it was a good test to do, since bananas have 3 times more carbs than watermelon per 100 grams. It's way higher glycemic index than pretty much any fruit and vegetable. If I can eat 8 bananas and still have sugar well below 140, then I can pretty much eat anything, but veggies do have more nutrients per calorie. :) :)
On September 4th, i ate almost a whole watermelon, (without peel maybe 7 lb at one time, since i ate 1 lb before) and the glucose was 100 about 90 minutes later, i didn't do any physical activity except 20 push ups - to tone the hand muscles a little, since i have zero muscles almost and having some muscles is helpful if you want to have a good grip of objects or steering wheel for skinny vegans like me, lol. I noticed that as those charts explain regarding glucose or triglycerides https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/iEXEVpze3rL, if you do some exercise within first 2 hours after eating, it has a much stronger effect on blood glucose than if you do it after 2 hours. Just a few push ups lower the glucose a little. Or just walking or doing something like chores, cleaning, etc.
On September 6th, after eating zukini and carrots in a smoothie, glucose was 110, and 7 minutes from 110 reading 108 after i did 20 push ups (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push-up) to see if it drops by a statistically significant amount. Generally, as you might already know, glucose readings towards evenings are higher than mornings for some reason. You can read online about it. Same foods, and amounts will give higher readings evenings. On 9-6-16 i ate about 1550 calories - and 37 grams at least of protein with score 89 and 18 of which had score 129 due to a complimentary set of aminoacids. :) I noticed that the amount of "calories" does not matter that much, but more the amount of structured water and biophotons - as explained a few paragraphs below.
I like being raw, but i dislike having to go to bath so often, due to high water content of the diet (being raw vegan forces you to get the ideal amount of water intake that everyone reminds us of with "drink more water, 5 glasses a day, etc"...). other people who drink 8 glasses of water daily go to bath often, but i am not used to it, since when i was vegan i never drank water almost. the hardest thing to get used to is to not eat anything many hours before going to bed, unless you want to go to the bath a lot. One way is to eat more calorie rich foods after 2 pm, to avoid having to go to bath more than once during night hours. On September 26th, after i ate a whole watermelon (about 900 calories and 240 grams of carbs) of about 8 pounds - the glucose was shockingly only 93, 1.5 hours later was 86. This was unbelievable. However, typically, after watermelon only meals the glucose is around 105-115 on average, but there are exceptions. It's always below 140 limit though of course. After zukini only, the glucose is lower of course, since zukini has 3 times less simple sugars than watermelon per 100 grams. On October 1st, 1 hour after eating watermelon and zukini pureed with a blender the glucose was 103, which is ok, below the 140 limit. :) I have the same or more energy as when eating cooked food, even though i eat less calories, 30-40% less calories or even 50-60% sometimes.
On October 6th, i used the blender to puree watermelon mixed with broccoli. This was the first time i pureed broccoli (broccoli has 1403 mcg of lutein-zeaxanthin, while carrots have only 256 mcg in 100 grams). So far i did zukini, carrots, cauliflower, cactus pears, apples, bananas, ginger, onion (very rarely). But mostly zukini, watermelon, cantaloupe rarely, carrots. One thing i discovered is that if you add a little cactus pear or watermelon or cantaloupe, making broccoli or cauliflower or carrots or zukini into a puree is done instantly. Without a watery fruit, it takes much longer. Zukini can be pureed alone, but it takes 5 times longer without watermelon. Broccoli with watermelon tastes excellent and it's a good idea to chew a little the pureed stuff to get the benefits of some anti-cancer compounds in raw broccoli that only form when saliva reacts with the stuff in broccoli. :) Also, broccoli (or zukini or cauliflower) when combined with watermelon or carrots increases its aminoacid score from 83 (or 89 for zukini or 103 for cauliflower) to 130 to form a much better quality protein than in any vegetable or fruit alone.
On October 7th, my blood sugar 1 hour after eating was 82 (it may have been lower since i did exercise a little bit before taking the reading, but that only lowers it a few points maximum). The puree I ate was made of about 2 lb of watermelon or 270 calories, 2.7 lb of broccoflower (GREEN CAULIFLOWER) or 300 calories, 4 carrots (200 grams or 80 calories) and cactus pears (peeled about 50 calories) or about 700 calories (172 grams of total carbohydrates, 40 grams of high quality protein score 100, higher quality than hamburger beef with score 79). This is the lowest and healthiest glucose value i got 1 hour after eating EVER. It's mind blowing given that i just ate 172 grams of carbs. As i explained before, the blood sugar is much healthier now after going raw vegan compared to cooked vegan i was before.
On October 28th i did a smoothie with kale (lutein-zeaxanthin 155 times more than carrots), carrots, purple cactus pears, zukini, lemon and 2 hour after eating it glucose was 102, i think it's good. :) On November 1st 2016, World Vegan Day, i woke up, took a shower and did a smoothie. For glucose i got 94 , which is very healthy, one hour after eating a smoothie of 2 lemons, 3 tomatoes, 900 grams of zukini and 250 grams of kale and a tiny bit of ginger (40 grams maybe, not sure). This smoothie has 400 calories and 20 grams of high quality protein. Unless something is very soft ( like papaya, watermelon), i usually make a puree of it with a blender. But when i eat very little, i can eat things the usual way.
On November 2nd 2016, my glucose was 85, two hours after eating some papaya, lemon, ginger and zukini smoothie. 85 is the best value I ever got after a meal. Papaya has a lot of fiber, 3 times more than watermelon in 100 grams, and i guess because of the fiber papaya doesn't spike blood sugar as watermelon does. But I had eaten watermelon and gotten really low values too, like 95. But usually watermelon in large quantities causes the glucose to go to 100 or 109, for me.
On November 12th i ate about 5 lb (2.5kg) of watermelon and 2 lb of zukini and the blood glucose after that was only 100 just one hour after eating it. On November 19th, 2 hours after eating about 2.5 lb of watermelon and some rolled oats (uncooked of course), glucose was 90. On November 19th, i ate 2.3 pounds of cauliflower or so and 2.5 lb of watermelon at 3:30 pm and one hour later the glucose was 84, the lowest ever after a meal. 84 is considered the most perfect i think of all values so far i got one hour after a meal. If you eat 2.3 lb of cauliflower you get about 21 grams of protein of score 103, versus 79, lower quality for hamburger beef. :)
On November 25th, 1 hour after eating a smoothie (puree) of 450 g cranberries, 350 g asparagus, 50 grams of ginger and 450 g watermelon the glucose was 91, which is outstanding. Cranberries have 12 times more fiber than watermelon in 100 grams, and 77% more fiber than bananas. http://99only.com often has watermelon for 9 cents a pound (99 cents for a watermelon of 11 pounds), cranberries for 50 cents a pound, asparagus 50 or99 cents a bunch of 350 grams.
On December 2nd 2016, i ate a smoothie-puree made of: 900 grams pineapple (120 grams of carbs, 90 grams sugars, 4.5 grams protein of score 81, higher than 79 for hamburger beef), 400 grams of oranges (48 grams of carbs, 36 grams sugars), 900 grams of broccoli (that's 30 grams of protein of score 83, 59 grams of carbs, 15 g sugars), 400 grams of watermelon (32 g carbs, 24 grams of sugars). Amazingly, after this 260 grams of carbs, glucose was only 99 one hour after eating. Before, eating 260 carbs from lentils would cause a much higher reading. It's unusual to eat that many carbs in one meal, but i ate pineapple first time in months, so anyway. The lowest glucose after a meal was 84. The fiber and other things in the food makes the glucose climb less. Earlier in the day i got 18 grams of protein (score 93) from asparagus and 12 from zukini (score 89) and some 5-10 grams from watermelon (watermelon makes zukini score go really high to 120+) - so today i got actually 75+ grams of protein from raw fruits and veggies only pureed with my food processor (blender).
On December 14th 2016, i made a smoothie using a cauliflower of 1050 grams (21 grams of protein with score 103, more complete protein than hamburger beef with score of 79) and about 800 grams of watermelon. I also ate with the smoothie 5 bananas or 600 grams of banana without peel. This is about 315 grams of carbohydrates. Due to the fiber in banana and cauliflower though, the glucose was only 97 one hour after eating. When i was cooked food vegan, eating 315 grams of carbs in one meal (cooked lentils for example) would give me a much higher glucose, often 140 or even 170-190 rarely. As a raw vegan glucose was never above 140, one hour after eating and 99% of the time below 115, usually below 105. You might have seen raw vegans on youtube who eat 13 bananas (350 grams of carbs) and get a glucose of 98 afterwards - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRbj3n-1CUM. The thing is nobody knows exactly why, but many people cured type 2 diabetes by going raw vegan. Cooked vegan didn't do it, although one kid got rid of type 1 by going vegan, see the end of the post. Type 1 is 10 times less common, but more annoying and harder to cure.
On March 16th 2017, i made a smoothie using about 350 grams of beet, 1000 grams of zucchini, 500 grams of watermelon, 30 grams of ginger and the blood glucose 1 hour afterwards was 93. This is very well within the limit of below 140 1 hour after eating. On March 15th 2017, for the first time ever i made a smoothie from coconut. I mixed it with 4 tomatoes, 1 small beet and a tiny bit of watermelon. It tasted good. I noticed the fatty stuff in the coconut started to form a film of paste on the edges of the food processor. The digestion of the coconut white "meat" is made much easier by a food processor. Coconuts have anti-bacterial properties, so eating them once in a while may be good, it's been months since i ate one. :) For more about the benefits of coconut, see https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/hYLN6LTGoBr. On March 17th, I made the first sweet bell pepper smoothie ever (red, yellow, green ones mixed) and it tasted amazing, try it. You can also add some apple cider vinegar.
On April 12th 2017 i decided to store away my smoothie maker and go more natural (if you eat only smoothies, you don't produce much saliva and some nutritional benefits come from the interaction of mouth bacteria and saliva with the food chemicals), by eating more bananas and less zukini and less watermelon (i used to make a lot of zukini-watermelon smoothies). The problem with zukini is that is has 6 times more water per calorie and if you eat it after noon in the second part of the day you go to bath during night time. Same with watermelon. So, to make raw veganism work perfectly, one needs to eat some low water content fruits like bananas in the second half of the day, especially after 2 pm, or even noon ideally, to avoid interrupting sleep with going to the bath. My plan is to never eat anything too watery after noon, restrict watery fruits and veggies for mornings. Bananas have about the same water content/calorie as cooked lentils, so no big bath trips, if any at night should ensue. The result of eating more bananas and no zukini-watermelon after noon was going to bath only once at night after April 12th, instead of the 3 times i went to usually when eating more watery stuff. This change is really worth for those who are not fans of going to bath too often. On April 12th i ate 5 bananas and glucose was 100 afterwards, 5 bananas have the same calories as 7 pounds of zukini. 100 is way below the 140 concerning level. I ate 8 bananas before and glucose was around 100. Above you can see that on December 14th 2016, i ate 5 bananas and 1050 cauliflower and 800 g of watermelon at once and glucose was 97 afterwards, as huge fiber in cauliflower slows glucose response. There is a youtube guy who ate 12 bananas at once and got glucose 98 afterwards. Many cured diabetes with a raw diet and there is a paper on the fasting glucose levels lowering themselves from 99 to 92 after eating 2-4 bananas in the morning for 4 weeks ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25651610.
Why are raw foods, water and biophotons so important?
The latest hypothesis I have is that MD Batmanghelidj ideas (https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/ENDBEgXRdDP) are at least partially true, i.e. the definition of energy as "calories" is at least partially incorrect. He thinks water is the primary source of energy in living cells MgATP only produces 10 times more energy if there is water around to hydrolyze itself. People might ask why is MgATP so important? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATP_hydrolysis explains that ATP hydrolysis powers our bodies. Without cellular water, there is no energy. MgATP is very important, wikipedia explains "ATP (adenosine triphosphate), the main source of energy in cells, must be bound to a magnesium ion in order to be biologically active. What is called ATP is often actually Mg-ATP. As such, magnesium plays a role in the stability of all polyphosphate compounds in the cells, including those associated with the synthesis of DNA and RNA. Over 300 enzymes require the presence of magnesium ions for their catalytic action, including all enzymes utilizing or synthesizing ATP. Mg2+ is the fourth-most-abundant metal ion in cells (per moles) and the most abundant free divalent cation — as a result, it is deeply and intrinsically woven into cellular metabolism. Indeed, Mg2+-dependent enzymes appear in virtually every metabolic pathway: Specific binding of Mg2+ to biological membranes is frequently observed, Mg2+ is also used as a signalling molecule, and much of nucleic acid biochemistry requires Mg2+, including all reactions that require release of energy from ATP" ► https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium_in_biology
https://youtu.be/iO1K5Zb_hYU is a 4 min clip with testimonials about using water and sea salt to cure cancer and other diseases. Sea salt has 32 trace elements, not just sodium chloride.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5gaTdRv7d0 is a 2.5 min video about a lady who cured a 12 mm cancer tumor via a water fast, see http://watercure2.org for more information.
Nutritional labels could have listed amount of biophotons as a holographic number (a living hologram above the food) that changes, with biophotonic scanners on every aisle of the supermarket. At cellular level, if you got no water, certain hydrolysis reactions that can provide huge energy do not occur, so many calories are not really producing energy but stored as fat or eliminated, wasted due to poor digestion too. Also, if biophotons are lacking, information for cellular coordination across organs is not transmitted at the speed of light and this makes people sluggish and energy-less sometimes even if they eat 4000 calories and other people eat only 1000 with tons of biophotons and water and have far more energy. As such, eating more calories does nothing sometimes, more and more calories past the minimum required normally. Without cellular water and biophotons, there is no energy, that is perhaps why many raw vegans, not knowing this, end up eating 25 bananas daily, since they crave the structured biologically available (not tap water) water that is so scarce in bananas, not so much the sugar or calories. One can have more energy ingesting 1400 calories than ingesting 3500 with tons of bananas. Biochemistry seems to be far more complicated than "standard theories". We got 10 million trillion chemical reactions a SECOND in human bodies and some people think they got it all figured out and every time someone comes with a new theory or hypothesis, they often ridicule them, like with Galileo, the Wright Brothers, World Peace in 2040 or anyway soon dreamers, etc. But hey, one day, every theory is updated. :) That's the beauty of science, it's not dogma. :) Another hint that this WATER AND BIOPHOTONS may play a key role is the cases of people who could fast for years reportedly, or even decades ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/HXWPWBk4Xty.
Another reason biophotons may play a key role is that one doctor did an experiment described in detail at https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/fT8PxFCpNgS. Francis Pottenger, an MD, did an experiment on 900 cats in 1932-1942, feeding some cats mostly cooked meat and pasteurized milk and others raw meat and raw milk. Those eating cooked meat and pasteurized cooked milk became sicker and sicker each generation, had many miscarriages and difficult labors with many cats dying in labor, and at the third generation they became infertile and reached a very short lifespan (getting sick of degenerative diseases early on). This could be due to advanced glycation end products and a lack of biophotons too. The cooked food has much more AGEs (the advanced glycation end products that cause aging and many diseases, including cancer, infertility, diabetes), sometimes 40 times more, homemade french fries got about 40 times more AGEs than boiled potatoes, cooked chicken can have 13 times more than raw chicken, etc. as explained at https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/UrqfoFSEjL1. For example a family had everyone with diabetes, but one guy decided to go vegan and he didn't get diabetes as expected. Environment can turn off gene expression. ► https://www.amazon.com/Pottengers-Prophecy-Resets-Wellness-Illness/dp/1935052330 (you can read the amazon preview for more interesting stuff like it took 4 generations of cats to undo the damage done by 3 generations of bad diet; within 4 months of being put on a cooked meat diet, cats developed mouth infections and lost teeth). More info is also at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_M._Pottenger,_Jr. This raw vegan woman who is in her 70s looks 3 decades younger than her meat eating husband. Could it be that her far lower AGEs and much higher biophoton levels caused a much slower aging? ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gZ4U3V5LEc
By the end of the first generation the cooked meat fed cats started to develop degenerative diseases and became quite lazy. By the end of the second generation, the cats had developed degenerative diseases by mid-life and started losing their coordination. By the end of the third generation the cats had developed degenerative diseases very early in life and some were born blind and weak and had a much shorter life span. Many of the third generation cats couldn't even produce offspring. There was an abundance of parasites and vermin while skin diseases and allergies increased from an incidence of five percent in normal cats to over 90 percent in the third generation of deficient cats. Kittens of the third generation did not survive six months. Bones became soft and pliable and the cats suffered from adverse personality changes. Males became docile while females became more aggressive. The cats suffered from most of the degenerative diseases encountered in human medicine and died out totally by the fourth generation. This has been observed in recent studies done on mice with respect to individual nutrients. Rats exposed to chemicals or foods that raise estrogen levels during pregnancy produce daughters that have a higher than normal risk for breast cancer – and that risk is passed on to the next two generations. This is not due to DNA or genetics, but to environment influencing the expression of genes or due to epigenetics so to speak.
"Biophotons are the body’s “fiber optic” network. If biophotons are lacking, the enzymes are there, but don't know what work they are to do. This is one reason why a high level of biophotons in the body helps the body to regenerate itself. Biophotons are the life force of the body. A healthy newborn emits 200 to 220 biophotons per second per square centimeter. Adults emit 80 to 120. A senior adult will transition from 60, to 20, to 10, and then none. When that happens they die." ► http://www.healthy-vegetable-gardening.com/biophotonstructuredwater.html
Normally i don't eat coconuts or avocados. :) I rarely eat coconuts, a few times a year if that (i ate more in the first days of switching to raw, actually coconuts helped me make the switch, due to changing the digestion dynamics positively).
What some vegans forget is that there are tons of RAW veggies with higher than milk or lentil or beans amino acid score such as: zucchini 89, yellow pepper 86, avocado 129, coconut 87, spinach 119, cauliflower 103, asparagus 91 (kale, cauliflower and asparagus are easy to eat if you blend them, they got a lot of good Methionine-Cysteine that other veggies do not have), kale 92, green leafy lettuce 90, versus 68 for tofu, 44 for miso (fermented tofu), 85 for milk, 25 for soymilk.
Protein quality is key, since otherwise, you need to eat a lot more to get the missing aminoacid. And lentils or beans alone are more complete than lentils plus a grain or beans plus rice, contrary to the popular myth perpetrated by whoever since 1950s, as I explained at https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/DPagLPDS4wQ.
Zucchini has 7.5 grams of protein per 100 calories, higher protein quality than cooked lentils which have 7.75 grams of protein per 100 calories. Not to mention, far more biophotons and hydrating water. Raw Vegans often wonder - what am I going to eat to get protein?
Yellow bell pepper has score of 86, higher than milk, and 3.7 grams of protein per 100 calories. Spinach has 12.5 grams of protein per 100 calories with score 119, way higher than milk 85. Kale has 6.6 grams of protein per 100 calories with amino acid score of 92. raw broccoli has 8.4 grams of protein per 100 calories with amino acid score of 83. Spinach, kale kill the plant if eaten and are impossible to eat raw in large amounts due to oxalate in spinach and goitrogens for all cruciferous veggies. Cauliflower has 7.9 grams of protein (score 103) per 100 calories, but it has goitrogens raw, so only can eat it in small amounts daily - 1-2 pound or less probably, to be safe - but it depends. And cruciferous veggies are far harder to digest and eat than the other stuff like zukini which is ultra soft and easy to digest in comparison and has more water and biophotons per calorie. Advantage of broccoli and cauliflower though is that they don't kill the plant and have far fewer pesticides than zukini, spinach, kale, however, zukini can be peeled to remove 90% of pesticides. (that applies for apples and cucumbers too, 90% of pesticide are in the peel). Cauliflower has less pesticides than broccoli, but far lower than most veggies.
*Zucchini has 7.5 grams of high quality protein score 89 (higher than milk) per 100 calories and more water than tomatoes to hydrate the body, (cow milk has 5.3 grams of protein of score 85 per 100 calories - totally inferior to zucchini - almost zero biophotons and far less water/calorie), cooked lentils have 7.75 grams of protein of score 86 per 100 calories but zero biophotons and zero hydrating water, tomatoes have 5 grams of protein score 52 (so you need to eat a lot more to get some amino acids) per 100 cal. Watermelon has 2 grams of protein per 100 calories, while bananas have 1.2 grams of protein per 100 calories. Banana protein score is 62, watermelon 52, but both are very incomplete. Watermelon has more photons, hydrates more, has more protein, even adjusted for lower score, so watermelon wins among all common fruits by far for biophotons and hydration, but is inferior to tomatoes and zucchini. No other sweet non-tomato fruit comes close in water, biophoton and protein per calorie content. All fruits are way behind zucchini, which beats tomatoes big time in quality and quantity of protein and milk in quantity of protein. Zukini is really amazing, if you eat a lot of it, you get almost all Ca, Mg, Iron needed too, the rest from other foods or your multivitamin pill. Oxalate (which forms kidney stones if overeaten in some people who cannot eliminate it) in zukini is 20 mg/100 grams or among the lowest (https://www.ars.usda.gov/Main/docs.htm?docid=9444) as you can see at the USDA list, 2.5 times lower than tomatoes, same as cucumber, lower than virtually all of the listed foods, except sweet corn and coriander. What's shocking is carrots have 25 times more oxalate, spinach 50 times more, broccoli 10 times more, beans 18 times more, cauliflower 8 times more, collards 23 times more, lettuce 18 times more, potato 12 times more, peppers 2 times more. All common veggies have far more than zukini, so to avoid kidney stones, zukini is ideal. Zukini also has omega 3 to omega 6 in ratio almost 2:1, unlike tomato 1: 27, avocado 1:17, etc. Cauliflower has 7.9 g protein/100 calories, less pesticides, less oxalate, higher 103 protein score versus 8.4 g protein/100 cal and 83 protein score for broccoli. Usable protein is actually higher, due to much higher score, even if amount is 7.9 vs 8.4. Zukini has 7.5g/100 calories but score is 89, not 103 as cauliflower. When you run out of zukini, cauliflower in a blender pureed is a great alternative. We cannot eat 2 lb of RAW cauliflower daily for 1 year as we may develop thyroid issues (especially if not taking iodine containing multivitamin), BUT EVEN THAT IS NOT PROVEN to happen in most people - there was one case reported of a lady eating 2-3 pounds of bok choy for 6 months and having some issues (of low Iodine) which ended when she stopped eating bok choy. In people with good iodine intake from iodized salt or multivitamin or sea veggies, cruciferous goitrogens are less problematic. The other problem with cauliflower is 8 times more oxalate than zukini, so it's not wise to eat a lot daily, same with broccoli, 10 times more oxalate than zukini. Yet cauliflower has 2.7 times more vitamin C than zukini per 100 grams and 1.7 times more per 100 calories, broccoli 5.2 times more vitamin C than zukini per 100 grams (2.4 times per 100 calories).
OMEGA 3 IN VEGGIES:
100 grams of raw broccoli has 21 mg omega 3, and 17 mg omega 6 for raw. cauliflower got 37 mg omega 3 and 11 mg omega 6 in the best ratio out there: 3.4 to 1. I don't think there is any vegetable that has such a perfect ratio. omega 3:omega 6 ratio of 1:1 in raw broccoli is highly anti-inflammatory, but cauliflower 3.4 to 1 is the best. Zukini has 47 mg omega 3 versus 28 mg omega 6 or 1.7 to 1 (http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2639/2), way better than broccoli. Walnuts, one of the most popular sources of omega 3, have a paltry ratio of omega 3 to omega 6 of 1:4, but better than all other nuts. I never eat nuts, nobody needs nuts to be healthy. Tomatoes have only 3 mg omega 3 and 80 mg omega 6, onions 4 mg omega 3 and 13 mg omega 6, peeled cucumber 2 mg omega 3 and 2 mg omega 6, unpeeled cucumber 5 mg omega 3 and 28 mg omega 6, so virtually no omega 3 in these common veggies used in salads. Raw kale has 180 mg omega 3 and 138 mg omega 6, but most people eat very little raw kale, due to taste and difficulty in chewing. Avocados are a very inflammatory food in a way, since omega 3 is just 110 mg and omega 6 is 1700 mg, a ratio of 1:17, which is a known trigger of disease. Most nuts have way more omega 6 than omega 3, with the exception of chia seeds and flax seeds. Red bell pepper has 8 times more beta carotene than green bell pepper one and also omega 3 fat 25 mg, omega 6 45 mg per 100 grams, better than watermelon (no omega 3 and 50 mg omega 6). Cantaloupe has 46 mg omega 3 and 35 mg omega 6, awesome ratio, and almost 7 times more beta-carotene than watermelon and more than red bell pepper. Watermelon has thousands of times more lycopene than cantaloupe though. Cantaloupe has far less pesticide than red bell pepper though, especially if it's from USA (the Mexico ones usually have more pesticides, since there is less regulation as explained at http://www.sdearthtimes.com/et0996/et0996s5.html - read the label on where it is from). Pineapple got 17 mg of omega 3 and 23 mg omega 6 in 100 grams. Besides protein score of 81, higher than all fruits, except kiwi 105. Banana is a really low quality protein score 62.
LYCOPENE, BETA CAROTENE, PESTICIDES, OXALATE
A lot of tomatoes (especially from Mexico) have far more pesticides than US (even Mexico) watermelon and cantaloupe. The reason is that the rind of watermelon absorbs all pesticides, while tomatoes we eat the skin and the skin lets pesticides go in. Watermelon has almost double the lycopene of tomatoes per 100 grams, cantaloupe has 5 times more beta carotene than tomatoes per 100 grams (7 times more than watermelon), so it makes more sense for some people (sensitive to tomato lectins) to no longer eat low-medium oxalate tomatoes (2.5 times higher than zukini), as they can also irritate the intestine if overeaten and have very bad omega 3 to omega 6 ratio of 1:27. Cantaloupe has more beta carotene than all bell peppers, one of the most pesticide contaminated conventional produce. Cantaloupe and watermelon are more alkaline. The beauty of research is that for anything you are allergic to or don't want to eat, there is an alternate veggie or fruit that has it. The issue with a lot of tomatoes is they are the only raw veggie with a significant amount of lectins, known irritants of certain people's digestive tract. Because of that, a few people can get acne or "leaky gut" episodes if they overeat tomatoes. But many people have no problem with eating tomatoes. See http://www.pkdiet.com/pdf/LowOxalateDiet.pdf for more oxalate listings.
200 grams of chia seeds have 15 grams of protein (amino acid score 115), a medium avocado has 4-7 grams of protein of higher quality than soy even (score is 129), depending on how small or big medium it is. The huge avocados can have 12 grams of protein each, or 25% of the daily need of most people. One big mature coconut got 16 grams of protein of score 87, higher than lentils.
IMPORTANT NOTE ON RIPENING OF FRUITS AND VEGGIES
Avocados are often hard like a rock and take weeks to ripen if ever. If you want them to ripen in 24-48 hours, place all avocados in a closed paper bag (not plastic bag, since paper allows oxygen inside a little) and place the bag in a warmer room (not the fridge), so ethylene (released by avocados) is concentrating in the bag. Avocados, bananas and many other fruits (apples, apricots, cantaloupes, honeydew melons, kiwis, mangoes, nectarines, prunes, papayas, peaches, pears, plums, tomatoes) release ethene (or ethylene as it is called by some) CH2=CH2 in the ripening process and ripe much faster in the presence of ethylene (which is used commercially to ripen some of these fruits). Actually lots of plants do that. So, when the bag concentrates ethylene, it increases the ripening speed by 50 times even. Left in a room in the open, the concentration of the ripening hormone (ethylene) is too small and many people trash unripe avocados which don't ripen fast enough, not knowing how easy is to ripen. That's why if you store a lot of tomatoes in a bag in the fridge, since ethylene concentrates, it will cause those tomatoes to go bad, whereas if you left the tomatoes in the open in a cool place outside of the fridge they can last longer since the ethylene did not concentrate and did not cause them to go ripe ultra fast. ► http://postharvest.tfrec.wsu.edu/pages/PC2000F
Ethylene gas is used commercially to ripen tomatoes, bananas, pears, etc. That's why banana peels are super loaded with ethylene and bananas too and adding any ripe banana or ethylene producing fruit to the avocado bag help avocados ripen faster. Also, the more avocados in the bag, the more ethylene generated, the faster they ripen. Once ripe, you can take them out of the bag and start eating them to prevent them going over ripe. Ethylene has been called the aging hormone of plants, and many fruits and veggies go bad really fast in the presence of ethylene so ethylene sensitive fruits and veggies need be stored away from ethylene producing fruits and veggies to maximize shelf or fridge life. Ethylene-producing fruits (those that are ripening way faster in a closed paper bag) are avocados, bananas, Apricots, Cantaloupes Honeydew melons, Kiwis, Mangoes, Nectarines, Papayas, Peaches, Pears, Plums, Tomatoes. Ethylene damaged (they go bad way faster if around ethylene producing fruits in closed spaces like the fridge) fruits-veggies are: Asparagus Broccoli Carrots Cucumbers Eggplants Green beans Lettuce and other greens Potatoes Zucchini Summer squash Mexican Squash Watermelons. The idea is to never place ethylene producing and ethylene sensitive fruits in the same closed bag unless you will eat them really soon. :) For more info, you can also read http://www.vegetariantimes.com/article/spoiled-rotten-how-to-store-fruits-and-vegetables and http://shelflifeadvice.com/content/ethylene-and-produce-friends-or-foes.
CLEANING THE COLON
Enema bags are only 1 dollar each and they are very useful in removing bad bacteria that cause gas, bloating or pain. Doing an enema takes only a few minutes, but the effects are amazing. It will remove all bloating and/or gas hours or days earlier than it would naturally take for the system to return to normal. The health of our digestive tract and colon is so critical to our health, that doing enemas is actually a very good idea from the point of view of preventive medicine. We do teeth cleanings every 6 months, we clean our mouth daily with toothbrush, or some people do, but we never do regular colon cleansing. If you try to go MOSTLY RAW vegan or even normal vegan, you will sometimes discover some foods are not for you as you experiment with them, giving you gas and/or bloating, so you can do an enema and return to a bloating/gas free state in 1 hour instead of waiting a week in the worst case. Amazon has a ton of enema bags, like this one for 5 dollars, you get 4 and these can be reused, just use anti-bacterial spray after washing it ► https://www.amazon.com/Enema-Kit-Bag-Pack-Kits/dp/B00JFYOU6M. 90% of serotonin, the happiness neurotransmitter, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotonin is made in the intestines, so we really need to have optimal intestinal health. :) 10% is made in the central nervous system. A toxic colon can aggravate a lot of diseases, not just acne or things that are obvious - toxins going into bloodstream, but even how clear is our thinking, since toxins going to the brain will cloud thinking.
IF YOU ARE A GUY that has a very physically demanding job THE INFO ON GRAINS BELOW MAY BE OF USE IF YOU CANNOT REACH DAILY PROTEIN REQUIREMENT USING FRUITS AND VEGGIES due to too many trips to the bath or whatever:
THE DENSEST (per weight, not per calorie) SOURCES OF PROTEIN (but also of lectins and anti-nutrients that cause acne and digestion problems in some people) FOR A RAW VEGAN (some people with leaky gut may not be able to eat these soaked grains, unless they are sprouted - I only ate soaked buckwheat and some raw one once in my life, but rolled oats a few times - you don't need grains to get all protein - but if you can digest them well, feel free to eat them - the saponins, lectins and other things in them make it hard for some) - eaten as is or added to smoothies after soaking
Buckwheat can be eaten raw without soaking (13.2 grams of protein in 100 grams), the only grain you can eat raw. Soaking makes digestion easier though, and activates phytase, the enzyme that breaks down phytic acid. Too much phytic acid is potentially causing some loss of mineral absorption in some people, but this "phytic acid is bad" is a little controversial. Buckwheat amino acid score is 99, excellent. Whole oats can be soaked and eaten raw too after soaking (17 grams of protein in 100 grams, score for soaked is somewhere between 81 and 95) if you want to be totally raw and avoid the steam processing of rolled oats that inactivates enzymes. Raw oats have 30% more protein in 100 grams than rolled oats, and have all enzymes and biophotons intact. You can also soak oat bran, score 86 or rye, score 80, and get a lot of protein that way too - if you don't like eating a lot of veggies. Adding 300 grams of watermelon to 100 grams of oats or rye increases the protein score dramatically, since it adds the missing Lysine. Also, amaranth has a score of 108, but 2.8 times the omega 6 in buckwheat. Quinoa has 3.1 times the omega 6 in buckwheat and 50% more C16-C24 saturated fat than buckwheat, so buckwheat seems the best. Oats also have double the C16-C24 saturated fat in buckwheat, amaranth triple the level in buckwheat and this fat is harming the pancreas' insulin producing cells. Rye has the same level of omega 6 as buckwheat, but is half the price of buckwheat and has 35% less C16-C24 saturated fat. The bulk section of Whole Foods or other stores have all these raw. Never buy any toasted buckwheat if you want to be 100% raw, since it's not raw anymore, as toasting destroys biophotons and degrades some fats. Some people cannot digest grains well even if soaked due to certain compounds in them, so if they want to be 90-100% raw, they will need look at the non-grain protein sources. Asparagus has 11 grams of protein in 100 calories, zukini 7.5 grams, Kale got 6.6 grams, broccoli 8.4, cauliflower 8, spinach 12.5. Spinach and cruciferous veggies have goitrogens and oxalate, so zukini, with 6.5 times less oxalate than asparagus, is better. Buckwheat has 3.85 grams of protein in 100 calories. Asparagus and many veggies have no saponins, lectins and all the other stuff grains and legumes have that irritate the GI tract of certain people.
For those who don't care about being 100% raw, 300 grams of rolled oats cost just 70 cents and provide 40 grams of protein of score 95, higher than hamburger beef score of 79, better protein quality. 300 grams of dry oats that have been soaked after weighing the 300 grams provide 51 grams of protein of score 81 or higher if soaked more than 2 hours. 300 grams of raw buckwheat provide 40 grams of protein of score 99 and it's 100% raw, less moldy and safer for digestion. Those with diabetes or pre-diabetes could benefit a lot if they avoid quick oats as the quick oats glycemic index is 66, versus 55 for rolled oats and 40 for soaked raw oats. The more processing the higher the glycemic index. Anyone who asks around for cheap produce stores will discover than being vegan or raw vegan or mostly raw vegan can be 3 times cheaper than being a meat eater. Just 100-150 dollar a month in America, a fraction of what some spend.
►► TESTIMONIALS ABOUT RAW VEGANISM ◄◄
Raw Vegan foods hydrate the body really well, water that can carry poisons out of the body, besides providing biophotons, enzymes and many phytonutrients - all destroyed by cooking, freezing and even pressure high temp steaming. :) Freezing is not as bad as cooking, but quite bad.
CURING DIABETES:
Type 1 DIABETES was cured with only a Gluten-Free diet - insulin was never needed. ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3387460/ - BMJ Case Rep. 2012 Jun 21;2012. (Dr Vikki Petersen explains more about this study in this 3 min clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnLotUtY9H8)
Type 2 DIABETES gone in 2 weeks after raw veganism ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/NwLHtVr8PYk
San Francisco people reversing DIABETES with raw foods ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/bCgYSVahFB9
Colon cancer, DIABETES, 230 pound loss with raw vegan diet ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/Cdw1o7RCXk5
80 year old man reverses DIABETES with raw vegan foods ►
https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/dZDF7pM8ZgU
Cured DIABETES with Raw Vegan diet in 30 days, A1c dropped from 9.2 to 7, LDL from 146 to 99, lost 27 pounds, stopped taking meds ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/FX5ndcdUhmv
Type 1 DIABETES cured by cell transplant ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/P4txVgxGGJP
Type 1 DIABETIC off insulin via mostly raw, but some cooked, vegan foods ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/488qG8vTYrd
Type 1 DIABETES reversed via gamma-aminobutryic acid ► http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/286121.php (see also this post https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/XoLZ8mN8p3v about turning off diabetes and the Gabriel Cousens MD book on curing diabetes with raw foods - https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/awzhNTuPc8i)
CURING CANCER:
Prostate CANCER healed by raw veganism ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/QgdvmgxncvK
Brain CANCER cured with raw foods ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/Q1tfN8wGERv
Colon CANCER cured with raw vegan diet ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/hiCPzFDKb9m
Blood CANCER (leukemia) cured with a mostly raw vegetarian diet ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/LCxgoYq1egq
CURING MANY OTHER DISEASES:
Chronic fatigue and proctitis gone with a raw vegan diet ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/5UYKWZ3HS5N
Autism cured by mostly raw vegan diet ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/3VsCdw916Gg
Rheumatoid Arthritis cured by raw vegan diet ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/ZJy5v62eK6c.
Epileptic seizures, extremely low energy, depression healed by 6 months of raw veganism ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/gSdFg1jzcZQ
Eczema disappeared via raw veganism ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/5pBfR1qjRqz and https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/ZACghmFSMam and https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/hPVxakNhKcD
Fibromyalgia, arthritis, depression, extra weight all gone via raw veganism ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/QrNowtWosvp
Multiple Sclerosis and losing 135 pounds via raw veganism ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReP6DCUMIAs
Depression cured with raw vegan foods ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/Apc9MGwxZvm
Lupus cured with raw vegan foods, after 90 days her blood looked like that of a 16 year old and she was so changed, that she started a raw vegan restaurant ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/StbATUFrFYg
Hypothyroidism cured with a vegan diet ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/6vsvaam2cqq
Asthma cured with a vegan diet ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/4MasYbfu4tu
Vegan Lady loses 125 pounds by going raw vegan ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/TqNx53Mdd8A (Philip lost 215 lb by going raw vegan from meat eating ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/8V7BUKbreLN)
Crohn's disease cured via raw veganism ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/HFcxh8JRb81
Lose 240 lb in 9 months and 4 other dramatic weight losses ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/EtjYcVqazep
Celiac disease gone after raw veganism ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/RB8zPKpF2cB
Candida gone plus amazing energy on raw vegan diet ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/6WALv7mucYB
Raw vegan athlete eating 90% fruits and 10% veggies can run 150 miles ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/ZpWatckhx6D
74 year old raw vegan looks decades younger ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/1p8WJQFXSqG
75 year old raw vegan looks decades younger ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/1ZMrPnQoWcw
► VEGANISM ◄
For 100+ reasons I didn't eat meat for 21 years and dairy for 13 years (12% of millennials have already given up meat in America) see ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/2Z1fCnTHWbh. Going vegan is like planting 62 trees in your backyard, as far as CO2 emissions reduction.💜😊💜
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Once you decide to go raw, you can add the amino acids from the vegan stuff you eat and get an idea if you eat enough of each essential aminoacid. ► http://www.globalrph.com/aminoacid-rda.htm. I used it and i get on any day 10-50% more of each aminoacid if i just eat my typical veggies and fruits. The total amount of protein is about the daily recommended one, but individual amino acids can vary wildly, from 10 to 60% more than the daily needs. I am usually 10-25% higher for methionine + cysteine and leucine, these are mTOR activators that cause cancer if overeaten - especially leucine, 40-60% for lysine, tryptophan, 10-40% the rest - varies by day depending how much of certain veggies i eat as part of my pureed smoothies). Thus, I doubt I will ever eat any soaked grain ever again, buckwheat is a grain that can be eaten raw. You can calculate using nutrition data website (for example kale in 100 grams has 197 mg of lysine as shown at http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2461/2) with values for each aminoacid so you KNOW and don't need to make assumptions. It's always better to eat a little more, since absorption is not always perfect, nor numbers, etc. See 47+ foods with more complete protein than hamburger beef, many with more protein per calorie than grains (but also more bulky and with more water) ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/AA2XSSyoGZ1. Too much protein causes cancer, Alzheimer, rapid aging, acne, etc as explained at ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/XraJ9xYY2ih.
A BLENDER OR FOOD PROCESSOR MAKES BEING RAW 20 TIMES EASIER for beginners especially:
I got a 69 dollar powerful 550 watt Oster blender from walmart (https://www.walmart.com/ip/Oster-Designed-For-Life-14-Cup-Food-Processor/43223456) and I make a puree in 1 minute or 2 out of anything (add water when nothing soft around) including omega 3 rich seeds (flax seeds, chia seeds - these you can pre-soak in water for minutes or even hours if you have any digestive problems, in 10 minutes chia seeds absorb easily 5-10 times their volume in water and are super-easy to blend), kale (155 times more lutein than carrots), watermelon (often times 10 cents a pound at 99 cents only stores), carrots, zukini (more protein than most foods per calorie, 20 cents a pound organic, at some Spanish grocery stores) and all the good things. Key thing is add first the softer stuff, or water if nothing soft then add a few of the harder ones and last one, after your pureed everything, add kale. If you add all hard stuff and kale at once, it will take you 5-10 times longer to puree the same stuff. I found that when you puree watermelon or water or something soft and carrots, you can attain the same juice and pulp (except they are mixed) as you do with a juicer. A good blender can basically can shred the carrots as much as a juicer does - juicers and food processors use basically the same blade. When you puree stuff you eat the super-healthy pulp also that juicing fans discard; the pulp is very good since it has vitamins, fiber, etc. and it prevents a sudden rise in blood glucose, colon cancer, etc.
If you want to eat more raw vegan stuff, but cannot find cheap produce nearby, try the http://99only.com stores which have produce now too (they often sell the same exact stuff Whole Foods or Sprouts or other health food stores sell at 3-5 times the price; for example a 10-15 pound watermelon is only 1 or 2 dollar at 99only, zukini is 1 dollar for a 2-3 lb bag - that's 5-7 times cheaper than at many stores), the Spanish or Mexican grocery stores and supermarkets (like NorthMarket in Southern California, El Super, Superior Grocers, etc). These tend to have the lowest prices in America. Local whole foods stores, like Sprouts, also can have many things organic, like kale, at 88 cents, less than half the price of smaller bunches of kale at Vons or other non-whole food stores, so for cheapest organic stuff you need to go to the stores that have a huge amount of organic veggies and fruits. For some items organic or conventional won't make a big difference, as very little pesticides are used or they cannot get inside beyond the peel that is not eaten, but for some fruits or veggies, the difference is huge since organic can have way less pesticides (organic means using only 25 natural pesticides, conventional uses 900 man made and too many pesticides lead to neuron damage, IQ lower by 7 points, 4 times the risk of Alzheimer, double the risk of autism, 3 times the risk of Parkinson, double the risk of blood cancer, apparently as explained at https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/CsrqnabWAav). You will be shocked to find sometimes grapes at Sprouts (at least today) are cheaper than at any other store, even dollar store. In other nations, there must be cheap sources with lots of produce, you just have to ask around. One other advantage of organic is 5 times more biophotons and cancer tissues have very few or no biophotons. The link above explains alternatives to pesticides, which are bound to replace them, as solar/wind is replacing coal. In other nations, there must be cheap sources with lots of produce, you just have to ask around. There is no one store that's going to have every produce item cheapest - so you may need to go to 2-3 stores. If you live in California, being raw vegan is 10 times easier, since produce is everywhere, we ship it to other states, it's much cheaper too.
Asparagus has more fiber per 100 calories than most foods. Cranberries have more fiber in 100 calories than all fruits. Raw asparagus got 10.5 grams fiber per 100 calories (cooked asparagus only 9), compared to 13.3 for cooked mustard greens (12 for raw), 12.4 for raw romaine lettuce, 11.8 for raw collard greens (10.8 for cooked collar greens), 10.0 for raw cauliflower, raw green cabbage and raw cranberries, 9.0 iceberg lettuce, 8.8 cactus pears, 8.7 green leaf lettuce, 7.7 broccoli and chia seeds, , 6.9 zukini and carrots, 6.8 for purple cabbage and lentils, 6.4 for tomatoes, 5.8 for red kidney beans, 5.3 grams for pears , 5.1 flax seeds, 4.6 apples, 4.5 for papaya, 4.2 avocado, 4.0 kale, 3.3 cucumber, 2.9 bananas, 2.8 whole wheat bread, 2.7 rolled oats, 1.3 watermelon, 0.9 white bread, 0.3 rice, 0.0 eggs, milk, dairy and meat.
A FEW STUDIES SHOWING EATING MORE FRUITS AND VEGGIES, MORE WHOLE FOODS, LESS PROCESSED FOODS IMPROVES PRODUCTIVITY, EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL HEALTH, HAPPINESS:
Raw or mostly raw or healthy whole foods (minimally cooked at home) Veganism removes people's depression quite often since it removes the high omega 6 to omega 3 ratio, high arachidonic acid (the one that promotes brain inflammation), high AGE (advanced glycation end products) levels and provides more fruits and veggies. Many studies show that the phytonutrients in uncooked foods prevent brain oxidative stress and lower depression, boost happiness, etc. :)
Restriction of meat, fish, and poultry in omnivores improves mood: a pilot randomized controlled trial. ► Nutr J. 2012 Feb 14;11:9.► free paper ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3293760/.
A worksite vegan nutrition program is well-accepted and improves health-related quality of life (mental health and physical functioning too) and work productivity. ► Ann Nutr Metab. 2010;56(4):245-52. ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20389060.
A 10 corporate sites randomized controlled trial of a low fat VEGAN nutrition intervention program in a multiethnic adult population reduces depression and anxiety and improves productivity, emotional well-being, daily functioning, quality of life: the GEICO study. ► Am J Health Promot. 2015 Mar-Apr;29(4):245-54. ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24524383 ► free paper ► https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Suruchi_Mishra2/publication/260193549_A_Multicenter_Randomized_Controlled_Trial_of_a_Nutrition_Intervention_Program_in_a_Multiethnic_Adult_Population_in_the_Corporate_Setting_Reduces_Depression_and_Anxiety_and_Improves_Quality_of_Life_The/links/57711f2608ae6219474a3620.pdf
Higher intakes of unhealthy foods during pregnancy predicted mental health problems among children. Children with a high level of unhealthy diet postnatally had higher levels of mental health problems. ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24074470 ► J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2013 Oct;52(10):1038-47
Higher prenatal maternal depression symptoms were prospectively associated with higher unhealthy diet, both during pregnancy and the postnatal period, which, in turn, was associated with higher child dysregulation up to the age of 7 years. ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25524365 ► Psychol Med. 2015 Jul;45(9):1851-60. ► free paper ► https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/files/51486970/PSM_D_14_00520_PinaBarker_manuscript.pdf
The more fruits and veggies people ate the lower the depression ► free article ► BMC Psychiatry. 2017; 17: 15 ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5237480/. Those eating 5 servings of fruit a day were 3.5 times less likely to report being depressed than those eating less than 5 a day.
The more pizzas, sausages, hamburgers, muffins, doughnuts, croissants people ate, the more depressed they were likely to be, sometimes by 40% ► Public Health Nutr. 2012 Mar;15(3):424-32. ► free paper ► https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/CF02E46F44CFC28D5F4D151FAD39EC77/S1368980011001856a.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3520090/ free paper found depressed adults have lower fruit and veggie intake. "Increasing fruit and vegetable consumption may help reduce psychological distress in middle-aged and older adults." ► free paper ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5353310/ ► BMJ Open. 2017; 7(3): e014201..
A randomized controlled study found that "Providing young adults with high-quality fruits and veggies resulted in improvements to their psychological well-being over a two-week period. This is the first study to show that providing high-quality fruits and veggies to young adults can result in short-term improvements in vitality, flourishing, and motivation. Findings provide initial validation of a causal relationship between fruits and veggies and well-being, suggesting that large-scale intervention studies are warranted." ► free paper ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5291486/ ► PLoS One. 2017; 12(2): e0171206.
An interventional study found that "consumption of fruit was associated with lower anxiety, depression, and emotional distress than consumption of crisps/chocolate." ► free paper ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4428353/ ► Front Nutr. 2014; 1: 10.
"For each 200g a day increase in fruit and veg, the risk of getting each health outcome was decreased by: 8% for coronary heart disease 16% for stroke, 8% for total cardiovascular disease, 3% for total cancer, 10% for all-cause death. The study focused on 800 grams which is 4 times that." ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/behindtheheadlines/news/2017-02-23-five-a-day-of-fruit-and-veg-is-good-but-10-is-better/.
"In middle-aged participants, a processed food dietary pattern is a risk factor for depression 5 years later, whereas a whole food pattern is protective." ► free paper ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2801825/ ► Br J Psychiatry. 2009 Nov; 195(5): 408–413.
"This critical review on the associations between the intake of vegetables and fruit and the risk of several chronic diseases shows that a high daily intake of these foods promotes health. Therefore, from a scientific point of view, national campaigns to increase vegetable and fruit consumption are justified." ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3419346/ ► Eur J Nutr. 2012 Sep; 51(6): 637–663. ► free paper with almost 300 references.
"A habitually poor diet (e.g., increased consumption of Western processed foods) is also independently associated with a greater likelihood of or risk for depression" ► free paper ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4167107/ ► Am J Public Health. 2014 October; 104(10): e31–e42. When they say western foods they refer to "processed or fried foods, refined grains, sugary products, and beer" as explained in the referenced paper https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20048020/.
Harvard website says at http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/nutritional-psychiatry-your-brain-on-food-201511168626 that 95% of the happy hormone serotonin is made in the digestive system and vegan diet promotes good bacteria, while processed junk foods and meat and dairy promote bad bacteria that influence serotonin production. Depression is 25% to 35% lower in those who eat a traditional diet versus a junk food processed diet, as the traditional one has grains, legumes, fruits, veggies, fiber.
Higher blood levels of omega 6 arachidonic and adrenic acids (typical of processed animal source foods, meats, dairy which provide preformed adrenic and arachidonic acids, absent from vegan foods) increased the risk of major depression and even suicide among pregnant women ► free paper ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4239694/ ► J Affect Disord. 2014 Jan;152-154:76-82.
Low fat diet (typical raw vegan) lead to better mood compared to low carb diet (typical high meat high dairy diet) ► Arch Intern Med. 2009;169(20):1873-1880 ► free paper ► http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/1108558.
Vegetarians reported significantly less negative emotion than omnivores, even if they are less DHA and EPA (the body produces more DHA and EPA from ALA when intake is lower) ► Nutr J. 2010 Jun 1;9:26. ► free paper ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2887769/.
"Consumption of a carbohydrate-rich, protein-poor evening test meal during the late luteal phase of the menstrual cycle improved depression, tension, anger, confusion, sadness, fatigue, alertness, and calmness scores..." since carbs boost the serotonin production, the happy hormone ► Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1989 Nov;161(5):1228-34. ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2589444
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THE RAW JOURNEY - GLUCOSE READINGS AND EXAMPLES OF SMOOTHIES
On August 20th I started my new 100% raw food eating habit (mostly smoothies - if i do things a that are hard i noticed adding some water to the blender makes the smoothie 10 times faster without the need to add soft fruits or veggies; zukini, tomatoes, watermelon, cactus pears, cauliflower, low fat so no avocados and coconut) - one can puree anything one eats, it will make it easier to digest and one needs to eat less to get the same cellular energy effectively (this is for proper food combining explained at https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/Vw36T29vs4t, after you eat fatty avocados - it may be better to wait 5 hours before eating again, to let the slow digesting fat get out of the small intestine) and so far blood glucose is perfect after eating only watermelon first night (3 slices, glucose 98 two hours later), 5 big bell peppers next morning at 8 am (about 300 calories) - glucose 101 about 1 hour later, 3 zucchini at 1030 am (144 calories) - glucose 104 after about 1 hour, 1 coconut at 1:30 pm (probably 1000-1300 calories) - glucose 104 after 2 hours exactly, 5 zucchini (210 calories perhaps) at 645 pm, glucose 92 at 8:45 pm, 2 hours later. After 1 hour glucose is highest and must be below 140, after 2 hours must be below 120. To test your glucose 1 or 2 hours after eating for just pennies each time, see how at https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/5ocD2zDyUkW.
On August 27th I pureed with a blender 6 pounds of zukini (mostly water and 435 calories and 36 grams of high quality protein, score 89, higher than lentils 86, milk 85, tofu 68, soymilk 25) and got glucose 103 one hour afterwards, which is excellent, given that it is well below 140 healthy limit. With raw vegan foods, i need less than half calories with vegan cooked foods for the same cellular energy. :) Why? See below. It took me 15 seconds to puree a cantaloupe (cut it first in smaller pieces of course). Makes it easy to drink and digest. Zukini takes longer, 80 seconds for 1 lb. After eating 2 cantaloupes pureed, and letting 1 hour pass, glucose was 87. Lower than usual, maybe because i had a brief walk, not sure. I will repeat this test many times with cantaloupes and watermelon and measure with a food scale exact carb intake, to better understand what goes on. This is really good, since 1 month ago eating watermelon would make it go to 140 easily. 87 vs 140 is a difference. On August 28th, i ate puree (i only eat puree made with the blender, so much easier) of some things and glucose was 86 after eating: 636g of cauliflower or 159 calories or 12.7 grams of excellent 103 score protein, and 848 grams of zukini or 10.2 grams of excellent score 89 protein, 136 calories, and 270 calories of cantaloupe (787 grams total or 6.3 grams of protein), some tomatoes, etc, total 695 calories. 23 grams of complete protein and 12 grams of incomplete protein. i got a food scale from walmart, so i can calculate protein and calories more exactly. perhaps i should not have combined cantaloupe with those, but i personally think when you puree it, it's very different. :) normally i only eat one thing at a time. :) If you cut a cantaloupe in 8 pieces and put it in a blender, in 15 seconds you get a drinkable puree - 1 cantaloupe is about 2 glasses of about 16 oz. Way faster than eating it the normal way.
On August 29th i blended in 10 seconds into a liquid 5.3 lb of watermelon (without the peel, 720 calories, 200 grams of carbs total, 150 grams of sugars total) and glucose was 104 one hour later, well below 140 healthy limit. Additionally, 4 hours earlier, I ate another 2.5 lb of watermelon (340 calories), so that was in the pipeline too. This was done on purpose to test glucose after a lot of watermelon, since I saw on youtube a lot of people eating 12 bananas and having blood sugar around 100 afterwards - saying that raw veganism cures insulin response in many people. :) Those 8 lb of watermelon mean about 21 grams of protein of score 52. Watermelon is a very complimentary protein to zukini (score 89, far better), since zukini doesn't have 100 score (like cauliflower has) due to lower threonine, but watermelon has about double the threonine per gram of protein as zukini. So eating both daily will make zukini super higher protein than milk 85 score or lentils 86 score. Also watermelon has about double the lysine of zukini, and lysine is a very important amino acid, even if not the low one (Threonine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threonine is the only "lower" one in zukini) in zukini, but missing in other vegetables. Watermelon has double the arginine per gram of protein of zukini too, but some amino acids 3 times less. Also, watermelon proline level is 25% higher per gram of protein compared to zukini - http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2639/2 - and proline is actually very important to a lot of biological functions too. Watermelon with a score of 52 has more lysine, threonine and arginine than even avocado - http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/fruits-and-fruit-juices/1843/2, with a score of 129. So watermelon - http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/fruits-and-fruit-juices/2072/2 - compliments any veggie low in these 3 amino acids. Just for those not aware, beef in hamburger is a medium protein quality of only 79, much lower than 103 of cauliflower. http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/beef-products/6197/2
I found on August 30th that adding some tomatoes and cauliflower into a blender makes it super-easy to make a cauliflower smoothie (cauliflower alone in a blender simply won't make a smoothie or it will take eons to ground up instead of 40 seconds it takes with tomatoes) that has 25 grams of high quality protein in 1250 grams - the weight of a medium cauliflower - (score 103, versus 79 for ground beef or 85 for milk) - better protein than beef and milk, imagine that. :) Tomatoes also have beta carotene and lycopene. Cauliflower is 25 cal per 100 grams, tomatoes 18 calories per 100 grams, so they are a perfect combo for eye health and raw vegan protein with all the biophotons, enzymes and other healthy compounds destroyed by heating over 50 centigrade, etc. Having a blender makes going raw vegan so much easier, i wish i knew that years ago. :) Cauliflower got 8 grams of protein per 100 calories with score 103, zukini got 7.5 g protein/100 cal with score 89, pinto beans 6.3 g protein/100 cal with score 96, garbanzo beans 5.4 g protein/100 cal with score 106, lentils 7.8 g protein/100cal with score 86, milk 5.3 g protein/100 cal with score 85, tomato 5 g protein/100cal score 52. It's a lot easier to go raw vegan or vegan with a blender. :) You can puree cauliflower if you add a watery veggie/fruit like zukini or tomato or some watermelon or cantaloupe (sometimes even 99 cents only stores have cauliflower, 1 big 4 lb one for 1$) and eat it in 1 minute, whereas with eating cauliflower raw normally takes you 15 minutes to eat same amount. Same for zukini and other foods that have more protein per 100 calories than lentils or beans - it's way easier to eat enough to get low calories raw vegan protein with a blender than if you do it without making a puree with the blender, even if you spend 2 minutes extra to puree it and wash the blender. Most people won't bother chewing that long. You can also puree carrots mixed with something soft, like tomato or zukini or cactus pear (the purple cactus pear has more anthocyanins and anti-oxidants than the green one, just like purple cabbage has 2800 times more anthocyanins than green cabbage) and you get a deep red or deep orange puree. Carrots alone are hard to make into a puree, they are too crunchy like cauliflower. You could mix them with tomato or other things too. Carrots have 27 times more beta carotene than watermelon per 100 grams (41 calories vs 30 for watermelon) but watermelon has 4500 times more lycopene - so it's good to eat both, if you are into carrots a lot. :) Carrots have 4 times more beta carotene than cantaloupe per 100 grams and 41 calories versus 34 for cantaloupe per 100 grams. Carrots are ultra hard to eat in non-puree form, so a blender makes it 30 times easier. Carrots have 217 times more alpha carotene than cantaloupe. :) Tomatoes have 2500 times more lycopene than carrots though, and lycopene is essential for eye health. Grapefruit also has 1400 times more lycopene than carrots.
On September 1st, I ate about 1000 grams of cauliflower and 8 bananas in a smoothie at once and glucose was 112 one hour later. I haven't eaten 8 bananas at once in more than 5 years, due to fear of glucose spiking, etc. I was shocked the glucose was so low. Anyway, i don't like bananas, and will probably never eat 8 bananas at once again, or once a year. :) But it was a good test to do, since bananas have 3 times more carbs than watermelon per 100 grams. It's way higher glycemic index than pretty much any fruit and vegetable. If I can eat 8 bananas and still have sugar well below 140, then I can pretty much eat anything, but veggies do have more nutrients per calorie. :) :)
On September 4th, i ate almost a whole watermelon, (without peel maybe 7 lb at one time, since i ate 1 lb before) and the glucose was 100 about 90 minutes later, i didn't do any physical activity except 20 push ups - to tone the hand muscles a little, since i have zero muscles almost and having some muscles is helpful if you want to have a good grip of objects or steering wheel for skinny vegans like me, lol. I noticed that as those charts explain regarding glucose or triglycerides https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/iEXEVpze3rL, if you do some exercise within first 2 hours after eating, it has a much stronger effect on blood glucose than if you do it after 2 hours. Just a few push ups lower the glucose a little. Or just walking or doing something like chores, cleaning, etc.
On September 6th, after eating zukini and carrots in a smoothie, glucose was 110, and 7 minutes from 110 reading 108 after i did 20 push ups (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push-up) to see if it drops by a statistically significant amount. Generally, as you might already know, glucose readings towards evenings are higher than mornings for some reason. You can read online about it. Same foods, and amounts will give higher readings evenings. On 9-6-16 i ate about 1550 calories - and 37 grams at least of protein with score 89 and 18 of which had score 129 due to a complimentary set of aminoacids. :) I noticed that the amount of "calories" does not matter that much, but more the amount of structured water and biophotons - as explained a few paragraphs below.
I like being raw, but i dislike having to go to bath so often, due to high water content of the diet (being raw vegan forces you to get the ideal amount of water intake that everyone reminds us of with "drink more water, 5 glasses a day, etc"...). other people who drink 8 glasses of water daily go to bath often, but i am not used to it, since when i was vegan i never drank water almost. the hardest thing to get used to is to not eat anything many hours before going to bed, unless you want to go to the bath a lot. One way is to eat more calorie rich foods after 2 pm, to avoid having to go to bath more than once during night hours. On September 26th, after i ate a whole watermelon (about 900 calories and 240 grams of carbs) of about 8 pounds - the glucose was shockingly only 93, 1.5 hours later was 86. This was unbelievable. However, typically, after watermelon only meals the glucose is around 105-115 on average, but there are exceptions. It's always below 140 limit though of course. After zukini only, the glucose is lower of course, since zukini has 3 times less simple sugars than watermelon per 100 grams. On October 1st, 1 hour after eating watermelon and zukini pureed with a blender the glucose was 103, which is ok, below the 140 limit. :) I have the same or more energy as when eating cooked food, even though i eat less calories, 30-40% less calories or even 50-60% sometimes.
On October 6th, i used the blender to puree watermelon mixed with broccoli. This was the first time i pureed broccoli (broccoli has 1403 mcg of lutein-zeaxanthin, while carrots have only 256 mcg in 100 grams). So far i did zukini, carrots, cauliflower, cactus pears, apples, bananas, ginger, onion (very rarely). But mostly zukini, watermelon, cantaloupe rarely, carrots. One thing i discovered is that if you add a little cactus pear or watermelon or cantaloupe, making broccoli or cauliflower or carrots or zukini into a puree is done instantly. Without a watery fruit, it takes much longer. Zukini can be pureed alone, but it takes 5 times longer without watermelon. Broccoli with watermelon tastes excellent and it's a good idea to chew a little the pureed stuff to get the benefits of some anti-cancer compounds in raw broccoli that only form when saliva reacts with the stuff in broccoli. :) Also, broccoli (or zukini or cauliflower) when combined with watermelon or carrots increases its aminoacid score from 83 (or 89 for zukini or 103 for cauliflower) to 130 to form a much better quality protein than in any vegetable or fruit alone.
On October 7th, my blood sugar 1 hour after eating was 82 (it may have been lower since i did exercise a little bit before taking the reading, but that only lowers it a few points maximum). The puree I ate was made of about 2 lb of watermelon or 270 calories, 2.7 lb of broccoflower (GREEN CAULIFLOWER) or 300 calories, 4 carrots (200 grams or 80 calories) and cactus pears (peeled about 50 calories) or about 700 calories (172 grams of total carbohydrates, 40 grams of high quality protein score 100, higher quality than hamburger beef with score 79). This is the lowest and healthiest glucose value i got 1 hour after eating EVER. It's mind blowing given that i just ate 172 grams of carbs. As i explained before, the blood sugar is much healthier now after going raw vegan compared to cooked vegan i was before.
On October 28th i did a smoothie with kale (lutein-zeaxanthin 155 times more than carrots), carrots, purple cactus pears, zukini, lemon and 2 hour after eating it glucose was 102, i think it's good. :) On November 1st 2016, World Vegan Day, i woke up, took a shower and did a smoothie. For glucose i got 94 , which is very healthy, one hour after eating a smoothie of 2 lemons, 3 tomatoes, 900 grams of zukini and 250 grams of kale and a tiny bit of ginger (40 grams maybe, not sure). This smoothie has 400 calories and 20 grams of high quality protein. Unless something is very soft ( like papaya, watermelon), i usually make a puree of it with a blender. But when i eat very little, i can eat things the usual way.
On November 2nd 2016, my glucose was 85, two hours after eating some papaya, lemon, ginger and zukini smoothie. 85 is the best value I ever got after a meal. Papaya has a lot of fiber, 3 times more than watermelon in 100 grams, and i guess because of the fiber papaya doesn't spike blood sugar as watermelon does. But I had eaten watermelon and gotten really low values too, like 95. But usually watermelon in large quantities causes the glucose to go to 100 or 109, for me.
On November 12th i ate about 5 lb (2.5kg) of watermelon and 2 lb of zukini and the blood glucose after that was only 100 just one hour after eating it. On November 19th, 2 hours after eating about 2.5 lb of watermelon and some rolled oats (uncooked of course), glucose was 90. On November 19th, i ate 2.3 pounds of cauliflower or so and 2.5 lb of watermelon at 3:30 pm and one hour later the glucose was 84, the lowest ever after a meal. 84 is considered the most perfect i think of all values so far i got one hour after a meal. If you eat 2.3 lb of cauliflower you get about 21 grams of protein of score 103, versus 79, lower quality for hamburger beef. :)
On November 25th, 1 hour after eating a smoothie (puree) of 450 g cranberries, 350 g asparagus, 50 grams of ginger and 450 g watermelon the glucose was 91, which is outstanding. Cranberries have 12 times more fiber than watermelon in 100 grams, and 77% more fiber than bananas. http://99only.com often has watermelon for 9 cents a pound (99 cents for a watermelon of 11 pounds), cranberries for 50 cents a pound, asparagus 50 or99 cents a bunch of 350 grams.
On December 2nd 2016, i ate a smoothie-puree made of: 900 grams pineapple (120 grams of carbs, 90 grams sugars, 4.5 grams protein of score 81, higher than 79 for hamburger beef), 400 grams of oranges (48 grams of carbs, 36 grams sugars), 900 grams of broccoli (that's 30 grams of protein of score 83, 59 grams of carbs, 15 g sugars), 400 grams of watermelon (32 g carbs, 24 grams of sugars). Amazingly, after this 260 grams of carbs, glucose was only 99 one hour after eating. Before, eating 260 carbs from lentils would cause a much higher reading. It's unusual to eat that many carbs in one meal, but i ate pineapple first time in months, so anyway. The lowest glucose after a meal was 84. The fiber and other things in the food makes the glucose climb less. Earlier in the day i got 18 grams of protein (score 93) from asparagus and 12 from zukini (score 89) and some 5-10 grams from watermelon (watermelon makes zukini score go really high to 120+) - so today i got actually 75+ grams of protein from raw fruits and veggies only pureed with my food processor (blender).
On December 14th 2016, i made a smoothie using a cauliflower of 1050 grams (21 grams of protein with score 103, more complete protein than hamburger beef with score of 79) and about 800 grams of watermelon. I also ate with the smoothie 5 bananas or 600 grams of banana without peel. This is about 315 grams of carbohydrates. Due to the fiber in banana and cauliflower though, the glucose was only 97 one hour after eating. When i was cooked food vegan, eating 315 grams of carbs in one meal (cooked lentils for example) would give me a much higher glucose, often 140 or even 170-190 rarely. As a raw vegan glucose was never above 140, one hour after eating and 99% of the time below 115, usually below 105. You might have seen raw vegans on youtube who eat 13 bananas (350 grams of carbs) and get a glucose of 98 afterwards - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRbj3n-1CUM. The thing is nobody knows exactly why, but many people cured type 2 diabetes by going raw vegan. Cooked vegan didn't do it, although one kid got rid of type 1 by going vegan, see the end of the post. Type 1 is 10 times less common, but more annoying and harder to cure.
On March 16th 2017, i made a smoothie using about 350 grams of beet, 1000 grams of zucchini, 500 grams of watermelon, 30 grams of ginger and the blood glucose 1 hour afterwards was 93. This is very well within the limit of below 140 1 hour after eating. On March 15th 2017, for the first time ever i made a smoothie from coconut. I mixed it with 4 tomatoes, 1 small beet and a tiny bit of watermelon. It tasted good. I noticed the fatty stuff in the coconut started to form a film of paste on the edges of the food processor. The digestion of the coconut white "meat" is made much easier by a food processor. Coconuts have anti-bacterial properties, so eating them once in a while may be good, it's been months since i ate one. :) For more about the benefits of coconut, see https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/hYLN6LTGoBr. On March 17th, I made the first sweet bell pepper smoothie ever (red, yellow, green ones mixed) and it tasted amazing, try it. You can also add some apple cider vinegar.
On April 12th 2017 i decided to store away my smoothie maker and go more natural (if you eat only smoothies, you don't produce much saliva and some nutritional benefits come from the interaction of mouth bacteria and saliva with the food chemicals), by eating more bananas and less zukini and less watermelon (i used to make a lot of zukini-watermelon smoothies). The problem with zukini is that is has 6 times more water per calorie and if you eat it after noon in the second part of the day you go to bath during night time. Same with watermelon. So, to make raw veganism work perfectly, one needs to eat some low water content fruits like bananas in the second half of the day, especially after 2 pm, or even noon ideally, to avoid interrupting sleep with going to the bath. My plan is to never eat anything too watery after noon, restrict watery fruits and veggies for mornings. Bananas have about the same water content/calorie as cooked lentils, so no big bath trips, if any at night should ensue. The result of eating more bananas and no zukini-watermelon after noon was going to bath only once at night after April 12th, instead of the 3 times i went to usually when eating more watery stuff. This change is really worth for those who are not fans of going to bath too often. On April 12th i ate 5 bananas and glucose was 100 afterwards, 5 bananas have the same calories as 7 pounds of zukini. 100 is way below the 140 concerning level. I ate 8 bananas before and glucose was around 100. Above you can see that on December 14th 2016, i ate 5 bananas and 1050 cauliflower and 800 g of watermelon at once and glucose was 97 afterwards, as huge fiber in cauliflower slows glucose response. There is a youtube guy who ate 12 bananas at once and got glucose 98 afterwards. Many cured diabetes with a raw diet and there is a paper on the fasting glucose levels lowering themselves from 99 to 92 after eating 2-4 bananas in the morning for 4 weeks ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25651610.
Why are raw foods, water and biophotons so important?
The latest hypothesis I have is that MD Batmanghelidj ideas (https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/ENDBEgXRdDP) are at least partially true, i.e. the definition of energy as "calories" is at least partially incorrect. He thinks water is the primary source of energy in living cells MgATP only produces 10 times more energy if there is water around to hydrolyze itself. People might ask why is MgATP so important? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATP_hydrolysis explains that ATP hydrolysis powers our bodies. Without cellular water, there is no energy. MgATP is very important, wikipedia explains "ATP (adenosine triphosphate), the main source of energy in cells, must be bound to a magnesium ion in order to be biologically active. What is called ATP is often actually Mg-ATP. As such, magnesium plays a role in the stability of all polyphosphate compounds in the cells, including those associated with the synthesis of DNA and RNA. Over 300 enzymes require the presence of magnesium ions for their catalytic action, including all enzymes utilizing or synthesizing ATP. Mg2+ is the fourth-most-abundant metal ion in cells (per moles) and the most abundant free divalent cation — as a result, it is deeply and intrinsically woven into cellular metabolism. Indeed, Mg2+-dependent enzymes appear in virtually every metabolic pathway: Specific binding of Mg2+ to biological membranes is frequently observed, Mg2+ is also used as a signalling molecule, and much of nucleic acid biochemistry requires Mg2+, including all reactions that require release of energy from ATP" ► https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium_in_biology
https://youtu.be/iO1K5Zb_hYU is a 4 min clip with testimonials about using water and sea salt to cure cancer and other diseases. Sea salt has 32 trace elements, not just sodium chloride.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5gaTdRv7d0 is a 2.5 min video about a lady who cured a 12 mm cancer tumor via a water fast, see http://watercure2.org for more information.
Nutritional labels could have listed amount of biophotons as a holographic number (a living hologram above the food) that changes, with biophotonic scanners on every aisle of the supermarket. At cellular level, if you got no water, certain hydrolysis reactions that can provide huge energy do not occur, so many calories are not really producing energy but stored as fat or eliminated, wasted due to poor digestion too. Also, if biophotons are lacking, information for cellular coordination across organs is not transmitted at the speed of light and this makes people sluggish and energy-less sometimes even if they eat 4000 calories and other people eat only 1000 with tons of biophotons and water and have far more energy. As such, eating more calories does nothing sometimes, more and more calories past the minimum required normally. Without cellular water and biophotons, there is no energy, that is perhaps why many raw vegans, not knowing this, end up eating 25 bananas daily, since they crave the structured biologically available (not tap water) water that is so scarce in bananas, not so much the sugar or calories. One can have more energy ingesting 1400 calories than ingesting 3500 with tons of bananas. Biochemistry seems to be far more complicated than "standard theories". We got 10 million trillion chemical reactions a SECOND in human bodies and some people think they got it all figured out and every time someone comes with a new theory or hypothesis, they often ridicule them, like with Galileo, the Wright Brothers, World Peace in 2040 or anyway soon dreamers, etc. But hey, one day, every theory is updated. :) That's the beauty of science, it's not dogma. :) Another hint that this WATER AND BIOPHOTONS may play a key role is the cases of people who could fast for years reportedly, or even decades ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/HXWPWBk4Xty.
Another reason biophotons may play a key role is that one doctor did an experiment described in detail at https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/fT8PxFCpNgS. Francis Pottenger, an MD, did an experiment on 900 cats in 1932-1942, feeding some cats mostly cooked meat and pasteurized milk and others raw meat and raw milk. Those eating cooked meat and pasteurized cooked milk became sicker and sicker each generation, had many miscarriages and difficult labors with many cats dying in labor, and at the third generation they became infertile and reached a very short lifespan (getting sick of degenerative diseases early on). This could be due to advanced glycation end products and a lack of biophotons too. The cooked food has much more AGEs (the advanced glycation end products that cause aging and many diseases, including cancer, infertility, diabetes), sometimes 40 times more, homemade french fries got about 40 times more AGEs than boiled potatoes, cooked chicken can have 13 times more than raw chicken, etc. as explained at https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/UrqfoFSEjL1. For example a family had everyone with diabetes, but one guy decided to go vegan and he didn't get diabetes as expected. Environment can turn off gene expression. ► https://www.amazon.com/Pottengers-Prophecy-Resets-Wellness-Illness/dp/1935052330 (you can read the amazon preview for more interesting stuff like it took 4 generations of cats to undo the damage done by 3 generations of bad diet; within 4 months of being put on a cooked meat diet, cats developed mouth infections and lost teeth). More info is also at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_M._Pottenger,_Jr. This raw vegan woman who is in her 70s looks 3 decades younger than her meat eating husband. Could it be that her far lower AGEs and much higher biophoton levels caused a much slower aging? ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gZ4U3V5LEc
By the end of the first generation the cooked meat fed cats started to develop degenerative diseases and became quite lazy. By the end of the second generation, the cats had developed degenerative diseases by mid-life and started losing their coordination. By the end of the third generation the cats had developed degenerative diseases very early in life and some were born blind and weak and had a much shorter life span. Many of the third generation cats couldn't even produce offspring. There was an abundance of parasites and vermin while skin diseases and allergies increased from an incidence of five percent in normal cats to over 90 percent in the third generation of deficient cats. Kittens of the third generation did not survive six months. Bones became soft and pliable and the cats suffered from adverse personality changes. Males became docile while females became more aggressive. The cats suffered from most of the degenerative diseases encountered in human medicine and died out totally by the fourth generation. This has been observed in recent studies done on mice with respect to individual nutrients. Rats exposed to chemicals or foods that raise estrogen levels during pregnancy produce daughters that have a higher than normal risk for breast cancer – and that risk is passed on to the next two generations. This is not due to DNA or genetics, but to environment influencing the expression of genes or due to epigenetics so to speak.
"Biophotons are the body’s “fiber optic” network. If biophotons are lacking, the enzymes are there, but don't know what work they are to do. This is one reason why a high level of biophotons in the body helps the body to regenerate itself. Biophotons are the life force of the body. A healthy newborn emits 200 to 220 biophotons per second per square centimeter. Adults emit 80 to 120. A senior adult will transition from 60, to 20, to 10, and then none. When that happens they die." ► http://www.healthy-vegetable-gardening.com/biophotonstructuredwater.html
Normally i don't eat coconuts or avocados. :) I rarely eat coconuts, a few times a year if that (i ate more in the first days of switching to raw, actually coconuts helped me make the switch, due to changing the digestion dynamics positively).
What some vegans forget is that there are tons of RAW veggies with higher than milk or lentil or beans amino acid score such as: zucchini 89, yellow pepper 86, avocado 129, coconut 87, spinach 119, cauliflower 103, asparagus 91 (kale, cauliflower and asparagus are easy to eat if you blend them, they got a lot of good Methionine-Cysteine that other veggies do not have), kale 92, green leafy lettuce 90, versus 68 for tofu, 44 for miso (fermented tofu), 85 for milk, 25 for soymilk.
Protein quality is key, since otherwise, you need to eat a lot more to get the missing aminoacid. And lentils or beans alone are more complete than lentils plus a grain or beans plus rice, contrary to the popular myth perpetrated by whoever since 1950s, as I explained at https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/DPagLPDS4wQ.
Zucchini has 7.5 grams of protein per 100 calories, higher protein quality than cooked lentils which have 7.75 grams of protein per 100 calories. Not to mention, far more biophotons and hydrating water. Raw Vegans often wonder - what am I going to eat to get protein?
Yellow bell pepper has score of 86, higher than milk, and 3.7 grams of protein per 100 calories. Spinach has 12.5 grams of protein per 100 calories with score 119, way higher than milk 85. Kale has 6.6 grams of protein per 100 calories with amino acid score of 92. raw broccoli has 8.4 grams of protein per 100 calories with amino acid score of 83. Spinach, kale kill the plant if eaten and are impossible to eat raw in large amounts due to oxalate in spinach and goitrogens for all cruciferous veggies. Cauliflower has 7.9 grams of protein (score 103) per 100 calories, but it has goitrogens raw, so only can eat it in small amounts daily - 1-2 pound or less probably, to be safe - but it depends. And cruciferous veggies are far harder to digest and eat than the other stuff like zukini which is ultra soft and easy to digest in comparison and has more water and biophotons per calorie. Advantage of broccoli and cauliflower though is that they don't kill the plant and have far fewer pesticides than zukini, spinach, kale, however, zukini can be peeled to remove 90% of pesticides. (that applies for apples and cucumbers too, 90% of pesticide are in the peel). Cauliflower has less pesticides than broccoli, but far lower than most veggies.
*Zucchini has 7.5 grams of high quality protein score 89 (higher than milk) per 100 calories and more water than tomatoes to hydrate the body, (cow milk has 5.3 grams of protein of score 85 per 100 calories - totally inferior to zucchini - almost zero biophotons and far less water/calorie), cooked lentils have 7.75 grams of protein of score 86 per 100 calories but zero biophotons and zero hydrating water, tomatoes have 5 grams of protein score 52 (so you need to eat a lot more to get some amino acids) per 100 cal. Watermelon has 2 grams of protein per 100 calories, while bananas have 1.2 grams of protein per 100 calories. Banana protein score is 62, watermelon 52, but both are very incomplete. Watermelon has more photons, hydrates more, has more protein, even adjusted for lower score, so watermelon wins among all common fruits by far for biophotons and hydration, but is inferior to tomatoes and zucchini. No other sweet non-tomato fruit comes close in water, biophoton and protein per calorie content. All fruits are way behind zucchini, which beats tomatoes big time in quality and quantity of protein and milk in quantity of protein. Zukini is really amazing, if you eat a lot of it, you get almost all Ca, Mg, Iron needed too, the rest from other foods or your multivitamin pill. Oxalate (which forms kidney stones if overeaten in some people who cannot eliminate it) in zukini is 20 mg/100 grams or among the lowest (https://www.ars.usda.gov/Main/docs.htm?docid=9444) as you can see at the USDA list, 2.5 times lower than tomatoes, same as cucumber, lower than virtually all of the listed foods, except sweet corn and coriander. What's shocking is carrots have 25 times more oxalate, spinach 50 times more, broccoli 10 times more, beans 18 times more, cauliflower 8 times more, collards 23 times more, lettuce 18 times more, potato 12 times more, peppers 2 times more. All common veggies have far more than zukini, so to avoid kidney stones, zukini is ideal. Zukini also has omega 3 to omega 6 in ratio almost 2:1, unlike tomato 1: 27, avocado 1:17, etc. Cauliflower has 7.9 g protein/100 calories, less pesticides, less oxalate, higher 103 protein score versus 8.4 g protein/100 cal and 83 protein score for broccoli. Usable protein is actually higher, due to much higher score, even if amount is 7.9 vs 8.4. Zukini has 7.5g/100 calories but score is 89, not 103 as cauliflower. When you run out of zukini, cauliflower in a blender pureed is a great alternative. We cannot eat 2 lb of RAW cauliflower daily for 1 year as we may develop thyroid issues (especially if not taking iodine containing multivitamin), BUT EVEN THAT IS NOT PROVEN to happen in most people - there was one case reported of a lady eating 2-3 pounds of bok choy for 6 months and having some issues (of low Iodine) which ended when she stopped eating bok choy. In people with good iodine intake from iodized salt or multivitamin or sea veggies, cruciferous goitrogens are less problematic. The other problem with cauliflower is 8 times more oxalate than zukini, so it's not wise to eat a lot daily, same with broccoli, 10 times more oxalate than zukini. Yet cauliflower has 2.7 times more vitamin C than zukini per 100 grams and 1.7 times more per 100 calories, broccoli 5.2 times more vitamin C than zukini per 100 grams (2.4 times per 100 calories).
OMEGA 3 IN VEGGIES:
100 grams of raw broccoli has 21 mg omega 3, and 17 mg omega 6 for raw. cauliflower got 37 mg omega 3 and 11 mg omega 6 in the best ratio out there: 3.4 to 1. I don't think there is any vegetable that has such a perfect ratio. omega 3:omega 6 ratio of 1:1 in raw broccoli is highly anti-inflammatory, but cauliflower 3.4 to 1 is the best. Zukini has 47 mg omega 3 versus 28 mg omega 6 or 1.7 to 1 (http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2639/2), way better than broccoli. Walnuts, one of the most popular sources of omega 3, have a paltry ratio of omega 3 to omega 6 of 1:4, but better than all other nuts. I never eat nuts, nobody needs nuts to be healthy. Tomatoes have only 3 mg omega 3 and 80 mg omega 6, onions 4 mg omega 3 and 13 mg omega 6, peeled cucumber 2 mg omega 3 and 2 mg omega 6, unpeeled cucumber 5 mg omega 3 and 28 mg omega 6, so virtually no omega 3 in these common veggies used in salads. Raw kale has 180 mg omega 3 and 138 mg omega 6, but most people eat very little raw kale, due to taste and difficulty in chewing. Avocados are a very inflammatory food in a way, since omega 3 is just 110 mg and omega 6 is 1700 mg, a ratio of 1:17, which is a known trigger of disease. Most nuts have way more omega 6 than omega 3, with the exception of chia seeds and flax seeds. Red bell pepper has 8 times more beta carotene than green bell pepper one and also omega 3 fat 25 mg, omega 6 45 mg per 100 grams, better than watermelon (no omega 3 and 50 mg omega 6). Cantaloupe has 46 mg omega 3 and 35 mg omega 6, awesome ratio, and almost 7 times more beta-carotene than watermelon and more than red bell pepper. Watermelon has thousands of times more lycopene than cantaloupe though. Cantaloupe has far less pesticide than red bell pepper though, especially if it's from USA (the Mexico ones usually have more pesticides, since there is less regulation as explained at http://www.sdearthtimes.com/et0996/et0996s5.html - read the label on where it is from). Pineapple got 17 mg of omega 3 and 23 mg omega 6 in 100 grams. Besides protein score of 81, higher than all fruits, except kiwi 105. Banana is a really low quality protein score 62.
LYCOPENE, BETA CAROTENE, PESTICIDES, OXALATE
A lot of tomatoes (especially from Mexico) have far more pesticides than US (even Mexico) watermelon and cantaloupe. The reason is that the rind of watermelon absorbs all pesticides, while tomatoes we eat the skin and the skin lets pesticides go in. Watermelon has almost double the lycopene of tomatoes per 100 grams, cantaloupe has 5 times more beta carotene than tomatoes per 100 grams (7 times more than watermelon), so it makes more sense for some people (sensitive to tomato lectins) to no longer eat low-medium oxalate tomatoes (2.5 times higher than zukini), as they can also irritate the intestine if overeaten and have very bad omega 3 to omega 6 ratio of 1:27. Cantaloupe has more beta carotene than all bell peppers, one of the most pesticide contaminated conventional produce. Cantaloupe and watermelon are more alkaline. The beauty of research is that for anything you are allergic to or don't want to eat, there is an alternate veggie or fruit that has it. The issue with a lot of tomatoes is they are the only raw veggie with a significant amount of lectins, known irritants of certain people's digestive tract. Because of that, a few people can get acne or "leaky gut" episodes if they overeat tomatoes. But many people have no problem with eating tomatoes. See http://www.pkdiet.com/pdf/LowOxalateDiet.pdf for more oxalate listings.
200 grams of chia seeds have 15 grams of protein (amino acid score 115), a medium avocado has 4-7 grams of protein of higher quality than soy even (score is 129), depending on how small or big medium it is. The huge avocados can have 12 grams of protein each, or 25% of the daily need of most people. One big mature coconut got 16 grams of protein of score 87, higher than lentils.
IMPORTANT NOTE ON RIPENING OF FRUITS AND VEGGIES
Avocados are often hard like a rock and take weeks to ripen if ever. If you want them to ripen in 24-48 hours, place all avocados in a closed paper bag (not plastic bag, since paper allows oxygen inside a little) and place the bag in a warmer room (not the fridge), so ethylene (released by avocados) is concentrating in the bag. Avocados, bananas and many other fruits (apples, apricots, cantaloupes, honeydew melons, kiwis, mangoes, nectarines, prunes, papayas, peaches, pears, plums, tomatoes) release ethene (or ethylene as it is called by some) CH2=CH2 in the ripening process and ripe much faster in the presence of ethylene (which is used commercially to ripen some of these fruits). Actually lots of plants do that. So, when the bag concentrates ethylene, it increases the ripening speed by 50 times even. Left in a room in the open, the concentration of the ripening hormone (ethylene) is too small and many people trash unripe avocados which don't ripen fast enough, not knowing how easy is to ripen. That's why if you store a lot of tomatoes in a bag in the fridge, since ethylene concentrates, it will cause those tomatoes to go bad, whereas if you left the tomatoes in the open in a cool place outside of the fridge they can last longer since the ethylene did not concentrate and did not cause them to go ripe ultra fast. ► http://postharvest.tfrec.wsu.edu/pages/PC2000F
Ethylene gas is used commercially to ripen tomatoes, bananas, pears, etc. That's why banana peels are super loaded with ethylene and bananas too and adding any ripe banana or ethylene producing fruit to the avocado bag help avocados ripen faster. Also, the more avocados in the bag, the more ethylene generated, the faster they ripen. Once ripe, you can take them out of the bag and start eating them to prevent them going over ripe. Ethylene has been called the aging hormone of plants, and many fruits and veggies go bad really fast in the presence of ethylene so ethylene sensitive fruits and veggies need be stored away from ethylene producing fruits and veggies to maximize shelf or fridge life. Ethylene-producing fruits (those that are ripening way faster in a closed paper bag) are avocados, bananas, Apricots, Cantaloupes Honeydew melons, Kiwis, Mangoes, Nectarines, Papayas, Peaches, Pears, Plums, Tomatoes. Ethylene damaged (they go bad way faster if around ethylene producing fruits in closed spaces like the fridge) fruits-veggies are: Asparagus Broccoli Carrots Cucumbers Eggplants Green beans Lettuce and other greens Potatoes Zucchini Summer squash Mexican Squash Watermelons. The idea is to never place ethylene producing and ethylene sensitive fruits in the same closed bag unless you will eat them really soon. :) For more info, you can also read http://www.vegetariantimes.com/article/spoiled-rotten-how-to-store-fruits-and-vegetables and http://shelflifeadvice.com/content/ethylene-and-produce-friends-or-foes.
CLEANING THE COLON
Enema bags are only 1 dollar each and they are very useful in removing bad bacteria that cause gas, bloating or pain. Doing an enema takes only a few minutes, but the effects are amazing. It will remove all bloating and/or gas hours or days earlier than it would naturally take for the system to return to normal. The health of our digestive tract and colon is so critical to our health, that doing enemas is actually a very good idea from the point of view of preventive medicine. We do teeth cleanings every 6 months, we clean our mouth daily with toothbrush, or some people do, but we never do regular colon cleansing. If you try to go MOSTLY RAW vegan or even normal vegan, you will sometimes discover some foods are not for you as you experiment with them, giving you gas and/or bloating, so you can do an enema and return to a bloating/gas free state in 1 hour instead of waiting a week in the worst case. Amazon has a ton of enema bags, like this one for 5 dollars, you get 4 and these can be reused, just use anti-bacterial spray after washing it ► https://www.amazon.com/Enema-Kit-Bag-Pack-Kits/dp/B00JFYOU6M. 90% of serotonin, the happiness neurotransmitter, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotonin is made in the intestines, so we really need to have optimal intestinal health. :) 10% is made in the central nervous system. A toxic colon can aggravate a lot of diseases, not just acne or things that are obvious - toxins going into bloodstream, but even how clear is our thinking, since toxins going to the brain will cloud thinking.
IF YOU ARE A GUY that has a very physically demanding job THE INFO ON GRAINS BELOW MAY BE OF USE IF YOU CANNOT REACH DAILY PROTEIN REQUIREMENT USING FRUITS AND VEGGIES due to too many trips to the bath or whatever:
THE DENSEST (per weight, not per calorie) SOURCES OF PROTEIN (but also of lectins and anti-nutrients that cause acne and digestion problems in some people) FOR A RAW VEGAN (some people with leaky gut may not be able to eat these soaked grains, unless they are sprouted - I only ate soaked buckwheat and some raw one once in my life, but rolled oats a few times - you don't need grains to get all protein - but if you can digest them well, feel free to eat them - the saponins, lectins and other things in them make it hard for some) - eaten as is or added to smoothies after soaking
Buckwheat can be eaten raw without soaking (13.2 grams of protein in 100 grams), the only grain you can eat raw. Soaking makes digestion easier though, and activates phytase, the enzyme that breaks down phytic acid. Too much phytic acid is potentially causing some loss of mineral absorption in some people, but this "phytic acid is bad" is a little controversial. Buckwheat amino acid score is 99, excellent. Whole oats can be soaked and eaten raw too after soaking (17 grams of protein in 100 grams, score for soaked is somewhere between 81 and 95) if you want to be totally raw and avoid the steam processing of rolled oats that inactivates enzymes. Raw oats have 30% more protein in 100 grams than rolled oats, and have all enzymes and biophotons intact. You can also soak oat bran, score 86 or rye, score 80, and get a lot of protein that way too - if you don't like eating a lot of veggies. Adding 300 grams of watermelon to 100 grams of oats or rye increases the protein score dramatically, since it adds the missing Lysine. Also, amaranth has a score of 108, but 2.8 times the omega 6 in buckwheat. Quinoa has 3.1 times the omega 6 in buckwheat and 50% more C16-C24 saturated fat than buckwheat, so buckwheat seems the best. Oats also have double the C16-C24 saturated fat in buckwheat, amaranth triple the level in buckwheat and this fat is harming the pancreas' insulin producing cells. Rye has the same level of omega 6 as buckwheat, but is half the price of buckwheat and has 35% less C16-C24 saturated fat. The bulk section of Whole Foods or other stores have all these raw. Never buy any toasted buckwheat if you want to be 100% raw, since it's not raw anymore, as toasting destroys biophotons and degrades some fats. Some people cannot digest grains well even if soaked due to certain compounds in them, so if they want to be 90-100% raw, they will need look at the non-grain protein sources. Asparagus has 11 grams of protein in 100 calories, zukini 7.5 grams, Kale got 6.6 grams, broccoli 8.4, cauliflower 8, spinach 12.5. Spinach and cruciferous veggies have goitrogens and oxalate, so zukini, with 6.5 times less oxalate than asparagus, is better. Buckwheat has 3.85 grams of protein in 100 calories. Asparagus and many veggies have no saponins, lectins and all the other stuff grains and legumes have that irritate the GI tract of certain people.
For those who don't care about being 100% raw, 300 grams of rolled oats cost just 70 cents and provide 40 grams of protein of score 95, higher than hamburger beef score of 79, better protein quality. 300 grams of dry oats that have been soaked after weighing the 300 grams provide 51 grams of protein of score 81 or higher if soaked more than 2 hours. 300 grams of raw buckwheat provide 40 grams of protein of score 99 and it's 100% raw, less moldy and safer for digestion. Those with diabetes or pre-diabetes could benefit a lot if they avoid quick oats as the quick oats glycemic index is 66, versus 55 for rolled oats and 40 for soaked raw oats. The more processing the higher the glycemic index. Anyone who asks around for cheap produce stores will discover than being vegan or raw vegan or mostly raw vegan can be 3 times cheaper than being a meat eater. Just 100-150 dollar a month in America, a fraction of what some spend.
►► TESTIMONIALS ABOUT RAW VEGANISM ◄◄
Raw Vegan foods hydrate the body really well, water that can carry poisons out of the body, besides providing biophotons, enzymes and many phytonutrients - all destroyed by cooking, freezing and even pressure high temp steaming. :) Freezing is not as bad as cooking, but quite bad.
CURING DIABETES:
Type 1 DIABETES was cured with only a Gluten-Free diet - insulin was never needed. ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3387460/ - BMJ Case Rep. 2012 Jun 21;2012. (Dr Vikki Petersen explains more about this study in this 3 min clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnLotUtY9H8)
Type 2 DIABETES gone in 2 weeks after raw veganism ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/NwLHtVr8PYk
San Francisco people reversing DIABETES with raw foods ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/bCgYSVahFB9
Colon cancer, DIABETES, 230 pound loss with raw vegan diet ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/Cdw1o7RCXk5
80 year old man reverses DIABETES with raw vegan foods ►
https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/dZDF7pM8ZgU
Cured DIABETES with Raw Vegan diet in 30 days, A1c dropped from 9.2 to 7, LDL from 146 to 99, lost 27 pounds, stopped taking meds ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/FX5ndcdUhmv
Type 1 DIABETES cured by cell transplant ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/P4txVgxGGJP
Type 1 DIABETIC off insulin via mostly raw, but some cooked, vegan foods ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/488qG8vTYrd
Type 1 DIABETES reversed via gamma-aminobutryic acid ► http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/286121.php (see also this post https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/XoLZ8mN8p3v about turning off diabetes and the Gabriel Cousens MD book on curing diabetes with raw foods - https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/awzhNTuPc8i)
CURING CANCER:
Prostate CANCER healed by raw veganism ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/QgdvmgxncvK
Brain CANCER cured with raw foods ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/Q1tfN8wGERv
Colon CANCER cured with raw vegan diet ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/hiCPzFDKb9m
Blood CANCER (leukemia) cured with a mostly raw vegetarian diet ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/LCxgoYq1egq
CURING MANY OTHER DISEASES:
Chronic fatigue and proctitis gone with a raw vegan diet ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/5UYKWZ3HS5N
Autism cured by mostly raw vegan diet ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/3VsCdw916Gg
Rheumatoid Arthritis cured by raw vegan diet ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/ZJy5v62eK6c.
Epileptic seizures, extremely low energy, depression healed by 6 months of raw veganism ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/gSdFg1jzcZQ
Eczema disappeared via raw veganism ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/5pBfR1qjRqz and https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/ZACghmFSMam and https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/hPVxakNhKcD
Fibromyalgia, arthritis, depression, extra weight all gone via raw veganism ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/QrNowtWosvp
Multiple Sclerosis and losing 135 pounds via raw veganism ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReP6DCUMIAs
Depression cured with raw vegan foods ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/Apc9MGwxZvm
Lupus cured with raw vegan foods, after 90 days her blood looked like that of a 16 year old and she was so changed, that she started a raw vegan restaurant ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/StbATUFrFYg
Hypothyroidism cured with a vegan diet ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/6vsvaam2cqq
Asthma cured with a vegan diet ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/4MasYbfu4tu
Vegan Lady loses 125 pounds by going raw vegan ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/TqNx53Mdd8A (Philip lost 215 lb by going raw vegan from meat eating ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/8V7BUKbreLN)
Crohn's disease cured via raw veganism ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/HFcxh8JRb81
Lose 240 lb in 9 months and 4 other dramatic weight losses ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/EtjYcVqazep
Celiac disease gone after raw veganism ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/RB8zPKpF2cB
Candida gone plus amazing energy on raw vegan diet ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/6WALv7mucYB
Raw vegan athlete eating 90% fruits and 10% veggies can run 150 miles ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/ZpWatckhx6D
74 year old raw vegan looks decades younger ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/1p8WJQFXSqG
75 year old raw vegan looks decades younger ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/1ZMrPnQoWcw
► VEGANISM ◄
For 100+ reasons I didn't eat meat for 21 years and dairy for 13 years (12% of millennials have already given up meat in America) see ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/2Z1fCnTHWbh. Going vegan is like planting 62 trees in your backyard, as far as CO2 emissions reduction.💜😊💜
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Study found that over 20 years only, prostate cancer deaths increased 13 times in South Korea. As the Koreans ate 8.5 times more animal protein, their prostate cancer death rates went really high, as you can read in the "Results" section of the abstract at ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16741923 ► Prostate. 2006 Sep 1;66(12):1285-91, where it says "Prostate cancer mortality increased 12.7-fold over a 20-year period." or in the video https://youtu.be/41JE3tO3Ux8. Studies show that vegans have the lowest rates of prostate cancer due to eating foods known to decrease risk such as tomatoes, broccoli, unfermented soy, etc and avoiding foods known to increase risk such as dairy and meat.
The higher the intake of dairy, the higher the prostate cancer rate ► http://www.pcrm.org/health/health-topics/milk-and-prostate-cancer-the-evidence-mounts. See a recent review of studies at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25527754
US had 14000 prostate cancer deaths in 1958, Japan, with half the population, had 18. Difference was Japanese diet in 1958 had almost no meat and no dairy - just a bit of fish and mostly rice, and fermented soy products. :)
Animal and human studies show the more protein, the more cancer:
Cornell Research showed 6% (of dietary calories) casein (milk protein) fed rats were healthier, bigger and has less cancer than 14% casein fed rats, who were worse than 22% casein fed rats. ► http://carcin.oxfordjournals.org/content/13/9/1607.full.pdf+html - full paper - Carcinogenesis (1992) 13 (9): 1607-1613
High protein diet brings risk of kidney stones ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1169452/ - BMJ. 2002 Aug 24; 325(7361): 408.
Eating more protein than dietary guidelines (common for millions of people) leads to cancer, osteoporosis, kidney stones, coronary disease ► http://www.hindawi.com/journals/isrn/2013/126929/ - ISRN Nutrition, Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 126929
6 fold increase in the number of tumor causing foci with 4 times more milk protein ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6131741 - Cancer Res. 1983 May;43(5):2150-4
4 times more cancer in rats fed 20% of calories with animal protein versus just 5% of calories with animal protein ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6128727 - Nutr Cancer. 1982;3(4):200-6.
Cornell Professor Colin Campbell has shown that tumor growth in rats was greatly enhanced by diets containing >10% animal protein (casein, 87% of the milk protein is casein) and was completely repressed with either 5% animal protein or even >20% plant protein at ANY STAGE OF TUMOR DEVELOPMENT ► http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/85/6/1667.full - Am J Clin Nutr June 2007, vol. 85 no. 6 1667
It used to be the guidelines called for 100 grams of protein daily, then it got moved to about 50. Dental fillings were made with lead, quinone, a poison, was medicine. Science changes. Baby grows fast and human milk has very little protein 1%. Most people in industrialized countries eat too much protein. Interestingly in cancer cell studies animal protein alone increased cancer rate, not vegetable protein.
The China Study of 0.88 billion people found that meat and dairy cause cancer. It was the largest study ever on diet and cancer. The more animal protein, the more cancer growth - peer reviewed papers. 87% of protein in milk is casein and in studies it was shown that casein turns on cancer while soy and vegan protein does not. Kenya had 82 times less breast cancer in 1970 than USA, possibly due to much less meat and dairy in the diet.
The World Health Organization has ruled that bacon, sausages, hot dogs cause cancer, while beef, pork, veal and lamb are "probably carcinogenic" ► http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/10/26/451211964/bad-day-for-bacon-processed-red-meats-cause-cancer-says-who
Increased risk of breast cancer for women who eat meat daily compared to less than once a week: 3.8 times
For women who eat eggs daily compared to once a week: 2.8 times
For women who eat butter and cheese 2-4 times a week: 3.25 times
Increased risk of fatal ovarian cancer for women who eat eggs 3 or more times a week vs. less than once a week: 3 times
Increased risk of fatal prostate cancer for men who consume meat, cheese, eggs and milk daily vs. sparingly or not at all: 3.6 times.
Latinas eating bacon and Caucasians eating tuna have increased breast cancer risk according to a February 2016 study in Cancer Causes and Control Journal ► https://news.usc.edu/92558/processed-meat-may-increase-the-risk-of-breast-cancer-for-latinas-usc-study-finds/
VEGANS can have 3 times lower rate of OVARIAN CANCER ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/5ozBdZZRrbm
According to Harvard researchers, when dairy intake exceeds the enzymes’ capacity to break down galactose, it can build up in the blood and damage the ovaries. Women with low levels of these enzymes have triple the risk of ovarian cancer when they consume dairy. ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2567871
► VEGANISM ◄
For 100+ reasons I didn't eat meat for 21 years and dairy for 13 years (12% of millennials have already given up meat in America) see ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/2Z1fCnTHWbh. Going vegan is like planting 62 trees in your backyard, as far as CO2 emissions reduction.💜😊💜
🎶🎶🎶😊😉🎵🎵 🎼😊😉💚💜☀️🎵🎶🎶🎶💚💜☀️🎼 🎵🎵💚💜☀️🎶🎶🎼😊😉💚💜🎶☀️🎇 🌠🌠🎇🌠😊😉🌠🎇🎇😊😉🌠🌠😊😉☀️ 💛💙💚💜💜😊😉🌈🌈😊😉💜💜💜
The higher the intake of dairy, the higher the prostate cancer rate ► http://www.pcrm.org/health/health-topics/milk-and-prostate-cancer-the-evidence-mounts. See a recent review of studies at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25527754
US had 14000 prostate cancer deaths in 1958, Japan, with half the population, had 18. Difference was Japanese diet in 1958 had almost no meat and no dairy - just a bit of fish and mostly rice, and fermented soy products. :)
Animal and human studies show the more protein, the more cancer:
Cornell Research showed 6% (of dietary calories) casein (milk protein) fed rats were healthier, bigger and has less cancer than 14% casein fed rats, who were worse than 22% casein fed rats. ► http://carcin.oxfordjournals.org/content/13/9/1607.full.pdf+html - full paper - Carcinogenesis (1992) 13 (9): 1607-1613
High protein diet brings risk of kidney stones ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1169452/ - BMJ. 2002 Aug 24; 325(7361): 408.
Eating more protein than dietary guidelines (common for millions of people) leads to cancer, osteoporosis, kidney stones, coronary disease ► http://www.hindawi.com/journals/isrn/2013/126929/ - ISRN Nutrition, Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 126929
6 fold increase in the number of tumor causing foci with 4 times more milk protein ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6131741 - Cancer Res. 1983 May;43(5):2150-4
4 times more cancer in rats fed 20% of calories with animal protein versus just 5% of calories with animal protein ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6128727 - Nutr Cancer. 1982;3(4):200-6.
Cornell Professor Colin Campbell has shown that tumor growth in rats was greatly enhanced by diets containing >10% animal protein (casein, 87% of the milk protein is casein) and was completely repressed with either 5% animal protein or even >20% plant protein at ANY STAGE OF TUMOR DEVELOPMENT ► http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/85/6/1667.full - Am J Clin Nutr June 2007, vol. 85 no. 6 1667
It used to be the guidelines called for 100 grams of protein daily, then it got moved to about 50. Dental fillings were made with lead, quinone, a poison, was medicine. Science changes. Baby grows fast and human milk has very little protein 1%. Most people in industrialized countries eat too much protein. Interestingly in cancer cell studies animal protein alone increased cancer rate, not vegetable protein.
The China Study of 0.88 billion people found that meat and dairy cause cancer. It was the largest study ever on diet and cancer. The more animal protein, the more cancer growth - peer reviewed papers. 87% of protein in milk is casein and in studies it was shown that casein turns on cancer while soy and vegan protein does not. Kenya had 82 times less breast cancer in 1970 than USA, possibly due to much less meat and dairy in the diet.
The World Health Organization has ruled that bacon, sausages, hot dogs cause cancer, while beef, pork, veal and lamb are "probably carcinogenic" ► http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/10/26/451211964/bad-day-for-bacon-processed-red-meats-cause-cancer-says-who
Increased risk of breast cancer for women who eat meat daily compared to less than once a week: 3.8 times
For women who eat eggs daily compared to once a week: 2.8 times
For women who eat butter and cheese 2-4 times a week: 3.25 times
Increased risk of fatal ovarian cancer for women who eat eggs 3 or more times a week vs. less than once a week: 3 times
Increased risk of fatal prostate cancer for men who consume meat, cheese, eggs and milk daily vs. sparingly or not at all: 3.6 times.
Latinas eating bacon and Caucasians eating tuna have increased breast cancer risk according to a February 2016 study in Cancer Causes and Control Journal ► https://news.usc.edu/92558/processed-meat-may-increase-the-risk-of-breast-cancer-for-latinas-usc-study-finds/
VEGANS can have 3 times lower rate of OVARIAN CANCER ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/5ozBdZZRrbm
According to Harvard researchers, when dairy intake exceeds the enzymes’ capacity to break down galactose, it can build up in the blood and damage the ovaries. Women with low levels of these enzymes have triple the risk of ovarian cancer when they consume dairy. ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2567871
► VEGANISM ◄
For 100+ reasons I didn't eat meat for 21 years and dairy for 13 years (12% of millennials have already given up meat in America) see ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/2Z1fCnTHWbh. Going vegan is like planting 62 trees in your backyard, as far as CO2 emissions reduction.💜😊💜
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Studies show pigs are smarter than dogs at least from some points of view ► http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3122303/Move-Lassie-IQ-tests-reveal-pigs-outsmart-dogs-chimpanzees.html.
Pigs dream and see in color. - and astral travel too like dogs. :) For more on astral travel learning from pigs, dogs and all species, you can go to ►
Pigs outperform 3-year-old human children on cognition tests and are smarter than any domestic animal, and animal experts consider them more trainable than cats or dogs.
Pigs are naturally slender. They only become fat when humans overfeed them.
Pigs are sociable. They like to cuddle and snuggle up, nose to nose, with one another as they sleep.
In the wild, pigs live in matriarchal societies, as elephants do.
Pigs can be picky eaters: When given the same food, even a favorite one, such as melon or banana, over and over, they will soon set them aside and eat their other food first. When pigs are offered a new food, they don’t gobble it right up, as a dog might, but sniff at it delicately as they decide whether or not to try a nibble.
Pigs are hygienic. When given the chance, they are more particular about their sanitary behavior than most dogs. They will not, unless locked inside a factory-farm cage, defecate anywhere near their living space.
Pigs roll in mud to cool down and ward off parasites and sunburn, just as elephants do.
► VEGANISM ◄
For 100+ reasons I didn't eat meat for 21 years and dairy for 13 years (12% of millennials have already given up meat in America) see ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/2Z1fCnTHWbh. Going vegan is like planting 62 trees in your backyard, as far as CO2 emissions reduction.💜😊💜
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Pigs dream and see in color. - and astral travel too like dogs. :) For more on astral travel learning from pigs, dogs and all species, you can go to ►
Pigs outperform 3-year-old human children on cognition tests and are smarter than any domestic animal, and animal experts consider them more trainable than cats or dogs.
Pigs are naturally slender. They only become fat when humans overfeed them.
Pigs are sociable. They like to cuddle and snuggle up, nose to nose, with one another as they sleep.
In the wild, pigs live in matriarchal societies, as elephants do.
Pigs can be picky eaters: When given the same food, even a favorite one, such as melon or banana, over and over, they will soon set them aside and eat their other food first. When pigs are offered a new food, they don’t gobble it right up, as a dog might, but sniff at it delicately as they decide whether or not to try a nibble.
Pigs are hygienic. When given the chance, they are more particular about their sanitary behavior than most dogs. They will not, unless locked inside a factory-farm cage, defecate anywhere near their living space.
Pigs roll in mud to cool down and ward off parasites and sunburn, just as elephants do.
► VEGANISM ◄
For 100+ reasons I didn't eat meat for 21 years and dairy for 13 years (12% of millennials have already given up meat in America) see ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/2Z1fCnTHWbh. Going vegan is like planting 62 trees in your backyard, as far as CO2 emissions reduction.💜😊💜
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resharing this post because i added a few reasons for being vegan, now we got over 65 reasons :)
Bill Gates went vegan. If we would be vegan, we could have 90 billion inhabitants. Beef uses 150 times the water, 200 times the land, 160 times the emissions of legumes per protein calorie. Below are 65+ reasons why I and many other millions of people did not eat meat for 21 years and no dairy for 13 years (12% of millennials have already given up meat in America):
1. The Survival of Humanity Argument
Veganism reduces greenhouse gas emissions, which is key to preventing ocean acidification. If the ocean is too acidic, plankton dies and with that 50-80% of the oxygen we breathe is gone, making life impossible ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/gwKRRDiX3nc
2. The Hunger Argument
Number of people worldwide who will die as a result of malnutrition this year: 20 million
Number of people who could be adequately fed using land freed if Americans reduced their intake of meat by 10%: 100 million
Percentage of corn grown in the U.S. eaten by people: 20
Percentage of corn grown in the U.S. eaten by livestock: 80
Percentage of oats grown in the U.S. eaten by livestock: 95
Percentage of protein wasted by cycling grain through livestock: 90
How frequently a child dies as a result of malnutrition: every 2.3 seconds
Pounds of potatoes that can be grown on an acre: 40,000
Pounds of beef produced on an acre: 250
Percentage of U.S. farmland devoted to beef production: 56
Pounds of grain and soybeans needed to produce a pound of edible flesh from feedlot beef: 16
3. The Heart Disease Argument
Vegans have lowest rate of heart disease and low fat low sugar vegan diets have been used extensively by many doctors to reverse heart disease in patients ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/5VAwFvKttav.
https://nutritionj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12937-016-0147-z ► Nutrition Journal201615:35 ► also found problems with beta casein A1 found in most milk. A 2003 paper found that in rabbits, not humans, A1 beta casein (most USA milk) produces atherosclerosis, while A2 beta casein does not ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12957678 ► Atherosclerosis. 2003 Sep;170(1):13-9. Yet, a human tiny study, in 2006, found no atherosclerosis marker difference ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16298373. There was association between ischemic heart disease and A1 milk ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12601419 ► N Z Med J. 2003 Jan 24;116(1168):U295. This Nutrients. 2015 Sep; 7(9): 7285–7297. free paper at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4586534/ explains the hypothesis that casein A2 (sheep milk, human milk, goat milk) is safer.
4. The Type 2 Diabetes Argument
Vegans have the lowest diabetes rates, 2 times less than vegetarians and 4 times less than meat eaters ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/5eoqyiX13p8. See in this post how to reverse diabetes with a vegan diet. To measure your own glucose at home for years with a $28 kit, see https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/5ocD2zDyUkW. You can test your levels 1 hour after eating different foods and determine which among the foods you eat give you the best level, conducive to 110 year lifespan (centenarians have lower than average blood glucose). Cow milk causes Type 1 Diabetes sometimes ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/5VVB1tPWG1d. Vegans have lower A1c (reflects average blood glucose) than meat eaters, and thus less brain shrinkage than meat eaters ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/MiF6H8kmozR. Heavy meat eaters are 73 times more likely to die from diabetes compared to vegans, while moderate ones are 23 times more likely to die from diabetes compared to vegans ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/5HaxDi5VAoj. What is really shocking is that even those who eat 30 times less meat than a "moderate American meat eater"- such as the omnivore Taiwanese, are 4 times more likely to have diabetes than Taiwanese vegans ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/CCv8sGetiRr. Thus even a tiny bit of meat can quadruple your risk of diabetes.
50000 people study found that VEGANS have 4 times less diabetes than meat eaters and 2 times less than vegetarians ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3638849/ (full free paper - Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis. 2013 Apr; 23(4): 292–299). Cases of diabetes developed in 0.54% of vegans, 1.08% of lacto ovo vegetarians, 1.29% of pesco vegetarians, 0.92% of semi-vegetarians and 2.12% of non-vegetarians.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211383512000834 - Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B - Volume 2, Issue 4, August 2012, Pages 396–402 - found that only LONG CHAIN, greater than 14, saturated fat is toxic to the insulin producing beta cells. Most fat in animal products is C15-C24, the one that damages the beta cells.
5. The Obesity Argument
Vegans are the only group with a healthy BMI, body-mass index on average, being the thinnest group of all. With 2 billion people overweight, it is essential for people to think about going vegan ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/FKuTRJFy5tD.
6. The Alzheimer and Dementia Argument
Vegans are 2-3 times less likely to get dementia and Alzheimer compared to meat eaters ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/eD2Sa4Qz57V.
7. PREVENT OSTEOPOROSIS, Acidosis and Achieve 10 TIMES Lower Risk of Fracture ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/N29AnqZKfex (this post also lists 8 common vegan foods with more absorbable calcium than milk per 100 grams).
Countries with highest milk consumption have 5-10 times the fracture rate of low milk and dairy countries ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3421108/figure/Fig1/. Read the whole paper for more Figures https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3421108/, Osteoporos Int. 2012 Sep;23(9):2239-56.. Tunisia (1.9%), Ecuador (2.5%), Philippines (4.8%) and China (5.4%), Denmark (23%), Sweden (21%), Norway (19%) and Switzerland (18%)
The Harvard Nurses’ Health Study followed more than 77,000 women for 12 years and showed drinking more milk daily was linked to 45% more hip fractures, and the more milk the more fractures. ► FREE paper ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1380936/ ► Am J Public Health 1997;87:992-7.
Positive PRAL foods, like milk, increase urinary Calcium, they also increase absorbed calcium, at least in some people. ► free paper ► J. Nutr. 141: 391–397, 2011. ► https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/58217/PDF . The real concern here is that if high PRAL diet lacks enough extra calcium to absorb to compensate for the loss in urine (calcium loss used to neutralize acid in the body), then it will cause bone loss as some studies concluded below. Hence monitoring the PRAL score of foods would be helpful when there are bone or teeth issues.
In patients consuming an acidifying diet (the more protein the more calcium in urine they found) a restriction of calcium intake could increase bone resorption leading to a progressive bone loss ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11223695 ► Eur Urol. 2001 Jan;39 Suppl 2:33-6; discussion 36-7
Those eating more high PRAL foods are 2.5 times more likely to have calcium stones, since more calcium is absorbed to compensate for calcium loss in urine from bones due to the need to raise pH to prevent death. Since veggies are negative PRAL and lower total PRAL, it was natural that those with more veggies in diet had fewer calcium stones. ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24002043 ► Eur J Clin Nutr. 2013 Oct;67(10):1077-80.
For more databases of foods and their content see http://health-diet.us/ or http://nutritionsoftware.org/usda-nutrient-databases.
Vegans tend to have alkaline diets, while most people have acidic (positive PRAL score) diets. PRAL value is calculated from a formula developed by Thomas Remer and other researchers at the Department of Nutrition and Health, the Research Institute of Child Nutrition, Dortmund, Germany, to assess the acidity of foods and diets. PRAL formula: PRAL = 0.49 x protein + 0.037 x phosphorus - 0.021 x potassium - 0.026 x magnesium - 0.013 x calcium
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, led by MD Neal Barnard in Washington, explain at ► http://www.pcrm.org/health/diets/vegdiets/health-concerns-about-dairy-products why dairy is bad. Neal offers more tips for preventing osteoporosis with a vegan diet at ► http://www.pcrm.org/health/health-topics/preventing-and-reversing-osteoporosis.
Alkaline diets help people live longer healthier lives. The United States Department of Agriculture has come up with the PRAL (Potential Renal Acid Load) Chart to help people prevent over ingestion of acid forming foods, which then lead to chronic secretion of ammonia in the kidneys, and damage to kidneys and other organs.
The PRAL score in the free paper at http://www.vivalis.si/uploads/datoteke/2a95.pdf shows that most nuts, all fruits and veggies are alkaline forming, while meats, dairy, grains and a few nuts are acid forming, calcium dissolving. Thus, if one eats too high PRAL foods that have no calcium, one risks osteoporosis and dental issues.
All raw veggies (and fruits, except a few fruits) are alkaline forming. All nuts, dairy, meats and grains are acid forming. Most legumes are alkaline forming. Tomatoes and all forms of tomato paste, etc are one of the most alkalinizing common foods. Foods can be categorized by the potential renal acid loads (PRALs). The best foods are those with negative PRALs, see the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) table here for each food (per 100 grams) ► you can search 8000 foods for the PRAL score at http://health-diet.us/alkaline-diet/ or see a smaller USDA version at https://www.clinicaleducation.org/documents/revised-summary-pral-list.pdf. Our renal acid load for overall diet should be negative according to many doctors and nutrition experts. :) Chronic acidosis can lead to lots of diseases, even more acne breakouts which are far more common in people ingesting foods with high PRAL.
There are lots of papers published about PRAL, for example ► Potential renal acid load of foods and its influence on urine pH ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7797810 ► J Am Diet Assoc. 1995 Jul;95(7):791-7..
Alkaline diet benefits study ► free paper ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3195546/, J Environ Public Health. 2012; 2012: 727630..
Not only that, but all vegan milks on the market are fortified so they have the same 300 mg of Calcium per 100 grams of milk ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/MWrXdGEPRrn. Note, for those using vegan milks, coconut milk has amino acid score of 87, higher than cow milk, but most soymilk has amino acid score of 25. Therefore, by all means, avoid soymilk if you use it as "protein" for reasons explained at ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/AA2XSSyoGZ1. Also, coconut milk (or even better eating raw coconuts) has been noted to prevent osteoporosis, while cow milk accelerates it ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/hYLN6LTGoBr.
8. The Environmental Argument
Cause of global warming: greenhouse effect
Primary cause of greenhouse effect: carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels
Fossil fuels needed to produce meat-centered diet vs. a meat-free diet: 3 times more
Percentage of U.S. topsoil lost to date: 75
Percentage of U.S. topsoil loss directly related to livestock raising: 85
Number of acres of U.S. forest cleared for cropland to produce meat-centered diet: 260 million
Amount of meat imported to U.S. annually from Central and South America: 300,000,000 pounds
Percentage of Central American children under the age of five who are undernourished: 75
Area of tropical rainforest consumed in every quarter-pound of rainforest beef: 55 square feet
Current rate of species extinction due to destruction of tropical rainforests for meat grazing and other uses: 1,000 per year
9. The Cancer Argument
Too much animal protein leads to cancer, see many studies at this link ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/GRyT6ks8dAm.
Latinas eating bacon and Caucasians eating tuna have increased breast cancer risk according to a February 2016 study in Cancer Causes and Control Journal ► https://news.usc.edu/92558/processed-meat-may-increase-the-risk-of-breast-cancer-for-latinas-usc-study-finds/
VEGANS have lower risk of PROSTATE CANCER ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/4Xq2dd7LMs2. In 1958, the prostate cancer death rate in USA was almost 400 times higher than in Japan, due to the fact meat and dairy intake was about 40 times higher. ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/RsRJKRBMn1S
The higher the intake of dairy, the higher the prostate cancer rate ► http://www.pcrm.org/health/health-topics/milk-and-prostate-cancer-the-evidence-mounts. See a recent review of studies at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25527754
Laos eats 9 times more unrefined vegan foods and gets 16 times less heart disease and cancer ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/cS5xiubGSHD
VEGANS can have 3 times lower rate of OVARIAN CANCER ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/5ozBdZZRrbm
The more animal products, the higher the intestinal cancer rate ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/EmnyZubXPLz, colon cancer rate ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/CTdeao1aDGh and the breast cancer rate ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/WFWB6jSoKzz. In fact, when people gave up meat, dairy and processed foods and embraced a raw vegan diet, they cured all kinds of cancers, including colon as explained at https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/hiCPzFDKb9m.
According to Harvard researchers, when dairy intake exceeds the enzymes’ capacity to break down galactose, it can build up in the blood and damage the ovaries. Women with low levels of these enzymes have triple the risk of ovarian cancer when they consume dairy. ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2567871
The World Health Organization has ruled that bacon, sausages, hot dogs cause cancer, while beef, pork, veal and lamb are "probably carcinogenic" ► http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/10/26/451211964/bad-day-for-bacon-processed-red-meats-cause-cancer-says-who
Increased risk of breast cancer for women who eat meat daily compared to less than once a week: 3.8 times
For women who eat eggs daily compared to once a week: 2.8 times
For women who eat butter and cheese 2-4 times a week: 3.25 times
Increased risk of fatal ovarian cancer for women who eat eggs 3 or more times a week vs. less than once a week: 3 times
Increased risk of fatal prostate cancer for men who consume meat, cheese, eggs and milk daily vs. sparingly or not at all: 3.6 times.
See many vegan forms of "eggs, meat, cheese" ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/C2fUeYAPhFR if you absolutely like the taste and texture of those.
Cornell Professor Colin Campbell has shown that tumor growth in rats was greatly enhanced by diets containing >10% animal protein (casein, 87% of the milk protein is casein) and was completely repressed with either 5% animal protein or >20% plant protein at ANY STAGE OF TUMOR DEVELOPMENT ► http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/85/6/1667.full - Am J Clin Nutr June 2007, vol. 85 no. 6 1667
CARCINOGENIC "Heterocyclic amines (HCAs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are chemicals formed when muscle meat, including beef, pork, fish, or poultry, is cooked using high-temperature methods, such as pan frying or grilling directly over an open flame" ► http://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/diet/cooked-meats-fact-sheet
10. The Waste Argument
Animal agriculture produces millions of pounds of waste daily in America alone. A 2500 dairy cow farm produces more poop than the city of Minneapolis (almost half a million people). This has to be gotten rid of. It can be infested with mad cow disease at times, swine flu, bird flu perhaps if not beef. Fecal matter from dairy farms is starting to destroy our drinking water supplies and it has already been causing huge dead zones from the Chesapeake Bay to the Gulf of Mexico.
*11. The Cholesterol Argument
Number of U.S. medical schools: 125
Number requiring a course in nutrition: 30
Nutrition training received by average U.S. physician during four years in medical school: 2.5 hours
Most common cause of death in the U.S.: heart attack
How frequently a heart attack kills in the U.S.: every 45 seconds
Average U.S. man's risk of death from heart attack: 50 percent
Risk of average U.S. man who eats no meat: 15 percent
Risk of average U.S. man who eats no meat, dairy or eggs: 4 percent
Amount you reduce risk of heart attack if you reduce consumption of meat, dairy and eggs by 10 percent: 9 percent
Amount you reduce risk of heart attack if you reduce consumption by 50 percent: 45 percent
Amount you reduce risk if you eliminate meat, dairy and eggs from your diet: 90 percent
Average cholesterol level of people eating meat-centered-diet: 210 mg/dl
Chance of dying from heart disease if you are male and your blood cholesterol level is 210 mg/dl: greater than 50 percent
12. The Natural Resources Argument
User of more than half of all water used for all purposes in the U.S.: livestock production
Amount of water used in production of the average cow: sufficient to float a destroyer
Gallons of water needed to produce a pound of wheat: 25
Gallons of water needed to produce a pound of California beef: 5,000
Years the world's known oil reserves would last if every human ate a meat-centered diet: 13
Years they would last if human beings no longer ate meat: 260
Calories of fossil fuel expended to get 1 calorie of protein from beef: 78
To get 1 calorie of protein from soybeans: 2
Percentage of all raw materials (base products of farming, forestry and mining, including fossil fuels) consumed by U.S. that is devoted to the production of livestock: 33
Percentage of all raw materials consumed by the U.S. needed to produce a complete vegetarian diet: 2
13. The Toxic Chemicals Argument
Vitamins, foods, make up, shampoo, shaving cream, deodorants, soap, etc that do not have the Vegan label on them, even though they cost the same - have 10-20 times more harmful compounds such as triethanolamine, petrolatum, triclosan, Aluminum, artificial colors, etc. All junk bought at mainstream non-Vegan non-health food stores is often loaded with carcinogenic and Alzheimer causing chemicals as explained at ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/C5koo4awzki. Aluminum hydroxide causes neuron death, most Vegan label products say "Fluoride Free, Aluminum Free, paraben Free, petroleum Glycols free,", etc. When you shop at a health food or vegan store for Vegan label products, you are always getting something far less harmful, because Vegan companies and founders are very health conscious and aware of things that FDA will ban 10-20 years before it happens, as vegans are the activists that often drive these toxic chemicals bans. And among Vegan products always look for those that have the least man made chemicals or if any man made, google it to make sure it's not something bad. When you buy Vegan label products, you move the planet towards World Peace and Compassion and save your health too. You no longer put that many toxins in your system. Triethanolamine, petrolatum for example are used in most non-Vegan skin care products, but they can cause skin irritation acne, allergy, etc. Triclosan can cause miscarriage, heart failure, thyroid problems, etc.
14. The Antibiotic Argument
Percentage of U.S. antibiotics fed to livestock: 55
Percentage of staphylococci infections resistant to penicillin in 1960: 13
Percentage resistant in 1988: 91
Response of European Economic Community to routine feeding of antibiotics to livestock: ban
Response of U.S. meat and pharmaceutical industries to routine feeding of antibiotics to livestock: full and complete support
Animals are fed 80% of antibiotics in America, and all kinds of hormones banned in the EU. These things don't go into lentils, grains, beans at all. Also, a cow eats 21 times its weight of vegetables before slaughter, meaning it ingests huge amounts of insecticides, pesticides, etc that are found in the cow feed (mostly GMO corn and soy). So, the meat accumulates all these toxins absent in non-GMO lentils, beans, etc.
15. The Pesticide Argument
Common belief: U.S. Department of Agriculture protects our health through meat inspection
Reality: fewer than 1 out of every 250,000 slaughtered animals is tested for toxic chemical residues
Percentage of U.S. mother's milk containing significant levels of DDT: 99
Percentage of U.S. vegetarian mother's milk containing significant levels of DDT: 8
Contamination of breast milk, due to chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides in animal products, found in meat-eating mothers vs. non-meat eating mothers: 35 times higher
Amount of Dieldrin ingested by the average breast-fed American infant: 9 times the permissible level
How to choose the fruits and veggies with least pesticides ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/HYJP47EZhsj (a list of 50 veggies and fruits in order of pesticide contamination)
16. The Ethical Argument
Number of animals killed for meat per hour in the U.S.: 660,000
Occupation with highest turnover rate in U.S.: slaughterhouse worker
Occupation with highest rate of on-the-job-injury in U.S.: slaughterhouse worker
17. The Survival Argument
Athlete to win Ironman Triathlon more than twice: Dave Scott (6 time winner)
Food choice of Dave Scott: Vegetarian
18. The Fear-Stress Hormones/Vibrations Argument
When animals suffer for seconds/minutes during the sudden slaughter death, they release stress-fear hormones that age and sicken us. The term fight and flight was coined by a professor who did inject happy animals with the blood of frightened animals and noticed the calm animals became frightened too, so when humans eat meat, with all the blood in the capillaries that is never drained (meat is actually beige in color when you remove the blood completely), they get some of those chemicals in their stomach and depending on what happens during digestion, some physical component is there inducing human into a high cortisol response, which is known in hundreds of studies - meat eaters have higher cortisol levels ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/ZwKDX2Gjqcs. Not only the animal known matter components carry that signature of all the horror the animals went thru all their lives and also in the last 24 hours of their life, but there is obviously another matter that we feel when we go to a place where a huge number of animals or people have been slaughtered, the energy is there and some stomach hydrochloric acid will not change the energy present, the alter-matter that holds so to speak this matter or is bound to it. Fear hormones as well as astral vibrations that contaminate their flesh also prompt us into human-human conflict more often, as we are infected with the horrific feelings these animals experienced at slaughter and before, when crowded in tiny places 10000 chickens at once, always stepping on each other, pecking at each other (they are debeaked without anesthesia), etc, stressed out, that stuff truly changes things as explained at the link a few lines above; we and animals share a lot of hormonal pathways, as neuroscience shows. Gandhi, Tesla, Edison, Einstein, Newton, DaVinci were vegetarian for most or part of their lives: goo.gl/IMJQJ.
19. The Amazon and other Key Forests Argument
Rainfall and preventing desertification is achieved thru a complex hydrologic cycle that involves forests. If we wipe out all forests, we are in big trouble, since forests generate 20-50% of the oxygen we breathe and ensure we get rain. Beef uses 160 times more land and 200 times more water per calorie than wheat, lentils, beans, potatoes do. Beef requires 28 times more land and 11 times more water than chicken and pork ► http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/21/giving-up-beef-reduce-carbon-footprint-more-than-cars. If people go vegan or just without beef, you help save lots of water and forests.
20. ESP-Telepathy Argument
It has been noticed that telepathy and other ESP functions become enhanced when meat is given up ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/6NsPQJ57oGM. See also the telepathy and biophotons connection, as well as lack of biophotons in cancer tissue ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/EkRbrCJDzaC. The MIT paper on biophotons in fresh fruits and veggies ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/ef6UA8yGtLk. See the biophoton of cooked versus raw cabbage at ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/hWU14s1C2My.
21. Space Exploration Argument
How can astronauts go in space and raise cattle on their spaceship to get to Alpha Centauri? lol. You got to be kidding me. The nice thing about veganism is that with vertical urban farms, people can get local food (fresh - picked up 2 hours before, thus very rich in biophotons) easily in any area and Earth can thus feed 50 billion vegans easily. Going off-planet is a lot easier too when there are more scientists/engineers working on space travel, terra forming planets, etc. Creating perfect weather, eliminating deaths from natural disasters, etc all these things require a lot of science.
22. The Longevity Argument
Bama centenarians, some over 110, live on a 100% VEGAN diet ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/du2jsEF9xbP. They take no vitamins. Vegetarians and vegans were shown to live 7-12 years longer than non-vegetarians. The Longest living people in North America are the vegetarian and vegan Adventists in Loma Linda, who reach 105-110 often. Here is a Loma Linda doctor (I talked to him) who did surgeries at 95: http://goo.gl/MQqn3, after decades of being vegan. Most centenarians eat a mostly VEGAN diet ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/dTLXiiTPdq4 ◄ has a long list of vegan or vegetarian centenarians. 108 year old American vegan Loreen Dinwiddie ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/aH5TeGMXf9A (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkRN3ddd0P8 is a 33 second video of her 108th birthday)
2% of population is underweight, but a Georgia study found that within 244 people above 98 years old, 31% are underweight. The longest living people are thin usually. Vegans are the only group with a healthy average body weight ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/PXVbaNSjNTJ. A 800 person Chinese study of people 90 years or older found that 44% were underweight and 7% were obese ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24287207. A 2014 study at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26892574 found that among 255 people in Portugal with median age of 100 years, 25% were underweight, 13% were overweight. That's quite different, probably due to diet.
23. The Flu and other Diseases Argument
Without incredibly toxic and filthy factory farms, there will be no frequent epidemics of swine flu, bird flu, mad cow disease, etc. Here is a Vegan natural "flu shot" ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/WiZvEGdo1Qo
24. The Poop Argument
There is fecal matter in virtually all American beef according to Consumer Reports ► http://www.inquisitr.com/2368247/all-ground-beef-in-the-us-is-contaminated-with-fecal-matter-according-to-consumer-reports/. Also much of chicken meat has poop in it ► http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathy-freston/chicken-contamination_b_1655170.html
25. The IQ Argument
It's been found in many studies that vegetarians and vegans have higher IQ on average than meat eaters, see more about raising a healthy vegan kid at https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/KP2EyDWNSbU. The American Pediatrics Association says vegan diet since infancy is fine as explained at the link. "Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.” Einstein. On a similar note he stated, “Our task must be to [widen] our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” And on the day he became a vegetarian, Einstein wrote in his diary, “So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.” For more quotes on giving up meat from world's most amazing people, see this post ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/CapnTqw8Xix
26. The PRAL (Potential Renal Acid Load) Score Argument ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/Jsfe76FaDUB
Alkaline diets help people live longer healthier lives. The United States Department of Agriculture has come up with the PRAL (Potential Renal Acid Load) Chart to help people prevent over ingestion of acid forming foods, which then lead to chronic secretion of ammonia in the kidneys, and damage to kidneys and other organs.
The PRAL score in the free paper at http://www.vivalis.si/uploads/datoteke/2a95.pdf shows that most nuts, all fruits and veggies are alkaline forming, while meats, dairy, grains and a few nuts are acid forming, calcium dissolving. Thus, if one eats too high PRAL foods that have no calcium, one risks osteoporosis and dental issues.
All raw veggies (and fruits, except a few fruits) are alkaline forming. All nuts, dairy, meats and grains are acid forming. Most legumes are alkaline forming. Tomatoes and all forms of tomato paste, etc are one of the most alkalinizing common foods. Foods can be categorized by the potential renal acid loads (PRALs). The best foods are those with negative PRALs, see the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) table here for each food (per 100 grams) ► you can search 8000 foods for the PRAL score at http://health-diet.us/alkaline-diet/ or see a smaller USDA version at https://www.clinicaleducation.org/documents/revised-summary-pral-list.pdf. Our renal acid load for overall diet should be negative according to many doctors and nutrition experts. :) Chronic acidosis can lead to lots of diseases, even more acne breakouts which are far more common in people ingesting foods with high PRAL.
There are lots of papers published about PRAL, for example ► Potential renal acid load of foods and its influence on urine pH ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7797810 ► J Am Diet Assoc. 1995 Jul;95(7):791-7..
Alkaline diet benefits study ► free paper ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3195546/, J Environ Public Health. 2012; 2012: 727630..
Positive PRAL foods, like milk, increase urinary Calcium, they also increase absorbed calcium, at least in some people. ► free paper ► J. Nutr. 141: 391–397, 2011. ► https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/58217/PDF . The real concern here is that if high PRAL diet lacks enough extra calcium to absorb to compensate for the loss in urine (calcium loss used to neutralize acid in the body), then it will cause bone loss as some studies concluded below. Hence monitoring the PRAL score of foods would be helpful when there are bone or teeth issues.
Countries with highest milk consumption have 5-10 times the fracture rate of low milk and dairy countries ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3421108/figure/Fig1/. Read the whole paper for more Figures https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3421108/, Osteoporos Int. 2012 Sep;23(9):2239-56.. Tunisia (1.9%), Ecuador (2.5%), Philippines (4.8%) and China (5.4%), Denmark (23%), Sweden (21%), Norway (19%) and Switzerland (18%)
The Harvard Nurses’ Health Study followed more than 77,000 women for 12 years and showed drinking more milk daily was linked to 45% more hip fractures, and the more milk the more fractures. ► FREE paper ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1380936/ ► Am J Public Health 1997;87:992-7.
In patients consuming an acidifying diet (the more protein the more calcium in urine they found) a restriction of calcium intake could increase bone resorption leading to a progressive bone loss ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11223695 ► Eur Urol. 2001 Jan;39 Suppl 2:33-6; discussion 36-7
Those eating more high PRAL foods are 2.5 times more likely to have calcium stones, since more calcium is absorbed to compensate for calcium loss in urine from bones due to the need to raise pH to prevent death. Since veggies are negative PRAL and lower total PRAL, it was natural that those with more veggies in diet had fewer calcium stones. ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24002043 ► Eur J Clin Nutr. 2013 Oct;67(10):1077-80.
For more databases of foods and their content see http://health-diet.us/ or http://nutritionsoftware.org/usda-nutrient-databases.
Vegans tend to have alkaline diets, while most people have acidic (positive PRAL score) diets. PRAL value is calculated from a formula developed by Thomas Remer and other researchers at the Department of Nutrition and Health, the Research Institute of Child Nutrition, Dortmund, Germany, to assess the acidity of foods and diets. PRAL formula: PRAL = 0.49 x protein + 0.037 x phosphorus - 0.021 x potassium - 0.026 x magnesium - 0.013 x calcium
27. The Telomere Length Argument
After a low fat whole plant foods vegan diet (the Ornish diet), Nobel Prize winner Elizabeth Blackburn found that telomerase activity increased by 30% in 3 months (telomerase reportedly helps us live longer by repairing the end of our chromosomes) ► http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/06/ornish-diet-heart-health-us-news_n_1188205.html.
28. Eye health (more carotenoids and antioxidants, vegans have the best eye health as they eat the most fruits and veggies), bone health, Heart health (higher magnesium intake) and other reasons (57 reasons) ► http://www.nursingdegree.net/blog/19/57-health-benefits-of-going-vegan/. For more NIH Library studies showing the same thing, see https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/hSk3Y3RE5TJ. Eggs, the only non-vegan source of lutein (lutein protects the eye from blue light induced macular degeneration and blindness), have 120 times less lutein-zeaxanthin than Kale.
29. Heart Rate Argument ► Vegan heart rate is 20 beats lower, leading to less heart wear and longer life.
30. Water Argument
Vegans use 4 times less water than vegetarians and 13 times less than meat eaters ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/EFUbV8uNd8g. It's clear that veganism is the most compassionate choice. :)
31. The Kidney Stones Argument
Vegans have 2.5 times less kidney stones than meat eaters ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/RFQUQt4M3He. High protein diet brings risk of kidney stones ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1169452/ - BMJ. 2002 Aug 24; 325(7361): 408.
32. Evolutionary History, Enzyme-Digestion Systems Argument
We were mostly vegan for most of our evolutionary history ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/D4hCgiBRB4L.
33. Stress Hormone Argument, Effect on newborn birth weight, height, IQ
Meat Eaters have much higher cortisol, stress hormone and this has catastrophic effect on the height, weight, IQ of the kids ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/ZwKDX2Gjqcs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcPVkU0AseM shows many studies indicating meat leads to higher stress and cortisol, while https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/CKvcTre8AKP has 2400 lines about stress effects on born and unborn babies). Raising Vegan Infants and Kids is already common, with many youtube channels presenting what vegan kids eat - see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCokV-a9_to for example. There are many books that present vegan recipes for infants and kids, such as https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/akgyzQYrb2U. Below is presented some of the scientific evidence from American and British (and many other countries) Governmental agencies about the safety of vegan diets for kids:
1. UNITED STATES:
1.1 Position of the American Dietetic Association ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19562864 -- J Am Diet Assoc. 2009 Jul;109(7):1266-82 says "It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that appropriately planned vegetarian diets, including total vegetarian or VEGAN diets, are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. Well-planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for individuals during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes."
1.2 The American Academy of Pediatrics approves of proper VEGAN diets for infants and kids of all ages ► http://pedsinreview.aappublications.org/content/25/5/174 -- Pediatrics in Review, May 2004, VOLUME 25 / ISSUE 5
1.3 Dr. Benjamin Spock, one of the most influential pediatricians of all time, recommended a vegan diet for all infants and people of all ages, in the 7th edition of "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care", arguing cow milk causes Type 1 Diabetes in kids and many issues as I explained at ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/5VVB1tPWG1d (cow milk causes beta cell destruction - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3580116/)
2. BRITAIN:
National Health Service (the publicly funded healthcare system in UK) ► http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/pages/vegetarian-vegan-children.aspx
34. The Omega 3 Fatty Acids Argument
Flax and Chia Seeds have 80 times more omega 3 than tilapia fish and without the mercury, PCBs, etc. There are endless sources of vegan omega 3 fatty acids (most veggies have some), without the heavy metals, mercury and PCBs in fish oil ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/6j3ABsdNdXH. Also, please look at this post on oil rancidity - https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/KM8QNkWke35 - to understand why I do not recommend ever using oils (especially adding them before cooking), for best heart health. It's much healthier to eat unroasted raw coconuts, walnuts, chia seeds, flax seeds instead and maybe a DHA oil or algal oil pill.
35. The Fiber Argument - Vegans get more fiber than the rest, one study of tens of thousands of people found vegans got the most fiber, 45 grams a day, compared to 15 for omnivores
There are endless sources of fiber on a vegan or raw vegan diet ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/hnABXrGQwWy. Most veggies and fruits have 1 gram of fiber per 100 grams at least, some have 7 grams of fiber per 100 grams (avocados).
36. The Water Hydration Argument - Vegans get more hydrated as they eat more fruits and veggies
For the best hydration while on a raw vegan or vegan diet, please see this post for information on how important for health is to eat fruits and veggies and avoid a mostly processed or cooked vegan diet ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/i3EEHt8iCQp.
37. The Asthma Argument - Vegans have the least Asthma :)
Vegan Diet Cures Asthma ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4019393 -- J Asthma. 1985;22(1):45-55. "Thirty-five patients who had suffered from bronchial asthma for an average of 12 yr, all receiving long-term medication, 20 including cortisone, were subject to therapy with vegan food for 1 yr. In almost all cases, medication was withdrawn or drastically reduced. "
38. The Protein Argument - (Too much protein causes cancer, Alzheimer, rapid aging, acne, etc as explained at ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/XraJ9xYY2ih) - SEE 100+ VEGAN PROTEIN SOURCES THAT ARE MORE COMPLETE THAN MILK AND HAMBURGER BEEF ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/DmMpkJ9LN3A
39. The Hypertension argument - a third of humanity has hypertension and this leads to cognitive decline, more arterial plaque, premature death, and more chance to have stroke or heart attack
Vegans have lower blood pressure due to higher intake of potassium, omega 3 and less intake of sodium. Here is a list of the richest vegan sources of potassium and an explanation of the critical importance of potassium, present especially in many veggies that non-vegans only rarely eat, leading the non-vegans to hypertension ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/421nFxmp7ML
40. The trans Fats Argument - meat and dairy are the only natural food sources that have toxic trans fats, fats which cause diabetes, heart disease, memory loss and are associated with more aggressive behavior ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/CwfGzuEz6Je
41. The Animal Bacteria Argument - 20-60% of meat is contaminated with Clostridium Difficile, which causes 14000 deaths a year in the US alone ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/Ge8gJQKxMWq
42. The Depression and Happiness Argument - vegans and vegetarians are happier and less depressed, since they eat more fruits and veggies ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/iu24DLcysxj
43. The infection with Worms Argument - vegans are least likely to get infected with worms, see people get worms inside the brain, eyes and body all over, dying from it ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/bEoGg3p1EK6
44. The mercury argument - vegans don't eat fish, so they get far less of the toxic neuron killing mercury in their brain. Make sure you don't use amalgam fillings as they leak as much mercury as eating fish daily ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/DCZWMxHtm6x
45. The AGEs Argument - Vegan burgers have 115 times less AGEs (Advanced glycation end products) than McDonald's and other burgers. Most fruits and veggies have thousands of times less toxic AGEs than processed meats and dairy ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/TY4srRFE8Z3. Cheese got 1878 more AGEs than banana or cooked rice ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/dQomEorXa7S. Fruits and veggies have AGEs inhibiting compounds, such as flavonoids, etc. AGEs are generated even in people who never eat AGEs that much, and they cause oxidative stress and aging, heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer. See a list of fruits and veggies that inhibit AGEs from diet or natural body processes ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/Laf9YPG8iKW. Also please avoid eating French fries and all roasted and fried foods, as eating fries twice a week was found the double the risk of death of those eating boiled potatoes due to high AGE (90 times more AGEs in french fries versus boiled potatoes) ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/2wK8MwGtmUn. McDonald chicken stuff got over 1000 times more AGEs than banana or cooked rice ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/JEXrAezrF59. Avoid adding oils (canola, etc https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/M3mcUJSdbP1) while cooking and broiling tofu, etc as broiled tofu got 61 times more AGEs than microwaves soy burger ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/eXfXF82ULum.
46. Vegan Iron doesn't increase risk of heart disease, heme iron from meat does ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/1nfFXukBZQF
47. Vegans get more vitamin C, which was shown to remove heavy metals by 81% at 1000 mg levels within a week (1000 mg means eating 3 yellow bell peppers) ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/TUpVYo9k3uy
48. Air Pollution from Livestock Farms is Associated with Impaired Lung Function (Airway Obstruction) in Neighboring Residents. ► Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2017 May 10. ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28489427
49. AMA, American Medical Association (200000 doctors) issued a resolution on June 14th 2017 at its annual meeting for hospitals to "improve the health of patients, staff, and visitors by (1) providing a variety of healthful food, including plant-based (vegan) meals and meals that are low in fat, sodium, and added sugars, (2) eliminating processed meats from menus, and (3) providing and promoting healthful beverages." ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/bViwLEhK55C
50. AHA, American Heart Association recommends replacing saturated fat from butter, cheese and meats with vegetable oils or nuts (walnuts have the most omega 3 among nuts) and seeds. The explain that replacing cheese with walnuts can cut risk of heart disease by 25% ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/NUFNH4pKCov. For a more detailed explanation about why low fat veganism is even better than normal veganism, see https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/X8FowrM3dwX.
51. Crohn's Disease Argument ► *The best prevention of Crohn's disease relapse in an interventional study has been achieved by cutting most meat - 92% remission for minimal meat eaters versus 33% for those continuing to eat meat as usual. There is no study with omnivores going vegan for 2 years or vegetarian, because asking people to go semi-vegetarian by cutting most meat was far easier to do. ► World J Gastroenterol 2010 May 28; 16(20): 2484-2495 ► free paper ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2877178/pdf/WJG-16-2484.pdf.
52. People with lowest white blood cell count live the longest and studies show vegans have the lowest white blood cell count, explaining perhaps they they live longer on average by 7-12 years ► https://youtu.be/i8UB-WNlyVE. Possibly due to anti-oxidants and other phytonutrients. This other video https://youtu.be/dLP0g70-Ryc explains better the association between mortality and high white blood cell count.
53. Cow milk is for cows. Babies who are breastfed longer have higher IQ, better eye health and stronger immune system than those drinking cow milk. There are dozens of vegan foods with higher protein quality than milk and beef In 2015 vegan milk sales went up 9%, cow milk went down 7%. The trend is clear, as 54% of kids used vegan milks ► http://www.mintel.com/press-centre/food-and-drink/us-sales-of-dairy-milk-turn-sour-as-non-dairy-milk-sales-grow-9-in-2015.
54. PREVENT INGESTION OF CANCER tumor enhancing IGF-1 IN ORGANIC MILK AND ORGANIC DAIRY, SYNTHETIC GROWTH HORMONES IN NON-ORGANIC MILK, BACTERIA in all milk, IMMUNE SYSTEM WRECKING ANTIBIOTICS in non-organic milk:
Harvard article explains that higher insulin-like growth factor-1, IGF-1, can triple cancer risk ► http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/04.22/igf1.story.html. Meat and dairy raise IGF-1 levels and thus cancer risk.
A glass of milk from factory farms got about 130 million pus cells... and antibiotics (banned in Europe) that wreck our immune system, hormones banned in Europe that cause cancer, etc.... Even organic milk has some of that stuff. :) rBST HORMONE is banned in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Israel and the European Union since 2000. Argentina also banned the use of rBST. http://nutritionfacts.org/2011/09/08/how-much-pus-is-there-in-milk/ explains that pus is not somatic cells, but neutrophils (white blood cells) mixed with dead bacteria. According to the USDA, 1 in 6 dairy cows in the United States suffers from clinical mastitis, which is responsible for 1 in 6 dairy cow deaths on U.S. dairy farms. This level of disease is reflected in the concentration of somatic cells in the American milk supply. Somatic cell counts greater than a million per teaspoon are abnormal and “almost always” caused by mastitis. When a cow is infected, greater than 90% of the somatic cells in her milk are neutrophils, the inflammatory immune cells that form pus. The average somatic cell count in U.S. milk per spoonful is 1,120,000. If that is not enough, milk can have about 1 billion bacteria per quart. The Indiana administrative code says "grade A milk bacteria count using the standard plate count, shall be not more than one million bacteria per milliliter, or 1 billion per liter. The somatic cell count shall be not more than one million per milliliter." ► https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_cell_count. Pus is found in regions of bacterial infection and it's made of neutrophils, eosinophils, and basophils (3 types of white blood cells) and dead bacteria, as well as inflammatory exudate.
A study of 131,342 adults found that a 10% increase in animal protein consumption was associated with a 2% increase in mortality and 8% rise in risk of cardiovascular mortality. A 3% increase in plant-based protein led to a 10% fall in mortality and 12% decline in cardiovascular death. ► http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2540540 - Journal of the American Medical Association, Internal Medicine, August 01, 2016
55. PREVENT DIABETES TYPE 1 ► Several studies show that milk induces type 1 diabetes in many kids, due to the fact cow milk causes an autoimmune destruction of the beta cells producing insulin. A simple explanation is at http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/confirmed-anew-cows-milk-may-trigger-type-1-diabetes. The more technical paper is at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3580116/. There are many theories as to why milk causes type 1 diabetes, but one of them relates to some paratuberculosis bacterium (in milk and meat) triggering autoimmune attack of pancreatic beta cells, since 63% of type 1 people had this bacterium, while only 16% of the non-diabetics did as explained at https://youtu.be/1Mf7KtDquyM.
30% of casein in milk in beta casein. A1 and A2 beta-casein are the most common of 12 genetic variants of the beta-casein milk protein (due to genetic mutations in the bovine beta casein gene) that differ by one amino acid; a proline occurs at position 67 in A2 beta-casein (209 amino acids total), while in A1 beta-casein a histidine occurs at that position. beta-casomorphin-7, BCM-7, is produced when people consume casein A1, but not so much when they consume A2 casein found in human and goat milk (how much BCM-7 each produces varies by studies, but A1 much more than A2). beta-caseomorphin-7 is an immunosupressant opioid that is linked to diabetes 1 incidence. ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10096780 ► Diabetologia 1999 Aug;42(8):1032. A Nature paper about autism, heart disease, diabetes links to most A1 milk (except France, Asia and Africa which make A2 milk mostly), A1 casein milk, is at http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v60/n7/full/1602276a.html.
Human milk has 20-50% casein (beta casein is A2 type) with the rest 50-80% being whey (the casein content is approximately 20% of the total protein content in early lactation and 50% in late lactation as explained in this 2016 free paper ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4882692/), cow milk has about 80% casein the rest being whey protein (beta-lactoglobulin 65% and alpha-lactalbumin 25%, bovine serum albumin 8%, the rest 2% immunoglobulins).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3580116/ is a free full paper explaining "Based on epidemiological studies and meta-analyses, which suggested that early introduction of cow’s milk may serve as a trigger of Type 1 diabetes [9,10], a pilot study was initiated in 1995, principally in Finland, evaluating, in babies with high genetic risk markers of Type 1 diabetes, whether at the time of weaning replacement with a formula based on casein hydrolysate rather than cow milk might reduce the development of autoimmunity [11]. The trial randomized 230 infants to receive either a casein hydrolysate formula or a conventional, cow’s-milk formula (control) whenever breast milk was not available during the first 6–8 months of life. Eligible infants had human leukocyte antigen (HLA) conferred susceptibility to Type 1 diabetes and at least one family member with Type 1 diabetes. Children were followed for 10 years for development of diabetes-related autoantibodies and development of Type 1 diabetes. The investigators reported that the group assigned to casein hydrolysate formula had a reduced risk of development of β-cell autoimmunity (appearance of one or more antibodies) [hazard ratio 0.54 (0.29–0.95) and hazard ratio adjusted for observed difference in duration of exposure to study formula 0.51 (0.28–0.91)] [12]. It has been shown that exposure to bovine insulin in cow’s-milk formula has the capacity to induce an immune response to insulin [15]. Of 5003 infants screened, 1113 were found eligible, 1104 were randomized and 908 provided at least one follow-up sample. Randomization was to three groups: cow’s-milk formula (control), whey-based hydrolysed formula, or whey-based FINDIA formula essentially free of bovine insulin whenever breast milk was not available during the first 6 months of life. Children were followed until age 3 years for the development of diabetes-related autoantibodies. The group assigned to the FINDIA formula had a reduced risk of development of β-cell autoimmunity (appearance of one or more antibodies) [odds ratio in the intention-to-treat analysis 0.39 (0.17–0.91) and in the treatment-received analysis 0.23 (0.08–0.69) (P < 0.01) in the FINDIA group when compared with the cow’s-milk formula group] [16]."
Studies show those eating lots of meat have 73 times the risk of dying from diabetes, while those eating moderate amounts of meat have 23 times the risk of dying from diabetes compared to vegans. ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3988204/ -- Cell Metabolism 2014 Mar 4; 19(3): 407–417. The exact quote from this free full paper link is "Among subjects with no diabetes at baseline those in the high protein group had a 73-fold increase in risk (HR: 73.52; 95% CI: 4.47–1209.7), while those in the moderate protein category had an almost 23-fold increase in the risk of diabetes mortality" for those who have a hard time believing this.
56. Huge levels of Saturated Fat and Aluminum in Cheese
Cheese (sour cream, bacon, fatty meats too) has a lot of long chain saturated fatty acids and cholesterol, which are known to contribute heart disease. 50% of cheese calories for example come from saturated fat, while 70% come from fat. Cheese often has sodium aluminum phosphate added to it, making it very toxic, especially for people with impaired capacity to eliminate aluminum, as explained at the Alzheimer-aluminum post ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/YWkLhB9Bj1h.
57. PREVENT COLIC IN BABIES when mothers or babies drink milk ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/Gnzubp93Drp
Cow milk protein ingested by mom can end up in breast milk fed to the baby and lead to baby developing colic and crying a lot (one in 5 babies has colic). Removal of dairy from mom's diet led to end of crying and colic. For vegan mothers this is not a concern. ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6823433
"Abstract
Sixty-six mothers of 66 breast-fed infants with infantile colic were put on a diet free from cow's milk. The colic disappeared in 35 infants; it reappeared on at least two challenges (cow's milk to mother) in 23 infants (35%). A double-blind crossover trial with cow's milk whey protein was performed in 16 of these 23 mothers and infants. Six infants had to be taken out of the study for various reasons; of the remaining ten infants, nine reacted with colic after their mothers' intake of whey protein-containing capsules. Sequential analysis showed a high correlation between infantile colic in breast-fed infants and their mothers' consumption of cow's milk protein. A diet free of cow's milk is suggested for the mothers as a first trial of treatment of infantile colic in breast-fed infants."
A very similar study shows how replacing cow milk with soy milk removes colic, but this was done on babies, not their mothers ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1711543/.
US National Library of Medicine suggests no cow milk for infants under 1 anyway ► https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002448.htm
For more info on the cow milk protein allergy in infants, you can also read this study ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2083222/.
58. PREVENT CHRONIC CONSTIPATION IN KIDS ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/Gnzubp93Drp
Cow's milk can also lead to chronic constipation in infants ► Iacono G, Cavataio F, Montalto G, et al. Intolerance of cow’s milk and chronic constipation in children. N Engl J Med 1998;339:110-4. Thus, it's always better to breastfeed for 1 year or even more (some people do 2 years, but at least 6 months as CDC i think recommends) than to do what many moms do, which is switch to cow milk or infant formula after 1 month, formula or cow milk void of many benefits of human milk antibodies that build a strong immune system, etc. Infants are not baby cows, they have different immune systems. Human milk is designed for optimal brain development and eye development. Cow milk is not. Children who had been breastfed for 12 months had an IQ that was four points higher than those breastfed for less than a month ► http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/mar/18/brazil-longer-babies-breastfed-more-achieve-in-life-major-study. The first two years of life is the critical time for malnutrition, the consequences of which are often irreversible and include poor cognitive development, educability, and future economic productivity.
If you look at the chart at https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/gbF22KExfHe you will see that cow milk has way more protein (as do other animals) than human milk. The proteins in cow milk are the culprits for a lot of allergies, constipation and gastrointestinal problems of kids.
59. PREVENT DIARRHEA, GI DISTRESS due to Lactose intolerance ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/7Lm4k654ipC
Lactose (a sugar in milk) intolerance (gastrointestinal distress, diarrhea, and flatulence, plus other complications) affects 95 percent of Asian Americans, 74 percent of Native Americans, 70 percent of African Americans, 53 percent of Mexican Americans, and 15 percent of Caucasians.
60. CALCIUM IN MANY VEGGIES IS HIGHER THAN IN MILK AND BETTER ABSORBED
Here is a list of over 15 vegan sources of Calcium ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/HaTUVV6MQfX. They got vegan ice cream ► http://www.benjerry.com/flavors/non-dairy, vegan cheese, etc. :)
61. Human milk has 3 times less protein (its content changes with the age of infant), 4 times less sodium, Calcium and magnesium, 5 times more iron, 2 times less sugars than cow milk (Table 4-2, Agriculture Handbook No. 8, 1963, United States Department of Agriculture, see this table at https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/6XecKbZvvJm).
62. PREVENT PARKINSON'S DISEASE
Studies show milk consumption is linked to Parkinson's development (more milk, more Parkinson's) ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24894826 -- Eur J Epidemiol. 2014 Sep;29(9):613-9. and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12447934 -- Ann Neurol. 2002 Dec;52(6):793-801.
63. PREVENT HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE
Study shows milk intake increases risk of developing Huntington's disease ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2960786 -- J Neurol Sci. 1987 Sep;80(2-3):299-306.
64. PREVENT ASTHMA
Several people tried a vegan diet and got off asthma medications ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/4MasYbfu4tu (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4019393 -- J Asthma. 1985;22(1):45-55.)
65. PREVENT LEUKEMIA, BREAST CANCER
Most milk has bovine leukemia (leukemia is blood cancer) virus, a virus that caused the death of 2 monkeys. Vegans have 3 times less breast and prostate cancer than vegetarians who consume a lot of dairy, and this virus may have something to do with it because the odds of having breast cancer if this virus is present is also 3.1 times greater than if the virus is absent from the diet. This odds ratio is higher than any of the frequently publicized risk factors for breast cancer, such as obesity, alcohol consumption and use of post-menopausal hormones. ► http://news.berkeley.edu/2015/09/15/bovine-leukemia-virus-breast-cancer/
2 monkeys died of leukemia after being infected with bovine leukemia virus ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4370000
A USDA study showed 84% of milk (100% of milk from dairy farms with more than 500 cows) was infected with bovine leukemia virus ► https://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/nahms/dairy/downloads/dairy07/Dairy07_is_BLV.pdf
The full free paper the Berkeley article refers to is at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4557937/ -- PLoS One. 2015; 10(9): e0134304.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3835103/ is a free full paper explaining the evidence that viruses cause many types of cancer, and several viruses can cause breast cancer. (Cancers (Basel). 2010 Jun; 2(2): 752–772.)
Humans have antibodies reactive with Bovine leukemia virus. ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14709247 - AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 2003 Dec;19(12):1105-13.
Bovine leukemia virus DNA found in human breast tissue. ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4012802/ -- Emerg Infect Dis. 2014 May; 20(5): 772–782 - free full paper
66. PREVENT AUTISM, PSYCHOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT IN KIDS
Cow's milk has some casomorphins that are associated with autism, delays in psychomotor development, infant crib death (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12948848, Peptides. 2003 Jun;24(6):937-43.), type 1 diabetes, etc as explained at https://youtu.be/EYGbp_sifHs.
A 2009 study found that "the data indicate that breast feeding has an advantage over artificial feeding for infants' development during the first year of life and support the hypothesis for deterioration of bovine casomorphin elimination as a risk factor for delay in psychomotor development and other diseases such as autism." as shown in the abstract at ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19576256 ► Peptides. 2009 Oct;30(10):1854-60.
Nutr Neurosci. 2000;3(1):57-72 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27416160), free at
http://www.fooddetective.pl/download/No%2038.%20Cade%20Autism%20and%20Schizophrenia%20Paper.pdf explains that autistic kids have more beta caso morphin in their urine.
Note on "dairy free" milks, lab meats or vegan meats that imitate animal protein linked to cancers, and inflammation
Interesting thing is that some companies want to make "vegan" cheese or "vegan" meat by using microbial factories to synthesize beta-casein A1 and other animal proteins which were shown to cause cancer tumors in animals when overeaten, besides other problems. Also some of these burgers have too much fat because they imitate the "beef burgers exactly" and possibly too many AGEs, see more details at https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/7dLE1yK8d74. I believe it would be better to create proteins as in human milk and to replicate the human milk formula, which is very different than cow milk. That future "vegan" milk doesn't have antibiotics, pus, hormones, saturated fat, cholesterol so it's better than real cow milk. But it is only better by a wide margin probably only if it simulates human milk. On the other hand human milk month one has 20% casein, month 12 has 50% casein, everything changes, so protein needs for adults or people over 12 months probably change too. A lactating baby needs far more protein than an adult who grows far slower or a kid of 10 years. IN the animal kingdom animals only drink milk as a baby, humans are the only animal drinking milk after baby stage. Thus the question arises, do adults really benefit from a product that imitates human or cow milk perfectly? It would be healthier than cow milk, but anyway, hard to answer. A lot of research is needed before deciding which protein to make in microbial factories if this even becomes very popular in the next 20 years. Bacteria can make amino acids directly as explained at http://www.holisticmed.net/aspartame/aminoacid.htm, so in the future it will be possible to optimize this and make milks made of amino acids, essential fatty acids like DHA, ARA, EPA, etc, overcoming the issue of many people - lacking strong enough hydrochloric acid in the stomach after age 30 sometimes and the enzymes to digest protein as we age, leading to problems. Not to mention it takes a lot of energy to split proteins into amino acids, which taxes the body resources. Some amino acids can be digested well in free form. Anyway, any vegan "meat or milk" is still better than the real one, but i am just stating the obvious to those who may have severe autoimmune response to the proteins of animal type due to allergies created as a 2 year old ingesting cow milk casein protein as explained above.
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There are many vegan dating sites and resources if you want to meet other vegans to create more synergy or organize local events, spread the word, help vegetarians go vegan, etc ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/8XRWyBZrpXA
1. The Survival of Humanity Argument
Veganism reduces greenhouse gas emissions, which is key to preventing ocean acidification. If the ocean is too acidic, plankton dies and with that 50-80% of the oxygen we breathe is gone, making life impossible ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/gwKRRDiX3nc
2. The Hunger Argument
Number of people worldwide who will die as a result of malnutrition this year: 20 million
Number of people who could be adequately fed using land freed if Americans reduced their intake of meat by 10%: 100 million
Percentage of corn grown in the U.S. eaten by people: 20
Percentage of corn grown in the U.S. eaten by livestock: 80
Percentage of oats grown in the U.S. eaten by livestock: 95
Percentage of protein wasted by cycling grain through livestock: 90
How frequently a child dies as a result of malnutrition: every 2.3 seconds
Pounds of potatoes that can be grown on an acre: 40,000
Pounds of beef produced on an acre: 250
Percentage of U.S. farmland devoted to beef production: 56
Pounds of grain and soybeans needed to produce a pound of edible flesh from feedlot beef: 16
3. The Heart Disease Argument
Vegans have lowest rate of heart disease and low fat low sugar vegan diets have been used extensively by many doctors to reverse heart disease in patients ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/5VAwFvKttav.
https://nutritionj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12937-016-0147-z ► Nutrition Journal201615:35 ► also found problems with beta casein A1 found in most milk. A 2003 paper found that in rabbits, not humans, A1 beta casein (most USA milk) produces atherosclerosis, while A2 beta casein does not ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12957678 ► Atherosclerosis. 2003 Sep;170(1):13-9. Yet, a human tiny study, in 2006, found no atherosclerosis marker difference ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16298373. There was association between ischemic heart disease and A1 milk ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12601419 ► N Z Med J. 2003 Jan 24;116(1168):U295. This Nutrients. 2015 Sep; 7(9): 7285–7297. free paper at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4586534/ explains the hypothesis that casein A2 (sheep milk, human milk, goat milk) is safer.
4. The Type 2 Diabetes Argument
Vegans have the lowest diabetes rates, 2 times less than vegetarians and 4 times less than meat eaters ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/5eoqyiX13p8. See in this post how to reverse diabetes with a vegan diet. To measure your own glucose at home for years with a $28 kit, see https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/5ocD2zDyUkW. You can test your levels 1 hour after eating different foods and determine which among the foods you eat give you the best level, conducive to 110 year lifespan (centenarians have lower than average blood glucose). Cow milk causes Type 1 Diabetes sometimes ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/5VVB1tPWG1d. Vegans have lower A1c (reflects average blood glucose) than meat eaters, and thus less brain shrinkage than meat eaters ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/MiF6H8kmozR. Heavy meat eaters are 73 times more likely to die from diabetes compared to vegans, while moderate ones are 23 times more likely to die from diabetes compared to vegans ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/5HaxDi5VAoj. What is really shocking is that even those who eat 30 times less meat than a "moderate American meat eater"- such as the omnivore Taiwanese, are 4 times more likely to have diabetes than Taiwanese vegans ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/CCv8sGetiRr. Thus even a tiny bit of meat can quadruple your risk of diabetes.
50000 people study found that VEGANS have 4 times less diabetes than meat eaters and 2 times less than vegetarians ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3638849/ (full free paper - Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis. 2013 Apr; 23(4): 292–299). Cases of diabetes developed in 0.54% of vegans, 1.08% of lacto ovo vegetarians, 1.29% of pesco vegetarians, 0.92% of semi-vegetarians and 2.12% of non-vegetarians.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211383512000834 - Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B - Volume 2, Issue 4, August 2012, Pages 396–402 - found that only LONG CHAIN, greater than 14, saturated fat is toxic to the insulin producing beta cells. Most fat in animal products is C15-C24, the one that damages the beta cells.
5. The Obesity Argument
Vegans are the only group with a healthy BMI, body-mass index on average, being the thinnest group of all. With 2 billion people overweight, it is essential for people to think about going vegan ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/FKuTRJFy5tD.
6. The Alzheimer and Dementia Argument
Vegans are 2-3 times less likely to get dementia and Alzheimer compared to meat eaters ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/eD2Sa4Qz57V.
7. PREVENT OSTEOPOROSIS, Acidosis and Achieve 10 TIMES Lower Risk of Fracture ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/N29AnqZKfex (this post also lists 8 common vegan foods with more absorbable calcium than milk per 100 grams).
Countries with highest milk consumption have 5-10 times the fracture rate of low milk and dairy countries ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3421108/figure/Fig1/. Read the whole paper for more Figures https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3421108/, Osteoporos Int. 2012 Sep;23(9):2239-56.. Tunisia (1.9%), Ecuador (2.5%), Philippines (4.8%) and China (5.4%), Denmark (23%), Sweden (21%), Norway (19%) and Switzerland (18%)
The Harvard Nurses’ Health Study followed more than 77,000 women for 12 years and showed drinking more milk daily was linked to 45% more hip fractures, and the more milk the more fractures. ► FREE paper ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1380936/ ► Am J Public Health 1997;87:992-7.
Positive PRAL foods, like milk, increase urinary Calcium, they also increase absorbed calcium, at least in some people. ► free paper ► J. Nutr. 141: 391–397, 2011. ► https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/58217/PDF . The real concern here is that if high PRAL diet lacks enough extra calcium to absorb to compensate for the loss in urine (calcium loss used to neutralize acid in the body), then it will cause bone loss as some studies concluded below. Hence monitoring the PRAL score of foods would be helpful when there are bone or teeth issues.
In patients consuming an acidifying diet (the more protein the more calcium in urine they found) a restriction of calcium intake could increase bone resorption leading to a progressive bone loss ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11223695 ► Eur Urol. 2001 Jan;39 Suppl 2:33-6; discussion 36-7
Those eating more high PRAL foods are 2.5 times more likely to have calcium stones, since more calcium is absorbed to compensate for calcium loss in urine from bones due to the need to raise pH to prevent death. Since veggies are negative PRAL and lower total PRAL, it was natural that those with more veggies in diet had fewer calcium stones. ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24002043 ► Eur J Clin Nutr. 2013 Oct;67(10):1077-80.
For more databases of foods and their content see http://health-diet.us/ or http://nutritionsoftware.org/usda-nutrient-databases.
Vegans tend to have alkaline diets, while most people have acidic (positive PRAL score) diets. PRAL value is calculated from a formula developed by Thomas Remer and other researchers at the Department of Nutrition and Health, the Research Institute of Child Nutrition, Dortmund, Germany, to assess the acidity of foods and diets. PRAL formula: PRAL = 0.49 x protein + 0.037 x phosphorus - 0.021 x potassium - 0.026 x magnesium - 0.013 x calcium
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, led by MD Neal Barnard in Washington, explain at ► http://www.pcrm.org/health/diets/vegdiets/health-concerns-about-dairy-products why dairy is bad. Neal offers more tips for preventing osteoporosis with a vegan diet at ► http://www.pcrm.org/health/health-topics/preventing-and-reversing-osteoporosis.
Alkaline diets help people live longer healthier lives. The United States Department of Agriculture has come up with the PRAL (Potential Renal Acid Load) Chart to help people prevent over ingestion of acid forming foods, which then lead to chronic secretion of ammonia in the kidneys, and damage to kidneys and other organs.
The PRAL score in the free paper at http://www.vivalis.si/uploads/datoteke/2a95.pdf shows that most nuts, all fruits and veggies are alkaline forming, while meats, dairy, grains and a few nuts are acid forming, calcium dissolving. Thus, if one eats too high PRAL foods that have no calcium, one risks osteoporosis and dental issues.
All raw veggies (and fruits, except a few fruits) are alkaline forming. All nuts, dairy, meats and grains are acid forming. Most legumes are alkaline forming. Tomatoes and all forms of tomato paste, etc are one of the most alkalinizing common foods. Foods can be categorized by the potential renal acid loads (PRALs). The best foods are those with negative PRALs, see the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) table here for each food (per 100 grams) ► you can search 8000 foods for the PRAL score at http://health-diet.us/alkaline-diet/ or see a smaller USDA version at https://www.clinicaleducation.org/documents/revised-summary-pral-list.pdf. Our renal acid load for overall diet should be negative according to many doctors and nutrition experts. :) Chronic acidosis can lead to lots of diseases, even more acne breakouts which are far more common in people ingesting foods with high PRAL.
There are lots of papers published about PRAL, for example ► Potential renal acid load of foods and its influence on urine pH ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7797810 ► J Am Diet Assoc. 1995 Jul;95(7):791-7..
Alkaline diet benefits study ► free paper ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3195546/, J Environ Public Health. 2012; 2012: 727630..
Not only that, but all vegan milks on the market are fortified so they have the same 300 mg of Calcium per 100 grams of milk ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/MWrXdGEPRrn. Note, for those using vegan milks, coconut milk has amino acid score of 87, higher than cow milk, but most soymilk has amino acid score of 25. Therefore, by all means, avoid soymilk if you use it as "protein" for reasons explained at ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/AA2XSSyoGZ1. Also, coconut milk (or even better eating raw coconuts) has been noted to prevent osteoporosis, while cow milk accelerates it ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/hYLN6LTGoBr.
8. The Environmental Argument
Cause of global warming: greenhouse effect
Primary cause of greenhouse effect: carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels
Fossil fuels needed to produce meat-centered diet vs. a meat-free diet: 3 times more
Percentage of U.S. topsoil lost to date: 75
Percentage of U.S. topsoil loss directly related to livestock raising: 85
Number of acres of U.S. forest cleared for cropland to produce meat-centered diet: 260 million
Amount of meat imported to U.S. annually from Central and South America: 300,000,000 pounds
Percentage of Central American children under the age of five who are undernourished: 75
Area of tropical rainforest consumed in every quarter-pound of rainforest beef: 55 square feet
Current rate of species extinction due to destruction of tropical rainforests for meat grazing and other uses: 1,000 per year
9. The Cancer Argument
Too much animal protein leads to cancer, see many studies at this link ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/GRyT6ks8dAm.
Latinas eating bacon and Caucasians eating tuna have increased breast cancer risk according to a February 2016 study in Cancer Causes and Control Journal ► https://news.usc.edu/92558/processed-meat-may-increase-the-risk-of-breast-cancer-for-latinas-usc-study-finds/
VEGANS have lower risk of PROSTATE CANCER ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/4Xq2dd7LMs2. In 1958, the prostate cancer death rate in USA was almost 400 times higher than in Japan, due to the fact meat and dairy intake was about 40 times higher. ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/RsRJKRBMn1S
The higher the intake of dairy, the higher the prostate cancer rate ► http://www.pcrm.org/health/health-topics/milk-and-prostate-cancer-the-evidence-mounts. See a recent review of studies at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25527754
Laos eats 9 times more unrefined vegan foods and gets 16 times less heart disease and cancer ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/cS5xiubGSHD
VEGANS can have 3 times lower rate of OVARIAN CANCER ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/5ozBdZZRrbm
The more animal products, the higher the intestinal cancer rate ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/EmnyZubXPLz, colon cancer rate ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/CTdeao1aDGh and the breast cancer rate ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/WFWB6jSoKzz. In fact, when people gave up meat, dairy and processed foods and embraced a raw vegan diet, they cured all kinds of cancers, including colon as explained at https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/hiCPzFDKb9m.
According to Harvard researchers, when dairy intake exceeds the enzymes’ capacity to break down galactose, it can build up in the blood and damage the ovaries. Women with low levels of these enzymes have triple the risk of ovarian cancer when they consume dairy. ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2567871
The World Health Organization has ruled that bacon, sausages, hot dogs cause cancer, while beef, pork, veal and lamb are "probably carcinogenic" ► http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/10/26/451211964/bad-day-for-bacon-processed-red-meats-cause-cancer-says-who
Increased risk of breast cancer for women who eat meat daily compared to less than once a week: 3.8 times
For women who eat eggs daily compared to once a week: 2.8 times
For women who eat butter and cheese 2-4 times a week: 3.25 times
Increased risk of fatal ovarian cancer for women who eat eggs 3 or more times a week vs. less than once a week: 3 times
Increased risk of fatal prostate cancer for men who consume meat, cheese, eggs and milk daily vs. sparingly or not at all: 3.6 times.
See many vegan forms of "eggs, meat, cheese" ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/C2fUeYAPhFR if you absolutely like the taste and texture of those.
Cornell Professor Colin Campbell has shown that tumor growth in rats was greatly enhanced by diets containing >10% animal protein (casein, 87% of the milk protein is casein) and was completely repressed with either 5% animal protein or >20% plant protein at ANY STAGE OF TUMOR DEVELOPMENT ► http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/85/6/1667.full - Am J Clin Nutr June 2007, vol. 85 no. 6 1667
CARCINOGENIC "Heterocyclic amines (HCAs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are chemicals formed when muscle meat, including beef, pork, fish, or poultry, is cooked using high-temperature methods, such as pan frying or grilling directly over an open flame" ► http://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/diet/cooked-meats-fact-sheet
10. The Waste Argument
Animal agriculture produces millions of pounds of waste daily in America alone. A 2500 dairy cow farm produces more poop than the city of Minneapolis (almost half a million people). This has to be gotten rid of. It can be infested with mad cow disease at times, swine flu, bird flu perhaps if not beef. Fecal matter from dairy farms is starting to destroy our drinking water supplies and it has already been causing huge dead zones from the Chesapeake Bay to the Gulf of Mexico.
*11. The Cholesterol Argument
Number of U.S. medical schools: 125
Number requiring a course in nutrition: 30
Nutrition training received by average U.S. physician during four years in medical school: 2.5 hours
Most common cause of death in the U.S.: heart attack
How frequently a heart attack kills in the U.S.: every 45 seconds
Average U.S. man's risk of death from heart attack: 50 percent
Risk of average U.S. man who eats no meat: 15 percent
Risk of average U.S. man who eats no meat, dairy or eggs: 4 percent
Amount you reduce risk of heart attack if you reduce consumption of meat, dairy and eggs by 10 percent: 9 percent
Amount you reduce risk of heart attack if you reduce consumption by 50 percent: 45 percent
Amount you reduce risk if you eliminate meat, dairy and eggs from your diet: 90 percent
Average cholesterol level of people eating meat-centered-diet: 210 mg/dl
Chance of dying from heart disease if you are male and your blood cholesterol level is 210 mg/dl: greater than 50 percent
12. The Natural Resources Argument
User of more than half of all water used for all purposes in the U.S.: livestock production
Amount of water used in production of the average cow: sufficient to float a destroyer
Gallons of water needed to produce a pound of wheat: 25
Gallons of water needed to produce a pound of California beef: 5,000
Years the world's known oil reserves would last if every human ate a meat-centered diet: 13
Years they would last if human beings no longer ate meat: 260
Calories of fossil fuel expended to get 1 calorie of protein from beef: 78
To get 1 calorie of protein from soybeans: 2
Percentage of all raw materials (base products of farming, forestry and mining, including fossil fuels) consumed by U.S. that is devoted to the production of livestock: 33
Percentage of all raw materials consumed by the U.S. needed to produce a complete vegetarian diet: 2
13. The Toxic Chemicals Argument
Vitamins, foods, make up, shampoo, shaving cream, deodorants, soap, etc that do not have the Vegan label on them, even though they cost the same - have 10-20 times more harmful compounds such as triethanolamine, petrolatum, triclosan, Aluminum, artificial colors, etc. All junk bought at mainstream non-Vegan non-health food stores is often loaded with carcinogenic and Alzheimer causing chemicals as explained at ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/C5koo4awzki. Aluminum hydroxide causes neuron death, most Vegan label products say "Fluoride Free, Aluminum Free, paraben Free, petroleum Glycols free,", etc. When you shop at a health food or vegan store for Vegan label products, you are always getting something far less harmful, because Vegan companies and founders are very health conscious and aware of things that FDA will ban 10-20 years before it happens, as vegans are the activists that often drive these toxic chemicals bans. And among Vegan products always look for those that have the least man made chemicals or if any man made, google it to make sure it's not something bad. When you buy Vegan label products, you move the planet towards World Peace and Compassion and save your health too. You no longer put that many toxins in your system. Triethanolamine, petrolatum for example are used in most non-Vegan skin care products, but they can cause skin irritation acne, allergy, etc. Triclosan can cause miscarriage, heart failure, thyroid problems, etc.
14. The Antibiotic Argument
Percentage of U.S. antibiotics fed to livestock: 55
Percentage of staphylococci infections resistant to penicillin in 1960: 13
Percentage resistant in 1988: 91
Response of European Economic Community to routine feeding of antibiotics to livestock: ban
Response of U.S. meat and pharmaceutical industries to routine feeding of antibiotics to livestock: full and complete support
Animals are fed 80% of antibiotics in America, and all kinds of hormones banned in the EU. These things don't go into lentils, grains, beans at all. Also, a cow eats 21 times its weight of vegetables before slaughter, meaning it ingests huge amounts of insecticides, pesticides, etc that are found in the cow feed (mostly GMO corn and soy). So, the meat accumulates all these toxins absent in non-GMO lentils, beans, etc.
15. The Pesticide Argument
Common belief: U.S. Department of Agriculture protects our health through meat inspection
Reality: fewer than 1 out of every 250,000 slaughtered animals is tested for toxic chemical residues
Percentage of U.S. mother's milk containing significant levels of DDT: 99
Percentage of U.S. vegetarian mother's milk containing significant levels of DDT: 8
Contamination of breast milk, due to chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides in animal products, found in meat-eating mothers vs. non-meat eating mothers: 35 times higher
Amount of Dieldrin ingested by the average breast-fed American infant: 9 times the permissible level
How to choose the fruits and veggies with least pesticides ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/HYJP47EZhsj (a list of 50 veggies and fruits in order of pesticide contamination)
16. The Ethical Argument
Number of animals killed for meat per hour in the U.S.: 660,000
Occupation with highest turnover rate in U.S.: slaughterhouse worker
Occupation with highest rate of on-the-job-injury in U.S.: slaughterhouse worker
17. The Survival Argument
Athlete to win Ironman Triathlon more than twice: Dave Scott (6 time winner)
Food choice of Dave Scott: Vegetarian
18. The Fear-Stress Hormones/Vibrations Argument
When animals suffer for seconds/minutes during the sudden slaughter death, they release stress-fear hormones that age and sicken us. The term fight and flight was coined by a professor who did inject happy animals with the blood of frightened animals and noticed the calm animals became frightened too, so when humans eat meat, with all the blood in the capillaries that is never drained (meat is actually beige in color when you remove the blood completely), they get some of those chemicals in their stomach and depending on what happens during digestion, some physical component is there inducing human into a high cortisol response, which is known in hundreds of studies - meat eaters have higher cortisol levels ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/ZwKDX2Gjqcs. Not only the animal known matter components carry that signature of all the horror the animals went thru all their lives and also in the last 24 hours of their life, but there is obviously another matter that we feel when we go to a place where a huge number of animals or people have been slaughtered, the energy is there and some stomach hydrochloric acid will not change the energy present, the alter-matter that holds so to speak this matter or is bound to it. Fear hormones as well as astral vibrations that contaminate their flesh also prompt us into human-human conflict more often, as we are infected with the horrific feelings these animals experienced at slaughter and before, when crowded in tiny places 10000 chickens at once, always stepping on each other, pecking at each other (they are debeaked without anesthesia), etc, stressed out, that stuff truly changes things as explained at the link a few lines above; we and animals share a lot of hormonal pathways, as neuroscience shows. Gandhi, Tesla, Edison, Einstein, Newton, DaVinci were vegetarian for most or part of their lives: goo.gl/IMJQJ.
19. The Amazon and other Key Forests Argument
Rainfall and preventing desertification is achieved thru a complex hydrologic cycle that involves forests. If we wipe out all forests, we are in big trouble, since forests generate 20-50% of the oxygen we breathe and ensure we get rain. Beef uses 160 times more land and 200 times more water per calorie than wheat, lentils, beans, potatoes do. Beef requires 28 times more land and 11 times more water than chicken and pork ► http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/21/giving-up-beef-reduce-carbon-footprint-more-than-cars. If people go vegan or just without beef, you help save lots of water and forests.
20. ESP-Telepathy Argument
It has been noticed that telepathy and other ESP functions become enhanced when meat is given up ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/6NsPQJ57oGM. See also the telepathy and biophotons connection, as well as lack of biophotons in cancer tissue ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/EkRbrCJDzaC. The MIT paper on biophotons in fresh fruits and veggies ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/ef6UA8yGtLk. See the biophoton of cooked versus raw cabbage at ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/hWU14s1C2My.
21. Space Exploration Argument
How can astronauts go in space and raise cattle on their spaceship to get to Alpha Centauri? lol. You got to be kidding me. The nice thing about veganism is that with vertical urban farms, people can get local food (fresh - picked up 2 hours before, thus very rich in biophotons) easily in any area and Earth can thus feed 50 billion vegans easily. Going off-planet is a lot easier too when there are more scientists/engineers working on space travel, terra forming planets, etc. Creating perfect weather, eliminating deaths from natural disasters, etc all these things require a lot of science.
22. The Longevity Argument
Bama centenarians, some over 110, live on a 100% VEGAN diet ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/du2jsEF9xbP. They take no vitamins. Vegetarians and vegans were shown to live 7-12 years longer than non-vegetarians. The Longest living people in North America are the vegetarian and vegan Adventists in Loma Linda, who reach 105-110 often. Here is a Loma Linda doctor (I talked to him) who did surgeries at 95: http://goo.gl/MQqn3, after decades of being vegan. Most centenarians eat a mostly VEGAN diet ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/dTLXiiTPdq4 ◄ has a long list of vegan or vegetarian centenarians. 108 year old American vegan Loreen Dinwiddie ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/aH5TeGMXf9A (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkRN3ddd0P8 is a 33 second video of her 108th birthday)
2% of population is underweight, but a Georgia study found that within 244 people above 98 years old, 31% are underweight. The longest living people are thin usually. Vegans are the only group with a healthy average body weight ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/PXVbaNSjNTJ. A 800 person Chinese study of people 90 years or older found that 44% were underweight and 7% were obese ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24287207. A 2014 study at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26892574 found that among 255 people in Portugal with median age of 100 years, 25% were underweight, 13% were overweight. That's quite different, probably due to diet.
23. The Flu and other Diseases Argument
Without incredibly toxic and filthy factory farms, there will be no frequent epidemics of swine flu, bird flu, mad cow disease, etc. Here is a Vegan natural "flu shot" ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/WiZvEGdo1Qo
24. The Poop Argument
There is fecal matter in virtually all American beef according to Consumer Reports ► http://www.inquisitr.com/2368247/all-ground-beef-in-the-us-is-contaminated-with-fecal-matter-according-to-consumer-reports/. Also much of chicken meat has poop in it ► http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathy-freston/chicken-contamination_b_1655170.html
25. The IQ Argument
It's been found in many studies that vegetarians and vegans have higher IQ on average than meat eaters, see more about raising a healthy vegan kid at https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/KP2EyDWNSbU. The American Pediatrics Association says vegan diet since infancy is fine as explained at the link. "Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.” Einstein. On a similar note he stated, “Our task must be to [widen] our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” And on the day he became a vegetarian, Einstein wrote in his diary, “So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.” For more quotes on giving up meat from world's most amazing people, see this post ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/CapnTqw8Xix
26. The PRAL (Potential Renal Acid Load) Score Argument ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/Jsfe76FaDUB
Alkaline diets help people live longer healthier lives. The United States Department of Agriculture has come up with the PRAL (Potential Renal Acid Load) Chart to help people prevent over ingestion of acid forming foods, which then lead to chronic secretion of ammonia in the kidneys, and damage to kidneys and other organs.
The PRAL score in the free paper at http://www.vivalis.si/uploads/datoteke/2a95.pdf shows that most nuts, all fruits and veggies are alkaline forming, while meats, dairy, grains and a few nuts are acid forming, calcium dissolving. Thus, if one eats too high PRAL foods that have no calcium, one risks osteoporosis and dental issues.
All raw veggies (and fruits, except a few fruits) are alkaline forming. All nuts, dairy, meats and grains are acid forming. Most legumes are alkaline forming. Tomatoes and all forms of tomato paste, etc are one of the most alkalinizing common foods. Foods can be categorized by the potential renal acid loads (PRALs). The best foods are those with negative PRALs, see the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) table here for each food (per 100 grams) ► you can search 8000 foods for the PRAL score at http://health-diet.us/alkaline-diet/ or see a smaller USDA version at https://www.clinicaleducation.org/documents/revised-summary-pral-list.pdf. Our renal acid load for overall diet should be negative according to many doctors and nutrition experts. :) Chronic acidosis can lead to lots of diseases, even more acne breakouts which are far more common in people ingesting foods with high PRAL.
There are lots of papers published about PRAL, for example ► Potential renal acid load of foods and its influence on urine pH ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7797810 ► J Am Diet Assoc. 1995 Jul;95(7):791-7..
Alkaline diet benefits study ► free paper ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3195546/, J Environ Public Health. 2012; 2012: 727630..
Positive PRAL foods, like milk, increase urinary Calcium, they also increase absorbed calcium, at least in some people. ► free paper ► J. Nutr. 141: 391–397, 2011. ► https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/58217/PDF . The real concern here is that if high PRAL diet lacks enough extra calcium to absorb to compensate for the loss in urine (calcium loss used to neutralize acid in the body), then it will cause bone loss as some studies concluded below. Hence monitoring the PRAL score of foods would be helpful when there are bone or teeth issues.
Countries with highest milk consumption have 5-10 times the fracture rate of low milk and dairy countries ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3421108/figure/Fig1/. Read the whole paper for more Figures https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3421108/, Osteoporos Int. 2012 Sep;23(9):2239-56.. Tunisia (1.9%), Ecuador (2.5%), Philippines (4.8%) and China (5.4%), Denmark (23%), Sweden (21%), Norway (19%) and Switzerland (18%)
The Harvard Nurses’ Health Study followed more than 77,000 women for 12 years and showed drinking more milk daily was linked to 45% more hip fractures, and the more milk the more fractures. ► FREE paper ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1380936/ ► Am J Public Health 1997;87:992-7.
In patients consuming an acidifying diet (the more protein the more calcium in urine they found) a restriction of calcium intake could increase bone resorption leading to a progressive bone loss ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11223695 ► Eur Urol. 2001 Jan;39 Suppl 2:33-6; discussion 36-7
Those eating more high PRAL foods are 2.5 times more likely to have calcium stones, since more calcium is absorbed to compensate for calcium loss in urine from bones due to the need to raise pH to prevent death. Since veggies are negative PRAL and lower total PRAL, it was natural that those with more veggies in diet had fewer calcium stones. ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24002043 ► Eur J Clin Nutr. 2013 Oct;67(10):1077-80.
For more databases of foods and their content see http://health-diet.us/ or http://nutritionsoftware.org/usda-nutrient-databases.
Vegans tend to have alkaline diets, while most people have acidic (positive PRAL score) diets. PRAL value is calculated from a formula developed by Thomas Remer and other researchers at the Department of Nutrition and Health, the Research Institute of Child Nutrition, Dortmund, Germany, to assess the acidity of foods and diets. PRAL formula: PRAL = 0.49 x protein + 0.037 x phosphorus - 0.021 x potassium - 0.026 x magnesium - 0.013 x calcium
27. The Telomere Length Argument
After a low fat whole plant foods vegan diet (the Ornish diet), Nobel Prize winner Elizabeth Blackburn found that telomerase activity increased by 30% in 3 months (telomerase reportedly helps us live longer by repairing the end of our chromosomes) ► http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/06/ornish-diet-heart-health-us-news_n_1188205.html.
28. Eye health (more carotenoids and antioxidants, vegans have the best eye health as they eat the most fruits and veggies), bone health, Heart health (higher magnesium intake) and other reasons (57 reasons) ► http://www.nursingdegree.net/blog/19/57-health-benefits-of-going-vegan/. For more NIH Library studies showing the same thing, see https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/hSk3Y3RE5TJ. Eggs, the only non-vegan source of lutein (lutein protects the eye from blue light induced macular degeneration and blindness), have 120 times less lutein-zeaxanthin than Kale.
29. Heart Rate Argument ► Vegan heart rate is 20 beats lower, leading to less heart wear and longer life.
30. Water Argument
Vegans use 4 times less water than vegetarians and 13 times less than meat eaters ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/EFUbV8uNd8g. It's clear that veganism is the most compassionate choice. :)
31. The Kidney Stones Argument
Vegans have 2.5 times less kidney stones than meat eaters ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/RFQUQt4M3He. High protein diet brings risk of kidney stones ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1169452/ - BMJ. 2002 Aug 24; 325(7361): 408.
32. Evolutionary History, Enzyme-Digestion Systems Argument
We were mostly vegan for most of our evolutionary history ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/D4hCgiBRB4L.
33. Stress Hormone Argument, Effect on newborn birth weight, height, IQ
Meat Eaters have much higher cortisol, stress hormone and this has catastrophic effect on the height, weight, IQ of the kids ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/ZwKDX2Gjqcs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcPVkU0AseM shows many studies indicating meat leads to higher stress and cortisol, while https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/CKvcTre8AKP has 2400 lines about stress effects on born and unborn babies). Raising Vegan Infants and Kids is already common, with many youtube channels presenting what vegan kids eat - see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCokV-a9_to for example. There are many books that present vegan recipes for infants and kids, such as https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/akgyzQYrb2U. Below is presented some of the scientific evidence from American and British (and many other countries) Governmental agencies about the safety of vegan diets for kids:
1. UNITED STATES:
1.1 Position of the American Dietetic Association ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19562864 -- J Am Diet Assoc. 2009 Jul;109(7):1266-82 says "It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that appropriately planned vegetarian diets, including total vegetarian or VEGAN diets, are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. Well-planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for individuals during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes."
1.2 The American Academy of Pediatrics approves of proper VEGAN diets for infants and kids of all ages ► http://pedsinreview.aappublications.org/content/25/5/174 -- Pediatrics in Review, May 2004, VOLUME 25 / ISSUE 5
1.3 Dr. Benjamin Spock, one of the most influential pediatricians of all time, recommended a vegan diet for all infants and people of all ages, in the 7th edition of "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care", arguing cow milk causes Type 1 Diabetes in kids and many issues as I explained at ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/5VVB1tPWG1d (cow milk causes beta cell destruction - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3580116/)
2. BRITAIN:
National Health Service (the publicly funded healthcare system in UK) ► http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/pages/vegetarian-vegan-children.aspx
34. The Omega 3 Fatty Acids Argument
Flax and Chia Seeds have 80 times more omega 3 than tilapia fish and without the mercury, PCBs, etc. There are endless sources of vegan omega 3 fatty acids (most veggies have some), without the heavy metals, mercury and PCBs in fish oil ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/6j3ABsdNdXH. Also, please look at this post on oil rancidity - https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/KM8QNkWke35 - to understand why I do not recommend ever using oils (especially adding them before cooking), for best heart health. It's much healthier to eat unroasted raw coconuts, walnuts, chia seeds, flax seeds instead and maybe a DHA oil or algal oil pill.
35. The Fiber Argument - Vegans get more fiber than the rest, one study of tens of thousands of people found vegans got the most fiber, 45 grams a day, compared to 15 for omnivores
There are endless sources of fiber on a vegan or raw vegan diet ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/hnABXrGQwWy. Most veggies and fruits have 1 gram of fiber per 100 grams at least, some have 7 grams of fiber per 100 grams (avocados).
36. The Water Hydration Argument - Vegans get more hydrated as they eat more fruits and veggies
For the best hydration while on a raw vegan or vegan diet, please see this post for information on how important for health is to eat fruits and veggies and avoid a mostly processed or cooked vegan diet ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/i3EEHt8iCQp.
37. The Asthma Argument - Vegans have the least Asthma :)
Vegan Diet Cures Asthma ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4019393 -- J Asthma. 1985;22(1):45-55. "Thirty-five patients who had suffered from bronchial asthma for an average of 12 yr, all receiving long-term medication, 20 including cortisone, were subject to therapy with vegan food for 1 yr. In almost all cases, medication was withdrawn or drastically reduced. "
38. The Protein Argument - (Too much protein causes cancer, Alzheimer, rapid aging, acne, etc as explained at ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/XraJ9xYY2ih) - SEE 100+ VEGAN PROTEIN SOURCES THAT ARE MORE COMPLETE THAN MILK AND HAMBURGER BEEF ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/DmMpkJ9LN3A
39. The Hypertension argument - a third of humanity has hypertension and this leads to cognitive decline, more arterial plaque, premature death, and more chance to have stroke or heart attack
Vegans have lower blood pressure due to higher intake of potassium, omega 3 and less intake of sodium. Here is a list of the richest vegan sources of potassium and an explanation of the critical importance of potassium, present especially in many veggies that non-vegans only rarely eat, leading the non-vegans to hypertension ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/421nFxmp7ML
40. The trans Fats Argument - meat and dairy are the only natural food sources that have toxic trans fats, fats which cause diabetes, heart disease, memory loss and are associated with more aggressive behavior ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/CwfGzuEz6Je
41. The Animal Bacteria Argument - 20-60% of meat is contaminated with Clostridium Difficile, which causes 14000 deaths a year in the US alone ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/Ge8gJQKxMWq
42. The Depression and Happiness Argument - vegans and vegetarians are happier and less depressed, since they eat more fruits and veggies ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/iu24DLcysxj
43. The infection with Worms Argument - vegans are least likely to get infected with worms, see people get worms inside the brain, eyes and body all over, dying from it ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/bEoGg3p1EK6
44. The mercury argument - vegans don't eat fish, so they get far less of the toxic neuron killing mercury in their brain. Make sure you don't use amalgam fillings as they leak as much mercury as eating fish daily ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/DCZWMxHtm6x
45. The AGEs Argument - Vegan burgers have 115 times less AGEs (Advanced glycation end products) than McDonald's and other burgers. Most fruits and veggies have thousands of times less toxic AGEs than processed meats and dairy ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/TY4srRFE8Z3. Cheese got 1878 more AGEs than banana or cooked rice ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/dQomEorXa7S. Fruits and veggies have AGEs inhibiting compounds, such as flavonoids, etc. AGEs are generated even in people who never eat AGEs that much, and they cause oxidative stress and aging, heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer. See a list of fruits and veggies that inhibit AGEs from diet or natural body processes ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/Laf9YPG8iKW. Also please avoid eating French fries and all roasted and fried foods, as eating fries twice a week was found the double the risk of death of those eating boiled potatoes due to high AGE (90 times more AGEs in french fries versus boiled potatoes) ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/2wK8MwGtmUn. McDonald chicken stuff got over 1000 times more AGEs than banana or cooked rice ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/JEXrAezrF59. Avoid adding oils (canola, etc https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/M3mcUJSdbP1) while cooking and broiling tofu, etc as broiled tofu got 61 times more AGEs than microwaves soy burger ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/eXfXF82ULum.
46. Vegan Iron doesn't increase risk of heart disease, heme iron from meat does ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/1nfFXukBZQF
47. Vegans get more vitamin C, which was shown to remove heavy metals by 81% at 1000 mg levels within a week (1000 mg means eating 3 yellow bell peppers) ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/TUpVYo9k3uy
48. Air Pollution from Livestock Farms is Associated with Impaired Lung Function (Airway Obstruction) in Neighboring Residents. ► Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2017 May 10. ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28489427
49. AMA, American Medical Association (200000 doctors) issued a resolution on June 14th 2017 at its annual meeting for hospitals to "improve the health of patients, staff, and visitors by (1) providing a variety of healthful food, including plant-based (vegan) meals and meals that are low in fat, sodium, and added sugars, (2) eliminating processed meats from menus, and (3) providing and promoting healthful beverages." ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/bViwLEhK55C
50. AHA, American Heart Association recommends replacing saturated fat from butter, cheese and meats with vegetable oils or nuts (walnuts have the most omega 3 among nuts) and seeds. The explain that replacing cheese with walnuts can cut risk of heart disease by 25% ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/NUFNH4pKCov. For a more detailed explanation about why low fat veganism is even better than normal veganism, see https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/X8FowrM3dwX.
51. Crohn's Disease Argument ► *The best prevention of Crohn's disease relapse in an interventional study has been achieved by cutting most meat - 92% remission for minimal meat eaters versus 33% for those continuing to eat meat as usual. There is no study with omnivores going vegan for 2 years or vegetarian, because asking people to go semi-vegetarian by cutting most meat was far easier to do. ► World J Gastroenterol 2010 May 28; 16(20): 2484-2495 ► free paper ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2877178/pdf/WJG-16-2484.pdf.
52. People with lowest white blood cell count live the longest and studies show vegans have the lowest white blood cell count, explaining perhaps they they live longer on average by 7-12 years ► https://youtu.be/i8UB-WNlyVE. Possibly due to anti-oxidants and other phytonutrients. This other video https://youtu.be/dLP0g70-Ryc explains better the association between mortality and high white blood cell count.
53. Cow milk is for cows. Babies who are breastfed longer have higher IQ, better eye health and stronger immune system than those drinking cow milk. There are dozens of vegan foods with higher protein quality than milk and beef In 2015 vegan milk sales went up 9%, cow milk went down 7%. The trend is clear, as 54% of kids used vegan milks ► http://www.mintel.com/press-centre/food-and-drink/us-sales-of-dairy-milk-turn-sour-as-non-dairy-milk-sales-grow-9-in-2015.
54. PREVENT INGESTION OF CANCER tumor enhancing IGF-1 IN ORGANIC MILK AND ORGANIC DAIRY, SYNTHETIC GROWTH HORMONES IN NON-ORGANIC MILK, BACTERIA in all milk, IMMUNE SYSTEM WRECKING ANTIBIOTICS in non-organic milk:
Harvard article explains that higher insulin-like growth factor-1, IGF-1, can triple cancer risk ► http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/04.22/igf1.story.html. Meat and dairy raise IGF-1 levels and thus cancer risk.
A glass of milk from factory farms got about 130 million pus cells... and antibiotics (banned in Europe) that wreck our immune system, hormones banned in Europe that cause cancer, etc.... Even organic milk has some of that stuff. :) rBST HORMONE is banned in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Israel and the European Union since 2000. Argentina also banned the use of rBST. http://nutritionfacts.org/2011/09/08/how-much-pus-is-there-in-milk/ explains that pus is not somatic cells, but neutrophils (white blood cells) mixed with dead bacteria. According to the USDA, 1 in 6 dairy cows in the United States suffers from clinical mastitis, which is responsible for 1 in 6 dairy cow deaths on U.S. dairy farms. This level of disease is reflected in the concentration of somatic cells in the American milk supply. Somatic cell counts greater than a million per teaspoon are abnormal and “almost always” caused by mastitis. When a cow is infected, greater than 90% of the somatic cells in her milk are neutrophils, the inflammatory immune cells that form pus. The average somatic cell count in U.S. milk per spoonful is 1,120,000. If that is not enough, milk can have about 1 billion bacteria per quart. The Indiana administrative code says "grade A milk bacteria count using the standard plate count, shall be not more than one million bacteria per milliliter, or 1 billion per liter. The somatic cell count shall be not more than one million per milliliter." ► https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_cell_count. Pus is found in regions of bacterial infection and it's made of neutrophils, eosinophils, and basophils (3 types of white blood cells) and dead bacteria, as well as inflammatory exudate.
A study of 131,342 adults found that a 10% increase in animal protein consumption was associated with a 2% increase in mortality and 8% rise in risk of cardiovascular mortality. A 3% increase in plant-based protein led to a 10% fall in mortality and 12% decline in cardiovascular death. ► http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2540540 - Journal of the American Medical Association, Internal Medicine, August 01, 2016
55. PREVENT DIABETES TYPE 1 ► Several studies show that milk induces type 1 diabetes in many kids, due to the fact cow milk causes an autoimmune destruction of the beta cells producing insulin. A simple explanation is at http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/confirmed-anew-cows-milk-may-trigger-type-1-diabetes. The more technical paper is at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3580116/. There are many theories as to why milk causes type 1 diabetes, but one of them relates to some paratuberculosis bacterium (in milk and meat) triggering autoimmune attack of pancreatic beta cells, since 63% of type 1 people had this bacterium, while only 16% of the non-diabetics did as explained at https://youtu.be/1Mf7KtDquyM.
30% of casein in milk in beta casein. A1 and A2 beta-casein are the most common of 12 genetic variants of the beta-casein milk protein (due to genetic mutations in the bovine beta casein gene) that differ by one amino acid; a proline occurs at position 67 in A2 beta-casein (209 amino acids total), while in A1 beta-casein a histidine occurs at that position. beta-casomorphin-7, BCM-7, is produced when people consume casein A1, but not so much when they consume A2 casein found in human and goat milk (how much BCM-7 each produces varies by studies, but A1 much more than A2). beta-caseomorphin-7 is an immunosupressant opioid that is linked to diabetes 1 incidence. ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10096780 ► Diabetologia 1999 Aug;42(8):1032. A Nature paper about autism, heart disease, diabetes links to most A1 milk (except France, Asia and Africa which make A2 milk mostly), A1 casein milk, is at http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v60/n7/full/1602276a.html.
Human milk has 20-50% casein (beta casein is A2 type) with the rest 50-80% being whey (the casein content is approximately 20% of the total protein content in early lactation and 50% in late lactation as explained in this 2016 free paper ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4882692/), cow milk has about 80% casein the rest being whey protein (beta-lactoglobulin 65% and alpha-lactalbumin 25%, bovine serum albumin 8%, the rest 2% immunoglobulins).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3580116/ is a free full paper explaining "Based on epidemiological studies and meta-analyses, which suggested that early introduction of cow’s milk may serve as a trigger of Type 1 diabetes [9,10], a pilot study was initiated in 1995, principally in Finland, evaluating, in babies with high genetic risk markers of Type 1 diabetes, whether at the time of weaning replacement with a formula based on casein hydrolysate rather than cow milk might reduce the development of autoimmunity [11]. The trial randomized 230 infants to receive either a casein hydrolysate formula or a conventional, cow’s-milk formula (control) whenever breast milk was not available during the first 6–8 months of life. Eligible infants had human leukocyte antigen (HLA) conferred susceptibility to Type 1 diabetes and at least one family member with Type 1 diabetes. Children were followed for 10 years for development of diabetes-related autoantibodies and development of Type 1 diabetes. The investigators reported that the group assigned to casein hydrolysate formula had a reduced risk of development of β-cell autoimmunity (appearance of one or more antibodies) [hazard ratio 0.54 (0.29–0.95) and hazard ratio adjusted for observed difference in duration of exposure to study formula 0.51 (0.28–0.91)] [12]. It has been shown that exposure to bovine insulin in cow’s-milk formula has the capacity to induce an immune response to insulin [15]. Of 5003 infants screened, 1113 were found eligible, 1104 were randomized and 908 provided at least one follow-up sample. Randomization was to three groups: cow’s-milk formula (control), whey-based hydrolysed formula, or whey-based FINDIA formula essentially free of bovine insulin whenever breast milk was not available during the first 6 months of life. Children were followed until age 3 years for the development of diabetes-related autoantibodies. The group assigned to the FINDIA formula had a reduced risk of development of β-cell autoimmunity (appearance of one or more antibodies) [odds ratio in the intention-to-treat analysis 0.39 (0.17–0.91) and in the treatment-received analysis 0.23 (0.08–0.69) (P < 0.01) in the FINDIA group when compared with the cow’s-milk formula group] [16]."
Studies show those eating lots of meat have 73 times the risk of dying from diabetes, while those eating moderate amounts of meat have 23 times the risk of dying from diabetes compared to vegans. ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3988204/ -- Cell Metabolism 2014 Mar 4; 19(3): 407–417. The exact quote from this free full paper link is "Among subjects with no diabetes at baseline those in the high protein group had a 73-fold increase in risk (HR: 73.52; 95% CI: 4.47–1209.7), while those in the moderate protein category had an almost 23-fold increase in the risk of diabetes mortality" for those who have a hard time believing this.
56. Huge levels of Saturated Fat and Aluminum in Cheese
Cheese (sour cream, bacon, fatty meats too) has a lot of long chain saturated fatty acids and cholesterol, which are known to contribute heart disease. 50% of cheese calories for example come from saturated fat, while 70% come from fat. Cheese often has sodium aluminum phosphate added to it, making it very toxic, especially for people with impaired capacity to eliminate aluminum, as explained at the Alzheimer-aluminum post ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/YWkLhB9Bj1h.
57. PREVENT COLIC IN BABIES when mothers or babies drink milk ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/Gnzubp93Drp
Cow milk protein ingested by mom can end up in breast milk fed to the baby and lead to baby developing colic and crying a lot (one in 5 babies has colic). Removal of dairy from mom's diet led to end of crying and colic. For vegan mothers this is not a concern. ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6823433
"Abstract
Sixty-six mothers of 66 breast-fed infants with infantile colic were put on a diet free from cow's milk. The colic disappeared in 35 infants; it reappeared on at least two challenges (cow's milk to mother) in 23 infants (35%). A double-blind crossover trial with cow's milk whey protein was performed in 16 of these 23 mothers and infants. Six infants had to be taken out of the study for various reasons; of the remaining ten infants, nine reacted with colic after their mothers' intake of whey protein-containing capsules. Sequential analysis showed a high correlation between infantile colic in breast-fed infants and their mothers' consumption of cow's milk protein. A diet free of cow's milk is suggested for the mothers as a first trial of treatment of infantile colic in breast-fed infants."
A very similar study shows how replacing cow milk with soy milk removes colic, but this was done on babies, not their mothers ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1711543/.
US National Library of Medicine suggests no cow milk for infants under 1 anyway ► https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002448.htm
For more info on the cow milk protein allergy in infants, you can also read this study ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2083222/.
58. PREVENT CHRONIC CONSTIPATION IN KIDS ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/Gnzubp93Drp
Cow's milk can also lead to chronic constipation in infants ► Iacono G, Cavataio F, Montalto G, et al. Intolerance of cow’s milk and chronic constipation in children. N Engl J Med 1998;339:110-4. Thus, it's always better to breastfeed for 1 year or even more (some people do 2 years, but at least 6 months as CDC i think recommends) than to do what many moms do, which is switch to cow milk or infant formula after 1 month, formula or cow milk void of many benefits of human milk antibodies that build a strong immune system, etc. Infants are not baby cows, they have different immune systems. Human milk is designed for optimal brain development and eye development. Cow milk is not. Children who had been breastfed for 12 months had an IQ that was four points higher than those breastfed for less than a month ► http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/mar/18/brazil-longer-babies-breastfed-more-achieve-in-life-major-study. The first two years of life is the critical time for malnutrition, the consequences of which are often irreversible and include poor cognitive development, educability, and future economic productivity.
If you look at the chart at https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/gbF22KExfHe you will see that cow milk has way more protein (as do other animals) than human milk. The proteins in cow milk are the culprits for a lot of allergies, constipation and gastrointestinal problems of kids.
59. PREVENT DIARRHEA, GI DISTRESS due to Lactose intolerance ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/7Lm4k654ipC
Lactose (a sugar in milk) intolerance (gastrointestinal distress, diarrhea, and flatulence, plus other complications) affects 95 percent of Asian Americans, 74 percent of Native Americans, 70 percent of African Americans, 53 percent of Mexican Americans, and 15 percent of Caucasians.
60. CALCIUM IN MANY VEGGIES IS HIGHER THAN IN MILK AND BETTER ABSORBED
Here is a list of over 15 vegan sources of Calcium ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/HaTUVV6MQfX. They got vegan ice cream ► http://www.benjerry.com/flavors/non-dairy, vegan cheese, etc. :)
61. Human milk has 3 times less protein (its content changes with the age of infant), 4 times less sodium, Calcium and magnesium, 5 times more iron, 2 times less sugars than cow milk (Table 4-2, Agriculture Handbook No. 8, 1963, United States Department of Agriculture, see this table at https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/6XecKbZvvJm).
62. PREVENT PARKINSON'S DISEASE
Studies show milk consumption is linked to Parkinson's development (more milk, more Parkinson's) ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24894826 -- Eur J Epidemiol. 2014 Sep;29(9):613-9. and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12447934 -- Ann Neurol. 2002 Dec;52(6):793-801.
63. PREVENT HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE
Study shows milk intake increases risk of developing Huntington's disease ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2960786 -- J Neurol Sci. 1987 Sep;80(2-3):299-306.
64. PREVENT ASTHMA
Several people tried a vegan diet and got off asthma medications ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/4MasYbfu4tu (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4019393 -- J Asthma. 1985;22(1):45-55.)
65. PREVENT LEUKEMIA, BREAST CANCER
Most milk has bovine leukemia (leukemia is blood cancer) virus, a virus that caused the death of 2 monkeys. Vegans have 3 times less breast and prostate cancer than vegetarians who consume a lot of dairy, and this virus may have something to do with it because the odds of having breast cancer if this virus is present is also 3.1 times greater than if the virus is absent from the diet. This odds ratio is higher than any of the frequently publicized risk factors for breast cancer, such as obesity, alcohol consumption and use of post-menopausal hormones. ► http://news.berkeley.edu/2015/09/15/bovine-leukemia-virus-breast-cancer/
2 monkeys died of leukemia after being infected with bovine leukemia virus ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4370000
A USDA study showed 84% of milk (100% of milk from dairy farms with more than 500 cows) was infected with bovine leukemia virus ► https://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/nahms/dairy/downloads/dairy07/Dairy07_is_BLV.pdf
The full free paper the Berkeley article refers to is at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4557937/ -- PLoS One. 2015; 10(9): e0134304.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3835103/ is a free full paper explaining the evidence that viruses cause many types of cancer, and several viruses can cause breast cancer. (Cancers (Basel). 2010 Jun; 2(2): 752–772.)
Humans have antibodies reactive with Bovine leukemia virus. ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14709247 - AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 2003 Dec;19(12):1105-13.
Bovine leukemia virus DNA found in human breast tissue. ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4012802/ -- Emerg Infect Dis. 2014 May; 20(5): 772–782 - free full paper
66. PREVENT AUTISM, PSYCHOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT IN KIDS
Cow's milk has some casomorphins that are associated with autism, delays in psychomotor development, infant crib death (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12948848, Peptides. 2003 Jun;24(6):937-43.), type 1 diabetes, etc as explained at https://youtu.be/EYGbp_sifHs.
A 2009 study found that "the data indicate that breast feeding has an advantage over artificial feeding for infants' development during the first year of life and support the hypothesis for deterioration of bovine casomorphin elimination as a risk factor for delay in psychomotor development and other diseases such as autism." as shown in the abstract at ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19576256 ► Peptides. 2009 Oct;30(10):1854-60.
Nutr Neurosci. 2000;3(1):57-72 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27416160), free at
http://www.fooddetective.pl/download/No%2038.%20Cade%20Autism%20and%20Schizophrenia%20Paper.pdf explains that autistic kids have more beta caso morphin in their urine.
Note on "dairy free" milks, lab meats or vegan meats that imitate animal protein linked to cancers, and inflammation
Interesting thing is that some companies want to make "vegan" cheese or "vegan" meat by using microbial factories to synthesize beta-casein A1 and other animal proteins which were shown to cause cancer tumors in animals when overeaten, besides other problems. Also some of these burgers have too much fat because they imitate the "beef burgers exactly" and possibly too many AGEs, see more details at https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/7dLE1yK8d74. I believe it would be better to create proteins as in human milk and to replicate the human milk formula, which is very different than cow milk. That future "vegan" milk doesn't have antibiotics, pus, hormones, saturated fat, cholesterol so it's better than real cow milk. But it is only better by a wide margin probably only if it simulates human milk. On the other hand human milk month one has 20% casein, month 12 has 50% casein, everything changes, so protein needs for adults or people over 12 months probably change too. A lactating baby needs far more protein than an adult who grows far slower or a kid of 10 years. IN the animal kingdom animals only drink milk as a baby, humans are the only animal drinking milk after baby stage. Thus the question arises, do adults really benefit from a product that imitates human or cow milk perfectly? It would be healthier than cow milk, but anyway, hard to answer. A lot of research is needed before deciding which protein to make in microbial factories if this even becomes very popular in the next 20 years. Bacteria can make amino acids directly as explained at http://www.holisticmed.net/aspartame/aminoacid.htm, so in the future it will be possible to optimize this and make milks made of amino acids, essential fatty acids like DHA, ARA, EPA, etc, overcoming the issue of many people - lacking strong enough hydrochloric acid in the stomach after age 30 sometimes and the enzymes to digest protein as we age, leading to problems. Not to mention it takes a lot of energy to split proteins into amino acids, which taxes the body resources. Some amino acids can be digested well in free form. Anyway, any vegan "meat or milk" is still better than the real one, but i am just stating the obvious to those who may have severe autoimmune response to the proteins of animal type due to allergies created as a 2 year old ingesting cow milk casein protein as explained above.
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There are many vegan dating sites and resources if you want to meet other vegans to create more synergy or organize local events, spread the word, help vegetarians go vegan, etc ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/8XRWyBZrpXA
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the best video i have ever seen on white blood cell count being the healthiest (lowest) in vegans due to the high anti-inflammatory phytonutrients eaten :) There is also another video by the same doctor explaining in more detail why a low white blood count is so important ► https://youtu.be/dLP0g70-Ryc
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Fruit Pizza Recipe - This is a great recipe for making with the kids or anytime you want a no-fuss, sweet treat. It really couldn’t be easier so that it’s all I need to say about it: tangy, creamy, *soft and sweet. What’s not to love?
4 oz. vegan cream cheese, softened (i would use only 0.1 oz, 4 oz is too much fat, unhealthy)
1 ½ tablespoons apricot jam
Assorted fruit, sliced if large
1 plain vegan pizza crust or crescent roll, rolled into a pizza shape, baked and cooled
Mix together the cream cheese and apricot jam with a spoon until integrated. Spread on your cooled pizza crust and decorate with fruit. Enjoy or keep in the ‘fridge and enjoy later.
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For 100+ reasons I didn't eat meat for 21 years and dairy for 13 years (12% of millennials have already given up meat in America) see ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/2Z1fCnTHWbh. Going vegan is like planting 62 trees in your backyard, as far as CO2 emissions reduction.💜😊💜
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4 oz. vegan cream cheese, softened (i would use only 0.1 oz, 4 oz is too much fat, unhealthy)
1 ½ tablespoons apricot jam
Assorted fruit, sliced if large
1 plain vegan pizza crust or crescent roll, rolled into a pizza shape, baked and cooled
Mix together the cream cheese and apricot jam with a spoon until integrated. Spread on your cooled pizza crust and decorate with fruit. Enjoy or keep in the ‘fridge and enjoy later.
► VEGANISM ◄
For 100+ reasons I didn't eat meat for 21 years and dairy for 13 years (12% of millennials have already given up meat in America) see ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/2Z1fCnTHWbh. Going vegan is like planting 62 trees in your backyard, as far as CO2 emissions reduction.💜😊💜
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article about milk and bone health - imagine if what they say is true in some people at least, i..e. lower pH due to milk causes the body to release calcium in bones to raise the pH back to normal. The PRAL, Potential Renal Acid Load, score of dairy and meats is positive, meaning they increase kidney acidity and this causes the body to dissolve calcium from bones to neutralize the acid.
Countries with highest milk consumption have 5-10 times the fracture rate of low milk and dairy countries ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3421108/figure/Fig1/. Read the whole paper for more Figures https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3421108/, Osteoporos Int. 2012 Sep;23(9):2239-56.. Tunisia (1.9%), Ecuador (2.5%), Philippines (4.8%) and China (5.4%), Denmark (23%), Sweden (21%), Norway (19%) and Switzerland (18%)
The Harvard Nurses’ Health Study followed more than 77,000 women for 12 years and showed drinking more milk daily was linked to 45% more hip fractures, and the more milk the more fractures. ► FREE paper ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1380936/ ► Am J Public Health 1997;87:992-7.
Positive PRAL foods, like milk, increase urinary Calcium, they also increase absorbed calcium, at least in some people. ► free paper ► J. Nutr. 141: 391–397, 2011. ► https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/58217/PDF . The real concern here is that if high PRAL diet lacks enough extra calcium to absorb to compensate for the loss in urine (calcium loss used to neutralize acid in the body), then it will cause bone loss as some studies concluded below. Hence monitoring the PRAL score of foods would be helpful when there are bone or teeth issues.
In patients consuming an acidifying diet (the more protein the more calcium in urine they found) a restriction of calcium intake could increase bone resorption leading to a progressive bone loss ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11223695 ► Eur Urol. 2001 Jan;39 Suppl 2:33-6; discussion 36-7
Those eating more high PRAL foods are 2.5 times more likely to have calcium stones, since more calcium is absorbed to compensate for calcium loss in urine from bones due to the need to raise pH to prevent death. Since veggies are negative PRAL and lower total PRAL, it was natural that those with more veggies in diet had fewer calcium stones. ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24002043 ► Eur J Clin Nutr. 2013 Oct;67(10):1077-80.
For more databases of foods and their content see http://health-diet.us/ or http://nutritionsoftware.org/usda-nutrient-databases.
Vegans tend to have alkaline diets, while most people have acidic (positive PRAL score) diets. PRAL value is calculated from a formula developed by Thomas Remer and other researchers at the Department of Nutrition and Health, the Research Institute of Child Nutrition, Dortmund, Germany, to assess the acidity of foods and diets. PRAL formula: PRAL = 0.49 x protein + 0.037 x phosphorus - 0.021 x potassium - 0.026 x magnesium - 0.013 x calcium
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, led by MD Neal Barnard in Washington, explain at ► http://www.pcrm.org/health/diets/vegdiets/health-concerns-about-dairy-products why dairy is bad. Neal offers more tips for preventing osteoporosis with a vegan diet at ► http://www.pcrm.org/health/health-topics/preventing-and-reversing-osteoporosis.
Alkaline diets help people live longer healthier lives. The United States Department of Agriculture has come up with the PRAL (Potential Renal Acid Load) Chart to help people prevent over ingestion of acid forming foods, which then lead to chronic secretion of ammonia in the kidneys, and damage to kidneys and other organs.
The PRAL score in the free paper at http://www.vivalis.si/uploads/datoteke/2a95.pdf shows that most nuts, all fruits and veggies are alkaline forming, while meats, dairy, grains and a few nuts are acid forming, calcium dissolving. Thus, if one eats too high PRAL foods that have no calcium, one risks osteoporosis and dental issues.
All raw veggies (and fruits, except a few fruits) are alkaline forming. All nuts, dairy, meats and grains are acid forming. Most legumes are alkaline forming. Tomatoes and all forms of tomato paste, etc are one of the most alkalinizing common foods. Foods can be categorized by the potential renal acid loads (PRALs). The best foods are those with negative PRALs, see the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) table here for each food (per 100 grams) ► you can search 8000 foods for the PRAL score at http://health-diet.us/alkaline-diet/ or see a smaller USDA version at https://www.clinicaleducation.org/documents/revised-summary-pral-list.pdf. Our renal acid load for overall diet should be negative according to many doctors and nutrition experts. :) Chronic acidosis can lead to lots of diseases, even more acne breakouts which are far more common in people ingesting foods with high PRAL.
There are lots of papers published about PRAL, for example ► Potential renal acid load of foods and its influence on urine pH ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7797810 ► J Am Diet Assoc. 1995 Jul;95(7):791-7..
Alkaline diet benefits study ► free paper ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3195546/, J Environ Public Health. 2012; 2012: 727630..
Not only that, but all vegan milks on the market are fortified so they have the same 300 mg of Calcium per 100 grams of milk ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/MWrXdGEPRrn. Note, for those using vegan milks, coconut milk has amino acid score of 87, higher than cow milk, but most soymilk has amino acid score of 25. Also, coconut milk (or even better eating raw coconuts) has been noted to prevent osteoporosis, while cow milk accelerates it ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/hYLN6LTGoBr.
► VEGANISM ◄
For 100+ reasons I didn't eat meat for 21 years and dairy for 13 years (12% of millennials have already given up meat in America) see ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/2Z1fCnTHWbh. Going vegan is like planting 62 trees in your backyard, as far as CO2 emissions reduction.💜😊💜
🎶🎶🎶😊😉🎵🎵 🎼😊😉💚💜☀️🎵🎶🎶🎶💚💜☀️🎼 🎵🎵💚💜☀️🎶🎶🎼😊😉💚💜🎶☀️🎇 🌠🌠🎇🌠😊😉🌠🎇🎇😊😉🌠🌠😊😉☀️ 💛💙💚💜💜😊😉🌈🌈😊😉💜💜
Countries with highest milk consumption have 5-10 times the fracture rate of low milk and dairy countries ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3421108/figure/Fig1/. Read the whole paper for more Figures https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3421108/, Osteoporos Int. 2012 Sep;23(9):2239-56.. Tunisia (1.9%), Ecuador (2.5%), Philippines (4.8%) and China (5.4%), Denmark (23%), Sweden (21%), Norway (19%) and Switzerland (18%)
The Harvard Nurses’ Health Study followed more than 77,000 women for 12 years and showed drinking more milk daily was linked to 45% more hip fractures, and the more milk the more fractures. ► FREE paper ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1380936/ ► Am J Public Health 1997;87:992-7.
Positive PRAL foods, like milk, increase urinary Calcium, they also increase absorbed calcium, at least in some people. ► free paper ► J. Nutr. 141: 391–397, 2011. ► https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/58217/PDF . The real concern here is that if high PRAL diet lacks enough extra calcium to absorb to compensate for the loss in urine (calcium loss used to neutralize acid in the body), then it will cause bone loss as some studies concluded below. Hence monitoring the PRAL score of foods would be helpful when there are bone or teeth issues.
In patients consuming an acidifying diet (the more protein the more calcium in urine they found) a restriction of calcium intake could increase bone resorption leading to a progressive bone loss ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11223695 ► Eur Urol. 2001 Jan;39 Suppl 2:33-6; discussion 36-7
Those eating more high PRAL foods are 2.5 times more likely to have calcium stones, since more calcium is absorbed to compensate for calcium loss in urine from bones due to the need to raise pH to prevent death. Since veggies are negative PRAL and lower total PRAL, it was natural that those with more veggies in diet had fewer calcium stones. ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24002043 ► Eur J Clin Nutr. 2013 Oct;67(10):1077-80.
For more databases of foods and their content see http://health-diet.us/ or http://nutritionsoftware.org/usda-nutrient-databases.
Vegans tend to have alkaline diets, while most people have acidic (positive PRAL score) diets. PRAL value is calculated from a formula developed by Thomas Remer and other researchers at the Department of Nutrition and Health, the Research Institute of Child Nutrition, Dortmund, Germany, to assess the acidity of foods and diets. PRAL formula: PRAL = 0.49 x protein + 0.037 x phosphorus - 0.021 x potassium - 0.026 x magnesium - 0.013 x calcium
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, led by MD Neal Barnard in Washington, explain at ► http://www.pcrm.org/health/diets/vegdiets/health-concerns-about-dairy-products why dairy is bad. Neal offers more tips for preventing osteoporosis with a vegan diet at ► http://www.pcrm.org/health/health-topics/preventing-and-reversing-osteoporosis.
Alkaline diets help people live longer healthier lives. The United States Department of Agriculture has come up with the PRAL (Potential Renal Acid Load) Chart to help people prevent over ingestion of acid forming foods, which then lead to chronic secretion of ammonia in the kidneys, and damage to kidneys and other organs.
The PRAL score in the free paper at http://www.vivalis.si/uploads/datoteke/2a95.pdf shows that most nuts, all fruits and veggies are alkaline forming, while meats, dairy, grains and a few nuts are acid forming, calcium dissolving. Thus, if one eats too high PRAL foods that have no calcium, one risks osteoporosis and dental issues.
All raw veggies (and fruits, except a few fruits) are alkaline forming. All nuts, dairy, meats and grains are acid forming. Most legumes are alkaline forming. Tomatoes and all forms of tomato paste, etc are one of the most alkalinizing common foods. Foods can be categorized by the potential renal acid loads (PRALs). The best foods are those with negative PRALs, see the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) table here for each food (per 100 grams) ► you can search 8000 foods for the PRAL score at http://health-diet.us/alkaline-diet/ or see a smaller USDA version at https://www.clinicaleducation.org/documents/revised-summary-pral-list.pdf. Our renal acid load for overall diet should be negative according to many doctors and nutrition experts. :) Chronic acidosis can lead to lots of diseases, even more acne breakouts which are far more common in people ingesting foods with high PRAL.
There are lots of papers published about PRAL, for example ► Potential renal acid load of foods and its influence on urine pH ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7797810 ► J Am Diet Assoc. 1995 Jul;95(7):791-7..
Alkaline diet benefits study ► free paper ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3195546/, J Environ Public Health. 2012; 2012: 727630..
Not only that, but all vegan milks on the market are fortified so they have the same 300 mg of Calcium per 100 grams of milk ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/MWrXdGEPRrn. Note, for those using vegan milks, coconut milk has amino acid score of 87, higher than cow milk, but most soymilk has amino acid score of 25. Also, coconut milk (or even better eating raw coconuts) has been noted to prevent osteoporosis, while cow milk accelerates it ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/hYLN6LTGoBr.
► VEGANISM ◄
For 100+ reasons I didn't eat meat for 21 years and dairy for 13 years (12% of millennials have already given up meat in America) see ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/2Z1fCnTHWbh. Going vegan is like planting 62 trees in your backyard, as far as CO2 emissions reduction.💜😊💜
🎶🎶🎶😊😉🎵🎵 🎼😊😉💚💜☀️🎵🎶🎶🎶💚💜☀️🎼 🎵🎵💚💜☀️🎶🎶🎼😊😉💚💜🎶☀️🎇 🌠🌠🎇🌠😊😉🌠🎇🎇😊😉🌠🌠😊😉☀️ 💛💙💚💜💜😊😉🌈🌈😊😉💜💜
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Alkaline diets help people live longer healthier lives. The United States Department of Agriculture has come up with the PRAL (Potential Renal Acid Load) Chart to help people prevent over ingestion of acid forming foods, which then lead to chronic secretion of ammonia in the kidneys, and damage to kidneys and other organs.
The PRAL score in the free paper at http://www.vivalis.si/uploads/datoteke/2a95.pdf shows that most nuts, all fruits and veggies are alkaline forming, while meats, dairy, grains and a few nuts are acid forming, calcium dissolving. Thus, if one eats too high PRAL foods that have no calcium, one risks osteoporosis and dental issues.
All raw veggies (and fruits, except a few fruits) are alkaline forming. All nuts, dairy, meats and grains are acid forming. Most legumes are alkaline forming. Tomatoes and all forms of tomato paste, etc are one of the most alkalinizing common foods. Foods can be categorized by the potential renal acid loads (PRALs). The best foods are those with negative PRALs, see the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) table here for each food (per 100 grams) ► you can search 8000 foods for the PRAL score at http://health-diet.us/alkaline-diet/ or see a smaller USDA version at https://www.clinicaleducation.org/documents/revised-summary-pral-list.pdf. Our renal acid load for overall diet should be negative according to many doctors and nutrition experts. :) Chronic acidosis can lead to lots of diseases, even more acne breakouts which are far more common in people ingesting foods with high PRAL.
There are lots of papers published about PRAL, for example ► Potential renal acid load of foods and its influence on urine pH ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7797810 ► J Am Diet Assoc. 1995 Jul;95(7):791-7..
Alkaline diet benefits study ► free paper ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3195546/, J Environ Public Health. 2012; 2012: 727630..
Positive PRAL foods, like milk, increase urinary Calcium, they also increase absorbed calcium, at least in some people. ► free paper ► J. Nutr. 141: 391–397, 2011. ► https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/58217/PDF . The real concern here is that if high PRAL diet lacks enough extra calcium to absorb to compensate for the loss in urine (calcium loss used to neutralize acid in the body), then it will cause bone loss as some studies concluded below. Hence monitoring the PRAL score of foods would be helpful when there are bone or teeth issues.
Countries with highest milk consumption have 5-10 times the fracture rate of low milk and dairy countries ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3421108/figure/Fig1/. Read the whole paper for more Figures https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3421108/, Osteoporos Int. 2012 Sep;23(9):2239-56.. Tunisia (1.9%), Ecuador (2.5%), Philippines (4.8%) and China (5.4%), Denmark (23%), Sweden (21%), Norway (19%) and Switzerland (18%)
The Harvard Nurses’ Health Study followed more than 77,000 women for 12 years and showed drinking more milk daily was linked to 45% more hip fractures, and the more milk the more fractures. ► FREE paper ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1380936/ ► Am J Public Health 1997;87:992-7.
In patients consuming an acidifying diet (the more protein the more calcium in urine they found) a restriction of calcium intake could increase bone resorption leading to a progressive bone loss ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11223695 ► Eur Urol. 2001 Jan;39 Suppl 2:33-6; discussion 36-7
Those eating more high PRAL foods are 2.5 times more likely to have calcium stones, since more calcium is absorbed to compensate for calcium loss in urine from bones due to the need to raise pH to prevent death. Since veggies are negative PRAL and lower total PRAL, it was natural that those with more veggies in diet had fewer calcium stones. ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24002043 ► Eur J Clin Nutr. 2013 Oct;67(10):1077-80.
For more databases of foods and their content see http://health-diet.us/ or http://nutritionsoftware.org/usda-nutrient-databases.
Vegans tend to have alkaline diets, while most people have acidic (positive PRAL score) diets. PRAL value is calculated from a formula developed by Thomas Remer and other researchers at the Department of Nutrition and Health, the Research Institute of Child Nutrition, Dortmund, Germany, to assess the acidity of foods and diets. PRAL formula: PRAL = 0.49 x protein + 0.037 x phosphorus - 0.021 x potassium - 0.026 x magnesium - 0.013 x calcium
► VEGANISM ◄
For 100+ reasons I didn't eat meat for 21 years and dairy for 13 years (12% of millennials have already given up meat in America) see ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/2Z1fCnTHWbh. Going vegan is like planting 62 trees in your backyard, as far as CO2 emissions reduction.💜😊💜
🎶🎶🎶😊😉🎵🎵 🎼😊😉💚💜☀️🎵🎶🎶🎶💚💜☀️🎼 🎵🎵💚💜☀️🎶🎶🎼😊😉💚💜🎶☀️🎇 🌠🌠🎇🌠😊😉🌠🎇🎇😊😉🌠🌠😊😉☀️ 💛💙💚💜💜😊😉🌈🌈😊😉💜💜
The PRAL score in the free paper at http://www.vivalis.si/uploads/datoteke/2a95.pdf shows that most nuts, all fruits and veggies are alkaline forming, while meats, dairy, grains and a few nuts are acid forming, calcium dissolving. Thus, if one eats too high PRAL foods that have no calcium, one risks osteoporosis and dental issues.
All raw veggies (and fruits, except a few fruits) are alkaline forming. All nuts, dairy, meats and grains are acid forming. Most legumes are alkaline forming. Tomatoes and all forms of tomato paste, etc are one of the most alkalinizing common foods. Foods can be categorized by the potential renal acid loads (PRALs). The best foods are those with negative PRALs, see the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) table here for each food (per 100 grams) ► you can search 8000 foods for the PRAL score at http://health-diet.us/alkaline-diet/ or see a smaller USDA version at https://www.clinicaleducation.org/documents/revised-summary-pral-list.pdf. Our renal acid load for overall diet should be negative according to many doctors and nutrition experts. :) Chronic acidosis can lead to lots of diseases, even more acne breakouts which are far more common in people ingesting foods with high PRAL.
There are lots of papers published about PRAL, for example ► Potential renal acid load of foods and its influence on urine pH ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7797810 ► J Am Diet Assoc. 1995 Jul;95(7):791-7..
Alkaline diet benefits study ► free paper ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3195546/, J Environ Public Health. 2012; 2012: 727630..
Positive PRAL foods, like milk, increase urinary Calcium, they also increase absorbed calcium, at least in some people. ► free paper ► J. Nutr. 141: 391–397, 2011. ► https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/58217/PDF . The real concern here is that if high PRAL diet lacks enough extra calcium to absorb to compensate for the loss in urine (calcium loss used to neutralize acid in the body), then it will cause bone loss as some studies concluded below. Hence monitoring the PRAL score of foods would be helpful when there are bone or teeth issues.
Countries with highest milk consumption have 5-10 times the fracture rate of low milk and dairy countries ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3421108/figure/Fig1/. Read the whole paper for more Figures https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3421108/, Osteoporos Int. 2012 Sep;23(9):2239-56.. Tunisia (1.9%), Ecuador (2.5%), Philippines (4.8%) and China (5.4%), Denmark (23%), Sweden (21%), Norway (19%) and Switzerland (18%)
The Harvard Nurses’ Health Study followed more than 77,000 women for 12 years and showed drinking more milk daily was linked to 45% more hip fractures, and the more milk the more fractures. ► FREE paper ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1380936/ ► Am J Public Health 1997;87:992-7.
In patients consuming an acidifying diet (the more protein the more calcium in urine they found) a restriction of calcium intake could increase bone resorption leading to a progressive bone loss ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11223695 ► Eur Urol. 2001 Jan;39 Suppl 2:33-6; discussion 36-7
Those eating more high PRAL foods are 2.5 times more likely to have calcium stones, since more calcium is absorbed to compensate for calcium loss in urine from bones due to the need to raise pH to prevent death. Since veggies are negative PRAL and lower total PRAL, it was natural that those with more veggies in diet had fewer calcium stones. ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24002043 ► Eur J Clin Nutr. 2013 Oct;67(10):1077-80.
For more databases of foods and their content see http://health-diet.us/ or http://nutritionsoftware.org/usda-nutrient-databases.
Vegans tend to have alkaline diets, while most people have acidic (positive PRAL score) diets. PRAL value is calculated from a formula developed by Thomas Remer and other researchers at the Department of Nutrition and Health, the Research Institute of Child Nutrition, Dortmund, Germany, to assess the acidity of foods and diets. PRAL formula: PRAL = 0.49 x protein + 0.037 x phosphorus - 0.021 x potassium - 0.026 x magnesium - 0.013 x calcium
► VEGANISM ◄
For 100+ reasons I didn't eat meat for 21 years and dairy for 13 years (12% of millennials have already given up meat in America) see ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/2Z1fCnTHWbh. Going vegan is like planting 62 trees in your backyard, as far as CO2 emissions reduction.💜😊💜
🎶🎶🎶😊😉🎵🎵 🎼😊😉💚💜☀️🎵🎶🎶🎶💚💜☀️🎼 🎵🎵💚💜☀️🎶🎶🎼😊😉💚💜🎶☀️🎇 🌠🌠🎇🌠😊😉🌠🎇🎇😊😉🌠🌠😊😉☀️ 💛💙💚💜💜😊😉🌈🌈😊😉💜💜
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resharing this post as i updated the Osteoporosis section with a few extra studies presented below for those who don't want to read the whole thing
Countries with highest milk consumption have 5-10 times the fracture rate of low milk and dairy countries ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3421108/figure/Fig1/. Read the whole paper for more Figures https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3421108/, Osteoporos Int. 2012 Sep;23(9):2239-56.. Tunisia (1.9%), Ecuador (2.5%), Philippines (4.8%) and China (5.4%), Denmark (23%), Sweden (21%), Norway (19%) and Switzerland (18%)
The Harvard Nurses’ Health Study followed more than 77,000 women for 12 years and showed drinking more milk daily was linked to 45% more hip fractures, and the more milk the more fractures. ► FREE paper ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1380936/ ► Am J Public Health 1997;87:992-7.
Positive PRAL foods, like milk, increase urinary Calcium, they also increase absorbed calcium, at least in some people. ► free paper ► J. Nutr. 141: 391–397, 2011. ► https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/58217/PDF . The real concern here is that if high PRAL diet lacks enough extra calcium to absorb to compensate for the loss in urine (calcium loss used to neutralize acid in the body), then it will cause bone loss as some studies concluded below. Hence monitoring the PRAL score of foods would be helpful when there are bone or teeth issues.
In patients consuming an acidifying diet (the more protein the more calcium in urine they found) a restriction of calcium intake could increase bone resorption leading to a progressive bone loss ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11223695 ► Eur Urol. 2001 Jan;39 Suppl 2:33-6; discussion 36-7
Those eating more high PRAL foods are 2.5 times more likely to have calcium stones, since more calcium is absorbed to compensate for calcium loss in urine from bones due to the need to raise pH to prevent death. Since veggies are negative PRAL and lower total PRAL, it was natural that those with more veggies in diet had fewer calcium stones. ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24002043 ► Eur J Clin Nutr. 2013 Oct;67(10):1077-80.
For more databases of foods and their content see http://health-diet.us/ or http://nutritionsoftware.org/usda-nutrient-databases.
Vegans tend to have alkaline diets, while most people have acidic (positive PRAL score) diets. PRAL value is calculated from a formula developed by Thomas Remer and other researchers at the Department of Nutrition and Health, the Research Institute of Child Nutrition, Dortmund, Germany, to assess the acidity of foods and diets. PRAL formula: PRAL = 0.49 x protein + 0.037 x phosphorus - 0.021 x potassium - 0.026 x magnesium - 0.013 x calcium
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, led by MD Neal Barnard in Washington, explain at ► http://www.pcrm.org/health/diets/vegdiets/health-concerns-about-dairy-products why dairy is bad. Neal offers more tips for preventing osteoporosis with a vegan diet at ► http://www.pcrm.org/health/health-topics/preventing-and-reversing-osteoporosis.
Alkaline diets help people live longer healthier lives. The United States Department of Agriculture has come up with the PRAL (Potential Renal Acid Load) Chart to help people prevent over ingestion of acid forming foods, which then lead to chronic secretion of ammonia in the kidneys, and damage to kidneys and other organs.
The PRAL score in the free paper at http://www.vivalis.si/uploads/datoteke/2a95.pdf shows that most nuts, all fruits and veggies are alkaline forming, while meats, dairy, grains and a few nuts are acid forming, calcium dissolving. Thus, if one eats too high PRAL foods that have no calcium, one risks osteoporosis and dental issues.
All raw veggies (and fruits, except a few fruits) are alkaline forming. All nuts, dairy, meats and grains are acid forming. Most legumes are alkaline forming. Tomatoes and all forms of tomato paste, etc are one of the most alkalinizing common foods. Foods can be categorized by the potential renal acid loads (PRALs). The best foods are those with negative PRALs, see the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) table here for each food (per 100 grams) ► you can search 8000 foods for the PRAL score at http://health-diet.us/alkaline-diet/ or see a smaller USDA version at https://www.clinicaleducation.org/documents/revised-summary-pral-list.pdf. Our renal acid load for overall diet should be negative according to many doctors and nutrition experts. :) Chronic acidosis can lead to lots of diseases, even more acne breakouts which are far more common in people ingesting foods with high PRAL.
There are lots of papers published about PRAL, for example ► Potential renal acid load of foods and its influence on urine pH ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7797810 ► J Am Diet Assoc. 1995 Jul;95(7):791-7..
Alkaline diet benefits study ► free paper ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3195546/, J Environ Public Health. 2012; 2012: 727630..
Not only that, but all vegan milks on the market are fortified so they have the same 300 mg of Calcium per 100 grams of milk ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/MWrXdGEPRrn. Note, for those using vegan milks, coconut milk has amino acid score of 87, higher than cow milk, but most soymilk has amino acid score of 25. Also, coconut milk (or even better eating raw coconuts) has been noted to prevent osteoporosis, while cow milk accelerates it ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/hYLN6LTGoBr.
Countries with highest milk consumption have 5-10 times the fracture rate of low milk and dairy countries ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3421108/figure/Fig1/. Read the whole paper for more Figures https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3421108/, Osteoporos Int. 2012 Sep;23(9):2239-56.. Tunisia (1.9%), Ecuador (2.5%), Philippines (4.8%) and China (5.4%), Denmark (23%), Sweden (21%), Norway (19%) and Switzerland (18%)
The Harvard Nurses’ Health Study followed more than 77,000 women for 12 years and showed drinking more milk daily was linked to 45% more hip fractures, and the more milk the more fractures. ► FREE paper ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1380936/ ► Am J Public Health 1997;87:992-7.
Positive PRAL foods, like milk, increase urinary Calcium, they also increase absorbed calcium, at least in some people. ► free paper ► J. Nutr. 141: 391–397, 2011. ► https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/58217/PDF . The real concern here is that if high PRAL diet lacks enough extra calcium to absorb to compensate for the loss in urine (calcium loss used to neutralize acid in the body), then it will cause bone loss as some studies concluded below. Hence monitoring the PRAL score of foods would be helpful when there are bone or teeth issues.
In patients consuming an acidifying diet (the more protein the more calcium in urine they found) a restriction of calcium intake could increase bone resorption leading to a progressive bone loss ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11223695 ► Eur Urol. 2001 Jan;39 Suppl 2:33-6; discussion 36-7
Those eating more high PRAL foods are 2.5 times more likely to have calcium stones, since more calcium is absorbed to compensate for calcium loss in urine from bones due to the need to raise pH to prevent death. Since veggies are negative PRAL and lower total PRAL, it was natural that those with more veggies in diet had fewer calcium stones. ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24002043 ► Eur J Clin Nutr. 2013 Oct;67(10):1077-80.
For more databases of foods and their content see http://health-diet.us/ or http://nutritionsoftware.org/usda-nutrient-databases.
Vegans tend to have alkaline diets, while most people have acidic (positive PRAL score) diets. PRAL value is calculated from a formula developed by Thomas Remer and other researchers at the Department of Nutrition and Health, the Research Institute of Child Nutrition, Dortmund, Germany, to assess the acidity of foods and diets. PRAL formula: PRAL = 0.49 x protein + 0.037 x phosphorus - 0.021 x potassium - 0.026 x magnesium - 0.013 x calcium
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, led by MD Neal Barnard in Washington, explain at ► http://www.pcrm.org/health/diets/vegdiets/health-concerns-about-dairy-products why dairy is bad. Neal offers more tips for preventing osteoporosis with a vegan diet at ► http://www.pcrm.org/health/health-topics/preventing-and-reversing-osteoporosis.
Alkaline diets help people live longer healthier lives. The United States Department of Agriculture has come up with the PRAL (Potential Renal Acid Load) Chart to help people prevent over ingestion of acid forming foods, which then lead to chronic secretion of ammonia in the kidneys, and damage to kidneys and other organs.
The PRAL score in the free paper at http://www.vivalis.si/uploads/datoteke/2a95.pdf shows that most nuts, all fruits and veggies are alkaline forming, while meats, dairy, grains and a few nuts are acid forming, calcium dissolving. Thus, if one eats too high PRAL foods that have no calcium, one risks osteoporosis and dental issues.
All raw veggies (and fruits, except a few fruits) are alkaline forming. All nuts, dairy, meats and grains are acid forming. Most legumes are alkaline forming. Tomatoes and all forms of tomato paste, etc are one of the most alkalinizing common foods. Foods can be categorized by the potential renal acid loads (PRALs). The best foods are those with negative PRALs, see the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) table here for each food (per 100 grams) ► you can search 8000 foods for the PRAL score at http://health-diet.us/alkaline-diet/ or see a smaller USDA version at https://www.clinicaleducation.org/documents/revised-summary-pral-list.pdf. Our renal acid load for overall diet should be negative according to many doctors and nutrition experts. :) Chronic acidosis can lead to lots of diseases, even more acne breakouts which are far more common in people ingesting foods with high PRAL.
There are lots of papers published about PRAL, for example ► Potential renal acid load of foods and its influence on urine pH ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7797810 ► J Am Diet Assoc. 1995 Jul;95(7):791-7..
Alkaline diet benefits study ► free paper ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3195546/, J Environ Public Health. 2012; 2012: 727630..
Not only that, but all vegan milks on the market are fortified so they have the same 300 mg of Calcium per 100 grams of milk ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/MWrXdGEPRrn. Note, for those using vegan milks, coconut milk has amino acid score of 87, higher than cow milk, but most soymilk has amino acid score of 25. Also, coconut milk (or even better eating raw coconuts) has been noted to prevent osteoporosis, while cow milk accelerates it ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/hYLN6LTGoBr.
18 reasons to give up cow milk and dairy products. Cow milk is for cows. Babies who are breastfed longer have higher IQ, better eye health and stronger immune system than those drinking cow milk. There are dozens of vegan foods with higher protein quality than milk and beef ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/AA2XSSyoGZ1 and with more calcium than milk ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/8MMy14RZBpU. In 2015 vegan milk sales went up 9%, cow milk went down 7%. The trend is clear, as 54% of kids used vegan milks ► http://www.mintel.com/press-centre/food-and-drink/us-sales-of-dairy-milk-turn-sour-as-non-dairy-milk-sales-grow-9-in-2015.
1. PREVENT INGESTION OF CANCER tumor enhancing IGF-1 IN ORGANIC MILK AND ORGANIC DAIRY, SYNTHETIC GROWTH HORMONES IN NON-ORGANIC MILK, BACTERIA in all milk, IMMUNE SYSTEM WRECKING ANTIBIOTICS in non-organic milk:
Harvard article explains that higher insulin-like growth factor-1, IGF-1, can triple cancer risk ► http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/04.22/igf1.story.html. Meat and dairy raise IGF-1 levels and thus cancer risk.
A glass of milk from factory farms got about 130 million pus cells... and antibiotics (banned in Europe) that wreck our immune system, hormones banned in Europe that cause cancer, etc.... Even organic milk has some of that stuff. :) rBST HORMONE is banned in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Israel and the European Union since 2000. Argentina also banned the use of rBST.
http://nutritionfacts.org/2011/09/08/how-much-pus-is-there-in-milk/ explains that pus is not somatic cells, but neutrophils (white blood cells) mixed with dead bacteria. According to the USDA, 1 in 6 dairy cows in the United States suffers from clinical mastitis, which is responsible for 1 in 6 dairy cow deaths on U.S. dairy farms. This level of disease is reflected in the concentration of somatic cells in the American milk supply. Somatic cell counts greater than a million per teaspoon are abnormal and “almost always” caused by mastitis. When a cow is infected, greater than 90% of the somatic cells in her milk are neutrophils, the inflammatory immune cells that form pus. The average somatic cell count in U.S. milk per spoonful is 1,120,000.
If that is not enough, milk can have about 1 billion bacteria per quart. The Indiana administrative code says "grade A milk bacteria count using the standard plate count, shall be not more than one million bacteria per milliliter, or 1 billion per liter. The somatic cell count shall be not more than one million per milliliter." ► https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_cell_count. Pus is found in regions of bacterial infection and it's made of neutrophils, eosinophils, and basophils (3 types of white blood cells) and dead bacteria, as well as inflammatory exudate.
A study of 131,342 adults found that a 10% increase in animal protein consumption was associated with a 2% increase in mortality and 8% rise in risk of cardiovascular mortality. A 3% increase in plant-based protein led to a 10% fall in mortality and 12% decline in cardiovascular death. ► http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2540540 - Journal of the American Medical Association, Internal Medicine, August 01, 2016
The more animal products, the higher the intestinal cancer rate ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/EmnyZubXPLz, colon cancer rate ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/CTdeao1aDGh and the breast cancer rate ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/WFWB6jSoKzz
Laos eats 9 times more unrefined vegan foods and gets 16 times less heart disease and cancer ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/cS5xiubGSHD
Cornell Professor Colin Campbell has shown that tumor growth in rats was greatly enhanced by diets containing >10% animal protein (casein, 87% of the milk protein is casein) and was completely repressed with either 5% animal protein or >20% plant protein at ANY STAGE OF TUMOR DEVELOPMENT ► http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/85/6/1667.full - Am J Clin Nutr June 2007, vol. 85 no. 6 1667
2. PREVENT DIABETES TYPE 1 ► Several studies show that milk induces type 1 diabetes in many kids, due to the fact cow milk causes an autoimmune destruction of the beta cells producing insulin. A simple explanation is at http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/confirmed-anew-cows-milk-may-trigger-type-1-diabetes. The more technical paper is at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3580116/
There are many theories as to why milk causes type 1 diabetes, but one of them relates to some paratuberculosis bacterium (in milk and meat) triggering autoimmune attack of pancreatic beta cells, since 63% of type 1 people had this bacterium, while only 16% of the non-diabetics did as explained at https://youtu.be/1Mf7KtDquyM.
According Harvard researchers (see the paper at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2567871) when dairy intake exceeds the enzymes’ capacity to break down galactose, it can build up in the blood and damage the ovaries. Women with low levels of these enzymes have triple the risk of ovarian cancer when they consume dairy.
30% of casein in milk in beta casein. A1 and A2 beta-casein are the most common of 12 genetic variants of the beta-casein milk protein (due to genetic mutations in the bovine beta casein gene) that differ by one amino acid; a proline occurs at position 67 in A2 beta-casein (209 amino acids total), while in A1 beta-casein a histidine occurs at that position. beta-casomorphin-7, BCM-7, is produced when people consume casein A1, but not so much when they consume A2 casein found in human and goat milk (how much BCM-7 each produces varies by studies, but A1 much more than A2). beta-caseomorphin-7 is an immunosupressant opioid that is linked to diabetes 1 incidence. ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10096780 ► Diabetologia 1999 Aug;42(8):1032. A Nature paper about autism, heart disease, diabetes links to most A1 milk (except France, Asia and Africa which make A2 milk mostly), A1 casein milk, is at http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v60/n7/full/1602276a.html.
Human milk has 20-50% casein (beta casein is A2 type) with the rest 50-80% being whey (the casein content is approximately 20% of the total protein content in early lactation and 50% in late lactation as explained in this 2016 free paper ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4882692/), cow milk has about 80% casein the rest being whey protein (beta-lactoglobulin 65% and alpha-lactalbumin 25%, bovine serum albumin 8%, the rest 2% immunoglobulins).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3580116/ is a free full paper explaining "Based on epidemiological studies and meta-analyses, which suggested that early introduction of cow’s milk may serve as a trigger of Type 1 diabetes [9,10], a pilot study was initiated in 1995, principally in Finland, evaluating, in babies with high genetic risk markers of Type 1 diabetes, whether at the time of weaning replacement with a formula based on casein hydrolysate rather than cow milk might reduce the development of autoimmunity [11]. The trial randomized 230 infants to receive either a casein hydrolysate formula or a conventional, cow’s-milk formula (control) whenever breast milk was not available during the first 6–8 months of life. Eligible infants had human leukocyte antigen (HLA) conferred susceptibility to Type 1 diabetes and at least one family member with Type 1 diabetes. Children were followed for 10 years for development of diabetes-related autoantibodies and development of Type 1 diabetes. The investigators reported that the group assigned to casein hydrolysate formula had a reduced risk of development of β-cell autoimmunity (appearance of one or more antibodies) [hazard ratio 0.54 (0.29–0.95) and hazard ratio adjusted for observed difference in duration of exposure to study formula 0.51 (0.28–0.91)] [12]. It has been shown that exposure to bovine insulin in cow’s-milk formula has the capacity to induce an immune response to insulin [15]. Of 5003 infants screened, 1113 were found eligible, 1104 were randomized and 908 provided at least one follow-up sample. Randomization was to three groups: cow’s-milk formula (control), whey-based hydrolysed formula, or whey-based FINDIA formula essentially free of bovine insulin whenever breast milk was not available during the first 6 months of life. Children were followed until age 3 years for the development of diabetes-related autoantibodies. The group assigned to the FINDIA formula had a reduced risk of development of β-cell autoimmunity (appearance of one or more antibodies) [odds ratio in the intention-to-treat analysis 0.39 (0.17–0.91) and in the treatment-received analysis 0.23 (0.08–0.69) (P < 0.01) in the FINDIA group when compared with the cow’s-milk formula group] [16]."
Studies show those eating lots of meat have 73 times the risk of dying from diabetes, while those eating moderate amounts of meat have 23 times the risk of dying from diabetes compared to vegans. ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3988204/ -- Cell Metabolism 2014 Mar 4; 19(3): 407–417. The exact quote from this free full paper link is "Among subjects with no diabetes at baseline those in the high protein group had a 73-fold increase in risk (HR: 73.52; 95% CI: 4.47–1209.7), while those in the moderate protein category had an almost 23-fold increase in the risk of diabetes mortality" for those who have a hard time believing this.
3. PREVENT HEART DISEASE:
Cow milk is not like human milk. It has a different protein, carbohydrate, fat and mineral content. Cow milk has cholesterol and saturated fat which help the formation of arterial plaque, the first step towards heart disease. Cheese (sour cream too) has a lot of long chain saturated fatty acids and cholesterol, which are known to contribute heart disease. 50% of cheese calories for example come from saturated fat, while 70% come from fat. Cheese often has sodium aluminum phosphate added to it, making it very toxic, especially for people with impaired capacity to eliminate aluminum, as explained at the Alzheimer-aluminum post ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/YWkLhB9Bj1h.
https://nutritionj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12937-016-0147-z ► Nutrition Journal201615:35 ► also found problems with beta casein A1. A 2003 paper found that in rabbits, not humans, A1 beta casein (most USA milk) produces atherosclerosis, while A2 beta casein does not ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12957678 ► Atherosclerosis. 2003 Sep;170(1):13-9. Yet, a human tiny study, in 2006, found no atherosclerosis marker difference ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16298373. There was association between ischemic heart disease and A1 milk ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12601419 ► N Z Med J. 2003 Jan 24;116(1168):U295. This Nutrients. 2015 Sep; 7(9): 7285–7297. free paper at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4586534/ explains the hypothesis that casein A2 (sheep milk, human milk, goat milk) is safer.
4. PREVENT TYPE 2 DIABETES
50000 people study found that VEGANS have 4 times less diabetes than meat eaters and 2 times less than vegetarians ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3638849/ (full free paper - Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis. 2013 Apr; 23(4): 292–299). Cases of diabetes developed in 0.54% of vegans, 1.08% of lacto ovo vegetarians, 1.29% of pesco vegetarians, 0.92% of semi-vegetarians and 2.12% of non-vegetarians.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211383512000834 - Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B - Volume 2, Issue 4, August 2012, Pages 396–402 - found that only LONG CHAIN, greater than 14, saturated fat is toxic to the insulin producing beta cells. That may be why some vegans can eat all coconut they want and never get heart disease or diabetes, recall how Sri Lankans ate most coconuts and had lowest heart disease rate in 1953 ► http://www.cocoveda.net/blog/study-shows-heart-disease-absent-in-coconut-eating-population-2/. 50% of fat in coconut is LAURIC acid, which is C12, lower than 14, that, unlike animal saturated fat, does not kill insulin producing beta cells. Lauric acid and M.edium C.hain T.riglycerides (M.C.T. oil is just that, coconut oil like oil, in those studies showing MCT is acting totally different than long chain saturated fat) and medium chain fatty acids (C14 and lower) can be easily metabolized in the liver into ketone bodies and used as energy, while long-chain saturated fat is more likely to clog arteries and end up in adipose tissue, raising blood glucose, obesity, killing beta cells as fat circulates in the blood, etc. The study noticed that only longer than C14 chain saturated acids are toxic to the beta cells and can thus cause diabetes (other studies had animal long-chain saturated fat in petri dishes killing insulin producing beta cells).
What about saturated fat in coconut and avocados and nuts and rosemary, turmeric or other vegan plant foods? Most fat in plant foods, except coconut, is monounsaturated fat or polyunsaturated fat In 100 grams, we find in 5 foods the following:
1. avocado - http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/fruits-and-fruit-juices/1843/2 - has 14.7 grams of fat, but only 2.1 is saturated, 2 grams is C16 that can kill insulin producing beta cells,
2. coconut meat - http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/nut-and-seed-products/3106/2 - has 29.7 grams of fat, but only 4.5 grams is long-chain saturated fat C16 or higher, the toxic to the beta cells type of fat
3. bacon - http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/pork-products/7356/2 - has 40 grams of fat, but only 12.5 grams of C16 and higher saturated fat in 100 grams, the fat that kills beta cells.
4. cheese - http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/dairy-and-egg-products/8/2 - has 21 grams of total fat, but only 13.8 grams of C16 or higher than kills beta cells.
5. milk - http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/dairy-and-egg-products/69/2 - has 63% of its saturated fat the long chain destructive one, C16-C18. 1.2 grams is C16-C18 out of 1.9 grams of saturated fat and 3.3 grams of total fat. That's why many people eat zero fat cow milk, but even that one causes countless problems explained below.
From this data alone you can see that bacon and Cheese are far more deadly for insulin producing beta cells than avocados and coconuts, Cheese 6 times more so than avocados. Plus, the good fats in avocados and coconuts often times defuse the effect - but honestly, very few people eat avocados and coconuts daily as people eat meat, bacon, milk, cheese - it's too fatty and impractical, since there is a very limited supply of coconut and avocado trees.
5. PREVENT COLIC IN BABIES when mothers or babies drink milk ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/Gnzubp93Drp
cow milk protein ingested by mom can end up in breast milk fed to the baby and lead to baby developing colic and crying a lot (one in 5 babies has colic). Removal of dairy from mom's diet led to end of crying and colic. For vegan mothers this is not a concern. ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6823433
"Abstract
Sixty-six mothers of 66 breast-fed infants with infantile colic were put on a diet free from cow's milk. The colic disappeared in 35 infants; it reappeared on at least two challenges (cow's milk to mother) in 23 infants (35%). A double-blind crossover trial with cow's milk whey protein was performed in 16 of these 23 mothers and infants. Six infants had to be taken out of the study for various reasons; of the remaining ten infants, nine reacted with colic after their mothers' intake of whey protein-containing capsules. Sequential analysis showed a high correlation between infantile colic in breast-fed infants and their mothers' consumption of cow's milk protein. A diet free of cow's milk is suggested for the mothers as a first trial of treatment of infantile colic in breast-fed infants."
A very similar study shows how replacing cow milk with soy milk removes colic, but this was done on babies, not their mothers ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1711543/.
US National Library of Medicine suggests no cow milk for infants under 1 anyway ► https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002448.htm
For more info on the cow milk protein allergy in infants, you can also read this study ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2083222/.
6. PREVENT CHRONIC CONSTIPATION IN KIDS ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/Gnzubp93Drp
Cow's milk can also lead to chronic constipation in infants ► Iacono G, Cavataio F, Montalto G, et al. Intolerance of cow’s milk and chronic constipation in children. N Engl J Med 1998;339:110-4. Thus, it's always better to breastfeed for 1 year or even more (some people do 2 years, but at least 6 months as CDC i think recommends) than to do what many moms do, which is switch to cow milk or infant formula after 1 month, formula or cow milk void of many benefits of human milk antibodies that build a strong immune system, etc. Infants are not baby cows, they have different immune systems. Human milk is designed for optimal brain development and eye development. Cow milk is not. Children who had been breastfed for 12 months had an IQ that was four points higher than those breastfed for less than a month ► http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/mar/18/brazil-longer-babies-breastfed-more-achieve-in-life-major-study. The first two years of life is the critical time for malnutrition, the consequences of which are often irreversible and include poor cognitive development, educability, and future economic productivity.
Iodine deficiency causes a 12 point drop in IQ, so it's important to provide vitamins or salt with iodine to people. In America people get iodine from salt, so it's not a problem, but in other countries it is an issue.
If you look at the chart at https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/gbF22KExfHe you will see that cow milk has way more protein (as do other animals) than human milk. The proteins in cow milk are the culprits for a lot of allergies, constipation and gastrointestinal problems of kids.
7. PREVENT OSTEOPOROSIS, Acidosis and Achieve 10 TIMES Lower Risk of Fracture ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/N29AnqZKfex (this post also lists 8 common vegan foods with more absorbable calcium than milk per 100 grams).
Countries with highest milk consumption have 5-10 times the fracture rate of low milk and dairy countries ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3421108/figure/Fig1/. Read the whole paper for more Figures https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3421108/, Osteoporos Int. 2012 Sep;23(9):2239-56.. Tunisia (1.9%), Ecuador (2.5%), Philippines (4.8%) and China (5.4%), Denmark (23%), Sweden (21%), Norway (19%) and Switzerland (18%)
The Harvard Nurses’ Health Study followed more than 77,000 women for 12 years and showed drinking more milk daily was linked to 45% more hip fractures, and the more milk the more fractures. ► FREE paper ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1380936/ ► Am J Public Health 1997;87:992-7.
Positive PRAL foods, like milk, increase urinary Calcium, they also increase absorbed calcium, at least in some people. ► free paper ► J. Nutr. 141: 391–397, 2011. ► https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/58217/PDF . The real concern here is that if high PRAL diet lacks enough extra calcium to absorb to compensate for the loss in urine (calcium loss used to neutralize acid in the body), then it will cause bone loss as some studies concluded below. Hence monitoring the PRAL score of foods would be helpful when there are bone or teeth issues.
In patients consuming an acidifying diet (the more protein the more calcium in urine they found) a restriction of calcium intake could increase bone resorption leading to a progressive bone loss ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11223695 ► Eur Urol. 2001 Jan;39 Suppl 2:33-6; discussion 36-7
Those eating more high PRAL foods are 2.5 times more likely to have calcium stones, since more calcium is absorbed to compensate for calcium loss in urine from bones due to the need to raise pH to prevent death. Since veggies are negative PRAL and lower total PRAL, it was natural that those with more veggies in diet had fewer calcium stones. ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24002043 ► Eur J Clin Nutr. 2013 Oct;67(10):1077-80.
For more databases of foods and their content see http://health-diet.us/ or http://nutritionsoftware.org/usda-nutrient-databases.
Vegans tend to have alkaline diets, while most people have acidic (positive PRAL score) diets. PRAL value is calculated from a formula developed by Thomas Remer and other researchers at the Department of Nutrition and Health, the Research Institute of Child Nutrition, Dortmund, Germany, to assess the acidity of foods and diets. PRAL formula: PRAL = 0.49 x protein + 0.037 x phosphorus - 0.021 x potassium - 0.026 x magnesium - 0.013 x calcium
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, led by MD Neal Barnard in Washington, explain at ► http://www.pcrm.org/health/diets/vegdiets/health-concerns-about-dairy-products why dairy is bad. Neal offers more tips for preventing osteoporosis with a vegan diet at ► http://www.pcrm.org/health/health-topics/preventing-and-reversing-osteoporosis.
Alkaline diets help people live longer healthier lives. The United States Department of Agriculture has come up with the PRAL (Potential Renal Acid Load) Chart to help people prevent over ingestion of acid forming foods, which then lead to chronic secretion of ammonia in the kidneys, and damage to kidneys and other organs.
The PRAL score in the free paper at http://www.vivalis.si/uploads/datoteke/2a95.pdf shows that most nuts, all fruits and veggies are alkaline forming, while meats, dairy, grains and a few nuts are acid forming, calcium dissolving. Thus, if one eats too high PRAL foods that have no calcium, one risks osteoporosis and dental issues.
All raw veggies (and fruits, except a few fruits) are alkaline forming. All nuts, dairy, meats and grains are acid forming. Most legumes are alkaline forming. Tomatoes and all forms of tomato paste, etc are one of the most alkalinizing common foods. Foods can be categorized by the potential renal acid loads (PRALs). The best foods are those with negative PRALs, see the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) table here for each food (per 100 grams) ► you can search 8000 foods for the PRAL score at http://health-diet.us/alkaline-diet/ or see a smaller USDA version at https://www.clinicaleducation.org/documents/revised-summary-pral-list.pdf. Our renal acid load for overall diet should be negative according to many doctors and nutrition experts. :) Chronic acidosis can lead to lots of diseases, even more acne breakouts which are far more common in people ingesting foods with high PRAL.
There are lots of papers published about PRAL, for example ► Potential renal acid load of foods and its influence on urine pH ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7797810 ► J Am Diet Assoc. 1995 Jul;95(7):791-7..
Alkaline diet benefits study ► free paper ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3195546/, J Environ Public Health. 2012; 2012: 727630..
Not only that, but all vegan milks on the market are fortified so they have the same 300 mg of Calcium per 100 grams of milk ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/MWrXdGEPRrn. Note, for those using vegan milks, coconut milk has amino acid score of 87, higher than cow milk, but most soymilk has amino acid score of 25. Therefore, by all means, avoid soymilk if you use it as "protein" for reasons explained at ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/AA2XSSyoGZ1. Also, coconut milk (or even better eating raw coconuts) has been noted to prevent osteoporosis, while cow milk accelerates it ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/hYLN6LTGoBr.
8. PREVENT DIARRHEA, GI DISTRESS due to Lactose intolerance ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/7Lm4k654ipC
Lactose (a sugar in milk) intolerance (gastrointestinal distress, diarrhea, and flatulence, plus other complications) affects 95 percent of Asian Americans, 74 percent of Native Americans, 70 percent of African Americans, 53 percent of Mexican Americans, and 15 percent of Caucasians.
9. PREVENT PROSTATE CANCER ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/4Xq2dd7LMs2
The higher the intake of dairy, the higher the prostate cancer rate ► http://www.pcrm.org/health/health-topics/milk-and-prostate-cancer-the-evidence-mounts. See a recent review of studies at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25527754
In 1958, the prostate cancer death rate in USA was almost 400 times higher than in Japan, due to the fact meat and dairy intake was about 40 times higher. ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/RsRJKRBMn1S
10. PREVENT OVARIAN CANCER ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/5ozBdZZRrbm
According to Harvard researchers, when dairy intake exceeds the enzymes’ capacity to break down galactose, it can build up in the blood and damage the ovaries. Women with low levels of these enzymes have triple the risk of ovarian cancer when they consume dairy. ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2567871
11. CALCIUM IN MANY VEGGIES IS HIGHER THAN IN MILK AND BETTER ABSORBED
Kale and many vegetables have more calcium per 100 g than milk and that Calcium is better absorbed ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/8MMy14RZBpU. They got vegan icecream ► http://www.benjerry.com/flavors/non-dairy, vegan cheese, etc. :)
12. PROTEIN QUALITY IN MANY LEGUMES AND VEGGIES IS SUPERIOR TO MILK
If you look up http://nutritiondata.com for milk and lentils, beans, spinach, kale, etc, you will see that milk has lower aminoacid score than all of these. 100 g of raw lentils has 26 g of protein of higher quality than milk and 100 g of milk has 3 g of protein. Milk aminoacid score is just 85, compared to 102 for cauliflower, 112 for cooked broccoli, 86 for cooked lentils, around 100 for several types of cooked beans.
13. Human milk has 3 times less protein, 4 times less sodium, Calcium and magnesium, 5 times more iron, 2 times less sugars than cow milk (Table 4-2, Agriculture Handbook No. 8, 1963, United States Department of Agriculture, see this table at https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/6XecKbZvvJm).
14. PREVENT PARKINSON'S DISEASE
Studies show milk consumption is linked to Parkinson's development (more milk, more Parkinson's) ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24894826 -- Eur J Epidemiol. 2014 Sep;29(9):613-9. and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12447934 -- Ann Neurol. 2002 Dec;52(6):793-801.
15. PREVENT HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE
Study shows milk intake increases risk of developing Huntington's disease ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2960786 -- J Neurol Sci. 1987 Sep;80(2-3):299-306.
16. PREVENT ASTHMA
Several people tried a vegan diet and got off asthma medications ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/4MasYbfu4tu (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4019393 -- J Asthma. 1985;22(1):45-55.)
17. PREVENT LEUKEMIA, BREAST CANCER
Most milk has bovine leukemia (leukemia is blood cancer) virus, a virus that caused the death of 2 monkeys. Vegans have 3 times less breast and prostate cancer than vegetarians who consume a lot of dairy, and this virus may have something to do with it because the odds of having breast cancer if this virus is present is also 3.1 times greater than if the virus is absent from the diet. This odds ratio is higher than any of the frequently publicized risk factors for breast cancer, such as obesity, alcohol consumption and use of post-menopausal hormones. ► http://news.berkeley.edu/2015/09/15/bovine-leukemia-virus-breast-cancer/
2 monkeys died of leukemia after being infected with bovine leukemia virus ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4370000
A USDA study showed 84% of milk (100% of milk from dairy farms with more than 500 cows) was infected with bovine leukemia virus ► https://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/nahms/dairy/downloads/dairy07/Dairy07_is_BLV.pdf
The full free paper the Berkeley article refers to is at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4557937/ -- PLoS One. 2015; 10(9): e0134304.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3835103/ is a free full paper explaining the evidence that viruses cause many types of cancer, and several viruses can cause breast cancer. (Cancers (Basel). 2010 Jun; 2(2): 752–772.)
Humans have antibodies reactive with Bovine leukemia virus. ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14709247 - AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 2003 Dec;19(12):1105-13.
Bovine leukemia virus DNA found in human breast tissue. ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4012802/ -- Emerg Infect Dis. 2014 May; 20(5): 772–782 - free full paper
18. PREVENT AUTISM, PSYCHOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT IN KIDS
Cow's milk has some casomorphins that are associated with autism, delays in psychomotor development, infant crib death (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12948848, Peptides. 2003 Jun;24(6):937-43.), type 1 diabetes, etc as explained at https://youtu.be/EYGbp_sifHs.
A 2009 study found that "the data indicate that breast feeding has an advantage over artificial feeding for infants' development during the first year of life and support the hypothesis for deterioration of bovine casomorphin elimination as a risk factor for delay in psychomotor development and other diseases such as autism." as shown in the abstract at ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19576256 ► Peptides. 2009 Oct;30(10):1854-60.
Nutr Neurosci. 2000;3(1):57-72 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27416160), free at
http://www.fooddetective.pl/download/No%2038.%20Cade%20Autism%20and%20Schizophrenia%20Paper.pdf explains that autistic kids have more beta caso morphin in their urine.
note on "dairy free" milks that imitate animal protein
Interesting thing is that some companies want to make "vegan" cheese or "vegan" meat by using microbial factories to synthesize beta-casein A1 and other animal proteins which were shown to cause cancer tumors in animals when overeaten, besides other problems. I believe it would be better to create proteins as in human milk and to replicate the human milk formula, which is very different than cow milk. That future "vegan" milk doesn't have antibiotics, pus, hormones, saturated fat, cholesterol so it's better than real cow milk. But it is only better by a wide margin probably only if it simulates human milk. On the other hand human milk month one has 20% casein, month 12 has 50% casein, everything changes, so protein needs for adults or people over 12 months probably change too. A lactating baby needs far more protein than an adult who grows far slower or a kid of 10 years. Thus the question arises, do adults really benefit from a product that imitates human milk perfectly? It would be healthier than cow milk, but anyway, hard to answer. A lot of research is needed before deciding which protein to make in microbial factories if this even becomes very popular in the next 20 years. Bacteria can make amino acids directly as explained at http://www.holisticmed.net/aspartame/aminoacid.htm, so in the future it will be possible to optimize this and make milks made of amino acids, essential fatty acids like DHA, ARA, EPA, etc, overcoming the issue of many people - lacking strong enough hydrochloric acid in the stomach after age 30 sometimes and the enzymes to digest protein as we age, leading to problems. Not to mention it takes a lot of energy to split proteins into amino acids, which taxes the body resources.
► VEGANISM ◄
For 100+ reasons I didn't eat meat for 21 years and dairy for 13 years (12% of millennials have already given up meat in America) see ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/2Z1fCnTHWbh. Going vegan is like planting 62 trees in your backyard, as far as CO2 emissions reduction.💜😊💜
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1. PREVENT INGESTION OF CANCER tumor enhancing IGF-1 IN ORGANIC MILK AND ORGANIC DAIRY, SYNTHETIC GROWTH HORMONES IN NON-ORGANIC MILK, BACTERIA in all milk, IMMUNE SYSTEM WRECKING ANTIBIOTICS in non-organic milk:
Harvard article explains that higher insulin-like growth factor-1, IGF-1, can triple cancer risk ► http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/04.22/igf1.story.html. Meat and dairy raise IGF-1 levels and thus cancer risk.
A glass of milk from factory farms got about 130 million pus cells... and antibiotics (banned in Europe) that wreck our immune system, hormones banned in Europe that cause cancer, etc.... Even organic milk has some of that stuff. :) rBST HORMONE is banned in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Israel and the European Union since 2000. Argentina also banned the use of rBST.
http://nutritionfacts.org/2011/09/08/how-much-pus-is-there-in-milk/ explains that pus is not somatic cells, but neutrophils (white blood cells) mixed with dead bacteria. According to the USDA, 1 in 6 dairy cows in the United States suffers from clinical mastitis, which is responsible for 1 in 6 dairy cow deaths on U.S. dairy farms. This level of disease is reflected in the concentration of somatic cells in the American milk supply. Somatic cell counts greater than a million per teaspoon are abnormal and “almost always” caused by mastitis. When a cow is infected, greater than 90% of the somatic cells in her milk are neutrophils, the inflammatory immune cells that form pus. The average somatic cell count in U.S. milk per spoonful is 1,120,000.
If that is not enough, milk can have about 1 billion bacteria per quart. The Indiana administrative code says "grade A milk bacteria count using the standard plate count, shall be not more than one million bacteria per milliliter, or 1 billion per liter. The somatic cell count shall be not more than one million per milliliter." ► https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_cell_count. Pus is found in regions of bacterial infection and it's made of neutrophils, eosinophils, and basophils (3 types of white blood cells) and dead bacteria, as well as inflammatory exudate.
A study of 131,342 adults found that a 10% increase in animal protein consumption was associated with a 2% increase in mortality and 8% rise in risk of cardiovascular mortality. A 3% increase in plant-based protein led to a 10% fall in mortality and 12% decline in cardiovascular death. ► http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2540540 - Journal of the American Medical Association, Internal Medicine, August 01, 2016
The more animal products, the higher the intestinal cancer rate ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/EmnyZubXPLz, colon cancer rate ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/CTdeao1aDGh and the breast cancer rate ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/WFWB6jSoKzz
Laos eats 9 times more unrefined vegan foods and gets 16 times less heart disease and cancer ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/cS5xiubGSHD
Cornell Professor Colin Campbell has shown that tumor growth in rats was greatly enhanced by diets containing >10% animal protein (casein, 87% of the milk protein is casein) and was completely repressed with either 5% animal protein or >20% plant protein at ANY STAGE OF TUMOR DEVELOPMENT ► http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/85/6/1667.full - Am J Clin Nutr June 2007, vol. 85 no. 6 1667
2. PREVENT DIABETES TYPE 1 ► Several studies show that milk induces type 1 diabetes in many kids, due to the fact cow milk causes an autoimmune destruction of the beta cells producing insulin. A simple explanation is at http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/confirmed-anew-cows-milk-may-trigger-type-1-diabetes. The more technical paper is at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3580116/
There are many theories as to why milk causes type 1 diabetes, but one of them relates to some paratuberculosis bacterium (in milk and meat) triggering autoimmune attack of pancreatic beta cells, since 63% of type 1 people had this bacterium, while only 16% of the non-diabetics did as explained at https://youtu.be/1Mf7KtDquyM.
According Harvard researchers (see the paper at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2567871) when dairy intake exceeds the enzymes’ capacity to break down galactose, it can build up in the blood and damage the ovaries. Women with low levels of these enzymes have triple the risk of ovarian cancer when they consume dairy.
30% of casein in milk in beta casein. A1 and A2 beta-casein are the most common of 12 genetic variants of the beta-casein milk protein (due to genetic mutations in the bovine beta casein gene) that differ by one amino acid; a proline occurs at position 67 in A2 beta-casein (209 amino acids total), while in A1 beta-casein a histidine occurs at that position. beta-casomorphin-7, BCM-7, is produced when people consume casein A1, but not so much when they consume A2 casein found in human and goat milk (how much BCM-7 each produces varies by studies, but A1 much more than A2). beta-caseomorphin-7 is an immunosupressant opioid that is linked to diabetes 1 incidence. ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10096780 ► Diabetologia 1999 Aug;42(8):1032. A Nature paper about autism, heart disease, diabetes links to most A1 milk (except France, Asia and Africa which make A2 milk mostly), A1 casein milk, is at http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v60/n7/full/1602276a.html.
Human milk has 20-50% casein (beta casein is A2 type) with the rest 50-80% being whey (the casein content is approximately 20% of the total protein content in early lactation and 50% in late lactation as explained in this 2016 free paper ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4882692/), cow milk has about 80% casein the rest being whey protein (beta-lactoglobulin 65% and alpha-lactalbumin 25%, bovine serum albumin 8%, the rest 2% immunoglobulins).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3580116/ is a free full paper explaining "Based on epidemiological studies and meta-analyses, which suggested that early introduction of cow’s milk may serve as a trigger of Type 1 diabetes [9,10], a pilot study was initiated in 1995, principally in Finland, evaluating, in babies with high genetic risk markers of Type 1 diabetes, whether at the time of weaning replacement with a formula based on casein hydrolysate rather than cow milk might reduce the development of autoimmunity [11]. The trial randomized 230 infants to receive either a casein hydrolysate formula or a conventional, cow’s-milk formula (control) whenever breast milk was not available during the first 6–8 months of life. Eligible infants had human leukocyte antigen (HLA) conferred susceptibility to Type 1 diabetes and at least one family member with Type 1 diabetes. Children were followed for 10 years for development of diabetes-related autoantibodies and development of Type 1 diabetes. The investigators reported that the group assigned to casein hydrolysate formula had a reduced risk of development of β-cell autoimmunity (appearance of one or more antibodies) [hazard ratio 0.54 (0.29–0.95) and hazard ratio adjusted for observed difference in duration of exposure to study formula 0.51 (0.28–0.91)] [12]. It has been shown that exposure to bovine insulin in cow’s-milk formula has the capacity to induce an immune response to insulin [15]. Of 5003 infants screened, 1113 were found eligible, 1104 were randomized and 908 provided at least one follow-up sample. Randomization was to three groups: cow’s-milk formula (control), whey-based hydrolysed formula, or whey-based FINDIA formula essentially free of bovine insulin whenever breast milk was not available during the first 6 months of life. Children were followed until age 3 years for the development of diabetes-related autoantibodies. The group assigned to the FINDIA formula had a reduced risk of development of β-cell autoimmunity (appearance of one or more antibodies) [odds ratio in the intention-to-treat analysis 0.39 (0.17–0.91) and in the treatment-received analysis 0.23 (0.08–0.69) (P < 0.01) in the FINDIA group when compared with the cow’s-milk formula group] [16]."
Studies show those eating lots of meat have 73 times the risk of dying from diabetes, while those eating moderate amounts of meat have 23 times the risk of dying from diabetes compared to vegans. ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3988204/ -- Cell Metabolism 2014 Mar 4; 19(3): 407–417. The exact quote from this free full paper link is "Among subjects with no diabetes at baseline those in the high protein group had a 73-fold increase in risk (HR: 73.52; 95% CI: 4.47–1209.7), while those in the moderate protein category had an almost 23-fold increase in the risk of diabetes mortality" for those who have a hard time believing this.
3. PREVENT HEART DISEASE:
Cow milk is not like human milk. It has a different protein, carbohydrate, fat and mineral content. Cow milk has cholesterol and saturated fat which help the formation of arterial plaque, the first step towards heart disease. Cheese (sour cream too) has a lot of long chain saturated fatty acids and cholesterol, which are known to contribute heart disease. 50% of cheese calories for example come from saturated fat, while 70% come from fat. Cheese often has sodium aluminum phosphate added to it, making it very toxic, especially for people with impaired capacity to eliminate aluminum, as explained at the Alzheimer-aluminum post ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/YWkLhB9Bj1h.
https://nutritionj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12937-016-0147-z ► Nutrition Journal201615:35 ► also found problems with beta casein A1. A 2003 paper found that in rabbits, not humans, A1 beta casein (most USA milk) produces atherosclerosis, while A2 beta casein does not ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12957678 ► Atherosclerosis. 2003 Sep;170(1):13-9. Yet, a human tiny study, in 2006, found no atherosclerosis marker difference ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16298373. There was association between ischemic heart disease and A1 milk ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12601419 ► N Z Med J. 2003 Jan 24;116(1168):U295. This Nutrients. 2015 Sep; 7(9): 7285–7297. free paper at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4586534/ explains the hypothesis that casein A2 (sheep milk, human milk, goat milk) is safer.
4. PREVENT TYPE 2 DIABETES
50000 people study found that VEGANS have 4 times less diabetes than meat eaters and 2 times less than vegetarians ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3638849/ (full free paper - Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis. 2013 Apr; 23(4): 292–299). Cases of diabetes developed in 0.54% of vegans, 1.08% of lacto ovo vegetarians, 1.29% of pesco vegetarians, 0.92% of semi-vegetarians and 2.12% of non-vegetarians.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211383512000834 - Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B - Volume 2, Issue 4, August 2012, Pages 396–402 - found that only LONG CHAIN, greater than 14, saturated fat is toxic to the insulin producing beta cells. That may be why some vegans can eat all coconut they want and never get heart disease or diabetes, recall how Sri Lankans ate most coconuts and had lowest heart disease rate in 1953 ► http://www.cocoveda.net/blog/study-shows-heart-disease-absent-in-coconut-eating-population-2/. 50% of fat in coconut is LAURIC acid, which is C12, lower than 14, that, unlike animal saturated fat, does not kill insulin producing beta cells. Lauric acid and M.edium C.hain T.riglycerides (M.C.T. oil is just that, coconut oil like oil, in those studies showing MCT is acting totally different than long chain saturated fat) and medium chain fatty acids (C14 and lower) can be easily metabolized in the liver into ketone bodies and used as energy, while long-chain saturated fat is more likely to clog arteries and end up in adipose tissue, raising blood glucose, obesity, killing beta cells as fat circulates in the blood, etc. The study noticed that only longer than C14 chain saturated acids are toxic to the beta cells and can thus cause diabetes (other studies had animal long-chain saturated fat in petri dishes killing insulin producing beta cells).
What about saturated fat in coconut and avocados and nuts and rosemary, turmeric or other vegan plant foods? Most fat in plant foods, except coconut, is monounsaturated fat or polyunsaturated fat In 100 grams, we find in 5 foods the following:
1. avocado - http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/fruits-and-fruit-juices/1843/2 - has 14.7 grams of fat, but only 2.1 is saturated, 2 grams is C16 that can kill insulin producing beta cells,
2. coconut meat - http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/nut-and-seed-products/3106/2 - has 29.7 grams of fat, but only 4.5 grams is long-chain saturated fat C16 or higher, the toxic to the beta cells type of fat
3. bacon - http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/pork-products/7356/2 - has 40 grams of fat, but only 12.5 grams of C16 and higher saturated fat in 100 grams, the fat that kills beta cells.
4. cheese - http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/dairy-and-egg-products/8/2 - has 21 grams of total fat, but only 13.8 grams of C16 or higher than kills beta cells.
5. milk - http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/dairy-and-egg-products/69/2 - has 63% of its saturated fat the long chain destructive one, C16-C18. 1.2 grams is C16-C18 out of 1.9 grams of saturated fat and 3.3 grams of total fat. That's why many people eat zero fat cow milk, but even that one causes countless problems explained below.
From this data alone you can see that bacon and Cheese are far more deadly for insulin producing beta cells than avocados and coconuts, Cheese 6 times more so than avocados. Plus, the good fats in avocados and coconuts often times defuse the effect - but honestly, very few people eat avocados and coconuts daily as people eat meat, bacon, milk, cheese - it's too fatty and impractical, since there is a very limited supply of coconut and avocado trees.
5. PREVENT COLIC IN BABIES when mothers or babies drink milk ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/Gnzubp93Drp
cow milk protein ingested by mom can end up in breast milk fed to the baby and lead to baby developing colic and crying a lot (one in 5 babies has colic). Removal of dairy from mom's diet led to end of crying and colic. For vegan mothers this is not a concern. ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6823433
"Abstract
Sixty-six mothers of 66 breast-fed infants with infantile colic were put on a diet free from cow's milk. The colic disappeared in 35 infants; it reappeared on at least two challenges (cow's milk to mother) in 23 infants (35%). A double-blind crossover trial with cow's milk whey protein was performed in 16 of these 23 mothers and infants. Six infants had to be taken out of the study for various reasons; of the remaining ten infants, nine reacted with colic after their mothers' intake of whey protein-containing capsules. Sequential analysis showed a high correlation between infantile colic in breast-fed infants and their mothers' consumption of cow's milk protein. A diet free of cow's milk is suggested for the mothers as a first trial of treatment of infantile colic in breast-fed infants."
A very similar study shows how replacing cow milk with soy milk removes colic, but this was done on babies, not their mothers ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1711543/.
US National Library of Medicine suggests no cow milk for infants under 1 anyway ► https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002448.htm
For more info on the cow milk protein allergy in infants, you can also read this study ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2083222/.
6. PREVENT CHRONIC CONSTIPATION IN KIDS ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/Gnzubp93Drp
Cow's milk can also lead to chronic constipation in infants ► Iacono G, Cavataio F, Montalto G, et al. Intolerance of cow’s milk and chronic constipation in children. N Engl J Med 1998;339:110-4. Thus, it's always better to breastfeed for 1 year or even more (some people do 2 years, but at least 6 months as CDC i think recommends) than to do what many moms do, which is switch to cow milk or infant formula after 1 month, formula or cow milk void of many benefits of human milk antibodies that build a strong immune system, etc. Infants are not baby cows, they have different immune systems. Human milk is designed for optimal brain development and eye development. Cow milk is not. Children who had been breastfed for 12 months had an IQ that was four points higher than those breastfed for less than a month ► http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/mar/18/brazil-longer-babies-breastfed-more-achieve-in-life-major-study. The first two years of life is the critical time for malnutrition, the consequences of which are often irreversible and include poor cognitive development, educability, and future economic productivity.
Iodine deficiency causes a 12 point drop in IQ, so it's important to provide vitamins or salt with iodine to people. In America people get iodine from salt, so it's not a problem, but in other countries it is an issue.
If you look at the chart at https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/gbF22KExfHe you will see that cow milk has way more protein (as do other animals) than human milk. The proteins in cow milk are the culprits for a lot of allergies, constipation and gastrointestinal problems of kids.
7. PREVENT OSTEOPOROSIS, Acidosis and Achieve 10 TIMES Lower Risk of Fracture ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/N29AnqZKfex (this post also lists 8 common vegan foods with more absorbable calcium than milk per 100 grams).
Countries with highest milk consumption have 5-10 times the fracture rate of low milk and dairy countries ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3421108/figure/Fig1/. Read the whole paper for more Figures https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3421108/, Osteoporos Int. 2012 Sep;23(9):2239-56.. Tunisia (1.9%), Ecuador (2.5%), Philippines (4.8%) and China (5.4%), Denmark (23%), Sweden (21%), Norway (19%) and Switzerland (18%)
The Harvard Nurses’ Health Study followed more than 77,000 women for 12 years and showed drinking more milk daily was linked to 45% more hip fractures, and the more milk the more fractures. ► FREE paper ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1380936/ ► Am J Public Health 1997;87:992-7.
Positive PRAL foods, like milk, increase urinary Calcium, they also increase absorbed calcium, at least in some people. ► free paper ► J. Nutr. 141: 391–397, 2011. ► https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/58217/PDF . The real concern here is that if high PRAL diet lacks enough extra calcium to absorb to compensate for the loss in urine (calcium loss used to neutralize acid in the body), then it will cause bone loss as some studies concluded below. Hence monitoring the PRAL score of foods would be helpful when there are bone or teeth issues.
In patients consuming an acidifying diet (the more protein the more calcium in urine they found) a restriction of calcium intake could increase bone resorption leading to a progressive bone loss ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11223695 ► Eur Urol. 2001 Jan;39 Suppl 2:33-6; discussion 36-7
Those eating more high PRAL foods are 2.5 times more likely to have calcium stones, since more calcium is absorbed to compensate for calcium loss in urine from bones due to the need to raise pH to prevent death. Since veggies are negative PRAL and lower total PRAL, it was natural that those with more veggies in diet had fewer calcium stones. ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24002043 ► Eur J Clin Nutr. 2013 Oct;67(10):1077-80.
For more databases of foods and their content see http://health-diet.us/ or http://nutritionsoftware.org/usda-nutrient-databases.
Vegans tend to have alkaline diets, while most people have acidic (positive PRAL score) diets. PRAL value is calculated from a formula developed by Thomas Remer and other researchers at the Department of Nutrition and Health, the Research Institute of Child Nutrition, Dortmund, Germany, to assess the acidity of foods and diets. PRAL formula: PRAL = 0.49 x protein + 0.037 x phosphorus - 0.021 x potassium - 0.026 x magnesium - 0.013 x calcium
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, led by MD Neal Barnard in Washington, explain at ► http://www.pcrm.org/health/diets/vegdiets/health-concerns-about-dairy-products why dairy is bad. Neal offers more tips for preventing osteoporosis with a vegan diet at ► http://www.pcrm.org/health/health-topics/preventing-and-reversing-osteoporosis.
Alkaline diets help people live longer healthier lives. The United States Department of Agriculture has come up with the PRAL (Potential Renal Acid Load) Chart to help people prevent over ingestion of acid forming foods, which then lead to chronic secretion of ammonia in the kidneys, and damage to kidneys and other organs.
The PRAL score in the free paper at http://www.vivalis.si/uploads/datoteke/2a95.pdf shows that most nuts, all fruits and veggies are alkaline forming, while meats, dairy, grains and a few nuts are acid forming, calcium dissolving. Thus, if one eats too high PRAL foods that have no calcium, one risks osteoporosis and dental issues.
All raw veggies (and fruits, except a few fruits) are alkaline forming. All nuts, dairy, meats and grains are acid forming. Most legumes are alkaline forming. Tomatoes and all forms of tomato paste, etc are one of the most alkalinizing common foods. Foods can be categorized by the potential renal acid loads (PRALs). The best foods are those with negative PRALs, see the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) table here for each food (per 100 grams) ► you can search 8000 foods for the PRAL score at http://health-diet.us/alkaline-diet/ or see a smaller USDA version at https://www.clinicaleducation.org/documents/revised-summary-pral-list.pdf. Our renal acid load for overall diet should be negative according to many doctors and nutrition experts. :) Chronic acidosis can lead to lots of diseases, even more acne breakouts which are far more common in people ingesting foods with high PRAL.
There are lots of papers published about PRAL, for example ► Potential renal acid load of foods and its influence on urine pH ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7797810 ► J Am Diet Assoc. 1995 Jul;95(7):791-7..
Alkaline diet benefits study ► free paper ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3195546/, J Environ Public Health. 2012; 2012: 727630..
Not only that, but all vegan milks on the market are fortified so they have the same 300 mg of Calcium per 100 grams of milk ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/MWrXdGEPRrn. Note, for those using vegan milks, coconut milk has amino acid score of 87, higher than cow milk, but most soymilk has amino acid score of 25. Therefore, by all means, avoid soymilk if you use it as "protein" for reasons explained at ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/AA2XSSyoGZ1. Also, coconut milk (or even better eating raw coconuts) has been noted to prevent osteoporosis, while cow milk accelerates it ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/hYLN6LTGoBr.
8. PREVENT DIARRHEA, GI DISTRESS due to Lactose intolerance ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/7Lm4k654ipC
Lactose (a sugar in milk) intolerance (gastrointestinal distress, diarrhea, and flatulence, plus other complications) affects 95 percent of Asian Americans, 74 percent of Native Americans, 70 percent of African Americans, 53 percent of Mexican Americans, and 15 percent of Caucasians.
9. PREVENT PROSTATE CANCER ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/4Xq2dd7LMs2
The higher the intake of dairy, the higher the prostate cancer rate ► http://www.pcrm.org/health/health-topics/milk-and-prostate-cancer-the-evidence-mounts. See a recent review of studies at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25527754
In 1958, the prostate cancer death rate in USA was almost 400 times higher than in Japan, due to the fact meat and dairy intake was about 40 times higher. ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/RsRJKRBMn1S
10. PREVENT OVARIAN CANCER ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/5ozBdZZRrbm
According to Harvard researchers, when dairy intake exceeds the enzymes’ capacity to break down galactose, it can build up in the blood and damage the ovaries. Women with low levels of these enzymes have triple the risk of ovarian cancer when they consume dairy. ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2567871
11. CALCIUM IN MANY VEGGIES IS HIGHER THAN IN MILK AND BETTER ABSORBED
Kale and many vegetables have more calcium per 100 g than milk and that Calcium is better absorbed ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/8MMy14RZBpU. They got vegan icecream ► http://www.benjerry.com/flavors/non-dairy, vegan cheese, etc. :)
12. PROTEIN QUALITY IN MANY LEGUMES AND VEGGIES IS SUPERIOR TO MILK
If you look up http://nutritiondata.com for milk and lentils, beans, spinach, kale, etc, you will see that milk has lower aminoacid score than all of these. 100 g of raw lentils has 26 g of protein of higher quality than milk and 100 g of milk has 3 g of protein. Milk aminoacid score is just 85, compared to 102 for cauliflower, 112 for cooked broccoli, 86 for cooked lentils, around 100 for several types of cooked beans.
13. Human milk has 3 times less protein, 4 times less sodium, Calcium and magnesium, 5 times more iron, 2 times less sugars than cow milk (Table 4-2, Agriculture Handbook No. 8, 1963, United States Department of Agriculture, see this table at https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/6XecKbZvvJm).
14. PREVENT PARKINSON'S DISEASE
Studies show milk consumption is linked to Parkinson's development (more milk, more Parkinson's) ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24894826 -- Eur J Epidemiol. 2014 Sep;29(9):613-9. and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12447934 -- Ann Neurol. 2002 Dec;52(6):793-801.
15. PREVENT HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE
Study shows milk intake increases risk of developing Huntington's disease ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2960786 -- J Neurol Sci. 1987 Sep;80(2-3):299-306.
16. PREVENT ASTHMA
Several people tried a vegan diet and got off asthma medications ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/4MasYbfu4tu (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4019393 -- J Asthma. 1985;22(1):45-55.)
17. PREVENT LEUKEMIA, BREAST CANCER
Most milk has bovine leukemia (leukemia is blood cancer) virus, a virus that caused the death of 2 monkeys. Vegans have 3 times less breast and prostate cancer than vegetarians who consume a lot of dairy, and this virus may have something to do with it because the odds of having breast cancer if this virus is present is also 3.1 times greater than if the virus is absent from the diet. This odds ratio is higher than any of the frequently publicized risk factors for breast cancer, such as obesity, alcohol consumption and use of post-menopausal hormones. ► http://news.berkeley.edu/2015/09/15/bovine-leukemia-virus-breast-cancer/
2 monkeys died of leukemia after being infected with bovine leukemia virus ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4370000
A USDA study showed 84% of milk (100% of milk from dairy farms with more than 500 cows) was infected with bovine leukemia virus ► https://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/nahms/dairy/downloads/dairy07/Dairy07_is_BLV.pdf
The full free paper the Berkeley article refers to is at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4557937/ -- PLoS One. 2015; 10(9): e0134304.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3835103/ is a free full paper explaining the evidence that viruses cause many types of cancer, and several viruses can cause breast cancer. (Cancers (Basel). 2010 Jun; 2(2): 752–772.)
Humans have antibodies reactive with Bovine leukemia virus. ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14709247 - AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 2003 Dec;19(12):1105-13.
Bovine leukemia virus DNA found in human breast tissue. ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4012802/ -- Emerg Infect Dis. 2014 May; 20(5): 772–782 - free full paper
18. PREVENT AUTISM, PSYCHOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT IN KIDS
Cow's milk has some casomorphins that are associated with autism, delays in psychomotor development, infant crib death (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12948848, Peptides. 2003 Jun;24(6):937-43.), type 1 diabetes, etc as explained at https://youtu.be/EYGbp_sifHs.
A 2009 study found that "the data indicate that breast feeding has an advantage over artificial feeding for infants' development during the first year of life and support the hypothesis for deterioration of bovine casomorphin elimination as a risk factor for delay in psychomotor development and other diseases such as autism." as shown in the abstract at ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19576256 ► Peptides. 2009 Oct;30(10):1854-60.
Nutr Neurosci. 2000;3(1):57-72 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27416160), free at
http://www.fooddetective.pl/download/No%2038.%20Cade%20Autism%20and%20Schizophrenia%20Paper.pdf explains that autistic kids have more beta caso morphin in their urine.
note on "dairy free" milks that imitate animal protein
Interesting thing is that some companies want to make "vegan" cheese or "vegan" meat by using microbial factories to synthesize beta-casein A1 and other animal proteins which were shown to cause cancer tumors in animals when overeaten, besides other problems. I believe it would be better to create proteins as in human milk and to replicate the human milk formula, which is very different than cow milk. That future "vegan" milk doesn't have antibiotics, pus, hormones, saturated fat, cholesterol so it's better than real cow milk. But it is only better by a wide margin probably only if it simulates human milk. On the other hand human milk month one has 20% casein, month 12 has 50% casein, everything changes, so protein needs for adults or people over 12 months probably change too. A lactating baby needs far more protein than an adult who grows far slower or a kid of 10 years. Thus the question arises, do adults really benefit from a product that imitates human milk perfectly? It would be healthier than cow milk, but anyway, hard to answer. A lot of research is needed before deciding which protein to make in microbial factories if this even becomes very popular in the next 20 years. Bacteria can make amino acids directly as explained at http://www.holisticmed.net/aspartame/aminoacid.htm, so in the future it will be possible to optimize this and make milks made of amino acids, essential fatty acids like DHA, ARA, EPA, etc, overcoming the issue of many people - lacking strong enough hydrochloric acid in the stomach after age 30 sometimes and the enzymes to digest protein as we age, leading to problems. Not to mention it takes a lot of energy to split proteins into amino acids, which taxes the body resources.
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This is a vegan pizza and vegan ice cream company, allowing online orders :)
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For 100+ reasons I didn't eat meat for 21 years and dairy for 13 years (12% of millennials have already given up meat in America) see ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexPsi/posts/2Z1fCnTHWbh. Going vegan is like planting 62 trees in your backyard, as far as CO2 emissions reduction.💜😊💜
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