the data on benefits of RAW FOOD . . . part 2 of 3
Another very old study was the work of Robert McCarrison in the 1920′s and 1930′s, working with rats. A group of 1,000 rats was fed a partially raw diet of carrots, sprouts, cabbage, bread, milk, and meat. Another 2,000 were fed canned food, boiled vegetables, and milk. The rats in the [...]
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You have probably read that the average person eats 10 lbs. of bugs per year. That’s not a fact you like to think about much, I’ll bet. When our culture began to fear micro-organisms, we started to fear bugs, too. John the Baptist would be so disappointed in us. J Virtually [...]
15 Comments • Continue Reading →You don’t eat meat? Then where do you get your protein?
I know, I’ve blogged about this more than any other subject. But I’m going to say a few more things about it today, just in a slightly different way, because of that old statistic that people have to hear something 11 times before they believe it. And because that’s the question we plant [...]
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You know that my primary motive on GSG.com is to improve the health of human beings through a plant-based diet. But today we look at figures regarding the treatment of animals raised for food in America before I officially retire this series: Number of pigs in U.S. raised in total confinement factories where [...]
3 Comments • Continue Reading →Need motivation to eat less meat and more plants? . . . part 12 of 12
Today, why you’re contributing to environmental damage if you eat high on the food chain: Gallons of oil spilled by the Exxon-Valdez: 12 million Gallons of putrefying hog urine and feces spilled in North Carolina in 1995 when a hog excrement dam broke: 25 million Fish killed as an immediate result: [...]
2 Comments • Continue Reading →Need motivation to eat less meat and more plants? . . . part 11 of 12
Today, more info on world hunger and why you’re contributing to overconsumption of resources eating high on the food chain: Number of people whose food energy needs can be met by the food produced on 2.5 acres of land, if the land is producing . . . Cabbage [...]
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Some stats on hormones and antibiotics in our meat supply, and Mad Cow disease: U.S. beef cattle that receive hormone implants: 90% (100% in larger feedlots) Independent European Union scientists’ report on the effect of hormones added to U.S. beef: they are “complete carcinogens” (able to cause and promote cancer by themselves) (hormone 17 [...]
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Today stats about where foodborne bacteria E. coli, campylobacter, and salmonella come from, and irradiation consequences. And which foods you should be most concerned about. (Each of these stats/quotes has a corresponding source in Robbins’ The Food Revolution.) The deadly E. coli 0157:H7 bacteria has occasionally been found in sprouts and raw [...]
3 Comments • Continue Reading →Need motivation to eat less meat and more plants? . . . part 7 of 12
Today, good stats about the fact that Americans need EDUCATING on the subject of a plant-based, whole-foods diet. (You know GSG.com has an agenda to get YOU to help spread the word–and many of you already do so, brilliantly.) 98 percent of the wheat eaten in the U.S. is eaten as white flour. [...]
4 Comments • Continue Reading →Need motivation to eat less meat and more plants? . . . part 5 of 12
Today, some good stats about eating a vegetarian diet: According to Journal of the American Dietetic Association (this research was published in other journals as well), the average IQ of U.S. children is 99, and the average IQ of vegetarian US children is 116. Obesity rate among the general population: 18 percent [...]
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