Meat In The Human Diet
By: John A. McDougall, M.D.
July 2003.
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Undoubtedly, all of these rate is
40% to 50%. Hunter-gatherer societies fortunately did survive, but
considering their arduous struggle and short lifespan, I would not rank them
among successful societies.
The Importance Of Meat
So why has meat been an important part of the diet of so many of these
hunter-gatherer societies?
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In a failed attempt to chew and swallow pieces of food, usually meat,
approximately 4,000 people die each year in the U.S. They choke on
inadequately masticated chunks that become stuck in their throats.
The Heimlich maneuver was specifically designed to save the lives of people
dying from these
“café coronaries.”
Our Digestive System Assimilates Plant Foods
From our lips to our anus our digestive system has evolved to efficiently
process plant foods. Digestion begins in the mouth with a salivary enzyme,
called alpha-amylase (ptyalin), whose sole purpose is to help digest complex
carbohydrates found in plant foods into simple sugars.
There are no carbohydrates in meats of any kind (except for a smidgen of
glycogen), so a true carnivore has no need for this enzyme – their salivary
glands do not synthesize alpha amylase.
The-Eaters Liver
Cholesterol is only found in animal foods – no plant contains cholesterol. The
liver and biliary system of a meat-eating animal has an unlimited capacity to
process and excrete cholesterol from its body – it goes out, in the bile,
passing through the bile ducts and gallbladder, into the intestine, and finally,
out with the stool.
For example, you can feed a dog or cat pure egg yolks all day long and they
will easily get rid of all of it and never suffer from a backup of cholesterol.
Humans, like other plant-eating animals, have livers with very limited
capacities for cholesterol removal – they can remove only a little more than
they make for themselves for their own bodies – and as a result, most people
have great difficulty eliminating the extra cholesterol they take in from eating
animal products.
This apparent
“inefficiency”
is because humans have evolved on a diet of
mostly plant foods (containing no cholesterol), and therefore, they never
required a highly efficient cholesterol-eliminating biliary system.
The resulting cholesterol buildup, when people eat meat, causes deposits in
the arteries (atherosclerosis), in the skin under the eyes (xanthelasma), and in
the tendons.
Bile supersaturated with cholesterol forms gallstones (over 90% of gallstones
are made of cholesterol). About half of all middle-aged women who live on the
Western diet have cholesterol gallstones.
Our Requirements Are For Plant Nutrients you’re.
The acts of killing, butchering and eating animals are associated with power,
aggression, virility, strength, and passion – attributes desired by most men –
and eating meat has long been associated with aggressive behaviors and
violent personalities.
Men say they need more, and they do eat more meat, especially more red
meat, than women. However, based on male anatomy, real men should be
vegetarians.
Human males have seminal vesicles – no other meat-eating animal has these
important collecting-pouches as part of their reproductive anatomy. The
seminal vesicles are paired sacculated pouches connected to the prostate,
located at the base of the bladder. They collect fluids made by the prostate
that nourish and transport the sperm. Ejaculation occurs when the seminal
vesicles and prostate empty into the urethra of the penis.
In many ways ejaculation is the ultimate act of male performance – seminal
vesicles are essential organs for proper male function and therefore, they
should tell us much about.
Meat-eaters are likely to become impotent because of damage caused to the
artery system that supplies their penis with the blood that causes an erection.
Erectile dysfunction is more often seen in men with elevated cholesterol levels
and high levels of LDL
“bad”
cholesterol–.
A Deviant Diet Causes Deadly Diseases
The enlightened diet for humans today is centered around starchy plant foods
with the addition of fruits and vegetables – the use of clean meat is limited to
special occasions – like Thanksgiving and Christmas – and consumed only by
healthy people.
If your diet deviates too far from that which you evolved on over eons of time
then you will likely suffer serious consequences – these are the chronic
diseases affecting people living on the Western diet.
By: Dr. John A. McDougall, M.D.
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Meat In The Human Diet