Eating Meat Kills More People Than Previously Thought

(NaturalNews) There is no more denying it. Meat contains highly toxic substances that are responsible for many deaths and diseases. Heavy meat consumption increases your risk of dying from all causes, including heart disease and cancer, according to a federal study conducted by the National Cancer Institute and featured in Arcives of Internal Medicine, in early 2009.

The study looked at the records of more than half a million men and women ages 50 to 71, following their diet and other health habits for 10 years. Between 1995 and 2005 47,976 men and 23,276 women died.

Women who ate large amounts of red meat had a 20% higher risk of dying of cancer and a 50% higher risk of dying of heart disease than women who ate less. Men had a 22% higher risk of dying of cancer and 27% higher risk of dying of heart disease. The researchers noted that meat contains several cancer-causing chemicals, as well as the unhealthiest forms of fat.

It should be noted, that if eating meat can kill a large number of people, it can make an even larger number of people seriously ill.

These findings support a previous study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, which showed that eating meat boosts risk of prostate cancer by 40%. Another study in early 2009 showed that children had a 60% increased risk of developing leukemia if they consumed meat products, such as ham, sausages and hamburgers.

Vegetarians Live Longer and Healthier Lives

More recently, medical research has found that a properly balanced vegetarian diet may, in fact, be the healthiest diet. This was demonstrated by the over 11,000 volunteers who participated in the Oxford Vegetarian Study. For a period of 15 years, researchers analyzed the effects a vegetarian diet had on longevity, heart disease, cancer and verious other diseases.

The results of the study stunned the vegetarian community as much as it did the meat-producing industry: "Meat eaters are twice as likely to die from heart disease, have a 60% greater risk of dying from cancer and a 30% higher risk of death from other causes."

In addition, the incidence of obesity, which is a major risk factor for many diseases, including gallbladder disease, hypertension and adult onset diabetes, is much lower in those following a vegetarian diet. According to a Johns Hopkins University research report on 20 different published studies and national surveys about weight and eating behavior, Americans across all age groups, genders and races are getting fatter. If the trend continues, 75% of U.S. adults will be overweight by the year 2015.

It is now almost considered the norm to be overweight or obese, Already more than 80% of African-American women over the age of 40 are overweight, with 50% falling into the obese catagory. This puts them at great risk for heart disease, diabetes and various cancers. A balanced vegetarian diet may be the answer to the current obesity pandemic in the U.S. as well as many other countries.

Those who include less meat in their diet also have fewer problems with cholesterol. The American National Institute of Health, in a study of 50,000 vegetarians, found that the vegetarians live longer and also have an impressively lower incidence of heart disease and a significantly lower rate of cancer than meat-eating Americans. And in 1961, the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that a vegetarian diet could prevent 90-97% of heart diseases.

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Suzanne

Meat Kills...(con't)

What we eat is very important for our health. According to the American Cancer Society, up to 35% of the 900,000 new cases of cancer each year in the U.S. could be prevented by folllwing proper dietary recommendations. Researcher Rollo Russell writes, "I have found of 25 nations eating flesh largely, 19 had a high cancer rate and only one had a low rate, and that of 35 nations eating little or no flesh, none of these had a high rate."

Could cancer lose its grip on modern societies if they turned to a balanced vegetarian diet? The answer is "yes," according to two major reports, one by the World Cancer Research Fund and the other by the Committee on the Medical Aspects of Food and Nutrition Policy in the United Kingdom. The reports conclude that a diet rich in plant foods and the maintenance of a healthy body weight could annually prevent 4 million cases of cancer worldwide. Both reports stress the need for increasing the daily intake of plant fiber, fruits and vegetables and reducing red and processed meat consumption.

Death in the Meat

Research has shown that all meat eaters have worms and a high incidence of parasites in their intestines. This is hardly surprising given the fact that dead flesh (cadaver) is a favorite target for microorganisms of all sorts. One study by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) showed that nearly 80% of ground beef is contaminated with disease-causing microbes. The primary source of these bugs is feces. A study conducted by the University of Arizona found there are more fecal bacteria in the average kitchen sink than in the average toilet bowl. The source of this biohazard at home is the meat you buy at the typical grocery store.

The germs and parasites found in meat weaken the immune system and are the source of many diseases. Indeed, most food poisonings today are related to meat-eating. More than a half-million Amaricans, most of them children, have been sickened by mutant fecal bacteria (E. coli) in meat. These germs are the leading cause of kidney failure among children in the U.S. This fact alone should prompt every responsible parents to prevent their children from eating flesh foods.

Not all parasites act so swiftly as E. coli. Most of them have long-term effets that are noticed only after many years of eating meat. The government and the food industry are trying to divert attention from the escalating problem of meat contamination by telling the consumer it is his own fault that these incidents happen. It is very obvious that they want to avoid hefty lawsuits, and bad-mouthing of the meat industry. They insist that dangerous bacterial outbreaks occur because the consumer does not cook the family's meat long enough. It is now considered a crime to serve a rare hamburger. Even if you have not committed this "crime," any infection will be attributed to not washing your hands every time you touch a raw chicken or to letting the chicken touch your kitchen counter or any other food. The meat itself, they claim, is totally safe and meets the standard safety requirements imposed by the government; of couse, this holds true only as long as you keep disinfecting your hands and your kitchen countertop. It evades all good reasoning to propose such a "solution" to 76 million cases of meat-borne illnesses a year, except to safeguard the vested interests of the government and the meat industry. If a particular imported food produced in China is found to be contaminated, even if it hasn't actually killed anyone, it is immediately taken off the shelves of grocery stores. Yet, with all the research proving that meat-consumption harms and kills millions of people each year, meat continues to be sold in all grocery stores.

The new mutant bugs found in today's meat are extremely deadly. For you to come down with salmonella poisoning, you have to consume at least a million of these germs. But to become infected with one of the new mutant bugs, you need to ingest a measly 5 of them. In other words, a tiny particle of uncooked hamburger, making it from kitchen utensil to your plate, is enough to kill you. Scientists have now identified more than a dozen food-borne pathogens with such deadly effects. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention admits that they don't even know the bugs behind most food-related illnesses and deaths.

Much of the germ-infestation of meat is caused by feeding farm animals foods that are unnatural to them. Cattle are now fed corn, which they are unable to properly digest, but it makes them fat very quickly. Cattle feed also contains chicken feces. The millions of pounds of chicken litter (feces, feathers and all) scraped off the floors of chicken houses are recycled as cattle feed. The cattle industy considetrs this "good protein." The other ingredients of cattle feed consist of ground-up parts of animals, such as deceased chickens, pigs and horses. According to the industry, giving the cattle natural, healthy feeds would be far too costly and so unnecessary. Who really cares what the meat is made of, as long as it looks like meat?

Combined with hefty doses of growth hormones, a diet of corn and special feeds shortens the duration of fattening up a steer for market from a normal time period of 4 to 5 years to a mere 16 months. Of course, the unnatural diet makes the cows sick. Like the human consumers, they suffer from heartburn, liver disease, ulcers, diarrhea, pneumonia and other infections. To keep the cattle alive until the deadline for slaugher at the "ripe old age" of 16 months, the cows need to be fed enormous doses of antibiotics. In the meantime, the microbes that respond to the massive biochemical assault of antibiotics, find ways to become immune to these drugs by mutating into resistant new strains.

Those unfortunate cows that don't drop dead prematurely due to all the poisons fed to them during their short earthly existence, experience an undignified and gruesome end of life in the slaughterhouse or meat-packing plant. From there, the diseased, germ-infested meat ends up in your local grocery store, and on to your dinner plate. --Author: Andreas Moritz - NaturalNews.com.

Suzanne

This is serious brothers and sisters! Here is more info from Inspiration:

* "Because those who partake of animal food do not immediately feel its effects, is no evidence that it does not injure them. It may be doing its work surely upon the system, and yet the persons for the time being realize nothing of it."

* "The liability to take disease is increased tenfold by meat eating."

* "The practise of eating largely of meat is causing diseases of all kinds,--cancers, tumors, scrofula, tuberculosis, and other like affections."

* The mortality caused by meat eating is not discerned. If it were, we should hear no arguments and excuses in favor of the indulgence of the appetite for dead flesh."

* "Cancers, tumors, and various other inflammatory diseases are largely caused by meat eating."

* "From the light which God has given me, the prevalence of cancers and tumors is largely due to gross living on dead flesh."

* "The meat diet is a serious question. Shall human beings live on the flesh of dead animals? The answer, from the light that God has given, is, No, decidedly no. Our health institutions should educate on this question....They should point out the increase of disease in the animal kingdom. The testimony of examiners is that very few animals are free from disease."

* Disease of every type is afflicting the human family, and it is largely the result of subsisting on the diseased flesh of dead animals."

These statements are from Healthful Living, by Ellen White, pp. 100-102.

Comment: I take all of this information seriously and and am praying that our people will prayerfully and carefully consider the subject.

Suzanne

Yes, eating the meat from a diseased animal can and does cause people to suffer and die. However, the same thing is true of any food. Fruits and vegetables can be contaminated and cause suffering and death. People need to be wise and careful about the food they eat. But simply what one eats is not all there is to it. The natural laws of health and happiness take in the whole person and their lifestyle choices. When we eat, how much we eat, how thoroughly we chew before we swallow, the frame of mind we're in as we eat, how much fluids we drink while we are eating, how much exercise we get right after we eat, etc, etc, etc, all play an important part. People who eat safe meat AND practice all the other healthy habits are likely to live as long as vegans or vegetarians.

Don't misunderstand my point. I'm a vegan. However, more than that I also strive in Christ to practice all the diet reforms so that my walk in Christ is as sweet and satisfying as possible. Thank you, Jesus!

Right you are, Mountain Man! Our health message is complete and covers all the bases. Indeed, it is the privilege of every SDA to understand as much as we can the gospel, as well as the health message. Let us not forget the biblical injunctions that remind us of the importance of minding our health:

1 Cor. 6:19, 20 - What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

The Spirit of Prophecy, too has valuable information:

"Pure air, sunlight, abstemiousness, rest, exercise, proper diet, the use of water, trust in divine power--these are the true remedies.

"The things of nature are God's blessings, provided to give health to body, mind, and soul. They are given to the well to keep them well and to the sick to make them well....

"Nature is God's physician. The pure air, the glad sunshine, the beautiful flowers and trees, the orchards and vineyards, and outdoor exercise amid these surroundings are health giving--the elixir of life.

"Nothing so tends to restore health and happiness as living amid attractive country surroundings.

"Live in the open air is good for body and mind. It is God's medicine for the restoration of health.

"True religion and the laws of health go hand in hand." --Ellen White, My Life Today, 135.

"Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth." 3 John 2.

Comment: We indeed have an obligation to understand how the body functions and how best to take care of our body temples.

Suzanne

Amen! And don't forget - Meat kills!

Not God?

During the final judgment?

Barry Black Spoke at Our Church Recently

Yes, Pastor Black (chaplain of the U.S. Senate), preached a powerful sermon at our church in May of this year (2010). He was the speaker for a program honoring those who had served our country in the various branches of the military. He covered various pertinent points challenging us to remember our roots and the distinctive message we have to offer the world. While he himself received various accolades in the meeting, in his sermon he reminded us that the highest honors come from the Lord who reads the heart. We should be ever mindful of this and strive to please the One who really matters.

He also brought out an interesting point about Kentucky Fried Chicken which he noted was NOT clean meat since the birds are not killed according to Bible standards which forbids the eating of blood. The New Testament repeats this proscription. Something to thing about!!!

Barry Black is indeed a powerful speaker who gave us much to think about and ponder and he lifted up the Lord Jesus Christ who is our only hope. To Him be honor and glory now and forever!

Suzanne

Eating animal protein raises risk of IBD

by David Gutierrez, staff writer

(NaturalNews) A diet high in protein increases women's risk of the cluster of conditions known collectively as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to a study conducted by researchers from the Center Hospitalier Universitaire de Bicetre in Paris an published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology.

IBD is characterized by severe inflammation of the digestive tract, and includes conditions such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.

"Our results may help better understand the role of diet in IBD risk," the researchers wrote. "If confirmed, they can lead to protective strategies, especially in families at risk of IBD, and possibly to advice for preventing relapse."

The researchers followed more than 67,000 women between the ages of 40 and 65 for an average of 10 years, during which time 77 participants developed IBD. The researchers then analyzed all participants' dietary patterns for a potential link with the disease.

They found that women who consumed the highest amount of protein had were more three times as likely to developing IBD as other women. When the researchers further analyzed this risk by protein type, they found that animal flesh, including fish, was responsible for the greatest risk increase. Although the study was not designed to explain this association, the researchers hypothesized that meat consumption may produce toxic "end products" that can damage the digestive tract, such as ammonia or hydrogen sulfide. Another possibility is that a diet high in protein may alter the natural balance of beneficial bacteria in the colon.

Prior studies have linked an increased risk of IBD to high consumption of certain fats and sugars, but the current study is the first to make a link to meat consumption. Another recent study found that a diet high in omega-6 fatty acids was associated with a higher risk of the disease, while a diet high in omega-3s was associated with a lower risk.

Sources for this story include: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS....

Suzanne