When
Friends Ask:
“Why Did You Quit Meat?”
In my youth, I
thought meat meant good health and strength. I
reasoned this must be ideal food for my body,
because my body is made up of meat; just like
the body parts of cows, pigs and chickens;
therefore, these foods must contain every
nutrient I could possibly require. Logically,
could anything be better for building muscle
than eating muscle? This kind of faulty
reasoning caused me to suffer problems as
ordinary as acne and as rare as a stroke by the
time I was 18 years old. I am alive and healthy
today at 60 because 35 years ago I changed to
primarily plants for my foods. (It is not
too late for you.)
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Who Should Take
Statins?
Cholesterol-lowering medications, commonly
referred to as statins, are considered so
beneficial that some enthusiastic doctors
declare, “they should be put into the drinking
water.” The pharmaceutical companies and their
sales staff (most medical doctors) would like
you to believe that simply lowering your
cholesterol number is the major solution to your
health problems. And that is untrue.
Statins do reduce
cholesterol measured in the blood, but what is
unclear is the real benefit for the patient—will
the patient live longer and/or healthier? Or
will he or she simply have a fatal heart attack
the same day (as would have occurred without the
medication), but with a lower blood cholesterol
level? The decision to take these
medications should not be made lightly.
This is a lifetime commitment and for a young
person this could mean 50 years of drug-therapy
with the potential of serious side effects at a
cost of more than $1000 per year.
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Update on “Death by
Veganism” by Nina Planck:
The Public Editor
of the NY Times was asked to comment; here is
his response on this matter:
I asked David
Shipley, the editor of the Op-Ed page, for his
thoughts. He said, "I think Nina Planck is on
firm ground in her Op-Ed. Her reading of the
science is that it is indeed the case that
children (and all of us) need animal-derived
nutrients, and she's able to summon studies
backing up her assertion -- just as the vegans
are able to summon up studies showing that you
can indeed survive on plants alone."
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Featured Recipes
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No-Huevos
Rancheros
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Potato Chowder
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Three Bean Chili
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Hummus
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Artichoke Spread
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Black Bean Dip
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