A glass of milk is bad for your health!

When you start a sentence with "There is only one animal on the planet that ..." you know that we are talking about human beings. Well, among other things, the only animal in the world that drinks milk from another species, after growing up, is the human.

One day I believed that cow's milk was essential for my health. Maybe if it were written "cow's milk" in the boxes, the plug would have fallen before. Cow's milk, cow's milk, I would end up realizing, "Wait, I'm not a calf!". The truth is that milk sold in the bakery and the supermarket is just that: cow's milk. Cows! Not for humans! It is for calves!

It is rich in saturated fat, cholesterol and an evil protein (casein). Skimmed milk don't have the fat, but still left the carcinogen casein protein.

By the brazilian law, every milk may contain pus and fecal coliforms. (Normative Instruction 51, September 18, 2002)

Did you know that industrie not let you call soy milk in a box "Soy Milk? It has to be "soy's food". They claim that this can confuse the mind of the consumer. Now they want is just to confuse the mind of the consumer, launching campaigns to encourage the consumption of dairy products as if they were essential to life. They are not! It had to come says "milk cow" in the boxes ...

We took several calcium foods, dark leaves, fruits, grains and seeds. And not only Calcium is needed for healthy bones. It also has Manganese, Phosphorus, Vitamin D (sun). On top of the absorption of calcium in milk is lower than that of many vegetables.

Milk protein can increase the pH of the blood is too acidic, causing the body to use its reserve to balance the calcium Ph. Therefore, milk contributes to the loss of calcium from bones.

80% of the milk protein casein. This substance is considered by Professor T. Colin Campbell, PhD in nutrition and author of "The China Study, the most carcinogenic of the planet in this century, contributing to the development of breast cancer in women and prostate in men.

For those with patience (the video is 50 minutes) and understands English, he did a nice search:

Professor T. Colin Campbell PhD - Animal protein (meat and dairy) causes cancer

The mistreatment of animals, dairy cows suffer a bit.

Contrary to popular belief, cows do not give milk is not got pregnant with a calf. The term "cash cow" does not refer to a cow that gives milk indiscriminately, enriching the producer. That is not how it happens! The cow milk left to give must have had the puppy, and guess what, the milk does not go to the puppy. About 3 or four days the calf is separated from the mother to turn the calf, and mother will continue its cycle of suffering being inseminated again, not to stop producing milk. After a few years (much less than the normal life expectancy of the cow), she is dead to flip hamburgers.

No more milk, big baby!

More about the evils of milk:

http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddbzv6hz_137ctgghrc7

Where is the complete protein?!

Demystifying the quantity:

Assuming your diet is not based on chips and soda, you can easily reach the minimum protein numbers that your body needs on a vegan diet.

Almost all foods contain protein, various fruits have protein, rice has protein, beans have protein (more than we need, actually), lettuce and cabbage have proteins, nuts, seeds, pasta, even white bread has more than only carbohydrates, has protein also.

Many people eat too much protein. The body has to process the excess, taxes the kidneys and cause kidney stones.

Too much protein can also kill. Watch this study (at 12 minutes):

Too much protein, especially from animal source, makes you lose calcium. When you eat meat your blood is acidic, and the body balances the pH of the blood by releasing a little calcium in the circulation, removing from the bones. Who eats too much meat needs more calcium than those who do not eat.

Regarding quality:

A protein is a set of amino acids. Any protein you eat is broken down into amino acids and then leave for their role in the body.

Frances Moore Lappe herself, who in 1971 wrote a book called Diet for a Small Planet, explained this misconception:

"In 1971 I said it was important to complement the protein, because I figured that was the only way to get complete proteins, based on similarity to animal protein. In combating the myth that meat is the only way to get high quality protein, I reinforced another myth. I gave the impression that to get enough protein without meat, considerable care was needed in choosing foods. Indeed, it is much easier than I thought. "

"With three major exceptions, there is little risk of protein deficiency on a diet of plant foods. The exceptions are diets very heavily dependent on fruit or on some tubers such as sweet potatoes or cassava, or junk food (refined flours, sugars and fats). Fortunately, relatively few people in the world trying to survive on diets in which these foods are virtually the only source of calories. In all other diets, if people are eating enough calories, they are virtually certain to get enough protein."

Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_combining

Said the responsible for the myth of protein itself!

There is another etymological confusion with the word protein, which comes from the Greek (of primary importance), and it seems that it is of ultimate importance. Now, everything is important. Carbohydrates, proteins and fats are important. Minerals and vitamins, fiber and water are important. I even worry at first take carbohydrates than protein. Of course, we're cutting too much here. We are reducing the food to vitamins and minerals, as if the multi-vitamins were all you needed to eat in your life. What is important are the foods you consume, not the nutrients. The orange, not vitamin C. The orange contains numerous other components that your body will use, numerous antioxidants, not only vitamin C.

"Let food be your medicine and not the medicine be your food." Hippocrates.

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Update:

The myth of the protein busted (in English):

http://michaelbluejay.com/veg/protein.html

Official Statement

The ADA (Americam Dietetic Association), the Dieticians of Canada, the British Nutrition Foundation and several other international health organizations attest: "A vegan or lacto-ovo well-planned vegetarian diet is appropriate for all stages of life, including pregnancy, lactation, childhood and adolescence and for athletes. "

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We humans do not need meat or milk from cows to live well. Yes, and "well" I mean it WELL! It is possible to get old safe from many degenerative diseases that will emerge if you have eaten too much meat in your life.

It is better to stop at once. You'll pay better attention to what you eat and will do the right thing from the beginning. You can you eat a lot without stuffing and spend three hours talking to that piece of beef inside you.

Fish is something we do not need. Eat algae (fish's food). Eat flaxseed (fed to chickens so they can lay "omega-3 fortified" eggs). The best part of oysters is the lemon anyway...

Don't forget about milk. Breast milk you already needed and if you can read this, I guarantee you no longer need. Do not drink milk of any other species. What the hell makes you think cow's milk is a essential food to healthy bones on humans? The industry? Yes. Government lobbists? Yes. Someone from the government that knows about nutrition? No. Someone who knows how to earn some money from the dairy industry? Yes.

We are omnivores, not herbivores, carnivores or frutarians. We eat everything. We can eat vegetables, grains, fruits and meat. Warning! I said "can" And not "must". We can eat everything and so we can choose not to eat meat and live pretty well by eating other things.

We have "canine" teeth. Who gave that name to them? These teeth don't have the anatomy needed to do what his given name claims. It is not usefull to rip the carcass of an ox. It is usefull to grind nuts, fruits and leaves.

What about the dirty business with the animals? Lack a bit of common sense. If you know you do not need ... If you know it's bad for your planet, for you ... The animals need us, our mercy. They have no defense, we are much smarter than them. We surround them easily. They do not have a chance against us. If we want to eat them, we have the tools, we have the method. But we can also use the intelligence to NOT eat them. If we want, we study about nutrition and, with our intelligence, help animals to live free.

To know how many animals are abused for our benefit, the most comprehensive documentary is called Earthlings, and can be found on Google Video:

Earthlings (Earthlings) - Legendado Portuguese

There's so much information out there that gives you plenty of reasons to stop with meat. Today is very easy. We have examples at the sports and at the arts. Large corporations try, but can not hide the truth.

As a vegetarian you do not waste your money with the big meat companies. Corporations that still operates in a slavery regimen. Industries that profits on animal suffering, lying to consumers and spoofs the lazy press with "press releases", and pollutes the planet. Enough!

Many cardiologists say that thickening of the arteries is irreversible. The two tests below show angiograms before and after approx. 60 months on a plant-based diet and cholesterol-lowering drugs:

Source: Caldwell

Meat is expensive for your pocket, for your health, for the planet, for the animals. Let's save!

Basically, meat is a second-hand nutrient with acumulated toxins.

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