The Vegetarian Diet: Reduce Risk of Degenerative Diseases

For many years people have pondered if humans were really designed to be omnivores (those who eat meat and plants), however many studies have shown that meat has really done humans more harm than good. Not only has eating meat created a problem in the world including factory farming pollution and the lack of water, but it has also caused an increase in disease.

The body of a carnivore has straight and short intestines making it able to digest and pass quickly without petrifying the meat, however humans have long intestines designed to digest food through fermentation. When meat is passed through a humans intestines it petrifies, releasing toxins in the body before it passes completely through. Carnivores are also designed to eat high-fat, high cholesterol diets because of the way their metabolism functions. This diet, as we all know, is a diet that is very harmful to humans.

Studies have shown that a low-fat vegetarian diet, more often a vegan diet (excluding all animal products), significantly reduce the risk of many degenerative diseases. It has been shown to lower the risk of developing:

• Cancer: lung, colon, breast, ovarian, pancreatic, prostate, cervical, uterine, and many other forms of cancer.
• Kidney: kidney stones, kidney hypertrophy
• Heart disease
• Anemia
• Strokes
• Peptic Ulcers
• Osteoporosis

In addition, incorporating a low-fat diet such as excluding all animal products (meat, dairy, eggs) has been proven to dramatically reduce the symptoms for those who suffer from:

• Gallstones
• Asthma
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Multiple sclerosis

Other effects of eating animal products include:

• Hypoglycemia
• Heavier & more painful periods
• Hemorrhoids & constipation

Those who have adopted the vegetarian/vegan lifestyle absorb for nutrients from the foods that they consume, reducing the risks of any of these health issues that have been linked to eating meat.

For ideas on making the decision to adopt a health vegetarian lifestyle and diet visit, The Veggie Table, for recipes, studies, and more information on making the switch.

An article recently publish by Chan Lee Peng discusses in more detail, health issues linked to drink milk, it is called, Milk is an Unhealthy Drink: Shockingly Untold Truths.