Health

Question 1

Effects of high cholesterol, high saturated fat and animal protein diets:

Answer 1

Animal protein promotes tumors and cancers

Only 5-10% of cancers are due to an inherited gene defect. 80-90% of cancers could be prevented by adopting a plant based diet.

Breast cancer rates have increased by 80% since 1970

Heart disease

Diabetes

Overweight and obese children

Question 2

Meant to be herbivores

Answer 2

Long intestines designed to digest plants

Meat stays in our gut for a long time and rots

Our stomach acids are much weaker than true carnivores so its harder to break it down and kill the dangerous bacteria in meat

Carnivores produce vitamin C themselves. We don’t, we need to get it from plants

Our teeth are similar to herbivores, not carnivores

Question 3

Antibiotics and hormones

Answer 3

Consuming all the antibiotics and hormones farmers inject into animals to prevent disease

Adrenaline and cortisol floods animals flesh before it dies

Question 4

Rotting flesh

Answer 4

Eating a burger is eating four week old dead flesh

Question 5

milk is designed to grow and bulk up calves not humans

Answer 5

51,000 mammals on the planet, we are the only ones consuming the milk of another

Over 70% of the worlds population cannot tolerate it

We stop producing significant amounts of lactase (enzyme needed to metabolize the sugar in milk) after we have been weaned

Question 6

Saturated fat

Answer 6

One 8oz glass whole milk = 4 pieces of bacon

Question 7

Calcium

Answer 7

Animal protein actually leeches calcium from our bones and is harsh on our kidneys and livers

Question 8

Respiratory issues and skin

Answer 8

Dairy can cause and worsen asthma, skin problems

Question 9

Eggs are healthy?

Answer 9

As bad as smoking 5 cigarettes a day in terms of life expectancy

Question 10

Fish = healthy?

Answer 10

Fish contain saturated fat and cholestoral, and large % contain highly toxic, cancer causing chemicals

They provide no fibre or antioxidants

Omega 3 and 6 can be gotten from walnuts, seeds, beans, leafy greens, soy, seaweed (where the fish got it from in the first place)

Question 11

Vitamin B12

Answer 11

B12 is actually produced by bacteria that live in the soil, animals get their B12 by eating plants

(The animals humans eat are vegetarian)