Although both animal-based foods and plant-based foods in totality may have the same macro-nutrients and even some of the same micro-nutrients, they do differ in both composition and structure. With that being said, it must be understood that there are no nutrients found in animal-based foods that cannot be better obtained from plant-based foods.
For example, animal fats are all solid at room temperature due to the fact that they are saturated, e.g. they contain no double-bonds hence their melting points are much higher requiring greater amounts of heat to liquefy them. Humans, however require specific types of fats, called omega fats (double bonded), which are double-bonded at either the third or sixth carbon atom from the end of the fatty acid. These double-bonded (unsaturated) fatty acids have much lower melting points and therefore are in a liquid form at room temperature.
Stearic acid (animals) and oleic acid (olive oil), for example differ only in that oleic acid has a double bond at the nine position and it's melting point is 4 degrees of centigrade while stearic acid, also an 18 carbon fatty acid, has no double bonds (saturated) and has a melting point of 67 degrees of centigrade. Quite a difference when you consider that normal body temperature is 37 degrees of centigrade!
The omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids are considered essential, which means that the human body cannot synthesize them and therefore they must be obtained through diet. Their respective roles in metabolism are fundamentally essential to life and they are produced only by plants. Animals are not capable of producing unsaturated fats.
Similarly, animal proteins are carcinogenic while plant proteins, even in excess are not carcinogenic, as Dr. T. Colin Campbell, PhD was able to prove unequivocally through a multitude of studies over a thirty-year period in the Philippines and in China.
All carbohydrates are produced by plants, all anti-oxidants are produced by plants, vitamins are produced by either plants or bacteria found in soil or which inhabit the gastrointestinal tract and minerals (earth) are incorporated into plants and made bio-available to animals.
A plant-based diet could include animal products such as certain secretions from mammals that have come to make up the dairy industry however these substances contain certain proteins, such as casein, which fuel cancer growth. In fact, as Dr Campbell stated, casein has been proven to be the “most carcinogenic compound ever discovered”.
A vegan diet is a purely plant-based diet, that excludes products derived from animals such as eggs, milk and perhaps other secretions ,which may be unique to certain cultures. The results of this diet from womb to tomb include but are not limited to extreme mental clarity, a delightful requirement to move about and expend energy (exercise), a happy disposition and continence, compassion, rapid learning and recall, satisfying sleep, absence of degenerative diseases, rapid healing from trauma, a strong desire and ability for sexual activity well into advanced age and an exceedingly long life, unless severe trauma intervenes.
With these advantages resulting from adherence to biological laws, how did this even become an issue and how on earth did it become controversial.
Goodness, this post is completely wrong and contradicts the nature of human development as HUNTER gatherers.
ReplyDeleteVisit any tribe out in nature that thrives on animal foods and they will laugh heartily in wonder at the assertion that one can thrive exclusively on plant food. Read the work of Weston A. Price, who actually did some anthropology and ethnography when it comes to optimal food. Tribes went to great lengths to forage and harvest "prized" animal food.
Colin T. Campbell's China study has been disproved as a very unscientific study (and even a scam of vegan propaganda).
Every tradition the world over incorporates fatty animal foods in their diet. Saturated fat is the most stable and safe, metabolically-appropriate fat for human beings.
The assertion that omega fats are essential in generous amounts has been proven to be very wide of the mark. Omega fats are required in trace amounts and some are even eliminated in therapeutic scenarios. EFAs contribute to oxidative stress by their very nature (they are unstable in an oxidative environment, which is why they have short shelf lives).
Wake up to the misguided propaganda that you are repeating - it is undermining your very efforts to promote healing.
I invite any useful, constructive, well-substantiated arguments, along with ad hominen arguments.
The information in this post is long-since disproved and belongs in the "90s vegan propaganda" archive.
Scotty,
ReplyDelete1. First of all you are writing an anonymous comment
2. Like my father use to say: "You might be right, but the little right you are, worth nothing :-)"
3. Because you statement about the essential Omega fatty acids is right, which contradicts your other negative statements, since:
- The omega 3 parent fatty acid is called alpha linolenic acid (LNA or ALA) and comes from seeds such as flax, hemp and pumpkin, from nuts such as walnuts, and to a lesser extent from soya and green vegetables
- The omega 6 parent fat is called linoleic acid (LA) and is found in seeds such as hemp, flax, sunflower and sesame as well as in nuts. Sunflower oil is probably the most well used source.
- Just Google for Plants based omega fatty acids and you will find tons of more useful information.
4. Dr Collin Campbell's book "The China Study" is internationally recognized and keeps getting more and more popular.
5. will continue :-)