Everywhere you look, obesity is there. I am not advocating to be a food policeman, but we need to start making a voice in our land. People do not like being overweight. But certain foods are addictive and the public needs to be educated on proper unbiased nutrition. Meat and dairy products and foods that are fried are absolutely in no way beneficial to the human body. The human physiological system is completely adaptable to a total vegetarian diet. But with the refined sugars and fatty foods that poison our body and cloud our minds, addiction sets in deep and becomes 'nearly' impossible to break the bonds.
I am challenging every nurse to take up the baton on this one. If we, health care professionals cannot make the first stand on the nutrition value of America, then the general population have little to no hope.
I guess we should'nt count on tgibson for the eggnog?
yum . .eggnog.
Lashon . . . "I 90 percent of health problems are a result of the diet but people are so blind, brainwashed, and addicted they don't believe or want to. "
Yes, where did you get that stat? Link please? And for goodness sake, eating tasty food is NOT an addiction! Please read the following article for some much needed insight.
Science & Society 12/8/03
By John Leo
Hey, we're all victims here
Expert victimologists estimate that 91.2 percent of people in North America and Europe now qualify as victims, at least in their own minds. This is because hurt feelings keep spreading, and "society" keeps grinding us down. As the everyone's-a-victim movement continues to gain momentum, here are some notable victims of 2003:
* Male witches have been marginalized by society, according to the book Male Witches in Early Modern Europe. Though witchcraft is commonly viewed as a female activity, males accounted for more than a quarter of the 60,000 people executed for witchcraft in Europe, according to authors Lara Apps and Andrew Gow.
* Two student groups wanted to sponsor a pig roast at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams. School authorities said no because the event might offend vegetarians, the Berkshire Eagle reported.
* Andrew Burnett got so angry at a female driver who tapped the bumper of his car in heavy traffic that he reached into her car, picked up her small dog, and hurled it into traffic. The dog died, and Burnett was convicted of cruel killing of an animal. On appeal, Burnett argued that the death was really the dog's fault, since the animal had safely reached the other side of the road and should have stayed there. Instead, the dog tried to make it back to its owner and was run over. Burnett's conviction was upheld.
* People with tattoos are often unfairly stereotyped, making it hard for them to get ahead at work, said Rep. Lois Capps, a California Democrat. She was trying to wheedle $50,000 in federal funds for the Liberty Tattoo Removal Program of San Luis Obispo County. She got the money.
* To avoid victimizing American Indians, costumes were forbidden at a school Thanksgiving pageant in Skokie, Ill., because the cardboard headdresses to be worn by children portraying Indians contributed to a stereotype. So the celebration of Pilgrims meeting Indians was conducted in whatever clothes the students were wearing that day.
* Two black women are suing Southwest Airlines because a flight attendant, attempting to get passengers to sit down for takeoff, said over the intercom, "Eeny, meeny, miney, moe; pick a seat, we gotta go." The women said the flight attendant's comment harmed them emotionally by bringing to mind an old racist version of the rhyme, ending, "Catch a n- - - - - by the toe." The commonly accepted form of the jingle ends in "Catch a tiger by the toe."
* Lawyers are victims of bad publicity and society's prejudices, according to Florida attorney Tod Aronovitz. As president of the Florida bar for 2002-2003, he was in a position to do something about it, so the bar committed $750,000 to a "Dignity in Law" public relations effort. Lawyer jokes have not yet been stamped out, but by May 2003, positive media coverage of lawyers had tripled, in large part because of the targeting of reporters who write about law, the bar reports.
* A high school student in Trento, Italy, faced with the prospect of having to repeat junior year because she failed math, hired a lawyer who argued that she was suffering from "irreversible psychological pathology," or math phobia. A regional court ruled that the condition made it impossible for her to study or master math and allowed the school to move her directly into senior year.
* Catherine Zeta-Jones and husband Michael Douglas sued the British magazine Hello! for publishing unauthorized photos of their wedding that allegedly made her look fat and frumpy. Zeta-Jones said she was devastated by the photos. Defense lawyers noted that the couple might be concerned about money: They had sold exclusive rights to photograph the ceremony to another magazine for $1.6 million.
* In February, a giant representation of the most prominent feature of male anatomy appeared on the Harvard campus, built out of snow by members of the men's crew team. Amy Keel, class of '04, decided that the snow sculpture was an assertion of male dominance as well as an implied threat to women. So she and her roommate knocked it down. In sympathy with the knock-down, Women's Studies lecturer Diane Rosenfeld lamented that the sculpture follows on a long line of public phallic symbols, including the Washington Monument and missiles. Wendy Murphy, a lawyer and visiting scholar at Harvard Law School, deplored the administration's silence: "What if students had built a snow sculpture of a Nazi swastika or a Confederate flag?" This may have been Harvard's first suggestion that all men are born with the equivalent of a Nazi-Confederate symbol built right in.
No one cares about you acting like a 5 year old rolling your eyes, and I've learned in biology and from reading many books that our body is not designed like carnivores nor are our teeth. But I'm not going back and fourth arguing with anyone. Like I said that's why millions of meat eaters are dying each year from all these diseases. Keep being in denial all you want.
I'm not sure about evolution. Perhaps humans intially didn't eat meat. But it was when humans begain eating meat that their brain developed into the "intelligent" humans we are today. Our ancestors way back when didn't die of these diseases from eating meat.
The problem with these diseases is yes, we as a society overeat, and we overeat highly processed foods fulls of sugars, full of hydrogenated fats, full of hormones, antibiodics, chemicals etc. And for heavens sakes we don't eat nearly enough fruits and vegetables. This is what dismays me most about Americans diet, not that we eat meat.
I think that it is sad that most health professionals don't tell pts that they could reduce or eliminate the need for meds, and have improvement (and in some cases cure) of chronic disease if they were a healthy weight.
I disagree with the statement that you gain weight as vegetarians. I was raised a vegetarian along with my brothers and we have never been sick or had to go to the doctor or have problems that meat eaters have such has high blood pressure, diabetes, etc. You never hear of vegetarians dying from those diseases. Millions of meat eaters die each year of those diseases resulting from eating animal fat, sugars, etc. You lose weight when you become a vegetarian, my parents stopped eating meat and that was the best thing they did, my mom lost a lot of weight and they didn't have all the health problems they did when they were meat eaters. 90 percent of health problems are a result of the diet but people are so blind, brainwashed, and addicted they don't believe or want to. My 3 year old son is a vegetarian and he has rarely been sick or have needed to go to the doctor, plus he was breastfed which most women don't do but should. My parents have lived both ways and the vegetarian way is better. Our bodies were not designed to digest meat. The animals were designed to eat meat, they have a short digestive tract to get rid of the meat quick and they eat it raw not cooked. Meat sits in our bodies for days before it digests and that when it putrifies and turns cancerous and it turns cancerous when you cook it especially at high temps. Our teeth were not designed to eat meat either. But don't talk about a vegetarian diet unless you've been on one cause I hear nothing but a bunch of myths about it from people that never lived that way and don't know nothing. If you're eating fish you're not a vegetarian. Real vegetarians eat no meat, that's what the word mean.
first off, this isn't a pissing contest to see who is a real vegetarian and who isn't. There are a lot of ppl who think lacto-ovo isn't vegetarian. I was raised vegetarian, I said I chose to eat fish now, as an adult. So I am semi vegetarian. There are about 4 varietes of vegetarianism. Believe me, I know what a real vegetarian diet is.
Also, I was pointing out the fact that a lot of ppl who where never vegetarian, who go vegetarian because they think they're going to loose weight end up gaining it. Many don't know how to cook with tofu and all the other foods besides pasta you can eat.
so relax, I wasn't implying ALL vegetarians are fat.
I disagree with the statement that you gain weight as vegetarians. I was raised a vegetarian along with my brothers and we have never been sick or had to go to the doctor or have problems that meat eaters have such has high blood pressure, diabetes, etc. You never hear of vegetarians dying from those diseases. Millions of meat eaters die each year of those diseases resulting from eating animal fat, sugars, etc. You lose weight when you become a vegetarian, my parents stopped eating meat and that was the best thing they did, my mom lost a lot of weight and they didn't have all the health problems they did when they were meat eaters. 90 percent of health problems are a result of the diet but people are so blind, brainwashed, and addicted they don't believe or want to. My 3 year old son is a vegetarian and he has rarely been sick or have needed to go to the doctor, plus he was breastfed which most women don't do but should. My parents have lived both ways and the vegetarian way is better. Our bodies were not designed to digest meat. The animals were designed to eat meat, they have a short digestive tract to get rid of the meat quick and they eat it raw not cooked. Meat sits in our bodies for days before it digests and that when it putrifies and turns cancerous and it turns cancerous when you cook it especially at high temps. Our teeth were not designed to eat meat either. But don't talk about a vegetarian diet unless you've been on one cause I hear nothing but a bunch of myths about it from people that never lived that way and don't know nothing. If you're eating fish you're not a vegetarian. Real vegetarians eat no meat, that's what the word mean.
Great! At least there are a few educated people still left. The reason a vegetarian lifehood doesn't work for some people is because they still eat high carb foods and sugar laden sweets. To have complete victory one must take COMPLETE control. Eliminating Meat and dairy along with sweets and refined foods is the correct way to eat.
Isn't it odd that God put Adam and Eve within the Garden of Eden and provided them with fruit and veggies as the first 'biblically' recorded death of an animal was after they 'sinned'. And that was when God killed the animal for clothing, not food.
But for those who are atheist, here is another tool of reference for you.http://www.vivavegie.org/vvi/pdf/101.2001.pdf
I have to say I get that craving for McD's once in a while. What upsets me is the upsizing when I DID NOT ORDER IT. Driving out of state once, I handed back the LARGE fry saying I ordered a small, she said 'its the same price' I said 'I dont care, i want the small' she just stared at me without changing it. so as i pulled away and thought 'i will eat all of these if they are in my possession'(hey, who ate my pie?), I stopped (not far from the drive-thru window) and threw out half the fries. ahh, now feel better...
also, when i ask for a CHILD-SIZE drink, they always give me the big one! I dont CARE that its the same price, I need it for little hands... or maybe then again, I only want 'some'...
Were you the one that ran over the manager the other week?
Everywhere you look, obesity is there. I am not advocating to be a food policeman, but we need to start making a voice in our land. People do not like being overweight. But certain foods are addictive and the public needs to be educated on proper unbiased nutrition. Meat and dairy products and foods that are fried are absolutely in no way beneficial to the human body. The human physiological system is completely adaptable to a total vegetarian diet. But with the refined sugars and fatty foods that poison our body and cloud our minds, addiction sets in deep and becomes 'nearly' impossible to break the bonds.
I am challenging every nurse to take up the baton on this one. If we, health care professionals cannot make the first stand on the nutrition value of America, then the general population have little to no hope.
Great! At least there are a few educated people still left. The reason a vegetarian lifehood doesn't work for some people is because they still eat high carb foods and sugar laden sweets. To have complete victory one must take COMPLETE control. Eliminating Meat and dairy along with sweets and refined foods is the correct way to eat.
Isn't it odd that God put Adam and Eve within the Garden of Eden and provided them with fruit and veggies as the first 'biblically' recorded death of an animal was after they 'sinned'. And that was when God killed the animal for clothing, not food.
But for those who are atheist, here is another tool of reference for you.http://www.vivavegie.org/vvi/pdf/101.2001.pdf
And that ain't good.
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