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  Red meat: What Makes It Unhealthy?

  by Bangalore in

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  red meat: what makes it unhealthy?.

  http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/14/news/la-heb-red-meat-why-bad-20120314.

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  @Black Sheep

  Who's suggesting a vegan diet?

  Vitamin B-12 is manufactured by friendly bacteria in the intestinal tract. This is true for all vegetarian animals, including human beings. I've known a few people deficient in B12, they(my brother, father-in-law, and a good friend) were all big meat eaters.

  A deficiency of Vitamin B-12, which is a forerunner of pernicious anemia, is not necessarily due to dietary inadequacy. A report released from a Vitamin B-12 Conference stated, "Pernicious anemia appears to arise not from shortage in the diet, but from impairment of the ability to absorb Vitamin B-12." (Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, 71st Scientific Meeting, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, January 5, 1952, p. 295)
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  I remember how I always preferred working alone door to door

  by gubberningbody in

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  i'd just stand at the door and not knock on it or ring it.

  if someone came, i'd make a presentation - "here's your tract!".

  otherwise i'd just wait a couple of minutes and then go to the next door and not knock.. .

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  I always went with someone. I preferred someone else do the lying.
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  Red meat: What Makes It Unhealthy?

  by Bangalore in

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  red meat: what makes it unhealthy?.

  http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/14/news/la-heb-red-meat-why-bad-20120314.

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  @botchtowersociety

  Here's a hint, this isn't for berry harvesting:

  No, they're not. But the fact remains, you don't know exactly what they were used for, and therefore can't prove anything with them. For all we know they could have been used to defend the tribe while collecting berries?
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  Red meat: What Makes It Unhealthy?

  by Bangalore in

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  red meat: what makes it unhealthy?.

  http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/14/news/la-heb-red-meat-why-bad-20120314.

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  @NOLAW

  Which facts?

  Note: There is no useful, meaningful, or even vaguely-scientific anatomical/physiological/biochemical definition of "omnivore". Is my dog an omnivore because he eats an apple every now and then?
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  old literature

  by independenthinker in

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  hey guys, me again.

  thanks for all the help, i was wondering how to get my hands on the old literature, i was gonna ask this nice older brother i know if he could get me some old books?

  i really wanna see the failed proph...... old light for myself.

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  @Black Sheep

  Before I left the JWs I started asking questions. Your post describes exactly how devout JWs responded when I asked difficult questions.

  Mostly when I asked questions they said they'd get back to me. On the rare occasion they did get back to me, they had multiple pages of printed material from the Watchtower CD ROM, which didn't even address the original question.

  My advice on JW critical question asking is:- you'd be wasting your time.
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  Red meat: What Makes It Unhealthy?

  by Bangalore in

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  red meat: what makes it unhealthy?.

  http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/14/news/la-heb-red-meat-why-bad-20120314.

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  What are you trying to say? We shouldn't stick hot dogs up our butt
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  Red meat: What Makes It Unhealthy?

  by Bangalore in

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  red meat: what makes it unhealthy?.

  http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/14/news/la-heb-red-meat-why-bad-20120314.

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  @Razziel

  All I'm saying is going back ten thousand years (or more) isn't necessary to prove that the current western diet is very unhealthy. Yes, I agree our ancestors ate meat. However, beyond 100 years ago the quantity and frequency of meat consumption was much less than it is today. And of course there are much worse things than meat such as dairy based food, refined foods, which were never part of our ancestor's diet. That’s something I think we can both agree on.
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  Red meat: What Makes It Unhealthy?

  by Bangalore in

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  red meat: what makes it unhealthy?.

  http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/14/news/la-heb-red-meat-why-bad-20120314.

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  @still thinking

  ...and we have had thousands or years to adapt to our diet...and now...it is our diet.

  No. The current western diet is less than one hundred years old. Go back in history a more than that and you'll see that the quantity of meat consumed has nearly doubled in that period. Also the amount of refined foods, and dairy has nearly tripled, while vegetables and whole food consumption has decreased.

  But to claim that we shouldn't eat it[meat] is stretching it don't you think?

  I don't think I ever claimed that anyone shouldn't eat meat. I'm claming that the evidence shows meat should be a very minor part of a healthy diet.
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  Red meat: What Makes It Unhealthy?

  by Bangalore in

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  red meat: what makes it unhealthy?.

  http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/14/news/la-heb-red-meat-why-bad-20120314.

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  @still thinking

  I don't think you can't have a ballanced diet without meat

  I'm not having a go at you personally, and that was my opinion a few years ago.

  It is entirely possible to have a balanced diet without meat (and dairy). My family does eat eggs (vitamin b12), and get all the protein we need from beans, potatoes, brown rice and green leafy vegetables.
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  Red meat: What Makes It Unhealthy?

  by Bangalore in

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  red meat: what makes it unhealthy?.

  http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/14/news/la-heb-red-meat-why-bad-20120314.

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  One of the differences is that the traditional Inuit's diet is very high in Omega-3 fats while our western diet is very high in Omega-6 fats. Science has shown that the ratio of Omega-6 to Omega-3 should be as close to a ratio of 1:1 and certainly no more than 4:1. Inuits are about the only peoples to approach the 1:1 ratio while we typically come in at 20:1 and the real junk foodists are measuring in at upwards of 50:1 ratios. A balanced Omega-6 to Omega-3 ratio promotes a homeostasis, non-inflammatory state in the body while a tilt to the high Omega-6 side will promote an inflammatory and therefore disease and degenerative state.

  It's a bit of a far stretch to justify a western meat diet with the Inuit's mostly raw diet of fish and seal fat. Not only that, as you've stated they've had thousands of years to adapt to that diet.