Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: Re: [fast5] Re: Love Fast Five and Plants

Friday, November 6, 2009

Re: [fast5] Re: Love Fast Five and Plants

Hi Rick

Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts.

I believe it is all a continum of health.

Ideally, fruit is the perfect food (see explanation of carnivore vs. human system in 80-10-10 diet which sold me on this, but an all fruit diet is not practical for the real world and you'd have to be eating fruit constantly to get enough calories-this may have worked in the garden of eden when they didn't have to fight traffic on the 405 freeway in LA) then vegetables, then starch (potatoes, rice, etc), then animal protein and by products.

I am a Christian and believe what the Bible says about food.

Yes-we are allowed to eat meat and Jesus probably didn't concern himself with any of this too much (A huge faster-cha ching), but it isn't ideal (see Garden of Eden).

I posted out of concern since people seemed to be eating all protein and fat (several posts about 30 grams of carbs, etc) and felt compelled to give some information that I have about cancer, disease ect. Again John Mcdougall and Joel Furham (both have web sights that explain disease) can explain it better that I will ever be able to.

The main thing that sold me that animals are to be eaten as a last resort is that our digestive track/body is that of a plant eater. A carnivore's system is different than ours.

A vegetarian asked me when was the last time I saw a cow and wanted to rip into it and drink it's blood/eat it's raw meat (or rabbit, pig, chicken, etc). This made me think? Carnivores all have this desire, but I don't, nor have I ever met a human who did.

I'm with you on the omega 3's-thanks!

Ceci

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 5:24 AM, RickS <rstewart@iaff.org> wrote:

Hi Ceci-

Thanks for taking the time to share. Having tried vegetarianism for several years, I can say I sympathize with your sentiments. Unfortunately most of the pro-veggie hype comes straight from PETA and a lot of it is based on skewed science. The China study was definitely flawed in is basic assumptions as it didn't differentiate between raw or cooked meat or raw or pasteurized milk, among other things. I had an epiphany while doing the vegetarian thing one day. I realized that I am a predator and I like meat. But in order to be responsible to the animals and the planet I would make a strict attempt to eat organic grass fed, free range animals. The lion probably doesn't feel bad for eating the gazelle, but the lion also doesn't create mega farms that create suffering and misery for the animal before it dies. So that's the compromise I struck. When I eat meat, I have to feel that the animal at least had a good life while it was here. Amino acids circulate in the bloodstream for several days so daily intake of meat is not crucial for me. I also follow the Native American idea of thanking the animal for it's life before I eat it.

I have read Green for Life and what I came away with is how to make some really good green smoothies. ;) I've tried emulating the chimpanzee diet and that book resonates with me on many levels. But I'm not sure she's accurate on all of her assertions. One thing is that they're finding that chimps will go out and hunt in groups and kill smaller monkeys and other animals for food maybe once a week. I actually saw a show where a chimp sat on the side of a stream and pulled a fish out of the water and ate it!

We have neighbors who are vegetarian. They have two boys who have emotional and behavioral problems. They're good kids, but their brains are screaming for Omega-3's. I know this one family doesn't prove anything, but it's yet another example of the many cases of vegetarian lifestyle affecting moods and behavior.

Which brings me to my next point... I firmly believe that vegetarianism is good for some people but not all. High meat diets are good for some people but not all. Veggie AND Meat diets are good for a majority but not all. Each person has to figure their racial and societal background, family disease profile, etc and figure out what kind of diet they're genetically programmed for. Some folks get ghastly ill from veggie diets, some get sickly on a primarily meat based diet. Fast-5 does allow people to figure out what works for them. I'm glad you've found vegetarianism helpful to your dietary and moral needs.

One more idea... I'm not particularly religious but I am spiritual. One day it struck me after I saw a deer in my yard eating my hostas (!!)that in the big picture, grains were put here probably to feed the birds. Grains aren't good for cows and they're not good for us. Birds on the other hand really do well on grains, seeds, foliage and berries. Just because a food is on this planet doesn't mean that it was intended for us.

Anyway, thanks for your post and until you find out what your child's metabolic type is, please make sure to get plenty of Omega 3's in your diet.

-Rick Stewart

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, "cecipettijohn" <cecipettijohn@...> wrote:

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> I don't want to upset anyone-I just want to encourage people to read the data about animal protein-I would eat it if I had to, but in America-none of us are going hungry and plants=health.