Could Our diet be another case of "everything you know is a lie?" Have money interests CREATED the modern human diet? Follow the money AGAIN! Look at "The China Study". Here is what one dedicated carnivore said about "the dietary industrial comples" after reading this comprehensive work:

"I love juicy steaks, delicious cheese, and big bowls of ice cream. I love to eat out at nice restaurants. And I really like eating without thinking about the operations and consequences of our !!!!!!dietary industrial complex!!!!! But I don't get to enjoy these things any more because I read the China Study. Like Neo in the movie the Matrix, you have a choice, take the blue pill and believe what you want to believe, take the red pill and you will be exposed to the reality of the world we live in. The China Study is the red pill.

!!!!!This is a fascinating book on the capitalism, politics, and human behavior that drives the food industry!!!!!!

It is also frighteningly insightful into the health consequences of an affluent societies' diet. I am not a scientist so I don't know if this is good science. But I did work ten years ago as a government attorney on the USDA dietary guidelines and was surprised by the political influence and acceptance of what the author would call scientific reductionism. I also worked for a man who lived and worked until he was 100 years old, and he had a dietary regime very similar to that recommended by the China Study: not vegan nor vegetarian, but largely based on plants and whole foods rather than animal based foods. So I found this book very persuasive - in fact, too persuasive. It scared me straight so I eat healthy now and that's good for the long term...but I don't enjoy it like I used to."
http://www.amazon.com/China-Study-Comprehensive-Nutrition-Implications/dp/1932100385/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1448996131&sr=1-1&keywords=The+China+Study
Also, read myriad other positive comments about the "China Study", or, better yet, read it for yourself.

Listen AT LEAST to the first 3 minutes of this lecture to get a handle on the sheer scope of the meat INDUSTRY (why is it called an industry?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xalIRBqZwlc

Lymerick

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Anthropologists say we were once exclusively fruit eaters

The most recent and widely held view of the historical diet of humans is that early man was

exclusively a fruit eater. Dr. Alan Walker, an anthropologist of John Hopkins University has

turned the science of Anthropology on it’s ear with his abrupt dismissal of the "cave-man-as-carnivore"

theory. Using electron microscopes to study fossilized teeth and fossilized human remains,

Dr. Walker’s research team has proven that our ancestors until quite recently were total fruitarians.

The essence of the Walker research is that even though humans have adopted omnivorous eating

practices in very recent history, our anatomy and physiology have not changed—we remain

biologically a species of fruit eaters. The adaptation to fruits (and some vegetables) has occurred

over 60 million years. A few hundred years or even a few thousand years of perverted eating will

not change our dietary requirements.

Although confirmed and accepted by the scientific world, this disclosure of early man’s diet is

still not widely known or understood by the general public. The New York Times carried a

feature article on the Walker research on May 15, 1979.

We have answered the question of the history of the human diet. This history has profound

bearing on current human dietary needs.

Let’s return for a moment to our "excursion to our Natural Roots." Will you find a few juicy

scorpions and maybe a lizard to eat? How about a freshly hatching ostrich chick and a small dog?

If you have revulsion at the thought, it is because you are not a carnivore or omnivore. Besides

having none of the anatomical traits of a carnivore, there is nothing in the character of a man

that seeks to hunt and kill other animals the way a carnivore or omnivore would. Since you are

a fruit eater you would be guided by your sense of sight and smell and taste very readily to a

sweet tasting piece of fruit. Incidentally, next time an ever-so-helpful meat eater tries to tell you

there’s no variety in a vegetarian diet, you might mention that there are, in fact over 160,000

edible plants in the world. If you tried a new one every single day from your birth, you’d be 438

years old before you tried them all.

When you eat one simple apple, you are ingesting over 191 known friendly phyto-chemical

compounds. Many of these are much more valuable than the outdated vitamins we learned

of as children. Eating one apple launches over 1300 chemical reactions in your frutivore gut

to properly break down and dispatch the molecular components of the apple.

If you ingest a piece of meat or dairy your gut does not have the strong acid required to digest it.

An allergic reaction takes place. Excess mucous is summoned to coat the toxins and pass them as

quickly as possible. But, because meat or dairy have no dietary fiber, they pass extremely slowly,

putrefying along the way, filling your digestive tract and body with toxins and varnishing your colon with layers of impacted mucous.

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