Raw Food Pt 2
A review of the scientific literature for raw food risk and benefits.
1. Dental erosions in subjects living on a raw food diet.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9831783
2. Consequences of a long-term raw food diet on body weight and menstruation: results of a questionnaire survey.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10436305
3. Low bone mass in subjects on a long-term raw vegetarian diet.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15795346
4. Thermal stability of organophosphorus pesticide triazophos and its relevance in the assessment of risk to the consumer of triazophos residues in food.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11170565
5. By how much does fruit and vegetable consumption reduce the risk of ischaemic heart disease?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9725654
6. Long-term consumption of a raw food diet is associated with favorable serum LDL cholesterol and triglycerides but also with elevated plasma homocysteine and low serum HDL cholesterol in humans.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16177198
7. Mortality in vegetarians and nonvegetarians: detailed findings from a collaborative analysis of 5 prospective studies.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10479225
8. Detection of IgE, IgG, IgA and IgM antibodies against raw and processed food antigens.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19435515
9. Effects of a raw food diet on hypertension and obesity.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4012382
10. Antioxidant status in long-term adherents to a strict uncooked vegan diet.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7491884
11. Effects of eating an uncooked vegetable diet for 1 week.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1482162
12. Uncooked, lactobacilli-rich, vegan food and rheumatoid arthritis.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9566667
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Tags: c0nc0rdance, cholesterol, dental, foodism, health, Nutrition, raw, sodium, vegan, vegetarian
September 1st, 2010 at 12:12 am
Most species have …
Most species have to destroy other organisms to survive. Honey is the only food which is produced without destroying some form of life. What makes an animal more worthy of life than a plant? Is it morally indefensible to destroy bacteria? Eating meat is what our species has adapted to, unfortunately that’s just the way life is — cruel & indifferent.
September 1st, 2010 at 12:12 am
@FighterInTheShadow …
@FighterInTheShadow I make a sharp separation between human and animal on a ‘sentient’ level. “Bambi” is a very desturctive creature to crops and farm lands. If we have to kill it in order to grow successfully, why not eat it too? Cows, sheep turkeys and chickens are especially dumb. Rabbits are rodents, not cute. These are the facts that people have had to deal with for centuries. We can at least use the death of animals in a positive way and not just slaughter. We are predators…
September 1st, 2010 at 12:12 am
@savageecho
If we …
@savageecho
If we all suddenly stopped eating animals? I don’t think we need to be afraid of such situation. But if you want to know my opinion on that hypothetical situation, I believe that there is a difference between killing the animal out of necessity and keeping it in cage its whole life only to kill and eat it afterward. Either way, we would be fully responsible for that mass killing (just as we are now).
September 1st, 2010 at 12:12 am
@savageecho
I call …
@savageecho
I call intentional behavior that causes other sentient being suffering and/or death immoral. In my opinion, eating customs or the fact that we like the taste of meat can’t possibly be a sufficient justification. So yes, I believe I can claim that killing an animal for food is immoral. I am certainly not judging you for your opinion but I would like to know which part you disagree with.
September 1st, 2010 at 12:12 am
@savageecho
Are …
@savageecho
Are lions immoral? No, they are neither moral nor immoral. We are animals like them but we can make conscious decisions and choose what to eat. They cannot. Our survival (or our health) does not depend on eating meat, theirs does. Our physiology enables us to do many things but I think it is clear that just because we can do something it doesn’t mean it is necessarily desirable or moral to do so.
September 1st, 2010 at 12:12 am
@FighterInTheShadow …
@FighterInTheShadow Also I would like to point ouot that we would have to kill them for overpopulation if we didn’t eat them because they do not have another natural predator to keep their numbers down. Look at India’s problem with sanitation due to animals like cows and chickens.
September 1st, 2010 at 12:12 am
@FighterInTheShadow …
@FighterInTheShadow If it is the killing, why is that immoral? Can you really claim that killing an animal for food is immoral? As you said we are omnivores, not herbivores. Our physiology has developed for both meat and vegetable. Also, we are animals just like the lion who kills and eats his prey, we just use a different method to do it. Are lions immoral? Of course you will eat what you like, that is you right, but why am I immoral because I don’t agree?
September 1st, 2010 at 12:12 am
GAS COMPANY SHILL!! …
GAS COMPANY SHILL!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 1st, 2010 at 12:12 am
@savageecho
I agree …
@savageecho
I agree with purpdrank83 and if I may jump in, I think most of the things you mentioned are relevant. It is the killing because we do not have any good reasons to kill them. Animals like cows, chickens or fish usually do not infest our homes, do not endanger us in any way and as omnivores, we do not need meat in order to survive. It is also the keeping of the animals, they are sentient beings, what gives us the right to treat them the way we do for nothing else but our pleasure?
September 1st, 2010 at 12:12 am
@Daud2008
1): …
@Daud2008
1): Never said he was proposing a diet, he was debunking a harmful diet.
2): He doesn’t need to do research, he simply needs to compile current research. Lots of it if you read science journals.
Also,
A): How does government and science supported nutritional science, make people money? It’s given freely to people.
B): Isn’t it in the government’s best interest to be correct in the case of health? Healthcare is very expensive, might as well teach people the proper way to reduce cost.