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.The stomach of the frugivore is typically long and extended a complex structure contain-ing 1/10 of the acidic salts and pepsin found in a carnivore's stomach.Again, the same as in us.So, here we have our match, but what does it mean? Are we restricted to fruits and nuts?1Polar bears feed almost exclusively on seals and an occasional human; but then, what vegetation is there forthem to eat in the frozen wastes of the Arctic.Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, Jon Barron.All Rights Reserved www.jonbarron.orgLessons from the Miracle Doctors - 35 - Diet, the Slow KillerNo.In fact, the frugivores we most closely resemble, the wild chimpanzees, periodically do in-deed eat live insects and raw meat.Among the great apes (the gorilla,1 the orangutan, the bonobo,and the chimpanzee) and ourselves, only humans and chimpanzees2 hunt and eat meat on a fre-quent basis.But make no mistake, chimpanzees are largely fruit eaters, and meat comprises onlyabout 3% of their diet far, far less than is found in the typical American diet.So Should We, or Should We Not, Eat Meat?Is a vegetarian diet automatically better?No.In fact, depending on blood type, some people actually do better when they includemeat in their diet.Other factors in our diet affect our health to a much greater degree thanwhether or not we eat meat.So??The bottom line is that eating small amounts of meat, chicken, or fish probably comes downmostly to a personal choice.If you choose to, you can eat 3 oz a day, or less, of meat without anysignificant health problems with the following provisos:Keep the amount small 3 ounces a day or less.Heavy consumption of meat significantly compromises beneficial bacteria in thecolon resulting in a 1,000% increase in the levels of harmful bacteria in the colonand a concomitant 90% drop in the levels of the beneficial bacteria as measured infecal matter.High consumption of meat also tends to push the body's pH levels into the acidicrange, which as you'll see in Chapter 12 presents major health risks including can-cer and osteoporosis.Epidemiological studies at Harvard Medical School showed that, "Men who eatred meat as a main dish five or more times a week have four times the risk of co-lon cancer than men who eat red meat less than once a month." They are also"more than twice as likely to get prostate cancer."1Gorillas have never been observed hunting or feeding on any animals other than invertebrates such as ter-mites and ants.2Wild chimps love fresh baby monkey meat.Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, Jon Barron.All Rights Reserved www.jonbarron.orgLessons from the Miracle Doctors - 36 - Diet, the Slow KillerIf you're going to eat meat, buy only organic meat to avoid exposure to the wholerange of chemicals,1 growth hormones, and parasites present in beef and chicken, orthe high levels of toxic metals present in most fish.If it isn't available locally, pressureyour supermarket to carry it as an option.2.What About Dairy?The average American typically eats close to 600 pounds of dairy products a year, whichmakes it the single largest component of their diet.Unfortunately, this may not be as healthy asthe milk ads you see on TV would lead you to believe.Even if the cow's milk you get is free ofchemicals, growth hormones, allergenic proteins, blood, pus, antibiotics, bacteria, and virusestypically found in milk, you still have major problems.Cow's milk is not designed for people.Forone thing, it has 20 times the casein of human milk.2 (Human milk is designed to take an infantfrom 8 pounds to 40 pounds in 18 months.Cow's milk is designed to take a calf from 90 poundsto 1,000 pounds in about 24 months.Although they are both white, mother's milk and cow's milkare totally different beverages.) And for that matter, the cow's milk you buy in the store and thecow's milk that comes from a cow are not similar substances.First, homogenized milk is not natural and presents serious health risks.The theorybehind homogenization sounds simple: break up the fat particles in milk until they areso small that they stay suspended in the milk and don't rise to the top and form thelayer of cream that used to be the trademark of all bottles of milk.Unfortunately,there's a side effect to this process.Once you make the fat particles so small that theydon't rise, you've also made them so small that they easily get absorbed into the bodyand clog your arteries.Second, there's the problem of the growth hormone used in dairy cows to increasemilk production.This growth hormone, called bovine-somatotropin3 (BST), was de-veloped by Monsanto.It was supposed to be identical to the actual growth hormonefound in cows, and in fact, as part of their 55,000 page application to the FDA, Mon-santo submitted a chart identifying the 191 amino acids contained in BST showingthat they absolutely matched the amino acid chain found in natural growth hormone.Unfortunately, it seems, the application is inaccurate.The problem occurs at aminoacid #144, which was supposed to be lysine in both the natural growth hormone andin Monsanto's BST.As it turns out, it isn't.In the July 1994, issue of Protein Science(3:1089-97, 1994), Bernard Violand, a Monsanto scientist published evidence thatamino acid #144 in Monsanto's growth hormone is, in fact, epsilon-N-acetyllysine, afreak substance.Whoops! Ah, but then you probably think that once this problem1Just as an example, over 90% of today's chickens are fed arsenic compounds.And while we're on the subjectof chickens, it's probably worth mentioning that according to a government study, over 90% of the chickens sold inthis country are infected with leukosis (chicken cancer).As for those chickens with too much cancerous tissue to besold, well.they're destroyed, ground up, and fed back to the chickens that we ultimately buy and eat!2The high levels of casein are just one of several reasons that humans do not digest milk proteins very well,leading to numerous allergic reactions and high levels of mucous in our noses and bowels.Incidentally, Elmer's®glue is made from cow's milk casein; that's why you see Elsie the cow on each bottle of Elmer's® glue3Also called rBGH (recombinant bovine growth hormone).Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, Jon Barron.All Rights Reserved www.jonbarron.orgLessons from the Miracle Doctors - 37 - Diet, the Slow Killercame to light, totally nullifying the Monsanto application, that BST was recalled.Nope, not in the United States!1And then there's the fact that the body digests milk (any milk) differently once gastric juicesbegin to flow (at around 18-20 months old).Before gastric juices flow, milk is alkaline and non-mucous forming in the body; but once gastric juices enter the picture, they turn the milk acid,forming mucous, causing sinus problems, allergies, colds, etc.That's why every animal exceptman weans its young off milk! Think about that for a moment.In addition to all of that, milk has been implicated in:Heart disease2Cancer3 particularly breast cancerDiabetes4Allergies and coldsColitisColic and earaches in young childrenAnd finally, milk has played a major role in the development of the "super bacteria" that haverecently emerged to plague our health.How? In 1990, the USDA allowed the dairy industry to in-crease the one part per hundred-million antibiotic residue standard for milk by 10,000% to onepart per million.The problem is that at this level of constant intake, the antibiotics actually destroythe probiotic colonies normally found in the intestinal tract, which then allows harmful bacteria toflourish and develop resistance to a whole range of antibiotics.5If you must have dairy, use organic.Avoid homogenized milk at all costs [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]