Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
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also read Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals, an open and hard-hitting answer to the author’s sincere question, If I really knew the realities of animal agriculture, could I still eat meat? At the book’s conclusion, Foer couldn’t. And now, no longer, could I.
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A Glut of Information and a Famine of Wisdom
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The other Blue Zones also featured a predominantly plant-based diet. None of them were fully vegan or vegetarian, but meat and dairy and eggs were luxuries enjoyed regularly only by the wealthy, and just on festivals and special occasions by everyone else.
julie added 3mo ago
anyone who knows the basics of biochemistry or physiology will tell you that energy comes from carbs or fat, not protein.
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Meat—even grass-fed, clean-raised, organic meat—is a carcinogen; that is, it contributes to the formation of cancer. Dairy products and eggs may also be carcinogens.
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One part of the report did survive: the suggestion to reduce saturated fat. Unfortunately, most people didn’t know what that meant, and they certainly weren’t aware that every kind of animal product includes this type of fat—even lean meats. The only way to reduce your intake of saturated fat is to cut back your consumption of animal protein.
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There’s nothing good in fish that we can’t get from plants, minus the sky-high mercury levels that appeared on my blood tests during my pescetarian phase.
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“cognitive dissonance.” This occurs when someone has such a strong prior belief that the person filters out or reinterprets all evidence contradicting the belief.
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No matter the diet, the concept of the “Cheat Day” is a disempowering and dangerous one. People who eat strictly for six days a week and then binge on their favorite “forbidden foods” on day seven spend the entire week fantasizing about that cheeseburger. Whatever you do, don’t elevate the food you’re trying to eliminate to mythic status in your mi
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