Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
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Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
a book by John Robbins, onetime heir to the Baskin-Robbins ice cream fortune who renounced his inheritance when he discovered the harmful effects of animal product consumption at every level. In his epic The Food Revolution (an update to his earlier, groundbreaking Diet for a New America), Robbins lays out as clearly and forcefully as possible the
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Modern chickens are cooped up in dirty cages, lacking room even to turn around. In order to keep them alive under those conditions, their food is dosed on a regular basis with antibiotics. So you are eating a fatter chicken pumped full of antibiotics that can mess with your natural bowel flora that can affect your weight; and it is filled with
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Here’s something else to consider: the RDA recommendations are actually optimal values, not minimal needs. Since some people require more protein than others, the USDA chose as their recommendation a value that assures adequate protein for 99 percent of the country. Based on the assumption that too much is safer than not enough (not true, as you’ll
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Meat disrupts your intestinal bacteria, which leads to weight gain. Most meat contains antibiotics, which lead to weight gain. Meat creates acidosis and inflammation, which lead to weight gain.
Garth Davis M.D. • Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
The key message here is not “zero meat” but rather “more plants.” More than 100 percent dietary purity, I want you to shift your overall dietary pattern.
Garth Davis M.D. • Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
When I tell them to eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, it’s not that they actually object. They’re just so focused on getting more and more protein into their diets that they don’t have room for plant-based foods.
Garth Davis M.D. • Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
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.
Garth Davis M.D. • Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
recent research suggests that presenting people with proof that their beliefs are incorrect doesn’t change their minds. Instead, it actually reinforces their erroneous beliefs, as they work hard to defend them against fact and logic.
Garth Davis M.D. • Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
I finally understood the great Czech-German writer Franz Kafka’s decision to become a vegan. Looking through the glass at an aquarium, he is reported to have told the fish, “Now I can at last look at you in peace. I don’t eat you anymore.”