Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
Garth Davis M.D.amazon.com
Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
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.
Garth Davis M.D. • Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
By focusing on the healthy and delicious plant-based options, you automatically crowd the animal protein off your plate without obsessing over it.
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
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
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 toxi
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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.
Garth Davis M.D. • Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
anyone who knows the basics of biochemistry or physiology will tell you that energy comes from carbs or fat, not protein.
Garth Davis M.D. • 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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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.