Eating is not just a matter of "kill hunger." The decision to put food on the plate has economic, environmental, ethical, cultural, philosophical, historical and religious. Reality shows a steady increase in the number of people who are interested in a vegetarian diet and nutrition. Natural and vegetarian restaurants are heavily frequented at lunchtime. At least in the urban middle class concern in reducing meat consumption is notorious and in the U.S. natural products market moves approximately 8,000 million.
Depends how you take it
"The cutting knife descends gently without much effort a bit tender pecceto. Golden and crispy on the edges, tender and juicy inside. You put the meat in your mouth and chew slowly, feeling the aroma of seasonings promoted by the temperature of the dam. The juice is drained and filled his mouth with it, feels a unique flavor. Dominated by this table is taken anyone exclaim: meat is the best!.
But what about imagine the same scene on a different perspective?. At the plate is a piece of muscle, amputee of the pelvic region of an animal much larger than you. With the knife you cut the muscle tendons. It then places the dead tissues in the mouth and starts dilacerarlos with teeth. The muscle fibers - up to 4 inches - and tough, are chopped into pieces. At its mouth, water (which occupies 75% of cells) is spilled filling the mouth of microbes, dead cells, minerals, fat, allowing the muscles to perform their functions, including contracting.
The flesh as food
Is meat good or bad food? Is it complete or deficient?, Does it increase or weakened?, Da health or removed?. From the nutritional point of view, meat is a food deficient, lacking several essential elements for good nutrition. The meat is low in vitamins. The vitamins are abundant in plants and are only found in small quantities in meat.
Meat is not only a bad food, but also a strong stimulant that causes the body to an excited state with an effect similar to that of alcoholic beverages weakens and limits the body's vital functions.
No meat in the ingredients that can not be among the more than thousand vegetable products. Meat is a food sufficient for the formation of blood and tissues. Meat, on average, contains about 72% water, 20% proteins, 5% fat, 2% of residues and 1% minerals. Carque Otto, "Vital Facts About Drugs", p. 199.
It is a mistake to believe that muscle strength is acquired with the use of food cooked meat. The body's needs can best be met and can be healthy without use. Preference should be given cereals, fruits, tree nuts and legumes, as nutritious and appealing.
As we shall see, studies have been made in relation to food, have found that while the vegetables are our best food and also medicine, as Hippocrates said in Lacarne are no such benefits, and analyze the advantages and disadvantages of it in food science has proven that used for food, meat is responsible for many diseases that afflict us. "
Says Dr. Amilcar de Souza: "Kill to eat not for the ideal man to find food. The wolf kills sheep by instinct and determination of their digestive system. But man can not kill the peaceful ox unused cruel instruments, or using cadaveric spoils without the artifice of the fire. Only the man eats meat embalmed and prepared for a thousand tricks, the harmful salt sodium chloride (common salt), full of pepper, melted fat, vinegar, etc.. "
The Physiology of Digestion Vegetarian and Carnivorous
On the anatomy (science that studies the formation of living things) we can compare the physical characteristics of man and of carnivorous animals. Said Cuvier, French naturalist known: "The whole structure of the human body, even the smallest particulars, complies with vegetarian food ..."
By analyzing the bone structure of man, animals, herbivores and carnivores properly understand the type of power that belongs to each one of them. The jaws, their forms, their joints and chewing jaw shows that carnivorous animals are ready to tear and chew meat, while the man's jaw does not have this feature.
The study of the mouth, stomach and liver in the light of the anatomy and physiology prove that man's teeth resembling the teeth of herbivores and their digestive system is not ready for normal digestion of meat .
The dog, for example, liver has a much higher relative to its body, the human being. Another adaptation necessary for a power carnea, that man possesses, is the corresponding extension of the intestines, which, according to Metchnikoff demonstrated in carnivores is short relative to body length and much longer in animals feed on plants, the latter being of humans. The intestines of carnivores are shorter partial protection against the absorption of toxins from rotting food waste. In the case of herbivores are longer than your gut facilitates better absorption of nutrients in the small and large intestines. The excretions of carnivores are difficult, altamentes rotten and fetid.
Comments of the renowned naturalist Ellen White
"The danger of contracting a disease increases tenfold when eating meat. The intellectual faculties, moral and physical are affected by the habitual consumption of meat. Eating meat upsets the body, clouds the intellect, and blunts the moral sensibilities ... ". Counsels on Health, p. 70.
"The animals are getting sick more and more, and will not be long before food of animal origin are discarded by many besides Seventh-day Adventists have been preparing food healthy and able to sustain life, so that men and women do not need to eat meat. " Counsels on Diet and Foods, p. 459.
"Those who use meat in abundance, do not always have a clear brain and an active intelligence, because the use of meat tends to cause clumsiness or heaviness in the body, and hindering the finer faculties of the mind." Tips on Diet and Foods, p. 464.
"Often, when you stop eating meat, there is a sense of weakness and lack of vigor.Muchos insist that this proves that meat is essential, but it misses because it is a food stimulant that warms the blood and excites nerves. Some find that hard to stop eating meat as drunkards give up drink, and yet would benefit from change. " Council on Diet and Foods, p. 475.
The Creator's Manual
"So God created man in His image, the image of God he created. Male and female he created them ... God said: "I give you every plant yielding seed which is upon the earth, and every tree that bears fruit yielding seed. That will be your food ... Then God saw everything he had done, and it was good greatly. Genesis 1:27,29,30.
Although later, on the occasion of the great flood that destroyed all the plants at the surface of the earth, man was allowed to eat meat, (see Genesis 9: 2-4), this was a palliative measure and emergency to meet basic needs, until he returned to surface vegetation. The provisional and circumstantial that diet is confirmed when we reason that God did not need any modifications to the admirable human digestive system to adapt to the new regime passenger. Some scientists, perhaps, may not know how they are introdujoen the experience of mankind that circumstantial change of diet, but science does not know the full harmony of the human digestive system with the vegetarian, which speaks clearly in favor of the vegetarian nature of man.
That is why for several years now, many nutritionists and physicians advise leaving high school or part of the meat, and this is not to have knowledge of the instructions of the Creator, but by force of countless facts and experiences through the years, have led to the recognition that a diet carnea, is totally incompatible with the genetics of man and machine is a degenerative disease of generating an average of ten to one found. On the other hand if we change the type of fuel deliberately noted, for example, a car, no doubt inevitable that changes would observe the mechanical and subsequently suffer the entire unit. We conclude therefore that the same thing we see, supplying meat to a machine as complex as the digestive system, designed to metabolize vegetable according to the instructions of the engineer Creator. Which will make us witness the sure result of this disorder, which medical science came to be called "disease".
Good reasons to change
Why you spend money on what is not bread, and the product of your labor on what does not satisfy?, Listen carefully to Me and eat what is good. " ( The Holy Bible, Isaiah 55:2).
Considering the drawbacks of an appropriate power carnea and advice related to a natural diet and vegetarian why not take the first step in this suggestive way to a healthier life?. We propose to seek a better quality of life harmonizing their food with the laws of nature. Live longer and better you and your family reach a harmonious development of physical, mental and spiritual.
