Sentences with phrase «animal diets because»

Timothy hay has long been a staple of rabbit and small animal diets because of its digestibility and nutritional content.

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It makes me feel that the term «vegan» is extremely unfortunate and misleading, because the term does not emphasize or even signify respect for animals or living beings or creatures, as it would benefit from doing, but rather uses a derivative form of «vegetable» or «vegetarian», which makes it sound as if the central point is — eating vegetation, i.e. plants, which makes it sound like a diet.

I know that you eat a plant - based diet because of your health, but I was wondering if you have anything to say in regard to animal cruelty and choosing an ethical lifestyle?

I'd love to win the book because it seems there are many highly inventive ways of adding beans to one's diet, and I'm always looking for options to replace animal - proteins in my diet.

But mostly because if my SO were trying to cut out the majority of animal products from their diet but only ate eggs, I would find that a lot easier to get on board with than a bevvy of steaks and fillets (read: dead animal carcasses) being grilled in the same kitchen I prepare my own food in.

Because epigenetics is the real driver of your health status, and diet plays a major role in gene expression (aka epigenetics), at least in this post's animal study!

Children with persistent diarrhoea may be intolerant of animal milk because of their inability to digest lactose; this is most likely to be a problem when the child's diet consists entirely of milk from animals.

As Manuela Carneiro, a researcher who took part in the study published in «Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety», informs SINC: «This is due to the type of diet these animals have — strictly carrion from domestic and wild hunting species — because the consumption of hunting species increases the likelihood of ingesting lead.»

A plant - only diet also would require individuals to eat more food and more daily calories to meet their nutritional needs from the foods they eat because the available foods from plants are not as nutrient dense as foods from animals.

Because dog and cat food tends to have more meat than the average human diet, this means that dogs and cats consume about 25 percent of the total calories derived from animals in the United States.

Because C4 plants concentrate more of carbon's heavier isotopes compared with C3 plants, a technique called stable isotope analysis — which measures the relative concentrations of isotopes in animal bones — can often detect which plants predominate in the diet.

Furthermore, «because some hunter - gatherer societies obtained most of their dietary energy from wild animal fat and protein does not imply that this is the ideal diet for modern humans, nor does it imply that modern humans have genetic adaptations to such diets.»

Modern mimic: On Mark's Daily Apple blog — a Paleo lifestyle forum — a commenter optimistically proclaims that the «high animal fat, low carb Paleo / traditional whole food diet... protects against all cancers» because it strengthens the immune system and makes the body strong.

Vegetarians should find non-meat sources of iron, creatine, zinc, vitamin B12, vitamin D and calcium because the main sources of these typically are animal products and could be lacking in their diets.

Because of the pivotal role that diet plays in causing the MS in humans, most metabolic disease animal models do (and we believe should) use diet as a way to precipitate this syndrome.

I've watched former vegan colleagues receive hate mail after they decided to incorporate animal protein back into their diets because it actually made them feel better.

(6) This is because grain - based diets reduce the pH of the digestive system in ruminant animals, which inhibits the growth of the bacterium that produces CLA.

It is impossible to know why some people feel better on this diet — is it because it is low in animal foods?

Yeah but that was not because of their diet but more because of a dangerous lifestyle (hunting, wild animals, harsh winters, injuries...).

They chose to study a plant - based diet because of ample evidence showing that reducing animal product intake (high in nutrients known to promote insulin resistance, including fat, protein, and heme iron) can not only improve diabetes health, but reverse diabetes altogether (8 — 14).

So, the reason the largest prospective study on diet and cancer ever found that the incidence of all cancers combined was lower among vegetarians than among meat - eaters may be because they eat less animal protein.

It could be that the nerves in my Dad's heart might be misbehaving because they are abnormal AND because they are being assaulted by stressors resulting from his very standard American diet such as systemic inflammation, calcifications, reduced blood viscosity, reduced nitrous oxide, or any of the other chronic insults to our hearts and vascular system that results when we eat animal proteins, lots of fat, especially saturated fat, and highly processed junk plant foods.

But if your cholesterol is low enough, because your diet is low enough in animal fat, if you center your diet around grains and vegetables, then changes in cholesterol can lead to changes in gene expression.

They were able to do that because they were eating a low fat whole plant food based diet that did not include any animal products.

I have some pretty bad eczema, fatigue bloating, etc... I feel like my only option is to do the candida diet cleanse because when I eat any amount of carbs i get really bloated and my skin flares up, but I've read about and try to follow the plant based diet because of how animal products are no good for us.

These animals often get very sick from the poor diet they are fed and have to be given antibiotics and other drugs because of this, and these drugs pass onto us.

The book advocated the use of cereals and legumes rather than animal protein products for the American diet because it assumes that cereal grains fed to animals could be more effectively used to feed the human population.

They form a jelly like substance that is full of omega 3 - «s (something the Western diet needs a lot more of because our animals no longer eat grass).

Economic reasons also prompt people to choose a vegetarian diet because meat and animal products are more expensive than most vegetarian foods.

Saturated fat is held to be bad because it raises cholesterol and since it's hard to find animal proteins that don't contain saturated fat and a «cholesterol burden,» the preferred protein in the Reaven diet is soy.

Unfortanately, anybody that eats a highly vegetarian or vegan diet, or purposely avoids the fat from animal foods typically doesn't get enough vitamin K2 because K2 is almost entirely found in certain animal foods such as the fat portion of pasture - raised dairy (butter and cream, full - fat yogurt, kefir, and also full - fat aged cheeses), egg yolks, or in some fermented foods like natto, which most people have never even tried.

THE LURE OF POLITICALLY CORRECT DIETS For some high - minded teenagers, anti-saturated fat dogma may dovetail rather conveniently with pro-vegetarian arguments, 12 particularly because the search for «meaningful moral standards, values and belief systems» is a critical developmental task during adolescence.13 (It should be noted that moralistic claims in favor of vegetarianism often prevent earnest vegetarian teens from coming face to face with underlying farming realities — including the fact that sustainable farming requires enriching soil with animal products such as bone meal and manure.12) Recognizing the fact that adolescent boys also can be preoccupied with physical concerns about weight or athletic prowess, it is perhaps not terribly surprising that a sizeable proportion of teenage boys appear to be persuaded by advice that vegetarianism is a «healthy» lifestyle.

Some specifically turn to a plant - based diet to improve their health and well - being and eventually adopt the lifestyle because of the numerous negative impacts of animal agriculture on animals and the planet.

«I asked them to eliminate from their diet almost all dairy products (in the beginning, I allowed them to have skim milk and nonfat yogurt, but have since eliminated all dairy products because of the potential tumor - causing properties of caseine and the contribution of animal protein to the process of atherosclerosis),...»

People on lowfat diets typically avoid protein foods from animal sources because they contain saturated fats.

Because whole, minimally processed animal products are nutrient dense the amount necessary in the diet can be quite small for a person who thrives on a diet rich in vegetables and low glycemic fruits.

not too sure maybe because it contains traces of animal milk... or is it because your body is beginning to show that it is trying to adjust to the new diet?

I think the Kitavans are getting away with the starch in their diets (1) because they are still eating plenty of protective animal foods and (2) because they are getting a lot of sunshine.

Because epigenetics is the real driver of your health status, and diet plays a major role in gene expression (aka epigenetics), at least in this post's animal study!

They provide the building blocks for your cell membranes and a variety of hormones and hormone like substances that are essential to your health, and saturated fats from animal and vegetable sources (such as meat, dairy, certain oils, and tropical plants like coconut) provide a concentrated source of energy in your diet — a source of energy that is far more ideal than carbohydrates, and that's why I chose these two specific «keys» in combination, because when you cut down on carbs, you generally need to increase your fat consumption.

All one can say is that Kitavans, with their diet of far less junk food, higher (cellulose) vegetables, high MCTs, lower protein, that may help result in short and lean stature likely secondary to lower IGF - 1and mTOR (known longevity factors in animals), with their less stressed lifestyle gives them low rates of heart disease and diabetes but with only an average lifespan with few centenarians, that may likely be despite eating starches than because of it.

It would seem from this that humans were not consuming poor diets because they considered themselves uniquely exempt among all animal life from the laws of nature.

I do not necessarily recommend it because I have seen excellent clinical results from a strict plant based diet higher in carbohydrates and lower in fat, but still this «eco-atkins» type of diet shows that perhaps animal fat is very different from plant fat.

Pea protein, however, is a standout exception because it's rich in all nine essential amino acids except for methionine, which is easy to correct for by including small amounts of animal protein in your diet or even other plant proteins like rice protein.

It would rather seem that humans were feeding both themselves and many other animals deficient diets because they didn't understand the laws of nature.

It is important to get grass - fed and wild meats / seafood because the omega 3 content is high and the animals» diet is a natural one, so you in turn get more nutrients and CLA (a healthy trans fat that promotes weight management and weight loss in those who need to lose fat).

The assumption is that such a diet is fattening because there's something about eating a variety of foods, mostly junk foods, that is so rewarding or at least so less bland than a plain chow diet that both humans and animals get fat eating it.

«Because [these pollutants] accumulate in animal fat, consuming a plant - based diet,... [decreasing] meat, dairy, and fish consumption» may reduce exposure for children and adults alike.

Yes — I read all of that but it's so hard to know if he (or any of these doctors» books or materials) are referring to «protein» in general or «animal protein» because the context is always about why animal & processed food consumption is bad, directed at people consuming a typical Western diet.

Because collagen makes up approximately 50 % of the whole animal, gelatin can be used to help create a more complete protein balance in our diet.