They added that
the fact meat free diets have fewer calories was helpful in helping diabetic people control their weight.
Not exact matches
The results were skewed slightly by the
fact that more people stuck to the
meat free diet than stuck to the omnivorous one — 55 per cent kept strictly to their veggie regimen, compared with only 32 per cent on the other
diet — but that could just show that when it comes to keeping people interested in healthy eating, deliciousness is a factor too.
Colon cancer occurs when high levels of dietary vegetable oils and hydrogenated fats, along with certain carcinogens, are acted on by certain enzymes in the cells lining the colon, leading to tumor formation.14 This explains the
fact that in industrialized countries, where there are many carcinogens in the
diet and where consumption of vegetable oils and carcinogens is high, some studies have correlated
meat - eating with colon cancer; but in traditional societies, where vegetable oils are absent and the food is
free of additives,
meat - eating is not associated with cancer.
Aside from the obvious problem of defining what our ancestors evolved to eat in light of the diversity of their
diets, most paleo -
diet fans miss the obvious
fact that humans definitely did not evolve to eat the
meats of today (even if grass - fed and
free - range, although that IS healthier than factory - farmed) or the fish swimming in our polluted seas.
I don't pin absolutely everything on the China Study and a plant based
diet; I allow for the
fact that bone broth, and organic or
free range or wild - caught
meat / poultry / fish may have value as a minor part of the
diet.
In
fact, the history of prescription dog food can be traced back to the 1930s to a Cornell - educated veterinarian named Dr. Mark Morris, Sr. who was hired by the American Humane Association to create a
meat -
free diet for dogs during that rationing period of World War II.