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Today, 'meat' for us means virtually four animals - 'cattle beast'; the sheep; the pig; and the domestic fowl ('chicken'). Most of us will rarely eat any other kind of animal in our lifetime, and especially not lizards, frogs, grubs, rodents, snakes, turtles, or other small animals that were our species' normal daily food for almost all our evolutionary history up to the present!


Now, the word 'meat' has come to mean muscles, not internal organs. In a wonderful cultural 'flip flop', that which was once prized, the internal organs, are now called 'offal'. And in many households in the West the internal organs are now called "ugh" or "yuck". Muscle meat by itself may raise levels of an amino acid called 'homocysteine' in the blood, and high levels of homocysteine have been associated with tendency to heart disease. But folic acid and B vitamins have been found to prevent elevated homocysteine levels. The liver is an excellent source of folic acid. So eating of the whole animal keeps the balance of health. Folic acid is also high in some green vegetables, particularly spinach. Meat and vegetables go together.




"[Affluent populations] habitually consume a diet that was unknown to the human species a mere ten generations ago. Compared with the diet that fuelled human evolution, the so called "affluent" diet of today has twice the amount of fat, a much higher ratio of saturated to unsaturated fatty acids, a third of the former daily fibre intake, much more sugar and sodium, fewer complex carbohydrates, and a reduced intake of micro nutrients. World - wide, the adoption of this diet has been accompanied by a major increase in coronary heart disease, stroke, various cancers, diabetes and other chronic diseases"
- 'Conquering Suffering, Enriching Humanity, The World Health Report' - WHO, Geneva 1997.




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