Bad News: Meat

The good news is fruit, vegetables, whole grains, bean and legumes are a wealth of digestive enzymes and are highly alkaline to the body. You can eat as much as you want!!

The bad news is cooked meat is highly acidic to the body. If you are ill and want to nutritionally heal yourself, you must refrain from ingesting highly acidic foods.

Let's define meat as beef, pork, game, chicken, poultry, fish and eggs. In other words, animal flesh. If Americans were offered animal meat that had been bled and drained and gutted properly we might be able to justify meat as a protein source. Some forms of organic kosher meat can be nutritious when eaten on rare occasion. But American ranchers are forced to use antibiotics and pesticides in ridiculous numbers. Cows are fed corn; cow stomachs cannot digest corn as they are natural herbivores. The result is disease in these animals which necessitates antibiotics.

If the animal is fed antibiotics, growth hormones and non-nutritional preservative-laden chow, then you are ingesting the same.

Therefore, in order to heal yourself you must use vegan protein sources such as cooked beans, raw nuts, cooked legumes and certain whole food soy products such as miso and liquid aminos. Those that argue that protein levels will fall dangerously low on a vegan diet know nothing about protein and the cause of protein deficiencies. Both cancer and heart disease exist in excess protein conditions. People who lead a vegan lifestyle, moreover, countries with a vegetarian background suffer cancer rates at half of those in the U.S.A.

"Increasing dietary protein within the range of about 10-20% is associated
with a broad array of health problems, especially when most of the protein is
from animal sources."
The China Study
Campbell

I have a friend who had terrible TMJ - the teeth grinding condition which can keep you up all night. He is a meat-eating man in his 40's. He went to the dentist for a night retainer; he tried night-time sleeping aids and even asked the dentist to pull what he felt was the offending tooth. All to no avail. I warily suggested that he just try to go 3 days without meat. I suggested he eat crackers, cheese, vegetables, bananas, eggs, tortillas, soup etc but NO MEAT FOR 3 DAYS.

He called me on Tuesday, day 3. He said, "I hate to tell you this.........I slept through the night with absolutely no pain."

Just try it for 3 days. Be a vegan for 3 days. Meat binds muscle and is acidic to your body. What if you felt better? What if you slept like a baby? What if your body was allowed to alkalize itself and better your health?