I find it amazing how REALITY contradicts almost everything
the medical mainstream would have us believe about
nutrition. It is absolutely mind boggling. While these diets
are similar to what is recommended for us to eat by AMA NIH
and others when we see large groups of people eating such
diets we find they are extremely defficient and unhealthy.
The children are the ones who suffer the most on diets such
as this yet that is never taken into consideration by
politically correct nutritionists.
"Diets are mainly cereal-based, with tubers and a variety of
vegetables and fruits when available....In general, Kenyan
children have inadequate intakes of energy, fat...Baseline
data revealed stunting and underweight in 30% of children
and widespread inadequate intakes and/or biochemical
evidence of micronutrient deficiencies, particularly of
iron, zinc, vitamins A and B-12, riboflavin and calcium.
Little or no ASF(animal source foods) were eaten and fat
intake was low...There is an urgent need to increase the
intake of animal source foods by Kenyan children."
hmmm inadequate energy intake...inadequate fat
intake...hmmm...grain/vegetable based diet...hmmm...does any
of this sound familiar?...Calorie restricted fat restricted
vegetarian/vegan diet perhaps? The very same that is
recommended by mainstream politically correct nutrition for
health and longevity. Will they ever get a reality check??
"Animal source foods (ASF) can provide micronutrients in
greater amounts and more bioavailable forms compared to
plant source foods, but their intake is low in many poor
populations."
Another example of how plant/grain based diets are diets of
poverty and famine and not foods humans seek out for
optimal health.
other significant quotes: "Animal source foods can provide a
variety of micronutrients that are difficult to obtain in
adequate quantities from plant source foods alone. In the
1980s, the Nutrition Collaborative Research Support Program
identified six micronutrients that were particularly low in
the primarily vegetarian diets of schoolchildren in rural
Egypt, Kenya and Mexico: vitamin A, vitamin B-12,
riboflavin, calcium, iron and zinc. Negative health outcomes
associated with inadequate intake of these nutrients include
anemia, poor growth, rickets, impaired cognitive
performance, blindness, neuromuscular deficits and
eventually, death. Animal source foods are particularly rich
sources of all six of these nutrients, and relatively small
amounts of these foods, added to a vegetarian diet, can
substantially increase nutrient adequacy"
"A previous longitudinal three-country study in Egypt, Kenya
and Mexico found significant positive associations between
intake of animal source foods (ASF) and growth, cognitive
development and physical activity."
"Observational studies of dietary patterns and growth and
studies with milk supplementation have shown that children
consuming diets containing animal source foods grow better."
It is sickening to me that despite all of this clear and
indisputable evidence we are still told to eat vegetarian
low fat diets not only for ourselves but for our
CHILDREN!! And you can still see incidents of ignorant
missguided parants killing or seriously injuring their
babies and children by trying to feed them those kinds of
diets. This should not be happening!!!! There is
absolutely no reason for it. Every person should
understand these basic facts about human and child
nutrition but they do not. It happens FOR NO OTHER REASON
than the flawed recomendations of the mainstream medical
comunity and their refusal to comprehend the basic facts
of human and child nutrition and do everything they can to
inform parants about the truth. They are responsible for
the injury and death of countless children.
All of the observations in these recent studies fully
support the observations seen by Weston Price in his
travels. Animal source foods are vital to human health. That
is the simple truth. The refusal of people to understand and
accept this reality is mind boggling. The health of these
vegetarian african groups is in stark contrast to the
superior health of cattle hearding tribes with animal source
diets. Another thing worth mentioning is the rate of
diabetes in africa is one of the highest DESPITE the lack of
large amounts of modern processed foods loaded with refined
carbs. This is not surprising considering the extremely
large number of people who have no choice but to live on
vegetarian diets. This fact is significant showing that
strict plant/grain based diets consumed almost from birth
with no animal source foods can be just as dangerous if not
more so than diets with high amounts of refined carbs but
also containing large amounts of animal source foods like
the modern american diet.