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the state borders, no matter how effectively the ecological policy may be implemented in one country.
To avoid on-coming global ecological crisis, the problem of preserving the biosphere both on the national and global scale has become urgent. The necessary effort to preserve nature on the earth is the struggle against the threat of nuclear war, whose consequences would greatly disbalance the ecological equilibrium and would be fatal to mankind.
Medical Aspects of Vegetarian Diet on Health and Disease
Through researches of Bouchard, Kellogg and other investigators the subject of Auto-intoxication or toxemia is considered to be the underlying cause of practically all diseases. Proteins obtained from dead animals have certain disadvantages. Toxic wastes, including uric acids are present in blood and tissue, as also are dead and virulent bacteria, not only from purificatory processes, but from animal diseases such as tuberculosis, foot and mouth, contagious abortion, swine fever, cancer tumours, etc. Similarly, meat contains serum and vaccines infected into cattle and meat animal against prevalent disease whereas protein obtained from nuts, pulses, grains and dairy produce is claimed to be relatively pure as compared with beef with high impure water content.
“Research Commission for heart disease suggest that high quality vegetable protein products development be encouraged.”
We are finding more and more scientific evidence linking heart attacks to diet, especially diets high in saturated fats and cholesterol contributing to the development of artheriosclerosis. The risk of cancer is
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