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vegetarian diet. Beef has six times the cholesterol of milk. Consumption of vegetable protein in place of animal protein lowers blood cholesterol levels and may provide other cardiovascular benefits. Recent findings of the American Cancer Society reveal that breast cancer kills three times as many American women as Japanese women. In addition, colon and prostate cancer in Japan is significantly lower than in North America. Given this expanding list of benefits, informed Westerners are eagerly incorporating various forms of vegetarian food into their diets, hoping to experience a wide range of health benefits, including: potential anticancer properties; menopausal symptom relief: osteoporosis protection: and cardiovascular health.
One is affected quite differently by fresh, whole, live, organic foods compared to meat and processed foods which also carry pesticides, hormones, antibiotics, preservatives, and artificial flavours and colours. In addition to digesting the food, human liver and kidney must work harder to process all these chemicals in meat and processed food compared to organic food. In addition to the physical nutrients and the energy of the food components, food also absorbs the energy of the individuals who prepare, sell, distribute, harvest, and grow the food and the equipment and techniques used to store, prepare, and cook the food can be just as important to health as what is eaten. Furthermore, when one eats meat, one takes in the animal's energy, including the energy of how it was raised and the poisons released in his body out of fear and trauma of being slaughtered. The consumption of meat can cause a transmission of a number of diseases from animals to humans.
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