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Is “Hormone-Free” Milk Really Healthy?  - Try ONE WEEK  of  “NOTMILK” for your kid’s sake

By Kelly Childs

 

  I’m writing about a conversation I had with my friend a few days ago. She has a 6 year old and an 8 year old and she tried to debunk me on the issue of buying hormone-free, organic milk and that it was way better for you than regular milk. Her children drink 2 glasses of organic milk a day plus cheese and other organic dairy products, thinking they are healthy. She had a hard time grasping the fact that the problem with milk isn’t isolated to the issue of hormones alone. It is the protein, the GMO hormones and all the other factors as well that wreak havoc on our cells, auto-immune system and chance for a healthy long life.

Type 1 Diabetes, cancer, ADHD, Asthma, and nearly all allergies and auto-immune diseases, are all directly linked to the consumption of dairy products. Researchers, Scientists and Doctors have discovered that childhood diseases and conditions of the Western World can be prevented, slowed down and even reversed on a whole food, plant-based diet.

According to Dr. T. Colin Campbell, in his book The China Study, forty years of research reveals the root cause of Type 1 Juvenile Diabetes in the high levels of animal protein consumption in the American Diet, as found in the milk protein, casein. Casein, a harmful protein found in cow’s milk has been confirmed to cause Type 1 Diabetes in children when fed to them at an early age.

Fooling ourselves to think that drinking milk that is organic or “hormone-free” won’t make a difference either, because the GMO bovine growth hormone is virtually the same as the naturally occurring growth hormone in cows. And hormones are only part of it. The proteins are what really hurt us too. In the New England Journal of Medicine, July 31, 1992- right there, you can look it up! It says that the exposure to bovine proteins, bovine serum lactobumin, is a trigger for insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. Dr. Spock, who sold 75 million copies of his book on child care (the only other book to sell more than his in history is the bible), clearly stated that, “no human, no child, no adult needs cow’s milk”. It’s clearly a deception on the government’s part to promote it.

There is no such thing as hormone-free milk. The healthiest milk from the healthiest cow is naturally loaded with lactoferrins, immunoglobulins, steroid, and protein growth hormones and not to mention, injected with casomorphins (to get us really hooked). Does organic human breast milk sound like a delicious drink for an adult human? Instinctively, most people know that there are substances in breast milk that are not intended for their adult bodies. Same goes for pig's milk and dog's milk and the same goes for cow's milk. But in an effort to provide their children with healthy foods, mothers and fathers search out products that are advertised to be organic or "hormone free", thereby rendering the product safe. Such marketing is deceptive. When drinking body fluids from animals, or eating their flesh, you ingest their naturally occurring hormones and proteins. This in turn leads to cancer growth, diabetes, obesity, hormonal problems, teenage acne, allergies, asthma, ADHD, autism and a host of other lifelong problems.

I recommend readers to take a 30 day no-dairy test. This would be optimal but seven days is also plenty if you’re aware of your body to see the difference. Give up all milk and dairy products for just one week and an internal "fog" will lift from your body. Is genetically engineered milk dangerous? You bet! There is very little difference between the two.

Fabulous Websites of interest are:

www.thechinastudy.com (Dr. T. Colin Campbell)

www.diseaseproof.com (Dr. Joel Fuhrman)

www.nealbarnard.com (Dr. Neal Barnard)

www.heartattackproof.com (Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr.)

                                     

 

How Much Protein? A Critique of the Complete Protein Theory.

By Kelly Childs

The natural food movement is not new, by any means, but as it happens in civilization today, individuals are exposed to it at different times in their lives, and often it is a completely new concept for them. It is strange that it should escape so many people for so long that what we eat has so much to do with our state of health. But very few ever really knew what was in all the ready-made food they bought from the stores, and that the motives of the manufacturers of these foods, which would contain such ingredients as processed sugar in large amounts, animal fats, bleached flour, and long lists of chemical compounds used as artificial flavoring, coloring, preservatives, and other purposes not even listed, were ruthless, profiteering, without any concern for the health of the people who would eat them.

Let’s examine one of the most important and misunderstood issues in the field of diet and nutrition; the subject of protein. It is maintained by scientists that protein is the main substance of which living organisms are composed. The protein molecule is a large molecule made up of different arrangements of what are called amino acids, of which we are told there are 22. Most nutritionists warn us to make sure we get enough of this substance in the food we eat so that we can grow and replace worn-out tissue in our bodies. Much of the hunger in the world is blamed upon a lack of protein in the diet, and anyone who is a vegetarian has most probably been asked, "But where do you get your protein?" Nutritionists say that the foods which contain the most protein, and in the most acceptable form, are animal foods, such as flesh, eggs, milk, and cheese. Vegetarians will abstain from eating these foods, and thus are said to run the, risk of serious illness because of this.

Now how should we determine how much protein we should have in our diet? Let's answer by asking another question: Is a high-protein diet native to human physiology?

To answer this it would be good for us to discuss the position we humans occupy in the animal kingdom. Our biological position in that kingdom is as a part of the Primate order, which means that our closest animal relatives, from the point of view of our anatomy, are the anthropoid apes. The "anthropoid" means "man-like" or, "resembling man." This group of animals, which includes the gorillas, the monkeys, the chimpanzees, the orangutans, etc., are classified as frugivores, which means fruit-eaters, as opposed to the carnivores, which means flesh-eaters, or the herbivores, which means grass and vegetation-eaters.

Oddly enough, anthropologists have classified man as an omnivore, which means everything-eater, along with the pigs and the scavengers. This is because if we observe mankind, we will notice that he truly does eat everything from fruit to vegetables, to grains, to the milk of other animals, to eggs, and flesh. But if we compare the human digestive system to the rest of the primate order, or the frugivores, we find that they are identical. The intestines are 12 times the length of the trunk; the large intestines, or colon, are convoluted, slowing down the passage of food; the teeth are the same, the saliva is alkaline; and the skin has pores to aid in the elimination of wastes. The herbivores, such as the cows, the horses, the deer, etc., are similar but not the same. The lengths of their intestines are 10 times the length of their trunk.

The carnivores, on the other hand, are radically different, have intestines only 3 times the length of their trunk. Their colons are smooth, allowing wastes to slide right through and be eliminated quickly (an apparently wise provision, since the end products of protein digestion, in which their diet is high, is said to be the highly toxic uric acid, and urea). Their dental structure is designed to be used as weapons in killing their prey, quite unlike those of the frugivores. Their saliva is acid, and their skin has no pores.

The carnivores eat their prey raw; blood, bones, and all—something which would repulse most humans, who cook theirs, instead, which means they are literally eating dead matter, because that is what fire does to living tissue—it destroys it. When we pick a plant, it will retain its living form for many days after. When it finally wilts, we won't eat it. Cooked meat has little relation to the living flesh of an animal.

Now flesh is high-protein food, but fruit, which is the food of our closest animal relatives, and also, by the way, the only food that man was given to eat in the Garden of Eden story of the Bible, is a low-protein food. In fact, it is the lowest protein food.

Now let us consider one more thing. The first food that nature has designed for human infants is mother's milk. It is reasonable for us to assume that the composition of human milk can provide us with a good model for what the perfect human food should be, including its protein content, because it is on this food that the human infant must grow at a faster rate than it will ever grow again. And what do we find when we examine the chemist's report of the chemical composition of human milk? We find that it more closely resembles fruit than it does any other food. Its protein content is approximately 1 1/2%, which is roughly the same as fruits, and the lowest of all foods.

If we compare human milk with cow’s milk, which, unfortunately, is what many babies are fed these days, we find that cow’s milk is 3 times higher in protein. (The protein content of the carnivorous cat is almost six times higher than human milk.) We also find that the casein content of cow’s milk is 6 to 7 times that of human milk. It is the casein of cow’s milk that the Borden's company uses to make Elmer's glue! Most other foods have a much higher percentage of protein, with flesh reaching into the 20% category, and certain nuts, seeds, beans, and dried sea vegetables as much as 30% and higher.

It would seem natural from all of this to assume that humans are also frugivores, or fruitarians, and that the usual warnings that people receive who become vegetarians; that they must now make sure they find alternative sources of protein to replace the protein they will no longer be getting from flesh foods is a fallacy, based upon the notion that humans are naturally carnivorous beings, which we see we're not.

But, then, where does this notion come from? Why are we told by most nutritionists that almost all our sources of vegetable protein are inferior in quality to animal sources, such as flesh, eggs, milk, and cheese, and that we must eat these animal foods, or combine at one meal different sources of vegetable protein which laboratory tests tell us are complementary, so that we don't become protein deficient?

These ideas are, for the most part, a product of what is known as The Complete Protein Theory. We mentioned that protein molecules are made up of different arrangements of the 22 known amino acids.

Now, according to this theory, if any one of 14 of these amino acids is missing from the food we eat, the body can synthesize it from other elements in the system, and can then build the protein it needs; but, if any one of the other 8 amino acids are missing, then protein synthesis cannot take place. These 8 amino acids are called the "essential amino acids," and the only foods generally considered to contain all 8 essential amino acids in the quantities considered necessary are from animal sources—flesh, eggs, milk, and cheese. Vegetable protein is considered to be lacking in one or another of the 8 essential amino acids in the quantities necessary, and that is why we are advised to combine them according to the determination of laboratory tests.

We are told all this also in spite of the observed fact of nature that other vegetarian animals, such as gorillas, cows, elephants, hippos, rhinos, etc., grow to their enormous sizes without having to resort to a high-protein diet, but rather eat nothing but raw vegetation, and although it is true that humans aren't gorillas, cows, elephants, hippos, or rhinos, they do have more in common with these animals than with the carnivores, in terms of their digestive systems.

What, then, is the source of this discrepancy between what simple logic would tell us to eat, and what we are told to eat by nutritionists? It would be good for us to know how this complete protein theory was arrived at, since we are told that it is so, but we are never told why. If we search through enough biochemistry textbooks, we will discover references to a group of experiments conducted in the 1930s by the biochemist William C. Rose. The purpose was to see the effects of a lack of certain amino acids in the diet. His subjects were graduate students of his university, and for the experiments he fed them a diet consisting of a mixture of pure amino acids, corn starch, sugar, butter-fat, corn oil, cod liver oil, inorganic salts, centrifuged lemon juice, flour, and vitamins. He alternately eliminated one or another of the 22 amino acids to see if their bodies would synthesize them. The way he measured whether or not this synthesis was taking place was by checking to see if the amount of the element nitrogen (the main element in protein) that was being taken in through the diet was the same as the amount being excreted. If the amounts were the same, then protein synthesis was considered to be taking place. If the amount being excreted was more than the amount being taken in, then protein synthesis was considered not to be taking place.

Now, based upon these experiments Rose concluded that 8 amino acids could not be synthesized by the human body, which are today called the essential amino acids," and that one must have them in the diet, and all in one meal.

There are several factors which must be considered concerning these experiments. The subjects of the experiments were 1930s college students, and it is very likely that they were in the habit of eating the average American diet of flesh, white flour products, sugar, and the like, whose dangers are becoming more apparent every day. In fact, they were probably eating worse than the average, being away from home, and eating in the college cafeterias and in fast food places. They were also likely to be in the habit of smoking and drinking, which was "in" in those days. It doesn't seem as if their diets were controlled at all before the experiments, because the diet used for the experiments themselves, which consisted totally of processed, chemicalized, and completely artificial substances showed an incredible lack of understanding of the whole nature of diet and its effects on human health. And even if we are incorrect in assuming that the students' diets were as we said, the diet used in these experiments was by itself enough to render these subjects as unfit on which to base any dietary standard for the entire human race.

Then there was the way Rose chose to measure if protein synthesis was taking place. He didn't actually see protein synthesis take place; he only inferred it from the amount of nitrogen being excreted by the subjects. It would seem that what that means is a matter of interpretation. When the human body is overloaded with some element, it will usually try to eliminate it in some way, and it will often do so when the person stops taking that substance in. For instance, if you are in the habit of eating large amounts of dairy products, and you suddenly stop, you might find yourself expelling large quantities of mucus. You could say that this proves you need more dairy products in your diet, but a more correct interpretation would be that by decreasing the burden on your digestive system, your body is taking this opportunity to eliminate, in the form of mucus, the toxic wastes it has been storing all that time.

More than anything else, these experiments completely ignore the observed fact that people can fast for very long periods of time, and experience a profound rejuvenation by doing so. The length of time people have been known to fast would amaze most of us. Eighty days and more is not uncommon. In trying to be consistent with this protein theory, the medical profession will claim that when you fast, you feed on your own bodily waste, and that after you use up your wastes, you start feeding upon your own tissue, making fasting at this point very dangerous, an explanation which is inconsistent with simple reason as well as with the experience of people who have fasted. The human body does not feed on wastes, which are the end products of feeding. During a fast it eliminates stored up wastes.

And finally, further work in the field of biochemistry and the amino acids has not confirmed the work of Rose as one might have thought. Here are typical quotations from biochemistry textbooks:

From Biochemistry of the Amino Acids, Vol. I, by Alton Meister:

"It is evident that an amino acid may be 'essential' or 'nonessential' depending upon the criterion employed ... the age of the animals, the presence in the diet of other factors (e.g., vitamins), and the existence of certain physiological and pathological conditions."

From Certain Biochemical Findings in Man in Relation to Diet by A. R. F. Walker, from the annals of the New York Academy of Sciences:

"Absence ... of relevant clinical and pathological stigmata in people accustomed to 'deficient' intakes cannot but point to the strong probability that the particular recommended intakes are too high... the situation regarding animal protein calls for reexamination."

And from Chemistry of the Amino Acids, Vol. I, by Greenstein and Winitz:

"In few areas of scientific description is the inadequacy of language so revealed as in the attempt to distinguish clearly the so-called nonessential amino acids from the essential ones, and this may well be due to the fact that growth has no standard of reference. The looseness of such phrases as 'optimal' or 'maximal' growth employed in these pages is obvious."

This last point is interesting, because we know that a high-protein diet stimulates the speed and size of growth. Now we can observe in nature that animals will live to about ten times the length of time it takes them to reach sexual maturity, but in the case of humans it is not even close to that, no doubt because of our unnatural ways. Accordingly the faster we mature, the shorter we can expect to live. Large size may be an advantage in some of our specialized sports events, but when we consider agility and endurance of body and mind, we find it is not an advantage, and, if anything, is a disadvantage.

In the face of all this, it is just not scientific to insist that human beings must eat flesh, eggs, milk, and cheese, or combine vegetable proteins according to the calculations of some laboratory. The scientific method is to account for observed facts, not to ignore them. If you encounter observed facts that contradict your theory, it is your theory which must be scrapped, or at least revised, not the fact. That is the scientific method. The physical sciences have had fantastic success in discovering the laws of the physical universe, and have demonstrated it by the technologies it has made possible, but the life sciences have not had such successes, in spite of the claims of medical science. The laws of biology have never been explained in terms of the laws of physics, and human potential remains unknown. In fact, for the most part, what are thought of as advances in the life sciences are really advances in applied physics; namely the ability to observe and experiment on cellular life. We can say that the life sciences have been failures because the conclusions drawn from these experiments and observations have led to some of the most brutal and barbaric medical practices imaginable, such as chemotherapy and radiation treatments for cancer, unbearably painful diagnostic techniques (as well as those that proved to be cancer-causing, such as mammography, which is meant to detect cancer) and the mass blood poisoning known as vaccination. Although still difficult for most people to accept, the failure of these practices are growing more and more apparent.

Said the famous scientist Alexis Carrel in his book Man, the Unknown, "In fact, our ignorance is profound," and most true scientists would still not disagree. Popular writers who convey the theories of technicians in the scientific field as certain facts cause mass misunderstanding. The public is still not well educated. It believes in the pronouncements of scientists with blind faith. The swine-flu disaster was a good example of what can happen with the public's attitude toward the scientific profession in general, and medical science in particular.

Concerning protein, Professor Arnold Ehret, in 1922, wrote the following:

"The error of high-protein foods as a necessity of health ... is in its consequences and its effect just the opposite of what it should be; it is the most tragical phenomenon of western degeneration. It produced at the same time the most dangerous, most destructive habit of gluttony; it produced the greatest madness ever imposed upon mankind, that is, to endeavor to heal a disease by eating more, and especially, eating more high-protein foods. It is beyond possibility to express in words what the error of high-protein foods means."

What the greatest madness ever imposed upon humankind is, is a question one could kick around for a while. The madness of high-protein foods undoubtedly deserves a place among the candidates. The day will yet come when the complete protein theory takes its place alongside the rest of the theories of modern medicine, as an example of the kind of mad pseudo-science which still deludes and exploits humanity.

The Heart: Keeping Your Arteries Clean and Reversing Atherosclerosis

 By Kelly Childs

1) All stretched out, you have 60,000 miles of blood vessels in your body. Your diet will affect the health of every inch of every vessel from your scalp to the soles of your feet. Bathe the arteries with the unhealthy blood, which results from an unhealthy diet, and the vessel walls will stiffen within minutes. Over weeks to months, streaks of fat accumulate in walls. As the disease rages on, the walls sometimes thicken enough to compromise the flow of blood.

2) Many diseases are caused by compromising the flow of blood to various tissues. Close the arteries to the brain and you have a stroke; to the eye, macular degeneration; to the inner ear, hearing loss, tinnitus (ringing), and vertigo (dizziness); to the heart, myocardial infarction; to the kidneys, renal failure; to the leg, gangrene; and to the penis, impotence.

3) The effects of diets are very complex and the only accurate statement is: “the rich Western diet is the cause of artery disease and a starch-based diet with vegetables and fruits is the prevention and cure.” Many damaging components of the rich Western diet have been identified, including oxidized cholesterol, antibodies to dairy proteins, animal protein, and fat. Some healing components of plant-foods are plant fats, fibers, sugars, proteins, antioxidants, and other phyto (plant)-chemicals.

4) When the blood flowing through the arteries is unhealthy, “sores,” (consisting of “pustules” and “ulcers”), form on the inner surfaces. Think of these pustules as being like pimples on a teenager’s face—filled with necrotic, semi-liquid debris and white blood cells. Sores are continuously forming and healing throughout the miles of arteries. Unfortunately, because injury from the fork and spoon, it outpaces the body’s healing capacities, and the overall disease progresses. In the later stages of healing, when the disease is severe, the sores become fibrous stable bulges, called plaques. In most cases these rock-hard plaques cause the patient no trouble at all. However, some plaques become large enough to interfere with blood flow—causing chest pain (angina) and the problems mentioned above.

5) Most heart attacks and strokes are not caused by the slow build up of fibrous stable plaques—but are rather events of rapid onset. The trigger of such events is the sudden inward rupture of a tiny pustule. With this rupture, the inner contents of pus and associated “products of tissue injury” are released into the flowing blood, and the body reacts by forming a blood clot, which can immediately interfere with the flow of blood. When the blood clot (medically called a thrombus) completely occludes the artery, the tissue that lies downstream of the clot (such as the heart muscle or brain) usually dies. The event is called a heart attack (coronary artery thrombosis) or stroke (cerebral artery thrombosis).

6) Angioplasty is performed over 1 million times annually in the US. During this surgical procedure a balloon-tipped catheter is passed into an area of severe artery obstruction. WHY ARE DOCTORS DOING THIS BEFORE PUTTING THEIR PATIENTS ON A WHOLE FOOD PLANT-BASED DIET?? Inflation of the balloon bursts the fibrous plaque, which is the intention. But an unwelcome consequence is that this “plaque rupture” releases “products of injury” which cause the formation of artery occluding blood clots. As a result, half of the arteries so treated become completely closed down within 5 months of surgery. One potential solution to this expected complication has been the placement of a wire mesh stent to prop the artery open after bursting the plaque with the catheter. Unfortunately stents fail patients too. The bottom line is: any prospective customer of the heart surgery business needs to know that 8 out of 8 studies show angioplasty, with or without stents, does not save lives. Food for thought as well is the unleashing of toxins and free-radicals through the body that never get flushed out and can wreak havoc on other cells and organs.

7) Surgery to bypass partially obstructed arteries is performed on 400,000 people annually in the US. The benefits for survival and improving the quality of the patient’s life from employing this operation are questionable. Brain damage caused by being attached to the heart-lung machine for hours should be expected. The primary reason heart surgery (angioplasty and bypass surgery) does not save lives is that the operation is performed on the stable fibrous non-lethal plaques—and nothing is done for the volatile tiny pustules that suddenly rupture to form occluding, and lethal, blood clots.

8) Both heart artery surgeries can relieve chest pains from closed arteries and this may be a reason to do either operation. My preference would be for an angioplasty, rather than major bypass surgery when the patient suffers from incapacitating chest pains unrelieved by good medical therapy. Medications, such as nitrates and beta blockers, can effectively relieve chest pains, and should be a part of a patient’s initial medical care, rather than them being rushed off to surgery—as is almost always the case.

9) Medications can be helpful in preventing artery closure and saving lives. One baby aspirin (81 mg) daily will “thin the blood” and reduce the risk of a blood clot forming when a pustule ruptures. Cholesterol-lowering medications, such as statins (Lipitor or Crestor, etc.), may aid in the healing of the arteries and have a small effect on reducing the chances of a stroke or heart attack. Both medications should be reserved for use in people at very high risk for artery closure—such as those with a history of a previous heart attack or heart artery surgery. Unfortunately, most doctors have been trained by drug companies to dispense these drugs as if they were harmless and universally beneficial and preventative. Not so.

10) Get the hamburger out of your chest. Changing to a plant-food based diet will cause a 90% reduction in the frequency of chest pain episodes (the primary reason for heart surgery) in less than 3 weeks. Over months, actual healing of the artery disease (reversal of atherosclerosis) can be demonstrated in almost all patients who follow a low-fat, whole food, plant-based diet. The overall result is a much healthier person with the very real likelihood of never doing business with doctors and drug companies again.

Want to start making some healthy changes? 

Here are some books that are great sources of information to help you on your way to a healthier and happier life.

Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 days (Gabriel Cousins) DVD

Diet for a New America – author John Robbins

The Kind Diet – author Alicia Silverstone

Greens for Life – author Victoria Boutenko

Skinny Bitch – author Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin

Superfoods – author David Wolfe

Engine 2 Diet– author Rip Esselstyn

 

Here are some great movies and trailers to see: Just click on the name.

Food Matters   

Forks Over Knives 

Earthlings 

Meat your Meat

King Corn

Food Fight

***Click here to listen to Kelly on Animal Voices Radio***

Here are some great websites with loads of wonderful information:

 

Roger Ebert Forks over Knives Review

http://www.naturalnews.com

www.notmilk.com

Whyeatmeat?

chooseveg.com

mercyforanimals.org

milksucks.com.

peta2.

http://www.farmsanctuary.org/

http://chooseveg.ca/

http://www.meatlessmonday.com/

http://www.soystache.com/vegan-books.htm

http://www.godairyfree.org

http://www.foodrevolution.org/

http://www.skinnybitch.net/    

http://www.thekindlife.com/

http://www.rawfamily.com/

http://www.davidwolfe.com/

http://www.sunfood.com/Catalog/Default.aspx

http://engine2diet.com/

Vegan Shopping

• www.veganstore.com  
• www.veganessentials.com 
• www.mooshoes.com  

 

Rewarded for Being Vegan

Contrary to what many people believe, veganism extends far beyond dietary choices. For those who are committed to the cause of ending animal exploitation, leather, wool, silk and down go out the window alongside meat, dairy, eggs, honey and all other ingredients that involve animal use. This paradigm shift in perspective is all-encompassing, and extends to every area of life where animal products are used.

But for many people, the transition to being vegan begins with the obvious shift toward eliminating animal-based foods, and the adoption of a plant-based diet. Since animal products are so toxic to the human body, many people report that their health drastically improves as a result.

Over many years of encouraging people to become vegan, Gentle Worlders have had the remarkable privilege of witnessing the wonderful things that occur when individuals take advantage of this amazing opportunity. From eliminating asthma and hayfever to curing chronic conditions and diseases, a vegan diet offers benefits to anyone and everyone.

At the beginning of this year, Gentle World volunteer M Butterflies Katz asked her Facebook friends a very simple question:

“What physical conditions have miraculously gone away since you became vegan?”

The responses were remarkable. Vegan friends came out in force to share their stories. Following are some of our favorites…

 

Sue: My asthma – which I thought would kill me by the time I was 40 – disappeared completely in just a few weeks. From the constant use of two kinds of inhaler and being threatened with steroid injections I went to wheeze-free and I haven’t needed meds for 17 years. I also stopped having colds. I get the occasional sniffle but never anything serious. I get what I call colds but they only last 24 or 48 hours and are nothing like the ones I used to get before I went vegan.

 

Julie: I switched to a vegan diet for the animals. Nothing else. I had no idea the health benefits that would follow! My goodness. IBS: gone! Migraines: gone! What I thought were allergy symptoms: gone!

 

David: I used to get sick a lot. Since becoming Vegan I don’t… ever. And this is also because the mind is now cleansed of confusing internal debate. Going Vegan is like a breath of fresh air and life just makes sense!

 

Robin: My husband thinks it has relieved his arthritis. He mentioned this in passing and I googled it and found out veganism has often been cited as a contributing factor in alleviating arthritis.

 

Billy: Many! Indigestion, gas, bloating, constipation (I was lucky if I went to the bathroom twice a week), hemorrhoids, depression, skin problems, aching joints, tooth decay, bad breath, and that’s just a few caused by dairy products. Since I ditched that killer, I am a new man! I never ate meat anyway so I know dairy was the culprit.

 

Stacie: I have a family history of IBS. Everyone on my Mom’s side of the family has severe bouts of it. As a vegetarian, my symptoms were mild, but when it was bad it was really bad. Since going vegan – no more symptoms!

 

Barbara: My genetically high cholesterol went down 100 points and has stayed down. I am able to eat whatever I want for the first time in my life.

 

Elizabeth: My lifelong horrible acne got cured… I stopped getting colds and flu. I am not exaggerating. STOPPED. However it took over a year after switching the diet for this to come about. The first year or so I reckon I was still detoxing the animal products out of my body, so I still had acne and got my yearly flu and cold. But only that first year. Since then, nothing. And that is after 20 years of acne, and many many years of getting at least one horrible flu bug (usually around Christmas for some reason) plus one or two colds every year.

 

Diane: I’ve had bouts of depression most of my life, but not once since becoming vegan almost 6 months ago. Also, I no longer have mid-afternoon energy slumps, and I’ve lost most of the stubborn excess pounds I never was able to lose before!

 

Julie: Acid reflux disease. Migraines. IBS. Those are gone. I also have arthritis…though it is not gone, what used to be extreme pain in my hands and knees is very minimal now. It amazes me every day.

 

Laura: I used to have an unexplained skin problem, I used to get groups of sores that wouldn’t heal on my arms, chest and upper back, had it for years and years. After I became vegan they cleared up. I’m assuming it was either an allergy or a hormone imbalance caused by dairy. I’m also no longer anaemic.  I never passed the iron test at blood donations before I was vegan.

 

Don: Lower back pain and sinus infections have virtually disappeared. I used to get 2-3 bad sinus problems a year, and have had just one in the last 21 dairy-free years.

 

Alexa: My post-traumatic arthritis doesn’t hurt as much; or for as long. Also, I feel like my reflexes got better. I catch myself in a skid and I’m able to stop it rather than landing painfully on the ground.

 

John: I lost about twenty pounds of body fat. Also, since I began drinking green smoothies two years ago, I have not been sick. I’ve also had more energy and been more passionate about life since I became a vegan.

 

Dianne: Headaches and migraines. I still get them but not as often and not so severe.

 

Billy: I had a headache all the time too! Another thing – I always had that fungus thing with my toenails. Gone now! I also seldom ever get sinus infections or even colds or flu. Veganism is the way to go! Not just for better health, but for the animals, that’s all I really care about. But feeling better is nice too…

 

Tierra: When I went vegetarian 31 yrs ago, my monthly migraines decreased by 95% – they are rare and are stress induced rather than due to hormonal imbalances brought on by meat and dairy. And even though I was 90% vegan for the past 10 years, I didn’t realize even that much dairy was giving me wretched indigestion! After going 100% vegan, that’s gone! Antacids are a thing of the past for me and for my husband who no longer needs medication for that.

 

Emma: I don’t get all the normal bugs and infections that the mass population gets. I haven’t had a cold or flu for at least five years.

 

Marilyn: My Multiple Sclerosis SHUT UP!!!!

 

Amanda: Chronic eczema and irritable bowel syndrome disappeared within a month of going vegan. Numerous specialists had never once suggested I try giving up dairy. 27 years later still as healthy as ever.

 

Selena: I don’t have upset stomachs anymore!!! I don’t give my digestive system such a hard time! I love being vegan!

 

Rex: ‎30 years ago I was diagnosed with kidney cancer. Well… I am still here.

 

Robin: I used to have terrible Rosacea! And now I literally have that porcelain skin that I always dreamt about!! Clear skin and a clear conscience. My doctor put me on some pills to help it (go figure) and of course they never did… once I went totally vegan, BAM. Gone. Pills: Gone. Doctor: Gone. Now I see these commercials for those pills and it drives me crazy! I just want to jump in the TV, push all those silly actors out of the way & scream just GO VEGAN!!  Btw, I didn’t go vegan to help my skin. I went vegan for the animals and environment. I’ve just always looked at my skin problem being gone (and just feeling wonderful in general) as a little thank you from the planet and animals for doing the right thing!

 

Robert: There`s a whole bunch of health benefits I experienced. I also lost 35 lbs without even trying – all I did was go vegan. I feel really light now, and have energy like I never had.

 

Suzanne: I had a terrible skin condition for about two years and tried all creams and potions etc… Nothing really did any good, but within two weeks of a vegan diet it went away.

 

Christine: I used to have some pretty intense joint pain in my fingers if I squeezed them; that’s now gone. I had acid reflux for about six years, and that went away too. I’ve lost almost 30 lbs and my skin is clear. Gotta love that! Oh… and I also had a problem with mucous in my head. That’s gone away too! I guess it was in my lungs and worked its way throughout the body.

 

Paul: A curious one: I lost a lifelong allergy to peanuts. And a more common one: weight loss and more immunity to flus and colds.

 

Martina: I stopped needing my reading glasses. Same for my mom, who became vegan in her eighties.

 

Alexa: I stopped getting Charliehorses in my calves and calcium spots on my fingernails.

 

Deborah: ‎30 lbs of fat!!! Very nice side benefit. OH… Gout – I had that bad in my big toes. No more! I became Vegan for the animals without a thought to the health benefits which just seem to be never ending!!

 

Jenn: I have been healed from IBS since going vegan. Every day I am grateful and amazed! It was a miracle for my life.

 

Rat: IBS and I never get colds or flu  I lost weight too changing from just veggie to vegan as did my girlfriend. PMT is nowhere near as bad either when you’re vegan also, as you are not consuming extra hormones in your food! But I also did it for ethical reasons not health. But I always am aware of the health of being vegan; it is the best for your body and mind!

 

Sue: I rarely get a cold (twice in 17 years in case you’re interested) and when I do it’s barely noticeable. The big thing for me was that my asthma, which was simply getting worse and worse on the drugs I was on, disappeared completely.

 

Kathleen: Asthma and allergies! and all the horrible meds that went with them.

 

Heidi: High Blood Pressure! No more meds!!!!

 

Chandra: Asthma flare-ups from dairy

 

Harold: Chronic fatigue syndrome/Epstein Barr Syndrome, and heart disease.

 

Philippa: I lost weight, going from Vegetarian to Vegan, cutting out cheese and other dairy was a big change on my body… But health had nothing to do with it for me; I would still be doing it if it was hard on my health.

 

Jennifer: Since giving up dairy I’ve had only a few sore throats (vs getting them every month or two). They only last a few days instead of weeks. So wonderful!

 

Stephanie: I haven’t gotten any food poisoning in the past four years. I used to throw up at least once a year after eating at a restaurant but it hasn’t happened since.

 

Jay: Spare tires… and aches in leg joints caused by carrying excess weight.

 

Nick: My Hyperthyroidism.

 

Chris: A chemical imbalance in my brain that made me stupid   But seriously, The worst “cold” I’ve had in four years since being vegan is a runny nose! I’m also running further than I ever could before.

 

Faye: I don’t get colds and flus, throat and chest infections any more.

 

Mandy: No colds since going veg and no allergies either!

 

Nick: Colds still happen but take care of themselves.

 

Liliya: To be honest, I feel lighter in my heart and soul, and that’s important to me…

 

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