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Pork Causes More
Illness
Some diabetics and others with weakened immune systems may do well
to steer clear of chitterlings, a dish consisting of boiled pig intestines that
is served up as traditional holiday fare in the Southern US. A 12-year-old boy
with poorly controlled diabetes became seriously ill after eating the food in
three separate Christmas dinners.
The child was hospitalized with enteritis necroticans, a
potentially life-threatening intestinal infection that is rare in America and
causes severe stomach pain, vomiting of blood and low blood pressure. The boy
eventually had to have surgery to restore his intestinal function. The culprit
turned out to be a chitterlings-contaminating bacterium known as Clostridium
perfringens type C, which produces a toxin that is lethal to tissue in the
digestive tract. Even cooking the chitterlings, however, may not rid them of
bacteria.
More common in developing countries, enteritis necroticans can
occur in children who eat large amounts of pork or in those who consume large
meals after a period of starvation. Other factors that can contribute to the
illness are protein malnutrition, and the consumption of sweet potatoes, which
can interfere with the breakdown of the bacterial toxin in the intestines.
(From The New England Journal of Medicine April 27,
2000;342:1250-1253)
COMMENT BY DR. MERCOLA: This may seem like some rare arcane
unimportant issue, but I take it as a confirmation of the importance of avoiding
scavenger animals like pigs. I have included other references from previous
newsletters which also medically support avoiding pork and ham to avoid the risk
of parasites and viruses which are frequently not destroyed with cooking. (Dr.
Joseph Mercola is an osteopathic physician and author of 'The Total Health
Program.' He was also chairman of the family medicine department at St. Alexius
Medical Center from 1988-1993)
In the Quran, Chapter Al-Baqarah verse
173, Allah said, "He hath forbidden you dead meat, and blood, and the flesh
of swine, and that on which any other name hath been invoked besides that of
Allah. But if one is forced by necessity, without wilful disobedience, nor
transgressing due limits,- then is he guiltless. For Allah is Oft-forgiving Most
Merciful."
From Dr. Danial bin Zainal Abidin (M.B.Ch.B.,
Alexandria)
Managing Director of Danial Zainal
Consultancy,
Medical Practitioner,
Motivator for Pulau Pinang Broadcasting Station
and
Author of 8 books.
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