Re: Diet Study and Experts

2005-02-22 Thread Wayne Putterill
I don't know why the vegans are making such a fuss about this, they say the same basically on their site: http://www.vegansociety.com/html/food/nutrition/b12/ First they say that vegans have to take suppliments for B12 as it's not available in usable form from any plant: "The only reliable vegan s

Re: Diet Study and Experts

2005-02-22 Thread Gruss Gott
> Ian wrote: > more exotic foods that are not widly available or supplments; I had a friend in college who used to clean out portable poo houses. (He used to say, "it may be your sh1t, but it's my bread and butter.") Anyway, he'd laugh at people who took vitamins because his filters would get cl

Re: Diet Study and Experts

2005-02-21 Thread Gel .
The study mentions 'control groups' and different groups of children that were given either meats, or milk, or other energy supplement. Does that mean that one group of starving, malnourished children were denied this food in order to be termed the 'control' group? I also notice some part of th

RE: Diet Study and Experts

2005-02-21 Thread Dawson, Michael
Sarcastic? Maybe 50%. You do have some good info, however. Thanks! From: Ben Doom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 2/21/2005 4:57 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Diet Study and Experts Why did the chicken cross the road? To prove to the possum it could

Re: Diet Study and Experts

2005-02-21 Thread Ben Doom
Why did the chicken cross the road? To prove to the possum it could be done. The problem with creating '100%' healthy food is twofold. First, animals love to eat food that, in quantity, is bad for you. Fat, sugar, etc. are all very high-yield sources of calories, so our brains (designed back w

RE: Diet Study and Experts

2005-02-21 Thread Russel Madere
Soylent Green? Russel Madere Webmaster 504.832.9835 SunShine Pages by EATEL www.sunshinepages.com -Original Message- From: Dawson, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 4:28 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Diet Study and Experts >I'd be willing to

RE: Diet Study and Experts

2005-02-21 Thread Dawson, Michael
>I'd be willing to give up meat if there were decent and tasty alternatives, but I haven't found many. If humans were not meant to eat meat, why were possums created? I'm surprised that, in this day and age, that scientists have not yet created "food substitutes" that are 100% healthy, but still

RE: Diet Study and Experts

2005-02-21 Thread Ian Skinner
Personally I understand the argument that killing animals for food is an archaic way to live, but hard data is needed to show that there are viable alternatives. I think it has been shown that there are alternatives, if one works at it. Now to start off, this depends on how "vegetarian" the

Re: Diet Study and Experts

2005-02-21 Thread Gruss Gott
> Nick wrote: > So a US scientist recently issued a study showing that adding meat to the > diet of Kenyan Children, improved muscle and mental development. From this > she concluded that meat is an important part in the diet of developing > children. > It would be a mistake to take her study as

RE: Diet Study and Experts

2005-02-21 Thread Dawson, Michael
>Now I'm all for scientific discussion, but Paul McCartney? This is one of my larger pet peeves. A normal "Joe" can make a statement and get poo-pooed, but a musician or actor/actress, with little to no background in the matter, can make the same statement and it becomes gospel. People (as in th

RE: Diet Study and Experts

2005-02-21 Thread Ian Skinner
So a US scientist recently issued a study showing that adding meat to the diet of Kenyan Children, improved muscle and mental development. From this she concluded that meat is an important part in the diet of developing children. After one quick read, I saw more agreement that the nutrients foun