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...the annual death rate of vegetarian women is significantly more than that of non-vegetarian women... Click Here for Reference

Vaccinations: (also see Inoculations)
Vegetarian/Vegan Diet:
(also see Soy & Protein)
Vitamins


Vaccinations:
(also see Inoculations)
All information contained in this section is courtesy of Dr. Rebecca Carley, M.D. I would like to give her special thanks for all of the hard work she's done in research and helping others both learn the truth about vaccines as well as helping to restore health to so many. For the full story of the terrible dangers of vaccines, please visit her website!

http://www.drcarley.com.

Below is an excerpt from the beginning of Dr. Carley's report titled: INOCULATIONS: THE TRUE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION. Please visit DrCarley.com and download the full report and read her other information. There is a lot of vital details that are hard to relay through the short excerpt here.

"... The basic truth that served as the foundation for the mountain of lies known as vaccinations was the observation that mammals which recover from infection with microorganisms acquire natural immunity from further infections. Whenever cytotoxic T cells (the little Pac man cells which devour and neutralize viruses, bacteria, and cancer cells, thus conferring cellular immunity and are also responsible for allograft rejection) and B cells (antibody producing cells which confer humoral immunity by circulating in the body's fluids or "humors", primarily serum or lymph) are activated by various substances foreign to the body called antigens, some of the T and B cells become memory cells. Thus, the next time the individual meets up with that same antigen, the immune system can be quickly triggered to demolish it. This is the process known as natural immunity.

This truth gave birth to a beLIEf that if a foreign antigen was injected into an individual, that individual would then become immune to a future infection. This beLIEf, (you see the lie in the middle), was given the name, "vaccinations". What the promoters of vaccination failed to realize is that secretory IgA (an antibody found predominately in saliva and secretions of the gastrointestinal and respiratory tract mucosa) is the initial normal antibody response to all airborne and ingested pathogens. IgA helps protect against viral infection, agglutinate bacteria, neutralize microbial toxins, and decrease attachment of pathogens to mucosal surfaces. What this author has realized is that bypassing this mucosal aspect of the immune system by directly injecting organisms into the body leads to a corruption in the immune system itself whereby IgA is transmuted into IgE, and/or the B cells are hyperactivated to produce pathologic amounts of self-attacking antibody as well as suppression of cytotoxic T cells (as explained shortly). As a result, the pathogenic viruses or bacteria cannot be eliminated by the immune system and remain in the body, where they cause chronic disease and thus further grow and/or mutate as the individual is exposed to ever more antigens and toxins in the environment. This is especially true with pathogens grouped under the term "stealth adapted". These are formed when vaccine viruses combine with viruses from tissues used to culture them, or when bacteria lose their cell walls when a person takes antibiotics and transform into "L forms", leading to a lack of some critical antigens normally recognized by the cellular immune system. Another example is stealth adapted (mutated) cytomegaloviruses which arose from African green monkey (simian) kidney cells when they were used to culture polio virus for live polio virus vaccines. Thus, not only was the vaccinee inoculated with polio, but with the cytomegalovirus as well.

The mechanism by which the immune system is corrupted can best be realized when you understand that the two poles of the immune system (the cellular and humoral mechanisms) have a reciprocal relationship in that when the activity of one pole is increased, the other must decrease. Thus, when one is stimulated, the other is inhibited. Since vaccines activate the B cells to secrete antibody, the cytotoxic (killer) T cells are subsequently suppressed. (In fact, progressive vaccinia (following vaccination with smallpox) occurs in the presence of high titers of circulating antibody to the virus1 combined with suppressed cytotoxic T cells, leading to spreading of lesions all over the body). This suppression of the cell mediated response is thus a key factor in the development of cancer and life threatening infections. In fact, the "prevention" of a disease via vaccination is, in reality, an inability to expel organisms due to the suppression of the cell-mediated response. Thus, rather than preventing disease, the disease is actually prevented from ever being resolved...."

Click Here to download the full report!


Vegetarian/Vegan Diet:
(also see Soy & Protein)
Click here for Vegan Diet Survey results. http://inhs.ms11.net/dietsurvey.html
These results are from people who strictly followed the Gen. 1:29 diet (85% raw, vegan) in the long-term. http://www.weighofwisdom.com/rethinking/results.html

Read more about Vegan dieting here: http://inhs.ms11.net/diet3.html or here: http://www.beyondveg.com/ <- This is a huge website chocked full of scientifically referenced information. Before turning strict vegan, please do your research. Your health will depend on it!

Gandhi was unable to live on a vegan diet he finally declared vegan claims fraudulent
those who insisted that veganism was possible he defined to be "enemies of India"

"For my companions I have been a blind guide leading the blind," declared Gandhi after the experiment was over.

In the end [Gandhi] had to acknowledge the necessity for animal food. In 1946 he declared: "The crores of India today get neither milk nor ghee nor butter, nor even buttermilk. No wonder that mortality figures are on the increase and there is a lack of energy in the people. It would appear as if man is really unable to sustain life without either meat or milk and milk products. Anyone who deceives people in this regard or countenances the fraud is an enemy of India."

Reference: Excerpts from "Arnold DeVries: The Elixir of Life" drbass.com/mice.html (emphasis added).

*Please keep in mind that religions promoting vegetarian/vegan diets are not doing so for health reasons. To the contrary, these religions are looking to diminish the body in order to strengthen the soul. These kinds of diets are not going to bring better health, it is biologically impossible and that is not the goal of these religious practices. If you follow vegetarian and especially vegan dietary guidelines, you must accept that doing so long-term will ultimately result in degenerative health problems and disease.*

Nutritional Diet Comparison chart: "Meat Eater - Vegetarian - Vegan"

The chart below compares the level of essential body-rebuilding nutrients available through the three main dietary lifestyles. I used scoring to illustrate the importance of eating animal foods as compared to limiting nutritional intake to only vegetables.
The chart assumes each dieter is eating ideally within their diet specifications. Some vital nutrients need to be supplemented (ie: EFAs and Minerals). The chart assumes these supplemented nutrients are present.
Meat Eaters get 100% of what they need from meat so I excluded the scores from the vegetables, soy, and grains/cereals since meat provides not only protein, but vitamins - both water and fat soluble and healthy natural fats. So the scores for vegetables, soy and grains are all inclusive in the meat and animal byproduct’s scores.

Food & Nutrients
Meat Eater
Vegetarian
(eats eggs & dairy)
Vegan
Meat Score:
100
0
0
Animal Byproducts Score:
100
100
0
Vegetables Score:
2
3
5
Soy Score:
8
10
12
Grains/Cereals Score:
2
3
5
Vitamins
• Water Soluble
• Fat Soluble


Score:

Score:


100

100

100

100

0

0
Minerals Score:
100
100
100
Overall Rating:
100
83.2
4.4

I fashioned this chart based on figures of various foods nutritional bio availability found in my research (please see all references found in this section and view the Food Utilization Factor Chart).

Here's a wonderful quote from Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, Chapter 15, pg279, ISBN: 0-87983-816-7

"...I have not found a single group of primitive racial stock which was building and maintaining excellent bodies by living entirely on plant foods. I have found in many parts of the world most devout representatives of modern ethical systems advocating the restriction of foods to the vegetable products. In every instance where the groups involved had been long under this teaching, I found evidence of degeneration in the form of dental caries, and in the new generation in the form of abnormal dental arches to an extent very much higher than in the primitive groups who were not under this influence."

Comment Added: It's important to relate that in every primitive tribe Dr. Price studies that ate primarily meat, dairy products, organ meats, and blood (Africa, American Indians, Eskimos, etc), with little or no fruit and very small amounts of vegetables and grains, there was virtually NO tooth decay, no deformities, no diseases like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. It is interesting to note that crime was practically nonexistent as well. As soon as modern foods were introduced like white four, sugar, vegetable fats, and canned foods, etc, degenerative diseases set in and in some cases even threatened the extension of the tribe! These degenerative effects would show up in the first generation after the parents adopted the "white man's" foods .I highly recommend this book to anyone who truly cares about nutrition and health!

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Vegetarians can get the protein and healthy natural fat they require by eating cheese and other dairy products from organic/no antibiotics/free range cows and goats, and supplement with unprocessed EFA oils.
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Natural Hygiene DR. Gian-Cursio about Diseases due to Vegan Diet:

Veganism caused diseases in Dr. Cursio's patients in the 1950's, e.g.:
• children got skeletal & tooth problems, hernia, nearsightedness, muscle-problems, deformed heads
• young adults got dental caries, gum line recession, multiple sclerosis, blood chemistry problems, some deaths
• some deaths of babies, e.g. Cursio's own son!
• Dr. Cursio discontinued vegan diets by adding eggs and dairy, which solved the problems

Reference: Natural Hygiene Dr. Gian-Cursio about Diseases due to Vegan diet, conclusion. http://inhs.ms11.net/diet3.html

9 month old baby of vegan parents couldn't crawl nor hold his head up. At 1 year the first tooth had enamel missing. B-12, calcium and other deficiencies were causes. Reference: Vegan Diet Deficiencies Injure Baby, by Andrew Foote. http://chetday.com/hallelujah-diet-baby.htm

2 1/2 year old vegan infant developed rickets / bow legs. Problem disappeared with added animal foods. Reference: Rickets in Vegan Infant, by Ward Nicholson, http://www.beyondveg.com/nicholson-w/hb/hb-interview3g.shtml#Updates%20Part%203

Rice and beans are an insufficient way to get protein. Three-quarters cup of white rice and three-quarters cup black beans gives you a whopping 800 calories of carbohydrate and only 20% of protein requirements. Reference: Bowes & Church's Food Values. Jean A. T., Ph.D. Pennington, Anna De Planter Bowes, Helen Nichols Church, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 17th edition (January 15, 1998), ISBN: 0397554354

Death rate of vegetarians:
The annual all-cause death rate of vegetarian men is slightly more than that of non-vegetarian men (.93% vs .89%); the annual death rate of vegetarian women is significantly more than that of non-vegetarian women (.86% vs .54%). Reference: Am J Clin Nutr 1982 36:873.

WARNING!: Deaths in the Raw-Vegan Movement:
Here, in the Eugene area, where I live, a man in the local raw food support group died about two years ago. He was only in his forties. For two weeks before his death, he’d been telling the leader of that group that he was having bad chest pains, but she just kept telling him, “oh, it’s just detox, it’s just cleansing.” And he had been into this for a long time?
Yes, for a long time. He was one of the funding members of the raw food support group there. His doctor, when he died, told his wife (the man’s wife) that her husband had died of starvation. His body just starved to death, even though he was eating raw foods everyday. He wasn’t absorbing enough nutrients from it.
I was telling that story to a woman in Santa Monica who is part of a raw food support group there, and she responded by saying: “Oh yeah, we recently had a guy who died the same way, and he wasn’t very old either. The doctor said that his body just starved for lack of nutrients.”
Then I was telling another woman in Florida who’s member of a raw food support group there the same story about both these people, the one in Eugene and the one in Santa Monica, and she responded by saying, “Oh yeah, we’ve had two die that way." Reference: Interview by Frederick Patenaude, http://www.fredericpatenaude.com/interview-nazariah.html, also see this interview: http://www.drbass.com/generations.html#qanda

Adult protein requirements:
A 150 lb. person requires a full pound of [animal-based] protein per day for normal bodily processes. References: Basic Medical Biochemistry: A Clinical Approach, page 648. Dawn B. Marks, Allan D. Marks, Colleen M. Smith, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, August, 1996, ISBN: 068305595X

Children’s Protein Requirements:
Children need one-and-a-half to two times more protein per pound of body weight than adults--and babies need three times more!

Soy Protein Rating: (Please click here for a full report on Soy)
Some sources (using the PDCAAS rating system) have rated soy with a 100% protein score, like eggs white and casein. But this rating system is flawed. Ghulam Sarwar, PhD., of the Nutrition Research Division of the Banting Research Center in Ottawa, warns us that PDCAAS scores "clearly overestimate the protein quality of sources that contain anti-nutritional factors." (of which soy is the perfect example). Sarwar, B, Peace RW, Bottling HG Effect of amino acid supplementation on protein quality of soy-based infant formulas fet to rats. Plant Foods Hum Nutr 1993, 43, 3, 259-266.

PDCAAS scores do not distinguish between the good and bad forms of amino acids. High heat, pressure and chemicals can transform usable and needed L-form amino acids into the potentially toxic D-forms. Testing techniques that could make the crucial distinction are available, but are not in use. Reference: Friedman et al, Protein alkali reactions: chemistry, toxicology, and nutritional consequences, In Nutritional and Toxicological Aspects of Food Safety. M. Friedman, ed. (NY Plenum Press, 1984). 367-412. and Sarwar, B, Peace RW, Bottling HG Effect of amino acid supplementation on protein quality of soy-based infant formulas fet to rats. Plant Foods Hum Nutr 1993.

Vitamin B12:
Vitamin B12 must come from animal protein. Reference: Essentials in Biochemistry, page 348.

Soy - a waste product changed into a "miracle" food:
Soy was originally considered a waste product. It was used to rotate crops. Reference:Katz, Solomon H., "Food and Bio cultural Evolution: A Model for the Investigation of Modern Nutritional Problems", Nutritional Anthropology, Alan R. Liss Inc., 1987, p. 50.

Soy Listed in FDA Poisonous Plant Database:
While the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a heart health claim for soy protein, the agency also lists soy in its "Poisonous Plant Database." A search for the word "soy" in the database reveals 256 references, including studies that warn about goiter, growth problems, amino acid deficiencies, mineral mal absorption, endocrine disruption and carcinogenesis. Reference: http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~djw/pltx.cgi?QUERY=soy
 
Soy has never attained GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe) status:
Soy protein did have approval for use as a binder in cardboard boxes, and this approval was allowed to continue, as researchers considered that migration of nitrites from the box into the food contents would be too small to constitute a cancer risk. FDA officials called for safety specifications and monitoring procedures before granting of GRAS status for food. These were never performed for soy. To this day, use of soy protein is codified as GRAS only for this limited industrial use as a cardboard binder. This means that soy protein must be subject to pre-market approval procedures each time manufacturers intend to use it as a food or add it to a food. Reference:FDA ref 72/104, Report FDABF GRAS - 258.

Soy and Sex:
Celibate monks living in monasteries and leading a vegetarian lifestyle find soy foods quite helpful because they dampen libido. Reference: Cinderella’s Dark Side, Sally Fallon & Mary G. Enig, Ph.D., Dec. 3, 2002.


Vitamins
: (also see Minerals and Soy)
Please see: "Popular Nutritional Supplements & Health Recommendations Review"
 
Fat-soluble vitamins:
Vitamins A, D, E and K are fat-and-oil-soluble vitamins. They don't dissolve in water. When you have a shortage of fats and oils in your diet, your body's use of these important oil-soluble vitamins may be reduced. Reference: Peak Performance, Radiant Health: Moving Beyond the Zone, Noble Publishing, 2001, page 234.

Personal note: My mother used to drink mineral oil for elimination issues, whish was terrible for her. Thank goodness she no longer does this. I learned recently that drinking mineral oil absorbers all fat soluble vitamins from your tissues. It's very bad for you.

Antioxidants:
When an antioxidant is used to neutralize an oxidant (free-radical) molecule, it becomes oxidized in the process, making it no better than the original molecule. Reference: Rats, Drugs, and Assumptions, page 299. Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) becomes oxidized into hydroxyacrobic acid - an oxidizer itself!

Monosaccharides:
It is best not to take vitamins containing Monosaccharides. Be sure to get the necessary fat-soluble vitamin and mineral activators, natural fats like EFAs, butter, cream, and animal fats as well as sufficient animal based protein in the diet. Vitamins utilized from animal proteins are available for use by the body, while most of the vitamins in vegetable sources are locked in the cellulose, which isn’t digestible by humans and therefore passes directly through us. Herbivores have the ability to digest cellulose and access the vitamins. (see Man-Wolf-Sheep: A Comparison). We are supposed to receive our vitamin nutrients by eating the animal that ate the plant.This does not mean to cut all vegetables out of your diet. There are definitely benefits to eating 1 to 2 servings low-starch/low-sugar vegetables and fruits a day. Vegetables and fruits (preferably organic or naturally grown) contain certain anti-inflammatory factors and in small quantities provide an aid to digestion, especially for women.
 
Overdosing on vitamins, drug effects:
Vitamin supplements (taken in mega-doses) are unnecessary: “ In amounts far in excess of the Referenced Daily Intake (RDI), vitamins become drugs – with toxic side effects…Excess amounts of fat-soluble vitamins are not excreted in the urine. Consuming high doses of these vitamins (A, D, E, &K) on a regular basis can lead to toxic buildups. Reference: Article, “America’s Very Dangerous Vitamin Craze”, Victor Herbert, M.D., J.D., Bottom Line-Health, January 1998, page 1-3.
 
Contraceptives interfere with vitamins:
Ten million American women take oral contraceptives and most of them are unaware that the pills can interfere with the availability of vitamins B6, B12, folic acid, and vitamin C! Reference: Dr. Earl Mindell's Vitamin Bible for the 21st Century. Earl Mindell, Hester Mundis, Warner Books, May, 1999, ISBN: 0446607029
 
Protein gives you B12:
Vitamin B12 must come from animal Protein: Reference: The Essentials of Biochemistry (Essentials), pg. 348. Jay M. Templin, Research & Education Assn, 1998, ISBN: 0878910735.

Vitamin B 12 is not absorbed from plant sources. Modern soy products increase the body's need for B 12 . Reference: Soybeans: Chemistry & Technology Vol 1 1972.

High-fiber hinders calcium retention:
Women eating lowest fat and most fiber had 20% less calcium retention. Reference: Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2000, 71: 466-471.

Minerals & EFAs are destroyed in food growth and processing, NOT vitamins:
Routine food processing often destroys many active components in our food, especially EFAs. Many mineral supplements aren’t utilized efficiently by the body, because they don’t contain the proper balance of minerals in the proper form that a food would naturally contain. Without the right minerals, vitamins don’t work properly because they cannot be properly metabolized since they are cofactors for vitamins. This means that the vitamins and minerals work together. If either can’t be utilized, there’s no point in taking them. More importantly, if you don’t have enough EFAs in your diet, both vitamins and minerals have little to work with. Reference: Vobecky, JS, et al. Risk and benefit of low fat intake in childhood. Annals of Nutrition & Metabolism. 1995;39(2):124-133.

Niacin and grains:
Niacin [in grains] is not in a bio available [usable] from. Reference: Basic Medical Biochemistry, pg. 16.

Most beneficial nutritional substances must be coupled with a protein or amino acids to enter our body's cells. Reference: The Physiology Coloring Book, plate 75.

CoQ10 and Cholesterol:
CoQ10 is derived from cholesterol. So if you have too little cholesterol, you may be short on CoQ10. Reference: Basic Medical Biochemistry, page 51.



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