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"Hidden hormones in meat and dairy are a problem. red meat and dairy contain growth hormones, sex hormones, and antibiotics. (Hormone use is prohibited in poultry and pork.) It is estimated that 90 percent of U.S. livestock is injected with some form of hormone and up to 30 percent of dairy cows receive hormones. In addition, pollutants and pesticides in the animals' food supply (which then becomes stored in the animals' fat) might trigger breast cancer. 2. Women who eat high-fat foods tend to be overweight, and overweight women produce more estrogen and have a higher rate of breast cancer." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Participants who consumed the most red meat had a 25 percent higher risk of developing colorectal cancer compared with those who ate the least, and a 20 percent higher risk of developing lung cancer.12 The risk of esophageal and liver cancer was increased by between 20 and 60 percent. Higher meat intake also correlated with an increased risk or pancreatic cancer in men." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Cut iron consumption. red meat is loaded with iron. Avoid iron-fortified grains and cereals. • Toss your multivitamin/mineral supplement if it contains iron. • Don't use iron cookware. • Don't take more than 500 mg of vitamin C each day until your ferritin level has fallen. This otherwise wonderful vitamin can promote iron absorption. • Check your water supply, which may be high in iron. Consider using a water filter to eliminate excess iron. Hormones for Your Heart The hormone system that orchestrates the countless chemical interactions inside our bodies takes a big hit as we age." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Eating the more or less typical American diet consisting of red meat, fried foods, full-fat dairy products, refined grains, and desserts is, in fact, synonymous with unintentionally attempting suicide. In an observational study, investigators examined the relationship between the dietary patterns of more than 1,000 people who had been treated for stage III colon cancer and their risk of colon cancer recurrence." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "The researchers indicated that one in 10 cases of lung or colorectal cancer could be averted by limiting red meat intake. According to the China study and other cancer research consid- "Meat originating from a mammal, beef, lamb, pork, and veal; and meats preserved by salting, smoking, or curing. 12 Lung and colorectal cancers are the first and second leading causes of cancer death, respectively. ered during the past 60 years, cancer could actually become a rare illness if all animal proteins were avoided altogether." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Why do you think it doesn't say you should limit your consumption of red meat? Because the dietary guidelines were written in part by the beef industry! The facts about nutrition were well known in the 80s, when former surgeon general C. Everett Koop issued a milestone report in 1988 that established and presented the connections between red meat and cancer. It talked about sugar consumption, saturated animal fats and cardiovascular disease, yet these truths have been routinely ignored by government agencies ever since, because they've been caving in to special interest groups." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"In a recent diet analysis of the 90,000 premenopausal women enrolled in the Nurses' Health Study II, researchers found that the women who ate the most animal fat (23 percent of calories)—mainly from red meat and high-fat dairy foods—were 33 percent more likely to develop breast cancer, compared with women who ate the least (12 percent of calories) of those foods." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"Exercise regularly and limit your intake of animal fats (for example, limit red meat to one to two servings each week and substitute natural omega-3 spreads for butter). Hormone Use after Breast Cancer Women who have a history of breast cancer and decide to become pregnant do not appear to increase their risk of recurrence. Nine independent studies have shown that women with a history of breast cancer who use hormones have a better quality of life, no increase in recurrence of breast cancer, and no reduction in their life expectancy." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"This means cutting down your intake of fast foods, fried foods, red meat, and highly processed foods, and opting for a diet richer in fruits and vegetables, unprocessed foods, and fish. All that goes to say that there could be some wisdom in "thinking like a hunter-gatherer" when choosing items to eat, as this would instantly eliminate a wide range of highly processed, inorganic foods with low nutrition profiles and high fat content." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Because the conversion of T4 into T3 requires many minerals including magnesium, selenium, iron, iodine, and copper as well as vitamins A, B2, B6, B12, and C, a diet rich in minerals and vitamins including red meat, seaweed, dark green leafy vegetables, and seafood is important. Certain foods, known as goitrogens, can actually block thyroid hormone production when eaten raw or to excess. Examples of goitrogenic foods are turnips, cabbage, mustard greens, soybeans, cauliflower, peanuts, pine nuts, millet, and cassava root." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"They drank more alcohol, ate more red meat and fatty food, and exercised and dieted less. Yet they suffered 35 to 40 percent fewer heart attacks than did residents of comparable communities, even those nearby that shared the same water source. Without any physical clues to explain the difference, researchers began looking at nonphysical factors and noticed the special nature of the town's social networks." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"Within weeks a firestorm of criticism, emanating chiefly from the red meat and dairy industries, engulfed the committee, and Senator McGovern (who had a great many cattle ranchers among his South Dakota constituents) was forced to beat a retreat. The committee's recommendations were hastily rewritten. Plain talk about actual foodstuffs—the committee had advised Americans to "reduce consumption of meat"—was replaced by artful compromise: "choose meats, poultry, and fish that will reduce saturated fat intake." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"Instead, the experts keep suggesting that we reduce consumption of animal and dairy fats, that we eat red meat only once or twice a week, for example, and that we remove the skin from chicken—advice that is imprecise and vague and does not significantly reduce fat intake. Almost all experts will agree that coronary artery disease is rarely seen in individuals with cholesterol levels consistently below 150 mg/dL. Almost all would also agree that reducing fat intake to less than 10 percent of calories consumed will help mightily in achieving low cholesterol levels." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"Omit or decrease alcohol, dairy, red meat, sugar, and caffeine. • Eat cold water fish (salmon, tuna, sardines, mackerel, herring) 2 or 3 times per week. • Eat organic foods. pathway to be tipped toward prostaglandins and leukotrienes that cause inflammation, smooth muscle contraction, and vascular constriction. Alcohol use depletes stores of B vitamins in the liver and also has estrogenic effects on the body. Nutritional Supplements Before beginning the discussion on nutritional supplements, it is important to explain the concepts of free radicals, antioxidants, and free radical scavengers." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "Reduce red meat, especially grain-fed meat. • Get regular exercise. • Avoid pesticides, chemicals, solvents, and heavy metals. • Eat organic foods. • Drink purified water. • Maintain good digestion and regular bowel habits. • Avoid alcohol. liver's ability to break down environmental and naturally occurring estrogen, is worthy of consideration. Certain foods and supplements aid in enhancing the body's ability to mount a natural immune response." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "A recent retrospective study of over 500 women with endometriosis concluded that there was a significant decrease in risk of developing endometriosis with a greater consumption of green vegetables and fresh fruit, and an increase in risk was associated with high intake of beef and other red meat.55 Foods high in fiber are associated with optimal transit time in the intestines and an optimal balance of friendly microorganisms within the large intestine.56 These microorganisms, better known as gut flora, crowd out the other types of flora that play a role in metabolizing estrogen." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "Animal protein diets, especially egg yolks, poultry, and red meat, contain large amounts of arachidonic acid, which promotes inflammatory prostaglandins and thus inflammation and pain. By enhancing your diet with vegetable protein, soy, almond and other nut butters, and salmon, you tip the inflammatory pathway toward anti-inflammatory prostaglandins that inhibit tumor growth—and possibly endometrial growth. Interestingly, a recent study in Japan demonstrated that moderate isoflavone intake from soy was significantly associated with a decreased risk of premenopausal hysterectomy." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Even some of the researchers associated with the Nurses' Health Study have begun doing dietary pattern analysis, in one case comparing a prudent diet modeled on Mediterranean and Asian patterns—high in fruits, vegetables, and fish and low in red meat and dairy products—with a typical Western diet featuring lots of meat (and processed meat), refined grains, sugary foods, french fries, and dairy products. (The study found "strong evidence" that the prudent dietary pattern may reduce the risk of coronary heart disease." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"Excellent Sources of Protein/Amino Acids chicken eggs tofu (use sparingly) turkey pork (use sparingly) fish—especially salmon whey beef (use sparingly) (choose wild-caught) Protein Foods to Avoid processed luncheon honey-baked ham liver meats fatty cuts of meat When you eat red meat, your health will benefit more by your choosing meat from grass-fed animals versus grain-fed. In recent times, since the introduction of factory farming, large cattle-raising operations have mainly fed grain to their livestock because it's cheaper and makes animals fatter and heavier." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Meat consumption actually held steady, though we did, again as instructed, shift from red meat to white to reduce our saturated fat intake. Basically what we did was heap a bunch more carbs onto our plate, obscuring but by no means replacing the expanding chunk of (now skinless white) animal protein still sitting there in the middle. How did that happen? I would submit that the ideology of nutritionism deserves as much of the blame as the carbohydrates themselves do—that and human nature." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"For some people, also eliminate caffeine, alcohol, red meat, and citrus. Stress reduction: Hypnotherapy program by Michael Mahoney (see Recommended Reading and Resources, page 335), yoga, or acupuncture Note: The above dosages are daily and in pill or capsule form unless otherwise noted. A food diary is a great idea for IBS sufferers (come to think of it, it's a great idea for a lot of people, for a whole host of reasons)." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Hunting for Red Meat The New Hunter-Gatherer must learn that all red meat is not the same. Steers raised on grass are eating their traditional diet, and the fat in their meat is quite different from the corn-fed (oftentimes GMO corn) fast-food variety. Steers have special stomachs that convert grass into useful proteins and can modify fats contained naturally in the grass. One thing grass-eaters do is make CLA (conjugated linolenic acid), an important nutrient that supports healthy metabolism." - Byron J. Richards, The Leptin Diet: How Fit Is Your Fat? (Get the book.)

"Resistant starch prevents colonic DNA damage induced by high dietary cooked red meat or casein in rats. Cancer Biol Ther. 2006 Mar;5(3):267-272. Velazquez DVO, Xavier HS, Batista JEM, de Castro-Chaves D. Zea mays L extracts modify glomerular function and potassium urinary excretion in conscious rats. Phytomedicine 2005; 12:363-369. Yuan JM, Stram DO, Arakawa K, Lee HP, Yu MC. Dietary cryptoxanthin and reduced risk of lung cancer: the Singapore Chinese Health Study. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2003 Sep;12(9):890-898. Cranberries www.cranberryinstitute.com; http://nccam.nih." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) "A high whey protein diet reduces body weight gain and alters insulin sensitivity relative to red meat in Wistar rats. / Nutr. 2004; 134:1454-1458. Bounous G. Whey protein concentrate (WPC) and glutathione modulation in cancer treatment. Anticancer Research. 2000;20:4785-4792. Bounous G et al. Immunoenhancing property of dietary whey protein in mice: role of glutathione. Clinical Investigative Medicine. 1989; 12:154-161. Eason R, Badger T et al." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"Even with organic meats, some choices are better sources of protein than others. red meat is usually higher in fat, particularly saturated fat. There are, however, plenty of lean complete proteins, including the breast meat of poultry and eggs from organic, free-running hens. Organic plant sources of protein such as beans, legumes, and nuts are also excellent choices, but plant proteins must be combined in order to form a complete protein (e.g., rice and beans). You should eat a serving of protein with every meal. Table 3-2 lists some good protein sources. Table 3-2." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"Among the most popular food choices in any high-protein diet are red meat and whole dairy foods like cheese. These foods tend to be high in saturated fat and any diet high in saturated fat will promote development of various health problems. Many studies have suggested that there is a relationship between saturated fat in the diet and colon cancer, coronary heart disease, and also Alzheimer's disease. Saturated fat is also known to increase serum cholesterol levels." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"Limiting red meat reduces your fat intake while still giving you a lot of protein. Consider roasting a small turkey. You'll have plenty of leftovers for several lunches, either as slices to be eaten with mayonnaise or mustard or as turkey salad with mayonnaise, cucumbers, and onions. (Again, remember—no bread.) Vegetables with your dinner should consist of mushrooms, asparagus, broccoli, or green beans. No broad beans of any sort (lima, navy, Boston, or the like), which are starchy, and again no potatoes, corn, or rice." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Others think it could be the particular kind of iron in red meat (called heme iron) or the nitrosamines produced when meat is cooked. Perhaps it is the steroid growth hormones typically present in the milk and meat; these hormones (which occur naturally in meat and milk but are often augmented in industrial production) are known to promote certain kinds of cancer. Or, as I mentioned, the problem with a meat-heavy diet might not even be the meat itself but the plants that all that meat has pushed off the plate. We just don't know." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

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