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"Iron is found in a range of plant and animal food sources in two forms. Heme iron is found only in flesh- or blood-containing animal foods; organic iron is found both in animal foods and plant foods. Whereas heme iron is relatively well absorbed from single foods and mixed meals (15% to 35% bioavailability), the absorption of nonheme iron from single plant sources is low and variable (2% to 8%). The bioavailability of nonheme iron and, to a lesser extent, heme iron is affected by other foods consumed in the same meal." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"In primates, animal food consumption is inversely related to body weight. The smaller primates eat more animal foods while the larger primates eat much less animal foods. As a percentege of total calories, the gorilla and the orangutan eat only 1 and 2% animal foods, respectively,. The remainder of their diet is from plant foods. Since humans are between the weight of the gorilla and the orangutan, it has been suggested that humans have evolved to eat around 1.5% of their diet as animal foods.2 Most Americans currently derive well over 50% of their calories from animal foods." - Michael T. Murray, ND, Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 1 (Get the book.)

"In primates, animal food consumption is inversely related to body weight. In other words, the smaller primates eat more animal food while the larger primates eat less animal food. The gorilla consumes only one percent of its total calories as animal foods, and the orangutan consumes two percent animal foods. The remainder of their diet comes from plants. Since humans are between the weight of the gorilla and the orangutan, it has been suggested that humans are designed to eat around one-and-one-half percent of their diet as animal foods." - Michael T. Murray, N.D., Joseph E. Pizzorno, N.D., Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine, Revised Second Edition (Get the book.)

"This fact could explain why populations that eat diets containing lots of animal food generally have higher rates of coronary heart disease and cancer than those that don't. But nutritionism encouraged researchers to look beyond the possibly culpable food itself—meat—to the culpable nutrient in the meat, which scientists have long assumed to be the saturated fat. So they are baffled indeed when large dietary trials like the Women's Health Initiative and the Nurses' Health Study fail to find evidence that reducing fat intake significantly reduces the incidence of heart disease or cancer." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"He is utterly fearless, candidly analyzing the backroom deals and politics of a paranoid animal food industry that will stop at nothing to maintain the dominance of its products in the American diet. And he has played what is almost certain to be a critical role in the future of how we eat. For years, he has taught America's foremost course in undergraduate nutrition, and his students will form the foundation of American nutrition in the twenty-first century. Nathan Pritikin is another example of those who have bravely bucked the nutrition establishment." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.) "And yet, with all the research that demonstrates the wisdom and benefits of plant-based nutrition, its growing ranks of proponents still face a formidable array of opponents, from the titans of the animal food industry to the medical establishment itself. My colleague Dean Ornish succinctly sums up the dilemma faced by those of us who believe in this healthy way of eating: "I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open." Well said. 12 B~ _ _ _ ..." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"Adding micronutrient- and calorie-dense animal food also gave early humans more free time than other apes. One more thing: wild carnivores obtain their plant micronutrients by eating the herbivores that ate the plants; and until about fifty years ago, humans also got many of their micronutrients from the meat of animals that grazed on grass and other plants. Humans even lost the ability to manufacture vitamin Bu. Huh? What does that have to do with eating a rare hamburger?" - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"I asked them if they euthanize large animals with sodium pentobarbital, and if so, are the animals processed for human or animal food? Wayne E. Cunningham, DVM, SM, a Colorado State Veterinarian, replied, "Any animal euthanized with pentobarbital is not allowed into human or the pet food chain."17 Leroy Coffman, the state veterinarian for Florida was in agreement with Dr. Cunningham: "FDA regulation prohibits the use of any animal euthanized with sodium pentobarbital from being used in the human or animal food chain." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.)

"Animal food intake and cooking methods in relation to endometrial cancer risk in Shanghai. Br. J. Cancer 95, 1586-1592. 265. Folsom, A. R., Demissie, Z., and Hamack, L. (2003). Glycemic index, glycemic load, and incidence of endometrial cancer: The Iowa Women's Health Study. Nutr. Cancer 46, 119-124. 266. Hirose, K., Tajima, K., Hamajima, N., et al. (1996). Subsite (cervix/endometrium)-specific risk and protective factors in uterus cancer. Jpn. J. Cancer Res. 87, 1001-1009. 267. Larsson, S. C, Friberg, E., and Wolk, A. (2007)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Bass concluded that it was possible to remain in perfect health on a 100% raw diet that included a minimum of V2-I ounce of animal food, such as one raw egg yolk, a day. I called him to find out why he had earlier suggested that the ideal for humans might be only 75-85% raw. He said that was simply because most people cannot stay on a 100% raw diet. He admitted that a 100% raw is ideal, provided there is at least a "silver dollar-sized amount" of daily animal protein." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Along the Nile near Ethiopia, Price encountered what he judged to be the healthiest populations of all: tribes that subsisted on milk, meat, and blood from pastured cattle as well as animal food from the Nile River. Price found groups that ate diets of wild animal flesh to be generally healthier than the agriculturists who relied on cereals and other plant foods; the agriculturists tended to have somewhat higher levels of tooth decay (though still low by our standards)." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"Robert Young argues, "All the longest-lived and healthiest cultures on the planet are almost exclusively vegetarian, and 1 have yet to see any culture using animal food come remotely close to their healthy longevity" (Sick and Tired? p. 116). In Are You Confused? author Paavo Airola pointed out that the longest-lived people around the world ?the Bulgarians, Hunzakuts, East Indian Todas, Yucatan Indians and Russian Caucasians ?were either vegetarians or consumed very little meat. Our genes and digestive tracts are most similar to chimpanzees, especially bonobos, which share 99." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "These vegetarians believe that dead animal food products lack the life force that living plant food provides. The Jubbs write, "Life force is the electric energy a living animal has between its nerves and blood. When the animal is dead, this force is no longer present. Yet in vegetation, the sun's light (life force) remains within it after it has been harvested. Each cell of the plant stores the energy of the sun within it" (LifeFood Recipe Book, p. 2). When you eat meat, even raw meat, you are losing much of the advantages of a raw food diet, as discussed in Chapter 10. As Dr." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "The raw animal food diet, also known as the primal diet, consists largely of raw meat, raw eggs, unheated honey and raw dairy. Fruits and salads are kept to a minimum, as these result in an alkaline environment in the stomach when a strongly acidic one is required to digest meat. He notes that since we are not herbivores with several stomachs, many raw vegetables are difficult for us to digest and thus best taken as juice. Nuts and seeds are also considered difficult to digest and are to be taken sparingly. Aajonus proved that a raw plant diet can facilitate self-healing from serious disease." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"The possibility that no one wanted to consider was that fat and cholesterol were merely indicators of animal food intake. For example, look at the relationship between animal protein consumption and heart disease death in men aged fifty-five to fifty-nine across twenty different countries in Chart 5.3.16 This study suggests that the more animal protein you eat, the more heart disease you have. In addition, dozens of experimental studies show that feeding rats, rabbits and pigs animal protein (e.g., casein) dramatically raises cholesterol levels, whereas plant protein (e.g." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"Denmark enforced a major rationing of animal food and sugar. The Danes became much healthier. Epidemiological studies of people who have forsaken their native diet have invariably found an increase in ill health. In South Africa, the prevalence of diabetes and cancer of the colon was very low as long as the inhabitants lived on their native high-fiber, low-sugar diets. As these people adopted the modern high-sugar, low-fiber diet, they have become very ill. In Israel about 40 years ago, Jews from North Africa were examined and found to be physically healthy, free of modern disease." - Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH, Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health (Get the book.) "Plant or animal food that did not taste good was avoided. Usually, this meant that these products were too bitter. Foods that taste bland, salty, or sweet were preferred and, as a rule, are not poisonous. If any food made us sick, this would soon be recognized and thereafter avoided. We used other clues, such as the appearance and the tactile feel of the food, to decide whether or not to eat it. From the small number of safe foods, it was normal healthy practice to eat what was available without knowing anything about the composition of those foods." - Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH, Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health (Get the book.)

"In the grand scheme of things, cooked food is nonexistent, and animal food for omnivores and carnivores is minimal as the plant-eaters (mostly insects) are by far the dominant creatures on Earth. Eating raw plant food provides you with an unlimited variety of food choices. There are so many raw plant foods on this planet that you could taste something new every single day for the rest of your life and still not even come remotely close to trying 1% of what is here on Earth! For instance, there are over 500 varieties of avocados. And there are at least 80 varieties of persimmons!" - David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System (Get the book.)

"Four large-seeded lupins are of direct importance as human and animal food: the white lupin, blue lupin (L. angustifolius), yellow lupin (L. luteus) and Andean lupin or tarwi (L. mutabilis). Origin & history Mediterranean region (Andean lupin occurs naturally from Venezuela to northern Chile and Argentina). Domestication in the Old World started with white lupin in Egypt perhaps before 300 bc Early in the nineteenth century, blue and yellow lupins followed, and sweet lupins (with very low alkaloid levels) were developed in the early twentieth century." - Ben-Erik van Wyk, Food Plants of the World: An illustrated guide (Get the book.)

"He was first To say that animal food should not be eaten, And learned as he was, men did not always Believe him when he preached, 'Forbear, O mortals, To spoil your bodies with such impious food!'" — Ovid, Metamorphoses "Wer immer strebend sich bemuht, Den konnen wir erlosen." (Whoever strives with all his power, We are allowed to save.) — said the Angels in Goethe's Faust Things don't just happen, things happen which are just. The universe is governed by a karmic law. Karma is the total effect of an individual's actions and conduct during the successive phases of existence." - David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System (Get the book.)

"Swank's diet of low animal fat for the treatment of multiple sclerosis, a degenerative nervous system disease, is an example of the importance of avoiding or minimizing animal food when we are attempting to heal the nervous system.28 By assimilating the plant energy directly, we stimulate our own Inner Light forces and nervous system. By taking in plant energy indirectly through animal foods, we lose the benefit of this stimulation on our Inner Light and nervous system. As already pointed out, if we do not exercise a biological system, such as our muscles, they weaken." - Gabriel Cousens, M.D., Spiritual Nutrition: Six Foundations for Spiritual Life and the Awakening of Kundalini (Get the book.)

"One of the committee members, the director of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Nutrition Laboratory, told us that if we went below 30%, consumers would be required to reduce animal food intake and that would be the death of the report. At the time of this report, all of the human-based studies showing fat to be related to cancer (mostly breast and large bowel) were actually showing that the populations with more cancer consumed not just more fat, but also more animal-based foods and less plant-based foods (see chapter four)." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"The standard animal food, processed diet is a gamble; we never know what is truly in the food. Let's look at this process as starting a new diet while avoiding implied limitations. This is not about denial. 99.99% of all the food on Earth is raw plant food. Eating a natural food diet is the ultimate freedom. There is such a variety of raw plant foods on this Earth it is astonishing." - David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System (Get the book.) "Many people who are new to raw diets and vegetarianism think they need protein to fill the empty space left by eliminating animal food; what they need and want much of the time is fat. Most people and nutritionists mistake the desire for fat for the desire for protein as they cannot distinguish the difference between the two. Fats are soft, heavy and full; proteins are dense, abrasive and energetic. Protein alone will not fill the empty space when you stop eating cooked food. New vegetarians and vegans typically attempt to fill the space for fat with cooked vegetables." - David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System (Get the book.)

"We also have tantalizing evidence linking multiple sclerosis with animal food consumption, and especially dairy consumption. Dietary intervention studies have shown that diet can help slow, and perhaps even halt, multiple sclerosis. We now have a deep and broad range of evidence showing that a whole foods, plant-based diet is best for diabetes and autoimmune diseases. Never before have we had such a broad range of evidence showing that diets containing excess animal protein can destroy our kidneys." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"Too much animal food is the surest way of leaving "the health zone" for the "hospital zone," as epidemiological studies for cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and other degenerative diseases attest. The main reason for the eventual failure of nonvegetarian food prescriptions is that in the long term, animal foods do not suit the ideal anatomical and physiological requirements of the human body, mind, and spirit. Several of my other chapters go into detail on the health risk factors associated with animal foods." - Gabriel Cousens, M.D., Conscious Eating (Get the book.)

"As it is such a comprehensive cell poison, it is of concern that it is being placed in plants that enter the human and animal food supply. ... There is no guarantee that it will remain unexpressed in these plants or during digestion by animals or humans."70 Barnase may damage human health Because barnase is known to cause kidney damage in rats, degrade RNA, and be toxic to human cells, its presence in food may lead to a wide range of potential problems. " - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.)

"There is much more fiber in plant food than in animal food. Plant fiber can be divided into three different types: cereal fibers, vegetable fibers, and fruit fibers. A person consuming whole foods need not worry very much about adding additional fiber to the diet, but a person living primarily on overly processed foods will probably experience health problems due to fiber deficiency. Constipation Constipation, sometimes alternating with diarrhea, is the hallmark of a low-fiber diet." - Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH, Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health (Get the book.)

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