| | Re: Diet Linked To Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma In article <c3v346$94a$1@kermit.esat.net>, pearl wrote: > "Ignoramus20562" <ignoramus20562@NOSPAM.20562.invalid> wrote in message news:c3v1po$3fl$a@pita.alt.net... >> Why correlation is not causation: >> >> It is not often when people eat low carb diet that is high in meat and >> fat and at the same time is high in vegetables (which are obviously >> good things), and at the same time relatively low in carbs and >> calories. >> >> So, studies studying general populations and their trends, are going >> to miss that segment of people due to its size, and therefore are not >> instructive for people like me who follow the diet Idescribed. >> >> Like I said, I eat several pounds of vegetables per day, one apple, >> plenty of meat, some fat, at the same time it is relatively low in >> calorie. 50% calories from fat, 25% from carbs and 25% from protein. >> >> A typical fat person who eats a lot of meat has a diet that could not >> be farther from what I eat. Why should I be , therefore, influenced by >> their health problems that have little to do with meat, as such. >> >> Carb intake of most other people and their adiposity IS the confouding >> factor that makes conclusions based on correlation unwarranted. > > Improperly digested animal protein is associated with endogenous > production of active oxygen (free radicals), leading to oxidative stress > (and cancer). so you are now starting a completely new line of thought, instead of conceding that I am right. i > 'Carnivores have a much higher concentration of hydrochloric acid > in the stomach for break down of proteins and to kill any dangerous > bacteria. Their stomach acidity is less than or equal to pH 1 with > food in the stomach, while humans have a pH 4 to 5. > http://www.b-naturals.com/win00.htm > > ''According to Harper's Biochemistry, the putrefaction bacteria > in the large intestine convert amino acids from undigested protein > into toxic amines or ptomaines, such as cadaverine (from lysine), > agmatine (from arginine), tyramine (from tyroseine), putrescine > (from orithine) and histamine (from histidine). And these amines > are "powerful vasopressor substances". Tryptophan undergoes a > series of reactions to form indole and methylindole (skatole), which > produces the distinctive putrefying faecal smell of a high protein diet. > The sulphur-containing amino acids (cysteine and methionine) are > transformed into mercaptans such as ethyl and methyl mercaptan > as well as hydrogen sulphide (H2S). All these compounds are very > poisonous and unpleasant. Phosphatidylcholine, only found in meats, > breaks down into choline and the related toxic amines such as neurine. .. > > .. plant protein is less digestible .. because it is found in the tough > cellulose walls of plant cells which pass through the gut undigested > if not sufficiently masticated. These proteins are not available as > soil for putrefying bacteria in the bowel. Animal protein wastes are > highly bioavailable to putrefying bowel bacteria since they have no > cellulose cell wall.' > http://web.archive.org/web/200304180...mc/protein.htm > > 'Because waste products such as hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, > histamines, phenols and indoles are toxic, the body's defense > mechanisms try to eliminate them by releasing neutrophils (a > type of leukocyte, or white corpuscle). These neutrophils > produce active oxygen, oddball oxygen molecules that are > capable of scavenging disintegrating tissues by gathering > electrons from the molecules of toxic cells. > > Problems arise, however, when too many of these active oxygen > molecules, or free radicals, are produced in the body. They are > extremely reactive and can also attach themselves to normal, healthy > cells and damage them genetically. These active oxygen radicals steal > electrons from normal, healthy biological molecules. This electron > theft by active oxygen oxidizes tissue and can cause disease. > > OXODIZED TISSUE LEADS TO: > > Liver - Hepatitis, cirrhosis, cancer > > Pancreas - Pancreatitis, diabetes, cancer > > Kidney - Nephritis, nephrosis, cancer > > http://www.thewolfeclinic.com/alkalinewater.html > > > > |