Vegan diet helps firefighters

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Editor:

 

" CBS Sunday Morning " featured the Austin, Texas, firefighters who enjoy a vegan

diet ( " Engine No. 2 " by Rip Esselstyn) and the men are powerful advocates of a

healthy living lifestyle. It was stated that heart disease kills more

firefighters than fire itself. The vegan diet was not adopted for moral and

ethical reasons, but for weight control and the best way for prevention and

reversal of disease.

 

Doing their own cooking and food preparation, the firefighters started out with

high cholesterol and upon changing their diet, their cholesterol had dropped

considerably. " Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, " by Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr.,

M.D., Rip's father, has influenced the program.

 

Casper Star-Tribune health reporter Allison Rupp featured an excellent article

on " alternative medicine. " It is impressive how good health can result without

drugs being prescribed for the " cure. " The side effects can be worse than the

cure in the medical field. That includes chemotherapy and radiation -- the

" medical mentality " is still using these harsh methods to " cure " cancer

problems.

 

Where is the mentality after so much proof that alternative methods are safer,

less expensive as well as producing good health by a corrective vegan diet? The

firefighters are good examples of this.

 

We are what we eat! Why do we have to have meat and dairy? (Very powerful

lobbies, I would guess.) I have in my files a lady with cervical cancer in her

mid 30's who went through the chemo therapy and radiation. Between the nausea

and vomiting, she lost 30 pounds. When she was about to give up, she heard about

the natural treatment of Dr. Lorraine Day, M.D., who overcame a breast tumor

with lots of fresh veggie juices -- no meat, no animal flesh, no dairy. After

two months on this diet, the tumor was gone. So long as there is breath, there

is hope. That was eight years ago and she is still free of cancer.

 

I ask Allison Rupp to write some more educational articles about alternative

therapy with recipes -- specifically about the vegan diet. I am a good example.

Try me!

 

OLETA THOMAS, Casper

 

Comments to this story.

 

 

well wrote on Apr 29, 2009 7:39 AM:

 

" I am vegan all my meat products were grass or grain fed. Heck that even means

the milk i use in my coffee is just fine cause the cow was grass fed. Besides no

one lives forever and i survived cancer in 84 without alternative med or vegan

diet. I have not been influenced by any lobby i eat what i prefer not what

others tell me to. Now going to curl up in my vegan fed buffalo robe so you have

a nice day. "

 

 

 

profit wrote on Apr 29, 2009 8:13 AM:

 

" My daughter was on a vegan diet for years, but had to start eating meet for b

vitamins. She chose organic, grass fed buffalo. Vegan doesn't work for everyone

as the Blood Type Diet explains=some of us are natural meat eaters and some are

not. The real key is moderation in all things. Even then, one has to eat organic

to avoid the chemically raised meats and produce that are responsible for making

us sick. Dairy is tainted with antibiotics, probably the real culprit of the

antibiotic resistant infections that kill. Cows fed in feed lots will die in 6

months from a corn diet as they cannot digest corn. That means people are eating

sick animals if they buy meat from the supermarket. Our food supply is not about

supply and demand. Unless people quit buying and eating processed foods,

genetically altered and chemically tainted produce and meat raised in

confinement, the corporate food industry will not supply healthy eating for us.

Grow your and and make friends with the ranches and butcher your own grass fed

meat. Enjoy a long life and stay away from the disease care system that will rob

you of your life's savings. "

 

 

 

Red wrote on Apr 29, 2009 10:59 AM:

 

" Was this the same fire squad that got an award from a group that has openly

advocated arson and firebombings, and has admitted giving money to the FBI

certified terrorist group, ELF, a group that uses arson as its main tool of

committing hate crimes. That being the extremist hate group, PETA?

 

www.activistcash.com/organization_blackeye.cfm/oid/21

 

" We did it, we did it. We gave $1,500 to the ELF for a specific program, " PETA's

Lisa Lange admitted on the Fox News Channel.

 

" it would be a great thing if all of these fast-food outlets, these

slaughterhouses, these laboratories and the banks that fund them exploded

tomorrow. I think it's perfectly appropriate for people to take bricks and toss

them through the windows, and everything else along the line. Hallelujah to the

people who are willing to do it. " - PETA's Bruce Friedrich, Animal Rights

Conference, 2001 "

 

 

 

Carrier wrote on Apr 29, 2009 2:16 PM:

 

" Profit is right: Everything in moderation. I eat meat, I eat my veggies and I

enjoy a cold Guinness. I love a thick, juicy medium rare steak right off my back

yard grill. I guess to some I shouldbe dead already. I would bet you Oleta, that

my cholesterol is lower than yours (hovers between 110 and 120). I workout

nearly daily and can run some folks half my age into the ground at three miles

(I'm 42). Oh, and I love a big ice cold glass of 2% milk. I would drink whole,

but can't seem to get it past the wife...

 

If you want to eat vegan, that's your right. But I will eat what I wish, and

work off the excess if needed. Moderation is the key. Mickey D's and BK is fine

every once in a while, but if it's your daily diet, then call me when your heart

starts to palpetate....I know CPR! "

 

 

 

Allen wrote on Apr 29, 2009 4:22 PM:

 

" I have never seen an old vegan only dead ones. "

 

 

 

Nick wrote on Apr 30, 2009 3:51 AM:

 

" You don't see old vegans because the lifestyle wasn't adopted until the 1940s

So majority of the vegans are under the age of 60 "

 

 

 

Tom wrote on Apr 30, 2009 6:59 AM:

 

" The great majority of animals are raised in horrible conditions, every natural

desire is denied to them in the name of profit. Please watch the videos and see

the abuse and consider vegan for health and for ending suffering.

 

" Whatever happiness God intended for these animals, it is not yours to take

away " .

 

It's not as easy as, you do what you want to do and I will do what I want to do.

There is a victim that meat, egg, and dairy eaters are causing great suffering

to. "

 

 

 

Flash wrote on Apr 30, 2009 9:00 AM:

 

" I'm a secondary vegetarian. I only eat animals that eat plants. I'm 57 years

old, 75 pounds overweight, drink too much, don't exercise and my cholesterol,

triglycerides and blood pressure all all low. I think it's all predetermined by

your genes, so don't worry, be happy! "

 

 

 

kb wrote on Apr 30, 2009 9:01 AM:

 

" I'm a vegetarian and I personally think that vegans take it a little too far.

I don't wear or buy leather because it seems pretty stupid to not eat an animal

but to wear one. Every vegan i have known has either moved to vegetarianism bcs

it's easier or were told by doctors that if they didn't eat meat to get the

right vitamins they could potentially die. I have been a vegetarian for ten

years and I've never had a severe health problem caused by vitamin deficiency.

Carrier is right, everything in moderation! "

 

 

 

Tom wrote on Apr 30, 2009 9:38 AM:

 

" You can't sell that crap in cow country. We know how livestock is treated. "

 

 

 

kyle wrote on Apr 30, 2009 1:22 PM:

 

" I agree with your viewpoint that for human health veganism is the best diet to

live by. By the age of 22 I was overweight and had blood pressure of 150/99. I

was constantly thinking that I would have a heart attack at any moment. Then I

went vegan one day, lost 30 pounds and dropped my blood pressure to 122/78. And

I never felt I was sacrificing taste. People aren't aware that there are many

good alternatives to meat and dairy. I have one point to get across to a couple

other commenters though. When you " choose " to eat meat and dairy, you are really

not choosing at all--your parents chose for you. Eating the Standard American

Diet is easy though--perfect for the average fat and lazy American. "

 

 

 

wyoming guy wrote on Apr 30, 2009 1:43 PM:

 

" I kill most of my own meat, and process it too. Elk steaks, are GREAT. I

acctually tried a vegetarian diet, made it about 7 months. Not for me, thanks.

Protiens, and amino acids are requirred in the body. This becomes even more

evident during heavy work loads. I worked with some vegan firefighters in the

Federal system, 2 on a hotshot crew, they never pulled thier weight. The rest of

the crew suffered for thier life style choice. Veganism is fine, but be aware of

what you choice MAY do to others.

Do as you wish, but I am going to go start my grill!!! "

 

 

 

Carrier wrote on Apr 30, 2009 9:11 PM:

 

" Had a juicy burger tonight. I'm going to be paying for that when I run in the

morning... "

 

 

 

If it were not for cows wrote on May 1, 2009 6:39 AM:

 

" Tom would not be able to go pasture patty mushroom hunting.

 

Most farmers and ranchers take good care of their livestock. Ours were well fed,

the barn was always open for them so they would be out of cold and bad weather

conditions, vet care etc as they were our lively hood.

 

So you are not going to sell that Peta (probably) fabricated documentaries for

TV while they kill pets rather than adopt them out and throw the carcass in

dumpsters. "

 

 

 

Hmmm... wrote on May 1, 2009 11:16 AM:

 

" Tom probably will eat the " pasture patty " also! "