Neither legumes nor grains are food fit for humans (WAS: Tofurkey or Unturkey?)

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Hello, friends. Here are some thoughts on legumes and grains in the human diet.

 

Soy and other legumes do indeed contain estrogens, antinutrients, excitotoxins, and other profoundly health-destroying properties. Here are three places you can go to read up on the serious health problems associated with soy foods.

 

* http://www.realhealthnews.com/dailydose/dd200504/dd20050401.html

 

* http://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2005nl/april/050400.htm* http://www.vegan-straight-edge.org.uk/soyfood.htm

 

On the topic of grains, it is true that certain animals (birds) are naturally designed to accommodate consumption of grains. However, birds have gullets, in which grains (grass seeds) seeds may sprout (germinate). They also have gizzards (not stomachs) in which the seeds may be ground up and digested. Humans have neither gizzards nor gullets. Humans also began consuming grains extremely recently in evolutionary history (not more than 10,000 years ago). These two tidbits, plus the fact that grains must be processed and cooked in order to be consumed, ought to give pause to those who consider grains to be people food. Here are two superb online sources for self-study:

 

* http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020149imp.on.pritikin/020149imp.on.pritikin.pdf

 

This is a FANTASTIC free eBook called "Improving on Pritikin." It was written by a gentleman named Ross Horne, once Nathan Pritikin's

staunchest disciple, until he started to see arthritis, cancer, and other serious degenerative diseases in Pritikin patients.

In Chapter 10, entitled "Grains Are for the Birds," Horne makes abundantly clear just how damaging it is for humans to consume grains.

 

* http://www.vegan-straight-edge.org.uk/opioids.htm

This article describes the highly addictive, neurotoxic properties of gluten-containing grains.

 

Blessings,

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