Guest guest Posted July 22, 2006 Report Share Posted July 22, 2006 Hi Everyone, A return to health is about returning to following full bodily senses again. The ability to think is merely one sensing ability of the brain, and humans have become overly dependent on that one sense, at the expense of not listening to the rest of their bodies senses - the innumerable senses that are in taste, vision, hearing, touch, feeling, emotion, perception, sensation, psyche, and other nerve (brain included) operations. To pursue the intellect over the rest of the senses and not seeking overall balance is to be " in the head " . Humans are sensuous creatures, as all animal species are. The B12 issue is an " in the head " game. It's a head game used by the meat industry and a misinformed nutrition/medical/supplement-exspurt industry. It hooks people into meat eating, supplement eating, following exspurts, and otherwise remaining " in the head " and not learning how to follow and trust their own full senses. No other species plays head games with its diet. It is not necessary for life. What is necessary is to follow the full senses when making food choices. It takes a processed food eater (cooking is a processing) many years to slowly tune into their full senses again as s/he gradually improves the diet from an intellectual artificial diet to a natural, normal full sense based diet. The definitions for frugivore, carnivore, herbivore, etc have been made by the science of biology,just as biology has defined the words horse, animal, flower, etc, and just as the dictionary is full of commonly used, defined words. These terms are used to distinguish and classify animals, based on the foods animal species are observed to eat under normal and natural conditions, not under civilized or domesticated conditions. All non-natural diets are a product of civilized intellectualizing overriding full sense based diets. The various foods that an animal normally eats make up its diet. The food types that a species mostly eats, becomes the determinant for the diet classification - herbivore, frugivore, carnivore, etc. Eg, a carnivore mostly eats meat, so its called a carnivore. A carnivore does not eat only meat. There are other foods in its diet. Excessively hungry, starving, or desperate animals will try to eat just about anything. People who make up terms like vegan, vegetarian, fruitarian, and breatharian are trying to impose their beliefs, opinions, morals, ethics, or other intellectual pursuits on nature's ways while pursuing idealism rather than observing how nature works. Nature's life doesn't use intellect or idealism to determine its food supply. Nature's life uses a full platter of living senses. The life of Nature is full sense based, not single intellect based. Humans are full sense creatures of nature, and every creature of nature must use its full senses to achieve health. Humans have only recently started trying to override their full bodily senses with their intellects. Humans also make up terms like chemist, doctor, lawyer, mother, father, etc, but everyone knows that these terms do not mean that these people only do what the term strictly means. These terms only describe what the person mostly does in one area of their life. Biology terms work the same way. A civilized human can still use its natural senses and physical abilities to determine the extant to which it is a meat eater. A human can go out in the woods and see how hard it is to catch wildlife, compared to the plentiful fruit and plant food available. Fish are hard to catch. Insects and grubs are not that appealing and are hard to eat in large volumes. Unless the human is extremely hungry, desperate, animal flesh and parts do not appeal to human senses. These are senses that can be trusted, as much as the meat pushers would love to have people think otherwise. Just because most humans have domesticated and civilized themselves, does not mean that their senses have suddenly disappeared. We can still see, hear, smell, taste, think, imagine, feel, emote, percieve, etc. Supplements are an obvious intellectual pursuit, and many persons are lured into this head game. To conclude that they are not necessary is as simple as observing that pills, bottles, elixirs, potions, concentrated dried foods, blenders, compactors, mixers, spoons, tablets, etc do not grow on trees or on any other type of plant. Ten million other simple observations can be made by our senses. The intellects are very motivated to have people trust intellect over full senses because money and self glory can be had if an exspurt is followed by people who are intellectually programmed to not trust their full senses. It is very wise to observe that the natural world, the most healthiest world on earth, follows its full senses when eating its foods and doesn't depend on intellect or exspurts. Civilized humans must of course use their intellects to get themselves out of unhealthy habits, but their intellects need to be used to direct themselves to learning how to follow and trust the full senses they've been ignoring and abusing for so long. If a person has been lured intellectually into falling for the b12 scare, that person can use their same intellect to realize that b12 is a vitamin of the b complex, and fruits are especially rich in this complex of vitamins. In fact, fruit is the richest of all foods, in vitamins. That is fruit's forte, or strong point. Fruits are also the most easily digested, absorbed, and assimilated of all foods. That means that no other food comes near to fruit's ability to provide vitamins. A person frightened by the b12 boogey man under the bed needs to reach for a ripe fruit, not the pill-ow or bottle. In their shivering, they need to remember not to overeat at one meal, and to eat the fruit alone, simply, following the healthy habits of the rest of the wild, natural world. B vitamins are energy vitamins and they are used in sugar and energy metabolism, along with other vitamins. Glucose is a simple sugar and it is the fuel of the cells of the human body, like gasoline is to a car engine. Fruits supply an ideal quantity of simple sugars (fructose, glucose), served in a liquid form (fruit is mostly water). This is why fruit is so high in b vitamins, and other vitamins. Meats supply proteins and fats. They require lots of energy to break down and use, while supplying little energy, but they don't supply enough vitamins and minerals, let alone sugars, for humans to run their energy metabolism. Meat eaters have the least endurance of all civilized eaters. Meat digestion impairs b12 absorption. B12 is not needed for meat digestion and use, because meat is not sugar rich and is not a fuel source for humans. Of course meat has b12 in it (just like our human flesh does), but only in very low quantities which were for the use of the animal the meat used to be a part of. If one follows the logic of the b12 promoters, the best source of b12 should be human meat, and taking that logic even further, the best food for humans would be humans. There it is. Humans are humanivores. They all remain super healthy by eating b12 rich humans (tongue in cheek). It's interesting how b12 promoters hang on the idea that b12 from bacteria in the gut is somehow not absorbable but b12 from meat is. Meat is made up of animal cells requiring b12 for metabolism. Bacteria are simple animal cells requiring b12 for metabolism. Bacteria in our guts are digested by us just like animal cells in our guts are digested by us. The b12 intellectualizers do not hold themselves to logic and sensibility. B12 is used by animal cells, it doesn't need to get it from animal cells. Animal cells get their b12 from the foods they are evolved to eat. Humans get it from fruit, since humans are frugivores (digest fruit best). Cows get it from grass, since cows are herbivores (digest grass best). I don't eat meat. I have eaten meat in the past, long ago. B12 promoters will make their intellectual claims that I still have supplies of b12 left from eating meat. By their logic, I should be running short of cooked food nutrients any day now too. It's been years since I've eaten meat and cooked foods. I am boundless in energy, and I'm very sharp minded and clear headed. I can and have made 27 mile mountain hikes, on back to back days. I easily hike 10 to 20 miles each day, days on end. I feel great, better than ever. My health has done nothing but improve for the last 17 years on raw non-animal-product food. If these are signs of b12 shortage, I'm looking forward to having less b12 in me. Why I have so much energy and sharpness is because the fruit I eat supplies me with readily and easily available fuel and nutrients, including most adequate amounts of the b-vitamin complex, b12 included. I don't worry a second about b12. It never crosses my mind, except when I try inform others they don't need to worry either. The b12 issues is absurd and flies in the face of sensibility and rational thinking. I don't know any one who has more energy than myself, and who eats less meat or animal products. There are many I know who don't use animal products while following sensible eating habits and who have lots of energy, of course. Vegans are generally cooked and processed food eaters. Cooked and processed foods are the ingredients for disease. Vegans (and vegetarians, who are similar in habits) use harmful meat subsitutes like tofu and grains, take harmful and unnecessary supplements and use irritating substitute foods. The average vegan/vegetarian diet is almost as far from a healthy diet as the average meat eating diet is. The only major difference is meat. And the average vegan is known to be healthier than the average meat eater. Meat eaters have the most plentiful and horrific diseases. Processed grain, which is a staple of the vegan diet, is probably worse than meat as a human food, since it is eaten heavily, is an acid causing food like meat, and depletes the body of its reserves and life force. Processed grain eating leads to long, slow-building diseases. Meat eating supports sudden disease onset. Humans don't have gizzards, one of the requirements for grain eating, and sensibly are not classified as graminovores. Raw food vegans are head and shoulders above average cookie vegans, especially if they eat a lot of fresh, ripe fruit and juicy vegetables. One cannot group all vegans together, just as one cannot put all humans in one pot. There exists a natural and normal diet and behaviour that brings the human species pure health, as is the case for each living species. To the extent that a human doesn't follow that diet and behaviour, is the extant to which that human will suffer poor health. Harmful habits build dis-ease, healthful habits build ease. If a person wants to discover the reason for another's health issues, they need to look no further than that persons disobeyance of natural and normal health habits required by the human species. Eating tofu is unhealthy. Meat can be eaten in small quantities, since humans are able to digest small amounts of concentrated proteins. Meat is not needed for its b12. It provides concentrated proteins, and the body has a need for small amounts of protien (proteins are in all living things, since protein is fundamental to life). The same goes for concentrated fats and sugars. Overeating anything, no matter how good the food is, is very unhealthy. Eating grain is unhealty. Eating irritating weeds is unhealthy. Eating supplements is unhealthy. Harmful or less-than-good foods can be eaten, of course, but harm comes in their use. Only our natural foods, eaten in adequate quantities, supply us with nothing but nutrition and health. Health is simple, so simple a baby, who's brain is still greatly in the development stage (and has no intellect to speak of), can achieve it, just by following its full bodily senses. Adults can come to depend on their full senses again by letting go of their over-dependency on their intellect, while initially using their intellects to do so. Peace, Robert Ps. A person concerned with eating locally, logically should be refraining from eating specialty foods from other countries. If a shipped durian is bad to eat, the domesticated weed Maca from Peru is especially so, or any domesticated weed from somewhere else, no matter how it's promoted. Dried weeds in Washington state are just as good as any weed in any other country, no matter how high in elevation or remote in access the country is. Country grass is better than wheat grass, since it is not domesticated and hybridized. Humans aren't weed eaters, especially not noxious weed eaters. Elixirs are foods for elixivores. Weeds are for weed eaters, lawn mowers, bunny wabbits, cows, and compost bins. Dried, dusty mixtures are for sprinkling on coffins waiting for burial. Potions are for witches and warlocks. Oils, like snake oils, are slippery and quackery. Essences are for flowers. Health doesn't come in supplementation, a pill, or a bottle, much as the intellects would have it. 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