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[Guest guest]

I have wondered about vitamin B-12 for a while after reading about how

it's not available in raw foods only animal products. Then I got this

email from the 'Notmilk' . Hope it helps.

 

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NOTMILK - Ending the B-12 Controversy

Sat, 19 Nov 2005 10:34:44 -0000

Robert Cohen <notmilk

notmilk-owner

notmilk

 

 

 

Ending the Vitamin B-12 Controversy

 

Many people believe that Vitamin B-12 supplements are

critical to the health of vegans. I believe this to be

pure nonsense.

 

In 1996, Victor Herbert determined that B-12 deficiency is

rare among vegans, even though most do not take supplemental

B-12. His landmark work was published in the American

Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol. 59(suppl), pp. 1213S-

1222S. Herbert wrote:

 

" To a great extent, B-12 is recycled from liver bile in the

digestive system...The enterohepatic circulation of vitamin

B-12 is very important in vitamin B-12 economy and

homeostasis...bodies reabsorb 3-5 mcg of bile vitamin B-12.

Because of this, an efficient enterohepatic circulation

keeps the adult vegan, who eats very little vitamin B-12,

from developing B-12 deficiency disease... "

 

Despite real science, the B-12 myth continues. If you feel

that you must eat B-12 (which is produced by bacterial

action), then buy organic carrots and be sure to eat the

unwashed roots. Washing will kill the bacteria, rich with

Vitamin B-12.

 

For those who further doubt that organically fruits and

vegetables, grains and legumes provide all tht the body

needs, let me provide biblical inspiration from the King

James version of the Holy Bible. Exodus 20:8, the Fourth

of Ten Commandments instructs us to:

 

" Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. "

 

Many people do so by reading the Bible for its

wisdom and guidance, and I would like to take this

opportunity to merge science, religion, and good

health into one very inspirational and instructional

column based upon another chapter in the Good Book.

 

Got Vitamin B-12? If the Song of Solomon inspires you,

then you will most certainly be in good hands.

 

>From the Song of Solomon:

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" Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant

fruits; camphor, with spikenard, spikenard and saffron;

calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh

and aloes, with all the chief spices...A fountain of gardens,

a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon. Awake, O

north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that

the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his

garden, and eat his pleasant fruits. Open to me, my love, my

dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my

locks with the drops of the night.

 

His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips

like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh. His mouth is most

sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and

this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem. My beloved is gone

down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the

gardens, and to gather lilies. I am my beloved's, and my beloved

is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.

 

I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the

valley, and to see whether the vine flourished and the pomegranates

budded. How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!

And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that

goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to

speak. I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.

 

Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine

flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates

bud forth: there will I give thee my love.

 

I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my

pomegranate. "

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May God bless those wise prophets who without microscopes

or chemical laboratories were divinely inspired to write

about nature's most sensual source of Vitamin B-12.

 

Enjoy this Saturday and keep the spirit of the Sabbath.

Shabbat Shalom!

 

Robert Cohen

http://www.notmilk.com

 

 

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Thank you for your time and energy,

 

Tim Buckner