OMNI
VEGETARIAN
ACTION NEWSLETTER #11, SEPTEMBER 10, 2014.
Compiled
by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology.
(#4 Feb. 12, 2014; #5 March 12, 2014; #6 April 9, 2014; #7 May
14, 2014; #8, June 11, 2014; July 9, 2014; #10, August 11, 2014).
What’s at stake:
Vegetarianism offers significant guidance—principles and practices—to our
nutrition and health, to our treatment of animals, and to climate change.
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Empathy/Compassion, Ecology, Gandhi, Health, Global Warming/Causes, St. Francis,
Vegetarianism, Violence, Wars, for starters.
Nos. 4-10
at end
Contents
Vegetarian Action Newsletter #11, September 10
OMNI
VEGETARIAN POTLUCK, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2014, 6:30.
Nutrition,
Health
Dr. Fuhrman
Animal
Rights and Protection
The Abolitionist Approach: Veganism
John Griffith, Abolitionist Vegan Advocate from Jonesboro, johnbengriffith@gmail.com
The Abolitionist Vegan Society
World Day for Farmed Animals
10 Billion Lives
World Peace Diet
Global
Warming, Climate Change
National Wildlife Federation
Climate Change, Animals, the Future: Google Search
Dick, Patacake and Dalailamas
NUTRITION, HEALTH
Dr. Fuhrman
Dr.
Fuhrman coined the word, Nutritarian to
describe his recommended diet which concentrates on eating the most
micronutrient rich foods.
What is Dr. Fuhrman’s Nutritarian Diet?
Simply put, a Nutritarian diet is a way of eating which bases food choices on maximizing the micronutrients per calorie. A Nutritarian diet is designed with food that has powerful disease-protecting and therapeutic effects and delivers a broad array of micronutrients via a wide spectrum of food choices. It is not sufficient to merely avoid fats, consume foods with a low glycemic index, lower the intake of animal products, or eat a diet of mostly raw foods. A truly healthful Nutritarian diet must be micronutrient rich and the micronutrient richness must be adjusted to meet individual needs. The foods with the highest micronutrient per calorie scores are green vegetables, colorful vegetables, and fresh fruits. For optimal health and to combat disease, it is necessary to consume enough of these foods that deliver the highest concentration of nutrients.
Simply put, a Nutritarian diet is a way of eating which bases food choices on maximizing the micronutrients per calorie. A Nutritarian diet is designed with food that has powerful disease-protecting and therapeutic effects and delivers a broad array of micronutrients via a wide spectrum of food choices. It is not sufficient to merely avoid fats, consume foods with a low glycemic index, lower the intake of animal products, or eat a diet of mostly raw foods. A truly healthful Nutritarian diet must be micronutrient rich and the micronutrient richness must be adjusted to meet individual needs. The foods with the highest micronutrient per calorie scores are green vegetables, colorful vegetables, and fresh fruits. For optimal health and to combat disease, it is necessary to consume enough of these foods that deliver the highest concentration of nutrients.
A Nutritarian diet is guided by nutritional quality.
Dr. Fuhrman's Prescription for Improving
and Maintaining Great Health
- Dr.
Fuhrman's food pyramid is based on his principles of the health
equation Health = Nutrients /
Calories (H=N/C).
- He advocates that at least 90% of the daily
diet should be
comprised of whole plant foods that naturally contain health-promoting
phytochemicals.*
- The
pyramid promotes foods that are richest in micronutrients and benefit
health and longevity.
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The quality of a diet can be based on three simple criteria:
- Levels of micronutrients (vitamins, minerals,
phytochemicals) per calorie
- Amounts of macronutrients (fat, carbohydrate,
protein) to meet individual needs, without excessive calories that may
lead to weight gain or health compromise
- Avoidance of potentially toxic substances (such as trans fats) and
limited amounts of other potentially harmful substances (such as sodium)
Dr. Fuhrman created The Health Equation: H=N/C or Health =
Nutrients/Calories (first
published in 1999 in his work, The Health Equation and later described in more
detail in his book, Eat To Live) to define how the quality of calories impacts
health.
This equation means your future health can be predicted by the
micronutrient per calorie density of your diet. Micronutrient per calorie
density is important in devising and recommending menu plans and dietary
suggestions that are the most effective for tackling weight loss and for
preventing and reversing disease.
Assuring superior nutrition means meeting an individual's unique
nutritional needs to profound therapeutic effects for preventing, treating and
reversing disease. Dietary micronutrient quality must be increased accordingly
to utilize dietary recommendations therapeutically for disease reversal or
to protect high-risk individuals.
Though micronutrient density is critically important, it is not
the only factor that determines health. For example Vitamin D levels, B12, and
proper omega-3 intake are important for optimal long-term health as well as
avoidance of sodium and other toxic excesses. These concerns are not addressed
in the H = N/C equation. However, if the focus is consuming more
micronutrient-rich natural foods then the other important nutritional benefits
automatically will follow, such as lower sodium, reduced calories, high fiber
and volume, a low glycemic index, and a high satiety and phytochemical index to
name a few.
Last, but not least, Dr. Fuhrman's unique contribution to the
science of nutritional care, disease reversal and weight loss is his
explanation of the physiology behind hunger and food cravings.
It is important to recognize that low nutrient eating (and toxic
eating) leads to increased cellular toxicity with undesirable levels of free
radicals and advanced glycation end products (AGE's), lipofuscin, lipid A2E and
other toxins that contribute to the development of chronic disease. His
findings are that these toxic substances lead to addictive withdrawal symptoms
(toxic hunger) which result in the desire to eat more frequently and overeat.
Low nutrient eating, therefore, establishes a mechanism that leads to food addictions
and food cravings that can't be ignored. This is the reason why calorie
counting diets fail. Without addressing dietary quality, excess food cravings
are almost impossible to ignore.
Fortunately the drive to over-consume calories is blunted by high
micronutrient, high food antioxidant, consumption and the symptoms that people
thought were hypoglycemia or even hunger, simply disappear after following his
dietary recommendations. Not only do people lose the symptoms of fatigue,
headaches, irritability and stomach cramping, but they get back in touch with
true hunger felt in the throat, which simply makes eating more pleasurable and
directs them to a more appropriate amount of calories for their body's
biological needs.
Download a printable PDF version
of the Nutritarian Checklist to help you
keep on track every day.
In a portion controlled (calorie counting) diet it is likely
that the body will not get adequate fiber or micronutrients. The body will have
a compounded sensation of hunger and cravings which for most is simply
overwhelming. It invariably results in people either being unable to lose
weight or unable to keep the weight off and eventually gaining it back. The
biochemistry and physiology behind food cravings are more thoroughly explained
in Dr. Fuhrman's books and lectures, but without a thorough understanding of
these principles weight loss attempts are typically doomed to fail.
Are you striving to adopt a
Nutritarian diet to extend lifespan and reverse and prevent disease?
Here are 5 basic rules that may help you:
Here are 5 basic rules that may help you:
- Consume
a large green salad every day, and put some raw onion and shredded
cruciferous veggies on top.
- Eat
at least a 1/2 cup of beans or lentils each day, in a soup, stew, or top
of a salad or in another dish.
- Eat
at least 3 fresh fruits a day, especially berries, pomegranate, cherries,
plums, and oranges.
- Eat
at least 1 ounce of raw seeds and nuts daily, utilizing some chia seeds,
flax seeds and walnuts.
- Consume
a double-sized serving of steamed greens daily, and utilize mushrooms and
onions in your dishes.
Test Dr. Fuhrman, sent to me by
a MD friend
Dick, this is an informative email series on various
health topics fromwww.nihseniorhealth.gov
ANIMAL RIGHTS AND PROTECTION
THE ABOLITIONIST APPROACH:
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WORLD DAY FOR FARMED ANIMALS, OCTOBER 2
TEN BILLION LIVES
FARM ANIMAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT (FARM)
We're changing hearts, minds, and diets by the thousands!
According to USDA reports, nearly 10 billion land animals are
raised and killed every year for food in the U.S. alone. Farm Animal Rights
Movement (FARM), is bringing this injustice to the country's attention by
showing the hard-hitting 10 Billion Lives video at college campuses, music
festivals and street fairs.
Our
dedicated staff and volunteers offer passersby $1 to watch the video – an
outreach method known as "pay-per-view." After watching, viewers are
encouraged to decrease consumption of animals and work towards a vegan diet.
The results speak for themselves - more than 80% of viewers commit to eating
fewer animal products!
This has
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On this
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places in between. The abundant and diverse wildlife resources, which are so
important to our culture and well-being, face a bleak future if we do not
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TEMPERATURE
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WATER
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shelter, and deprives wildlife of water sources.
FOOD
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change has altered food availability for migratory species; birds arrive on schedule
to find their food sources--insects, seeds, flowering plants--have hatched or
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winters cause seasonal food caches to spoil, so wildlife species like the Gray
Jay depending on food stores to survive the winter are left without sustenance.
PLACES TO
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changing, is that it is changing so fast and thus the need to address global
warming. Species may not be able to adapt to this rapid climate change or to
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PATACAKE AND DALAILAMAS, KNOW THE WORST BUT KEEP ON STRUGGLING
by Dick Bennett
When faced with a powerful, dire threat many people, feeling
helpless, or just wishing to remain comfortable, deny, avoid, evade in all the
ways humans are so expert, and our commercial society so adept at
exploiting. Let’s call it, to change the
metaphor, the patacake response, with smiling face. (Wal-Mart’s Smiley Face sells!)
Many fewer
recognize reality, try to understand it, to alert others, and prepare for and
prevent the worst while keeping their eyes on the goal of a caring society. Let’s call them the dalailamas, who see
clearly and still smile (good psychology).
OMNI was established to provide this public service. Of
course nobody invited us either to seek or tell the truth, so we shouldn’t get
bent out of shape if we’re not always welcome.
But because serious,
probably catastrophic, dangers are ahead, we ought to try to stop or reduce the
old harms (violence in general, nuclear war specifically) and new approaching
harms (climate change rushing in, even our supposedly responsible officials
disregarding and denying).
How does Vegetarianism
come in? If we know people (species!)
are in danger, shouldn’t we use every nonviolent means available to protect
them, and since eating meat is a major fact of violence and cause of
C02/warming/rising seas/extreme weather, and since the effects of climate
change are contributing to the sixth great extinction of animals, shouldn’t we seek
to project the immense benefits of vegetarianism wherever we can?
To ask, how does OMNI
fit in? is to ask, what is the mission of OMNI?
We seek:
a world free of war and the threat of war,
a society with equity and justice for all,
a community where every person’s potential may be fulfilled,
and an earth restored.
That is, the entire
peace, justice, and ecology movement, of which OMNI is a part, seeks to create
a better world (actually the statement is much stronger than that). That is OMNI’s promise. And it is profoundly, inescapably political,
involving choices affecting others, and resources the organization of which is
essential to human survival.
So I welcome the
possibility of a community to speak out and work for the great hope of
vegetarianism.
Most people like to
think they are not naïve, and in this case, we are not. The question, for example, of whether humans
are inevitably warlike has been thoroughly researched: homo sapiens is obviously violently
aggressive, but not always and therefore not inevitably. Prof. Fry in The Human Potential for Peace found some 500 societies throughout
human history who lived cooperative lives.
And humans change. Numerous
examples of humans abandoning vicious practices are well-known: slavery in the
nineteenth century; in the twentieth apartheid in S. Africa (legalized color
discrimination) and Jim Crow apartheid in the US South; and European genocidal
wars. Who would have thought, before
King and Mandela, or at the end of WWI and WWII that such bigotry and
persecution or such slaughter would ever end?
Or smoking: who could have guessed only a few decades ago that perhaps
the most tenacious addiction could be severely reduced as it is today..
Eating meat is no
different. My childhood town was rigid
with what were assumed natural hatreds:
anti-Semitic, racist, and anti-Catholic bigots dominated conversations, but of course so deeply woven
into the culture were these prejudices that nobody thought they were bigots,
and certainly not they themselves. But
gradually informed people began to call these bigots out by challenging their
false, hateful claims. And now, at
least in most communities the practice is, like smoking, much reduced, and
mainly without employing law.
Knowing that human effort can reverse
human error is a strong foundation for future action. Undergirding the hopeful mission of OMNI, is
our certain knowledge of successes in the past.
But those successes required struggle.
Contents
Vegetarian Action Newsletter #10, August 13, 2014
OMNI
VEGETARIAN POTLUCK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 6:30.
DESSERT CONTEST MONTH?
Nutrition,
Health
Mostly Martha, Film of Love and Food
Nutrition Action Health
Letter
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine PCRM
Good Medicine, the Magazine of PCRM
“Round-up” vs. Health
Antibiotics in Meat vs. Health
Animal
Rights and Protection
Dick’s Letter to AETN
Better World for Animals
Assisi International Animal Institute
Interspecies Friendships
Global
Warming, Climate Change
Animals and Climate Change
Endangered Species Day
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