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If you eat too much meat, you may get too few of some desirable nutrients, and too much of undesirable substances.


Meat is deficient in:


  1. Carbohydrates. Complex carbohydrates are your body’s primary intended fuel. Carbohydrates are essential for your brain, red blood cells, and kidney cells. There are no carbohydrates in meat.
  2. Minerals. Meat is deficient in potassium, calcium, and copper. Dairy is deficient in iron.
  3. Vitamins. Meat is deficient in folate and vitamins A, C, D, E, and K. Most meat is not even particularly high in vitamin B12, and meat-eaters at least as likely to have a vitamin B12 deficiency as vegetarians or even vegans.
  4. Omega-3 essential fatty acids. Commercially available meat is deficient in omega-3s.
  5. Fiber. There is no dietary fiber in meat. Fiber provides the bulk for the stool, controls blood sugar and cholesterol, and detoxifies cancer-causing chemicals.


Meat has too much:


  1. Fat. The fat in meat promotes obesity, type-2 Diabetes, artery damage, Heart disease, and many forms of cancer.
  2. Protein. The excessive amount of protein in meat can overwork and damage your liver and kidneys.
  3. Acid. The acid must be neutralized by your bones causing bone loss, osteoporosis, and calcium-based kidney stones.
  4. Sulfur. The sulfur-containing amino acids in meat cause foul-smelling body odor, breath, and flatus, and promote heart disease, inflammatory bowel disease, cancer, and shortened longevity.
  5. Cholesterol. Cholesterol is only found in animal foods. Excess accumulates in your arteries, skin, tendons, and all other tissues.
  6. Toxins. Toxic chemicals concentrate in food supply as they rise up the food chain, and they concentrate in meat.
  7. Pathogens. Pathogenic viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites live in meat. In the US, there are approximately 76 million cases of food-borne illness annually, much of it directly related to meat consumption.
  8. Antibiotics. Approximately 80 percent of all antibiotics sold in the U.S. are used by the meat and poultry industry to make animals grow faster or to prevent disease in crowded and unsanitary conditions. This has caused antibiotic therapies to be less effective in treating human illnesses.
  9. Hormones. Most U. S. cattle are implanted with synthetic hormones. In 1989, the European Economic Community (EEC) placed a ban on hormone-treated U. S. meat, preventing U. S. meat products from being sold in any European nations. The risk of breast and other cancers increases with the uncontrolled use of hormones in meat.
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