The World Peace Diet: Eating For Spiritual Health And Social Harmony

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omnivorous mother and be deluged with the toxins that ride in her milk.
DDT, for example, is still in use throughout much of the world, and
breastfeeding women who eat fish show significant levels of DDT and
other pesticide contamination in their breast milk. 6 The babies of all
mammals, particularly whales and dolphins, but also, of course, cows,
goats, and sheep, may also be hurt by the high concentrations of toxins
in their mothers’ milk. The offspring of farmed animals typically get
none of their mothers’ milk anyway: it is stolen from them before they
can get any. Before we go to the subject of cow’s milk, though, we can
look more closely at the implications of mistakenly interpreting fish,
crabs, lobsters, oysters, shrimp, and other water creatures as food for
humans.
Fish flesh is, as Michael Klaper, M.D., points out, “very concentrated
protein.” Because protein is basically only used to grow hair and
nails, to heal wounds and rebuild tissue, and, in children, to grow, we
typically take in more protein than we can use with a fish filet. Our bodies
cannot store protein, so we must metabolize it, which causes stress
on our liver, kidneys and immune system. Klaper also warns against
consuming fish flesh and oil for other reasons:
The fish oils that are promoted as providing protection to the arteries
from atherosclerosis may also pose a serious hazard because they
decrease the blood’s ability to coagulate to stop bleeding. Fish oil has
also been shown to inhibit the action of insulin. This is bad news for
any diabetic trying to maintain normal blood sugar levels while taking
fish oil capsules and possibly eating a diet high in fish flesh. . . .
Another unpublicized but potentially important problem results
from fish oil’s apparent tendency to increase the length of a normal
pregnancy. An overly long gestation time increases the birth weight
of the baby, and thus the attendant risk of birth accidents, caesarian
sections, and maternal deaths.
Despite current advertising campaigns, no one needs to eat the oil
squeezed out of a fish’s flesh or liver; in fact, the oil of a fish’s liver
is one of the strangest substances to consider eating. The liver of any
animal is the chemical detoxifier for the body, and thus concentrates