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

The Intelligence of Human Physiology / 75
This clogging of brain capillaries by animal fat and cholesterol may
also contribute to the diminished level of actual intelligence in cultures
that eat diets high in animal foods. Clogged brain capillaries may reduce
the brain’s efficiency and hinder its ability to make connections effectively.
This could reduce the intelligence necessary for creativity and
spirituality, and may help explain why we act so self-destructively without
being able to realize it. Vegetarian children have been shown to have
significantly higher IQs than average 23 and it’s well known, for example,
that Thomas Edison, during the years he worked so hard to discover the
secrets of electricity, abstained from eating flesh because he found he
could think more clearly and make vital connections more easily on a
plant-based diet. Other geniuses like Pythagoras, Leonardo da Vinci,
and Mahatma Gandhi abstained from eating animals. Plutarch wrote,
When we clog and cloy our body with flesh, we also render our mind
and intellect coarse. When the body’s clogged with unnatural food,
the mind becomes confused and dull and loses its cheerfulness. Such
minds engage in trivial pursuits, because they lack the clearness and
vigor for higher thinking. 24
Clogged pathways may also directly or indirectly cause low energy,
chronic fatigue and a host of other ailments. In adult males, for example,
the arteries in the vascular tissue of the genitals can become clogged
by the saturated fat and cholesterol of an animal-based diet, diminishing
the natural ability of many men to have an erection. Since disease is
far more profitable to the influential pharmaceutical corporations than
health is, as the drug industry’s wealth grows, our culture’s ability to
recognize the real source of the problem is suppressed.
Kidney disease, kidney stones, and gallstones are another direct
result of eating animal foods, since the kidneys have the difficult task of
purifying our fatty, acidic blood. Large stones may build up in our kidneys
from the excess calcium and uric acid caused by the animal protein
in our meals. These stones interfere with the functioning of our kidneys
and the body may, in its wisdom, try to pass them out through the urethra,
an exceedingly painful process. The excess fat and cholesterol in