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

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humans, as the Oxford-Cornell study under T. Colin Campbell concluded.
A 2002 USDA study, for example, found that adults eating highcarbohydrate
diets (with a high proportion of grain products, fruits, and
vegetables) were more likely to be in the normal weight range category
than those eating low-carbohydrate diets. 28
Ending obesity will remain difficult, mysterious, complex, and a losing
battle as long as we continue to eat diets rich in high-fat animal
flesh, eggs, and dairy products. Of course it is possible to eat a high-fat
plant-based diet if we consume large quantities of avocados, nut butters,
refined oils, potato chips, or other high-fat foods, but it is very easy and
quite natural to eat a low-fat, plant-based diet, and virtually impossible
to eat a low-fat diet based on animal foods. We are a culture of naturally
plant-eating people who consume far too much dietary fat, suffer
because of it, and then go on “diets” to lose weight and suffer needlessly.
We read millions of diet books, many of which reassuringly recommend
eating the flesh and fluids of animals, and in the process become
more enslaved to the meat-medical complex. In fact, the most popular
diet programs—such as the Atkins Diet, the Blood Type Diet, the Zone
Diet, the South Beach Diet, and the ironically named Carbohydrate
Addict’s Diet—predictably recommend high-protein, low-carbohydrate
diets rich in animal-derived foods. They find such ready acceptance simply
because our culture’s living foundation is the killing and eating of animals
and we naturally crave the voice of scientific and medical authorities
to reassure us that this practice is required by our physiology.
Excess fat puts a considerable strain on our body, and, like a selfimposed
prison we carry with us, it can reduce our ability to express,
create, and move freely. The fat slows down blood flow, makes the
blood gluey, and clogs veins and arteries, causing cells to deteriorate.
Unnecessary weight makes the heart pump harder than it should have
to, and increases blood pressure. It saps energy and puts a strain on the
spine and nervous system. Diabetes is linked with excess fat. The
immune system also has to work harder to patrol the host of unnecessary
baggage cells that often become dumping grounds for the toxins
that come in through eating, drinking, and breathing. They thus tend to
be more likely to become cancerous, and indeed obesity has been linked