Eating For Life
Eating For Life: Reasons for Choosing Vegetarianism
There are many reasons to become a vegetarian. Besides the moral and ethical reasons there are numerous health reasons to consider changing your eating habits.
Unlike the teeth of meat eaters, humans teeth are not long and pointed. They are designed to "grind" plant food not tear into flesh.
Human jaws are "unhinged" so they can move side to side; carnivores jaws are hinged and can only move up and down.
Carnivores stomachs contain strong hydrochloric acid to disolve flesh; humans stomachs do not.
Carnivores are able to eliminate large quanities of cholesterol while humans only eliminate limited amounts.
Human intestinal tracts are very long (10 to 12 times the body length), winding and twisting back and forth; true meat eaters' intestinal tracts are shorter (3 times the body lenght)designed to allow putrifying animal flesh to pass through the system more rapidly.
Animal products are high in fat which contributes to a person's risk for heart disease.
Animal products have no fiber and pass slowly the through the long human intestines where they putrify and release toxins which are linked to a wide variety of cancers.
More than 90% of all toxic chemical residues in the humans diets come from animal products.
Animals are given hormone stimulants which pose a threat to human consumers.
Meat, dairy and egg products are laced with hazardous chemicals due to the pollution that the animals are raised in.
Meat and eggs run risk of being contaminated with dangerous bacteria that is harmful and sometimes deadly to humans.