Re: Vegan M.D. vs The Atkins Corporation

From: Hugh (anon_at_anon.anon)
Date: 10/18/04 

Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 11:49:47 GMT

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 00:25:12 -0400, Steve <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:

>Dr. Michael Greger M.D. and vegan activist scared the Atkins Corporation
>when he put up his website atkinsfacts.com.
>
>The Atkins Corporation had good reason to be scared. Dr. Greger is
>intelligent, very well educated, very well versed in the literature,
>and a charismatic speaker.
>
It's clear from looking at this website that there is a lot of money,
as well as totally committed zealots, supporting the vegan cause.
Nonetheless, you can't get around the facts. We have a digestive
system that is similar to that of most carnivores. Studies of
hunter-gatherer societies (who lead lifestyles similar to that of
prehistoric humans) show that they consume a largely meat-based diet.
Fossil evidence, and the wave of extinctions that accompanied
mankind's spread around the world, show that early humans were
prolific hunters. We evolved on a largely meat-based diet, and that is
what our bodies are adapted to eat.

Unfortunately, food science appears to be dominated by vegetarians and
animal rights fanatics who are more concerned about the welfare of
cute furry animals than their fellow human beings. They've used a
series of biased, highly flawed studies to promote vegetarianism as
healthy, despite an abundance of evidence that it is anything but.

On the back of the vegetarian "healthy eating" myth, an extremely
profitable processed foods industry has grown. Animal products such as
meat and dairy foods are expensive and tend to have a short shelf
life. By contrast, plant-sourced raw materials (such as flour, sugar
and vegetable oils) are much cheaper and can be made into a wide range
of processed foods, most of which have a long shelf life without
refridgeration. The raw materials cost of these processed foods is
tiny compared with the final retail price of the finished product,
resulting in some of the highest profit margins of any industry. If
the low fat vegetarian mantra were to lose its shine, they might be
able to produce animal-sourced processed foods instead, but there is
no way they would make such high profit margins.

The health problems caused by overconsumption of vegetarian processed
foods have proved a boon to the medical establishment and the
pharmaceutical industry too. Obesity, heart disease and diabetes are
some of their biggest moneyspinners, and they are all linked to
overconsumption of plant-sourced starches and sugars. An additional
contributor to the heart disease epidemic may be vegetable oils and
particularly "hydrogenated" vegetable oil, a cheap artificial fat
substitute used in margarine and many processed foods. For many
people, too much vegetarian food is far from healthy, leading to
chronic illness and an early death.

Use your common sense. There are so many vested interests with so much
to lose, how likely do you think it is that they will tell you the
truth? Give Atkins a try - it'll help you lose weight and could add
years to your life.

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