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I feel that I must provide my 2c, not picking on anyone ( and I'm a
meat-eater ).
>Paul:
>I'm very much an adherent of Weston Price style nutrition, and that for
>most, maybe almost all, people including substantial animal-source foods
>probably is best.
I think you are probably right, but which meats suit who is the
question.
>I never said that meat is 'toxic'; in fact due to the high-quality
>proteins and other nutrients and coenzymes not found in plant foods,
>animal-source foods in moderate amounts may be essential for optimal
>function of the human detoxification system. But the reports of
>instinctos eating lots of meat and developing cancers is something to
>think about too.
Meat can be toxic in at least four ways:
1 Lectins in it could be reactive to certain blood types:
eg beef is good for O, bad for A,AB and 'neutral' for B.
(incidentally, the only meats suitable for A's are suggested
as chicken, turkey and cornish hens).
2 it can be associated with parasites.
3 Certain ways of cooking (yikes!) can generate cancer-producing
chemicals in the meat (eg grilling, cooking on fire).
According
to the source (I forget who) you can burn meat in a frying pan
and not produce those chemicals (though what do you produce?)
4 It tends to concentrate toxins (as do large fish) from the
environment and applied by humans.
Lynton
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