Discover the Healthy Honey Remedy

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     You might not know that the best relief for insect bites and painful wounds can be found in your kitchen. Honey is naturally antibacterial and anti inflammatory, and accelerates the healing of wounds. It relieves bee stings, insect bites, and infected cuts and wounds, and helps to ripen pimples. It promotes the healing of uninfected wounds and prevents the infection of them.
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The Protein Problem, Part 5: How to Get Enough Protein From a Vegan Diet

Read The Protein Problem, Part 4: Animal Protein and Cancer.

     Many people are worried that they will not get enough protein if they only eat a plant-based diet. However, it is not only meat that contains protein, plants do too. And according to Dr. Campbell, it is almost impossible not to get enough protein from a vegan diet (1). Even a potato, which does not contain much protein when compared to other foods, still has 8% of its calories as protein, and the recommended amount is 10%. According to what Goldhamer says, it is easy to get enough protein as long as one eats enough calories even if one does not eat nuts or beans, the two sources of concentrated protein from plants (2).
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The Protein Problem, Part 4: Animal Protein and Cancer

Read The Protein Problem, Part 3: Protein and Strength.

     Animal protein is often called high quality protein, whereas plant protein is described as low quality. The reason for this is that animal proteins have an amino acid profile similar to the one of the body's own proteins. This means that animal proteins are used more effectively than plant proteins by the body. Ironically, one should consume human flesh to obtain protein most similar to one's own, but that is another subject. Dr. Campbell explains that while animal protein makes the body grow faster than plant protein does, it also causes cancer cells to grow faster. That is also what he saw in his laboratory: cancer cells grew faster when fed casein, a protein found in milk, but not when fed plant proteins. Many studies show that casein makes cancer grow, while plant protein (soy and wheat) deters its growth. (1)
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The Protein Problem, Part 3: Protein and Strength

As mentioned in part 2 of this series (read it here: Animal Protein and the Body), the digestion of animal proteins releases a lot of acid in the body. The body then has to neutralize this acid load in some way. It was before believed that the body used calcium from the bones to do this buffering because a higher level of calcium could be measured in the urine after intake of meat. But it is now shown that the calcium comes from the diet, which could indicate that the body absorbs more calcium when one eats meat, and this extra calcium then makes up the higher level found in the urine (1). This means that there must be some way other than through calcium from the bones that the body neutralizes the acid. Studies now indicate that the body maybe uses muscles to do this buffering. The liver can use the amino acids from the muscles to make glutamine, which can be used to neutralize acids (2).
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The Protein Problem, Part 2: Animal Protein and the Body

If you missed part one, read it here: The Protein Problem, Part 1: The Body's Protein Needs.

     An overdose of protein, primarily animal protein, is one of the main reasons degenerative diseases flourish these days. Not only that, but too much protein can cause a lack of other essential nutrients. Robert O.Young, D.Sc., Ph.D., ND, even declares that "the over-consumption of animal protein presents a far greater threat to ones health than completely eliminating the ingestion of ALL protein (1). This is because there is a clear parallel between the consumption of animal products and the risk of degenerative diseases, where those who only eat a plant based diet are less likely to get degenerative diseases than those who eat animal products. Despite this fact, those who advocate a high protein diet "would have their devotees believe there is a worldwide conspiracy, including more than 3,500 scientific studies, involving more than 15,000 research scientists, reporting a relationship between the consumption of meats, poultry, eggs, and dairy products, with heart disease, cancer, kidney failure, constipation, gallstones, diverticulosis, and hemorrhoids, just to name a few" (2).
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The Protein Problem, Part 1: The Body's Protein Needs

      "In spite of what millions of dollars of meat and dairy industry advertising would have you believe, it is excess, not inadequate protein, that is the threat to health," says Alan Goldhamer, D.C. (1). Most people value protein as the most important calorie source, which will efficiently build muscle, give strength, and promote weight loss. People have focused on eating enough of this necessary nutrient ever since it was discovered in 1839. Meat has been considered the best protein source and is described as high quality protein as opposed to plant protein. "Eat the ox to become strong as an ox!" people say. Therefore, it is interesting to look at how much protein the human body actually needs.
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