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“Ground flax seeds alone induce one of the most potent blood pressure lowering effects ever achieved by a dietary intervention. Eating just a few tablespoons a day appears to be 2-3 times more powerful than adopting an aerobic endurance exercise program. Not that you can’t do both: incorporating flax seeds into your diet and exercise.”

“Apparently, eating standard American fare even when running 2,000 miles a year may not bring down your blood pressure as low as being a couch potato vegan.”

“Instead of simply telling you what the science shows and then letting you make up your own mind, experts patronize the population by advocating for what they think practical rather than ideal. By making the decision for you, they undermine those willing to make even greater changes for optimal health.”

Commenton docs not offering vegetarian diets for high blood pressure/other health concerns.Meat diets r norm

“The poultry industry commonly injects chicken carcasses with salt water to artificially inflate that weight, yet they can still be labeled 100% natural. Consumer Reports Magazine found that some supermarket chickens were pumped so full of salt that they registered a whopping 840mg of sodium per serving. That could mean more than a full day’s worth of sodium in one chicken breast.”

“The study found calorie for calorie that those eating vegetarian diets were getting higher intakes of every nutrient: more fiber, vitamin A, C, E, B, folate, riboflavin, calcium, magnesium, iron, and potassium.”

“Industrial toxins like Hexachlorobenzene and PCBs were banned decades ago, so how could they account for our increasing rates of diabetes? The answer may be our obesity epidemic. The association between these toxic chemicals and diabetes was much stronger among obese subjects than in lean subjects studied, arising the possibility that your own fat stores act as reservoirs for these pollutants.”

Hexachlorobenzene: agricultural fungicide banned in the USA since 1984 but still exists as an environmental byproduct of chemical manufacturing.

Found mostly at grocery store. Canned sardines heavily tainted and salmon found to be most contaminated. 2 dozen pesticides found in study of salmon filets. Farmed salmon may be the worst, including 10x more of a class of chems called PCBs, than wild cut salmon

Diabetes promoting pollutants: scientists have begun identifying “obesigenic” chemicals pollutants released into the environment that may disrupt your metabolism and predispose you to obesity. Contaminated food is the main source of exposure and 95% of that exposure may come through the consumption of animal fat.

Hexachlorobenzene: potent risk factor for diabetes

“Patients consuming the plant based diets also felt less constrained than those consuming the conventional diet; moreover, disinhibition decreased, meaning patients eating vegetarian food were less likely to binge and the plant based folks tended to feel less hungry, as well.”

“At the end of six months, the plant based group reported significantly better quality of life and significantly higher mood scores than those assigned to the conventional diet.“