I don't like to think of it as "eliminating more stuff from my diet." I like to think of it as...evolving.
There was a time in my life when I knew nothing about the way the body works. I didn't understand how our body broke down proteins vs. carbohydrates. I didn't understand the differences between sugars. I thought I needed milk to get calcium (you know, strong bones and all...). I thought lean meats were the only way to become lean myself. I also had no idea I has celiac, and so I also thought gluten was my friend.
Turns out, none of that is true.
Here's the quick and dirty facts list (and double/fact check me if you think I'm wrong, because I'll put money down that I'm not):
1. Our bodies are 100% herbivorous. We are not designed to eat animal products.
2. Animal products (all of them) make the blood acidic. If it stays acidic, we die. The only way our body can neutralize our blood is with the phosphate in our blood. The phosphate is attached to calcium. We urinate out the calcium from our own bones...We drink milk, we get acidic blood, we lose calcium.
3. No other living creature on earth drinks milk after it's early stages of development. We are stealing milk from baby calves (which, by the way, get slaughtered almost immediately after birth. How dare they drink OUR milk!?).
4. The only good cholesterol is the kind our body makes itself. There is no cholesterol in plant products.
5. As soon as you eat an animal product, this is what happens to your blood. Yes. There is fat in your blood. This is how you get heart disease.
I don't want to go into the nitty gritty details, because I can't explain it half as well as the experts can, but if you really want to know the truth about your food (and even if you don't want to, you need to)...you should watch these two things:
Food That Kills and The Best Speech You Will Ever Hear
It's hard to change your diet when you've been indoctrinated to believe so many things about the food system. It's weird when your entire belief system comes crashing down around you. But, when the shackles of society fall off...you feel much more liberated.
Trust me. This makes more sense than anything I've ever experienced in my life.
There was a time in my life when I knew nothing about the way the body works. I didn't understand how our body broke down proteins vs. carbohydrates. I didn't understand the differences between sugars. I thought I needed milk to get calcium (you know, strong bones and all...). I thought lean meats were the only way to become lean myself. I also had no idea I has celiac, and so I also thought gluten was my friend.
Turns out, none of that is true.
Here's the quick and dirty facts list (and double/fact check me if you think I'm wrong, because I'll put money down that I'm not):
1. Our bodies are 100% herbivorous. We are not designed to eat animal products.
2. Animal products (all of them) make the blood acidic. If it stays acidic, we die. The only way our body can neutralize our blood is with the phosphate in our blood. The phosphate is attached to calcium. We urinate out the calcium from our own bones...We drink milk, we get acidic blood, we lose calcium.
3. No other living creature on earth drinks milk after it's early stages of development. We are stealing milk from baby calves (which, by the way, get slaughtered almost immediately after birth. How dare they drink OUR milk!?).
4. The only good cholesterol is the kind our body makes itself. There is no cholesterol in plant products.
5. As soon as you eat an animal product, this is what happens to your blood. Yes. There is fat in your blood. This is how you get heart disease.
I don't want to go into the nitty gritty details, because I can't explain it half as well as the experts can, but if you really want to know the truth about your food (and even if you don't want to, you need to)...you should watch these two things:
Food That Kills and The Best Speech You Will Ever Hear
It's hard to change your diet when you've been indoctrinated to believe so many things about the food system. It's weird when your entire belief system comes crashing down around you. But, when the shackles of society fall off...you feel much more liberated.
Trust me. This makes more sense than anything I've ever experienced in my life.
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