subject: A Total Vegetarian Diet Is Extreme While The Standard American Diet Is Normal -- What's Up With That? [print this page]
I have received the weirdest looks and some of the dumbest questions by folks when they discover that I am a total vegetarian. The looks make me want toquickly run andfind a mirror and make sure that I don't have two noses or possibly even manure on my face. The questions range from "what do you eat?" to "where do you get your protein?" to "how can you live without meat?" The majority of people seem to think that such a lifestyle choice is extreme.
One such person looked utterly flabbergasted when he offered me one of four hot dogs which were going to be his lunch and I told him that I would rather eat my tennis shoe than one of those abominations. He just could not rap hisbrain around the fact that I was a vegetarian. He thought this type of lifestyle was extreme. He didn't feel that his fifty pounds of excess weight was extreme nor the fact that he was eating 4 hot dogs made of many different cow parts to include hoofs, lips, and many other parts of the cow that are too horrible to mention, and for that pale red coloring, cancer causing sodium nitrate in each mouthwateringbite.
His processed white flour hot dog buns were another nutritional nightmare. The process of making the flour that he was ingesting had fullyremoved the outside bran layer of the seed and the germ. These are the most nutrition packed part of the seed and also the most rich in fiber. His hot dog buns had been chemically bleached and a whole bunch of unpronounceable chemical additives were present in every bite. Then he washed it all down with a cherry coke. I won't even go into how bad a cherry coke is for a human to ingest. His lunch was nothing short of suicidal, yet he was strenuous to the point of obnoxious in his belief that my dietary habits were extreme.
The Definition Of Extreme
If you want to get a taste of extreme you should start reading the labels of the processed food you buy every day for your family. When you find it difficult to pronounce the myriad of names of chemicals in the food you eat it is because that chemical could very well be used as arust inhibitor on jet airplanes, lacquer in paint, antifreeze, petroleum, car wax, or plastic, just to name a few of the disgusting, disease causing toxins which are added to your food. And don't get me started on the ingredients found in your child's happy meal at the neighborhood McNasty. You would be better off giving your child a cigarette and a shot of whiskey than feeding him a McDonald's hamburger, fries, and shake. At least the shot of whiskey would deaden the pain while the cigarette was killing him.
The Standard American Diet (SAD) is the most extreme diet in the world. It has caused cancer, heart disease, obesity,diabetes, stroke, and just about every other infirmity that the majority of Americans suffer. The (SAD) diet has bankrupted a society with rising health care costs and doctors who prescribe statin drugs as though they were candy. These drugs do nothing in the world but mask the symptoms that you suffer because of the food you eat. Oh yeah, they also make the pharmaceutical companies rich! This is the definition of extreme and yet is considered normal by almost all Americans. Most Americans think it absolutely normal to wolf down a diet consisting solely of processed, manufactured, artificial foods loaded with a myriad of cancer causing chemicals. They think eating processed meat seven days a week at every meal is perfectly natural.
Tell the average American that your diet consists of fresh fruits and vegetables, whole unprocessed grains, beans, nuts and seeds and that you shun all animal flesh as well as their by products and they look at you like you needed to be put away. They think it quite strange that you would read a label on food and refuse to eat it if it had antifreeze, petroleum, or car wax in it. Tell them that a vegetarian diet is not only the healthiest diet for your physical body but also the most environmentally friendly and they might turn their back and walk away. Tell them that their foolish dietary choices are responsible for the untold suffering of multiplied billions of animals and they might strike you.
A Nation Of Sheep
Like sheep led to the slaughter, when it comes to diet and lifestyleAmericans tend to follow one another to their death and find it strange when one of the sheep gets out of line and makes an intelligent informed decision about such grave matters. They find it strange that you don't continue with them in their death march but through healthy dietary and lifestyle choices begin to take responsibility foryour own health and well being and stop putting it into the hands of pharmaceutical companies and doctors who have a vested interest in keeping you sick.
In this writers opinion the most extreme diet in the world is the Standard American Diet (SAD). It is my prayer that more and more people become informed about what it is they are actually eating and then make intelligent dietary and lifestyle changes that coincide with common sense. Chemical frankenfood made in a laboratory is not an intelligentdietary decisionnor is it a healthy one. Whole unprocessed foods straight from nature are the only reasonable and sane choice and it is high time that more and more Americans understand this.
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