Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
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Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
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Howard Jacobson • Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
“cognitive dissonance.” This occurs when someone has such a strong prior belief that the person filters out or reinterprets all evidence contradicting the belief.
Howard Jacobson • Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
also read Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals, an open and hard-hitting answer to the author’s sincere question, If I really knew the realities of animal agriculture, could I still eat meat? At the book’s conclusion, Foer couldn’t. And now, no longer, could I.
Howard Jacobson • Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
When I tell them to eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, it’s not that they actually object. They’re just so focused on getting more and more protein into their diets that they don’t have room for plant-based foods.
Howard Jacobson • Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
Meat—even grass-fed, clean-raised, organic meat—is a carcinogen; that is, it contributes to the formation of cancer. Dairy products and eggs may also be carcinogens.
Howard Jacobson • Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
a book by John Robbins, onetime heir to the Baskin-Robbins ice cream fortune who renounced his inheritance when he discovered the harmful effects of animal product consumption at every level. In his epic The Food Revolution (an update to his earlier, groundbreaking Diet for a New America), Robbins lays out as clearly and forcefully as possible the
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No matter the diet, the concept of the “Cheat Day” is a disempowering and dangerous one. People who eat strictly for six days a week and then binge on their favorite “forbidden foods” on day seven spend the entire week fantasizing about that cheeseburger. Whatever you do, don’t elevate the food you’re trying to eliminate to mythic status in your mi
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Americans consume more protein than just about any other nationality: on average, according to the World Health Organization, around 130 grams per day (about 4.5 ounces). The National Health and Nutrition Survey estimates are lower: 102 grams per day for men and 70 grams per day for women. Is that a lot or a little? Well, the recommended daily allo
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One part of the report did survive: the suggestion to reduce saturated fat. Unfortunately, most people didn’t know what that meant, and they certainly weren’t aware that every kind of animal product includes this type of fat—even lean meats. The only way to reduce your intake of saturated fat is to cut back your consumption of animal protein.