{"id":584,"date":"2011-12-01T12:02:49","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T17:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/imprint\/?p=584"},"modified":"2018-03-12T14:24:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T18:24:07","slug":"live-strong-go-meatless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/imprint\/live-strong-go-meatless\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Strong; Go Meatless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Chelsea Greathouse<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fruits, vegetables, grains, beans, and nuts lower our risk for cancer because they\u00a0produce high levels\u00a0of\u00a0white blood cells\u00a0that naturally attack cancerous cells.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They are also rich in fiber and other nutrients that are healthy for our bodies. A variety of plant derived foods are not only enjoyable to eat, but are healthy for our bodies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Farmed animals obtain thirty times the antibiotics\u00a0than they should be receiving.\u00a0 The antibiotics\u00a0absorbed into their bodies\u00a0promote fast growth with less food.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By ingesting this meat, we are more prone to new strains of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2011\/jun\/03\/new-strain-mrsa-cattle-humans\">MRSA and E. Coli<\/a>\u00a0that are developing in animals. The new strains are then transferred to humans. Ian Sample, a science correspondent, and other scientists in the UK discovered a new strain of MRSA that has spread to humans from cattle. This life-threatening and drug resistant strain was found in cows\u2019 milk through a study of the udder infection mastitis.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The meat that we eat daily comes from animals that could be cancerous and yet we push the fact aside because we are \u2018in the mood\u2019 for steak. Meat is not clean or safe to eat because of the way it is processed. Just think about the number of cattle, pigs, and poultry that are in the world and sold every day. Imagine how difficult it would be to check if every single piece of meat was diseased. <a href=\"http:\/\/ww.hknet.org.nz\/veg-health-meatless-diet-page.htm\">Jim Lynn<\/a>\u00a0states that millions of pounds of contaminated meat have been passed through processing plants. The meat industry is currently satisfied with cutting off the part of the animal that is diseased and selling the rest. You could have a diseased piece of meat sitting in your refrigerator.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The meat that we eat stays in our intestines and takes much longer to process because our intestines are about twenty-eight feet long. Too much meat in our diet causes cholesterol levels to rise. Over time this can be harmful because of plaque build-up which narrows the arteries pathway when breaking down food, soon clogging the arteries. This process can lead to heart disease. <a href=\"http:\/\/ww.hknet.org.nz\/veg-health-meatless-diet-page.htm\">Carnivorous animals<\/a>\u00a0can metabolize an all meat diet without any trouble, while humans do not have the ability to produce one-twentieth the amount of acid.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fruit and vegetable consumption protect the risk of heart disease. For example in \u201cHealth Benefits of Vegetarian Diets,\u201d Winston Craig stated, &#8220;The many flavonoids in fruits, vegetables, nuts and whole grains, have extensive biological properties that reduce the risk of heart disease.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nutritionists renowned a vegetarian diet to lower a person\u2019s blood pressure in the 1900s. Plants are lower in fat and sodium, and contain no cholesterol. A high intake of vegetables and fruits in a person\u2019s diet holds a rich amount of potassium which lowers one\u2019s blood pressure tremendously. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diabetes.org\/\">American Diabetes\u00a0Association<\/a> established a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diabetes.org\/food-and-fitness\/food\/planning-meals\/meal-planning-for-vegetarians\/?loc=ff-slabnav\">vegetarian diet<\/a> to be nourishing and nutritionally sufficient.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #4f4f4f; font-family: Georgia, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Futura, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Chelsea Greathouse &nbsp; Fruits, vegetables, grains, beans, and nuts lower our risk for cancer because they\u00a0produce high levels\u00a0of\u00a0white blood cells\u00a0that naturally attack cancerous cells.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":1919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[649,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","category-fall-11"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Live Strong; 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