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2010年10月19日 星期二

歐盟研究證實純素者比肉食者減少87%溫室氣體排放,有機純素者更可減少至94%!!

德國研究證實素食減少大量碳足跡
飲食方式,每年的碳足跡,以駕駛中型房車而言
肉食者………………………………………………………….. 4758KM
蛋奶素………………………….2427KM
純素者…………..629M
有機純素者..281KM      
資料來源: 德國食物觀察組織
註:蔬食(Vegan)指完全不使用任何動物製品,包含蛋、奶、肉類、皮件等

2010年10月18日 星期一

美國前總統柯林頓表示:力行吃素減重效果奇佳同時降低對環境衝擊並推薦~救命飲食!Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said: exercise weight loss vegetarian wonders while lowering environmental impact and recommend ~The China Study!

台北榮總醫院院長林芳郁醫師推薦大家必讀好書~救命飲食

  書名:救命飲食 (The China Study)    
  原文作者:T. Colin Campbell       譯者:呂奕欣、倪婉君    
  
出版社:柿子文化                          索書號及館藏現況:411.3/4761 
  資料來源:博克來網路書店http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/booksfile.php?item=0010359437
   
媒體專訪作者部分內容
 
書名:救命飲食 (The China Study)    
原文作者:T. Colin Campbell

本書是作者經過數十年研究,終於發現「肉、奶、蛋」此動物性飲食與疾病的關聯,以下是原文部分重點節錄…
  1.最容易罹患慢性病是吃最多動物性食物的人,就算只攝取少量動物性食物,也有負面效果
  2.酪蛋白(在牛奶蛋白質中占87%)可促進任何階段的癌細胞生長,而來自小麥和大豆等植物蛋白質,攝取高單位也不會致癌
  3.酪蛋白甚至所有動物性蛋白,可能是食物裡致癌可能性最高物質,調整飲食中酪蛋白的份量,就可啟動或阻斷癌症生長
  4.每日攝取15%至16%的動物蛋白,就可能啟動癌症;降低動物蛋白質的攝取可大幅減少腫瘤啟動
  6.動物性食品會促進腫瘤發生,植物性食品則可減少腫瘤發生  ●罹患肝癌的孩子,大都來自吃得最好的家庭。
  7.飲食富含動物性食品,會讓生育年齡延長九到十年,而生育年齡增長會提高乳癌風險
  8.人體發育和蛋白質有關,而植物性蛋白質和動物性一樣有效;植物性蛋白質雖然合成新蛋白質的速度較慢,但比較穩定
  9.沒有任何手術或化學藥物能和飲食(低脂植物性飲食)一樣,對心臟病的成效這麼令人印象深刻

歐巴馬談素食President Barack Obama talking about vegetarianism



歐巴馬Barack Hussein Obama Jr在競選美國總統時,曾在賓州的Altoona公開發表演說,並與現場觀眾進行問答。他在回答Vegan Outreach的代表 Nikki Benoit 提問時,講得非常客觀,並暗示美國政府補助那些大型畜牧業者,而沒有補助那些生產蔬果的農民,這種顛倒的做法是不正確的。從他的回答,可以發現他對肉食、糧食危機、畜牧業與氣候變遷之間的關聯了解得相當清楚。希望他能秉著良知,做出利國利民的決策,並帶動其他國家一起推動素食,拯救地球。

    Nikki Benoit:參議員,非常感謝您對環保的大力支持。聯合國一再指出,畜牧養殖造成的溫室氣體排放,比所有運輸工具所排放的總合還多。作為全球共同體的一員,我們應該帶頭採行「無畜牧養殖」的農業經營模式,因為畜牧業的危害太大了。我們浪費寶貴的水資源和穀物去豢養100億隻牲畜,事實上70%的穀物都拿去餵動物了,而這些食物可以用來餵飽那些挨餓受苦的饑民。身為一個泱泱大國的下一任總統,您將如何樹立典範,推動更營養、更環保永續的蔬食飲食,以維護水資源和糧食安全?非常感謝您!

   

歐盟建議吃素以遏止全球暖化


歐盟建議吃素以遏止全球暖化
有21種語言的歐盟網站就個人解決氣候變遷提出建議,它提出的第三大建議是吃蔬菜取代吃肉,在「吃你的蔬菜」(Eat your veg!)建議的聲明中說︰「生產肉類產生大量的二氧化碳和甲烷(methane)、也需要大量的水。」

珍古德博士呼籲年輕人吃素救地球!!Dr Jane Goodall urged young people to vegetarian to save the Earth!!

Dame Jane Goodall, DBE (born Valerie Jane Morris Goodall on 3 April 1934) is an English UN Messenger of Peace, primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist. She is well-known for her 45-year study of chimpanzee social and family interactions in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania, and for founding the Jane Goodall Institute.


Jane Goodall is an animal welfare activist and is the former president of Advocates for Animals, an organization based in Edinburgh, Scotland, that campaigns against the use of animals in medical research, zoos, farming and sport.
珍·古德女爵士是英國靈長類動物學家、動物行為學家、人類學家和聯合國和平使者、國際動物保育人士。珍·古德因45年長期致力於黑猩猩的野外研究而著名。她的工作糾正了許多學術界對黑猩猩這一物種長期以來的錯誤認識,揭示了許多黑猩猩社群中鮮為人知的秘密。除了對黑猩猩的研究,珍·古德還熱心投身於環境教育和公益事業,由她創建並管理的珍·古德研究會(國際珍古德協會)是著名民間動物保育機構,在促進黑猩猩保育、推廣動物福利、推進環境和人道主義教育等領域進行了很多卓有成效的工作,由珍·古德研究會創立的根與芽是目前全球最活躍的面向青年的環境教育計劃之一。由於珍·古德在黑猩猩研究和環境教育等領域的傑出貢獻,她在1995年獲英國女王伊莉莎白二世榮封為皇家女爵士,在2002年獲頒聯合國和平使者。
Jane Goodall has received many honors for her environmental and humanitarian work, as well as others. She was named a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in a ceremony held in Buckingham Palace in 2004. In April 2002, Secretary-General Kofi Annan named Dr. Goodall a United Nations Messenger of Peace. Her other honors include the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, the French Legion of Honor, Medal of Tanzania, Japan's prestigious Kyoto Prize, the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science, the Gandhi-King Award for Nonviolence and the Spanish Premio Príncipe de Asturias. She is also a member of the advisory board of BBC Wildlife magazine.
In 2002, the Canadian city of Greater Sudbury, Ontario dedicated a walking trail, highlighting some of the city's efforts to rehabilitate environmental damage from the local mining industry, to Goodall.
On 7 July 2007 Goodall presented at Live Earth.
In April 2008, Jane was awarded the Montana State University Medal for Global and Visionary Leadership.

珍古德博士談素食

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在我看來,肉象徵著恐懼、痛苦、和死亡,
我一點也不想吃恐懼、痛苦、和死亡!  --Jane Goodall


2006年10月27日,國際知名的保育學家珍‧古德博士第九度來台,進行2006年歲末的巡迴演講活動。提到珍.古德博士,相信每個人心中都會自然浮現出她與黑猩猩親密互動的感人畫面,然而,在台灣卻鮮少人知道,這位大力疾呼保育動物的堅毅女子,其實從很久以前就已成為一位素食者,把保護地球的理念,從口號落實到生活中的實際行為。

在素食星球採訪當天,博士從早上八點就開始進行一連密集的演講和遊行活動,到傍晚時已經非常疲累了,原本想要取消訪問,可是當她知道我們是代表台灣的素食朋友時,仍強打起精神與我們分享她的素食經驗,由此可以看到,博士對於推廣素食理念,是多麼無私的努力與投入。

Claudia:
We know that you are a vegetarian. And it would be significant if you can share your vegetarian experience with us. So let’s start with the most frequently asked question:Why and how did you become a vegetarian?
陳:我們知道您是一位素食者,如果您能與我們分享您本身的素食經驗,那它的意義將是非常深遠的。所以,就讓我們從一個最常見的問題開始吧:您為什麼會選擇素食?又是如何成為一位素食者的呢?
Dr. Jane:When I left Gombe and came back to England in ……I think early 1970. I read a book called《Animal Liberation》by some one called Peter Singer. When I left for Africa, there was no intensive farming. The animals were in the fields, and the hens were pecking in farmyard. When I read Peter Singer’s book, that was ten years or twelve years latter, and I read about intensive farming, I was horrified. I was absolutely horrified. Next time I had a piece of meat on my plate, I looked at it and I say:「What’s that?It symbolizes fear、pain、death.」I don’t want to eat fear、pain and death. So I stopped just like that.
博士:當我離開岡貝回到英國時,我想那是在1970年初吧!我讀到一本名叫《動物解放》的書,它的作者是彼得.辛格。在我離開英國前往非洲的時候,世界上還沒有集約式農場。動物們都徜徉在農場田野間,母雞也都能在農場空地上啄食米榖或小蟲。因此,當我在大約十到十二年之後,讀到彼得‧辛格書中,關於集約式農場的敍述時,我感到震驚不已,我完完全全被嚇壞了!之後的用餐時間裡,我看到盤子上躺著一塊肉,我看著它,並且說:「這是什麼?它是恐懼、痛苦和死亡的象徵!」我一點也不想吃恐懼、痛苦和死亡,就這樣,我從此不再吃肉。
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Claudia:So you stop Meat-Eating immediately.陳:因此您是在一瞬間就停止了肉食?
Dr. Jane:Yes!博士:是的!
Claudia:Not gradually reduce the Meat-Eating?陳:您並不是慢慢的減少食肉量直到完全不吃?
Dr. Jane:No! Just “Bang”!In one second! You know I have a…my sister’s grandson, when he was four, just four years old, he suddenly looked at a piece of chicken on his plate, he said:『Where did this come from?』
His mother said:『Well!It is a chicken.』
He said:『Like the chicken I saw on the farm?』
She said:『Yes!』Then he said:『I don’t want to eat that.』
So she said:『Well!you don’t have to.』
Next is a piece of meat:『Where did this come from?』
『That came from a cow.』『I don’t want to eat cows.』
So he completely stop eat meat. Four! He’s just four. He went on eating fish. And then his mother took him to the aquarium. You know there are fishes…He spent a long time looking around.
He loves fish. And when he came back, he said:『I never going to eat the pretty fish again.』
So she took him to see some of the …you know, the other sort of…I don’t know what fish, but eating fishes. He was very very quiet.
And he said:「I can not eat any fish anymore.」That was pretty amazing. He’s only four.
博士:不是!就是「砰」的一下!(博士用力的拍了一下手:啪!)
就在一秒之間!你知道我有一個……呃……我妹妹的孫子,當他四歲的時候,只有四歲哦!
有一天他突然看著他盤子上的一塊雞肉,然後問道:「這是從哪兒來的呢?」
他的母親回答他說:「噢!這是一隻雞。」他繼續問:「就像我在農場裡看到雞嗎?」
母親說:「是的!」然後他說:「我不想吃牠們。」於是母親說:「沒關係,你可以不用吃。」
之後有一次,盤中的是一塊肉:「這又是從哪兒來的呢?」「那來自一頭牛。」「我不想吃牛兒。」
就這樣,他完全不再吃肉類了。四歲!他才只有四歲耶!
那時他還吃魚,然後有一天,他的母親帶他到水族館參觀,
你知道,就是有很多魚的地方,他在裡頭待了很久,慢慢的看得很仔細,他很喜愛魚兒,
當他回家後,便說:「我再也不要吃那些可愛的魚兒了!」
於是他的母親又帶他去看一些其他的魚,我不知道是什麼魚,總之是一些食用魚。
他非常非常的安靜而沉默,然後他說:「我再也無法吃下任何一種魚了。」
這真的是非常讓人驚訝的一件事,他才只有四歲呀!
Claudia:So you think if the children know that the meat is from a life,
then they won’t eat them?
陳:所以您是否認為如果孩子們知道肉類是來自於生命,他們就不會想要吃了呢?
Dr. Jane:Maybe very helpful, they won’t. But their parents may not. The parents have this idea that they must have animal protein. The protein’s healthy. Of course! But…I mean… so many millions of people around the world grow up with the culture that doesn’t eat animals, like Buddhists、Hindus……
博士:也許那會很有用,他們應該不會想吃;但是他們父母可能不這麼想。為人父母者大都有一個觀念:「他們必須要攝取動物蛋白質,有蛋白質才會健康。」當然啦!不過……我的意思是……世界上有好幾百萬人口,都在不吃肉的文化下長大,像是佛教徒啦、印度教徒啦……
Claudia:Except the ethic reason, do you think is there any other meaning for the earth when somebody says I don’t want to eat meat. I want to become a vegetarian. What is the meaning for this planet?陳:除了人道倫理上的原因,您認為素食對地球還有什麼其他的意義呢? 當某個人說:「我不想再吃肉了,我要成為一個素食者。」時,究竟對這個星球的意義是什麼呢?
Dr. Jane:Well! It means a lot, because there are very ill problems with eating animals. One is what I say the intensive farming and the cruelty. Secondly, for keeping cattle they need grain, expose the grass they fed grain, and to cut down a lot of rainforest to grow grain for cattle, or to grass the cattle. One or the other they need a lot of space.
And it‘s very interfacial that they use much more water to change grain into meat. It’s very wasteful. And use a lot more water. So that’s the second reason that it’s very bad for the environment. And also the pollution from the intensive animal farms-- Polluting fields going down into the ground water, polluting the streams、the rivers, and everything out into the sea.
Big farms in the America, they are absolutely terrible, and the smell is awful. And people who living near the hog farm is usually poor, usually black, and there is nothing they can do about it.
And Sundays they have to keep their doorway and the window shut, because it is too bad. And when they were flooding, all these waste was wash down into the sea and thousands of fish died.
So that’s bad, in environmentally bad. And thirdly, to keep the animals alive in the intensive farms, they need antibiotics. Otherwise they’ll get sick, you know, the animal’s resistance is all depress.
So, because they get fed antibiotics regularly in the diet, it means the antibiotics get out into the food chain and gradually the bacteria become resistant. So people have actually died from the cattleman finger.
Who just round the antibiotics strong enough, they build up these resistances. So, for that reason’s well. Not to eating meat is good.

博士:
噢!它的意義可多了呢!因為食用動物本身就存在著非常嚴重的問題。首先就是我剛剛說過的集約式農場和其殘酷面。
第二,要飼養牲口,人們需要穀物,因為他們捨棄草料而
用穀物餵養牲口,於是人們砍倒了大片大片的雨林,就為了種植這些給牲口吃的穀物,或者是放牧這些牲口——不論是哪一種方式都需要非常大的空地。同時,非常一體兩面的事實是,人們用了太多太多的水,去把穀物變成肉,那是非常浪費的,他們對水的濫用已經超出太多。所以,第二個原因就是肉食對環境的破壞非常大。
此外,還有集約式動物農場所造成的污染——
土地所受到的污染會向下滲透到地下水中,進而污染溪澗和河流,最後所有的污染都會進入大海。美國所有的大型農場,環境都非常糟糕,而且氣味都非常恐怖。而住在養豬場附近的人家通常都是窮人,要不就是黑人,他們對這一切完全莫可奈何,束手無策。每到週日,他們就得緊閉所有的門窗,因為環境實在是太糟糕了!而當穢物滿溢時,所有的排泄物都會被冲進海裡,造成千萬隻魚兒死亡。因此那真的很糟糕,尤其對環境非常糟。
第三,
要讓動物在集約式農場中存活,人們必須施用抗生素,否則牠們就會生病;你知道的,在那種環境下動物們的抵抗力會大幅降低。就這樣,由於人們長期都在動物所吃的飲食中摻放抗生素餵食,這表示抗生素將會進入食物鍊中,日積月累下來,細菌就會開始產生抗藥性。所以認真來說,人們實際上是死於畜牧業者的手指——是他們使用了日益強效的抗生素,是他們造成了這些抗藥性。因此,為了這種種的理由,不要吃肉是非常好的。
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畜牧活動導致各種嚴重的環境問題。圖為被畜牧場釋出排泄物污染的河道。
圖片來源:K. Hudson (factoryfarm.org)
Claudia:Do you think is it possible that someday our planet will become a vegetarian planet?I mean that someday the population of vegetarian will more than the meat-eaters?陳:那麼,您是否認為在未來,我們的地球有可能會成為一個素食的星球?我是說有沒有可能未來素食的人口會多於肉食者呢?
Dr. Jane:Oh! Maybe! There’s another reason too. That is …If you look at it therologically, carnivorous animals who are designed to eat meat they have long sharp teeth and claws, or they have beaks to eat bugs.
And the carnivores have a short gut, because it’s very important to get the meat out quickly, to become waste.
They couldn’t keep it because it goes bad.
And the vegetable eating animals have a much longer gut,because you need the time to get the goodness out of the vegetables. We have a long or short gut?Long gut!
So keeping a lot of meat in this long gut is not good for our health.
People get that heavy feeling. For all those good reasons…but… most of time I would say to people, you know when people say:
『Well!I really need …I have to eat some meat. Just a little meat.』
And it’s not so bad because if you eat a little meat,if everybody ate, lots of people stop eating meat are those they ate a little meat. And they insisted on buying free-ranging animals、animals are not in intensive grow and fed organic.

博士:噢!可能哦!其實素食還有另一個理由就是:如果你從哺乳動物學上來看,被大自然設計為天生吃肉的肉食動物,大都有著長長的尖牙和利爪,或是有可以吃蟲的尖喙。而且
肉食動物的腸子大都很短,因為牠們得很快的把肉食變成排泄物排出體外,這是很重要的,他們不能把肉留肚子裡,那樣會發腐變壞。
而
草食動物的腸子則都要比肉食動物長得很多,因為你需要時間去消化吸收植物中的營養。那麼我們人類的腸子是長的還是短的呢?長的!所以,把大量的肉食放在這麼一條長腸子裡,對我們的健康是很不好的,人們會感覺很沉重。雖然素食有這麼多好處,不過,我通常會對人們說…你知道當人們說:「噢!我真的很需要吃一些肉,就吃一點點就好。」我會說那也不算差,因為如果你只吃一點點肉,如果所有人都只吃一點點肉,那麼……很多決定不再吃肉的人,都是那些之前只吃一點點肉的人,而且他們都會堅持只買自由放養的動物,或是非集約式養殖的動物,以及吃有機草料的動物。

法蘭西斯科文森醫師︰動物性蛋白質會損害人體免疫系統~建議全球觀眾茹素

From : 法蘭西斯科.文森醫師 (Francisco Verdu Vicente.MD.PHD )談正確的飲食

 法蘭西斯科.文森醫師:(有關自然療法與其健康觀)
自然療法醫師ㄧ如其他醫師,須懂得解剖學、生理學和病理學,但是自然療法醫師和傳統醫師不同之處在於醫治的標準,意思是自然療法醫師用什麼標準為病患看診?自然療法醫師以整體、全面的觀點為病患看診,如果病患抱怨腸胃不適,他不會只看腸胃問題,他會考慮他們的心理問題、體質,並採用順勢療法、了解病患屬於哪種體質、有何心理特徵,另ㄧ個重點是自然療法醫師必須花很多時間醫治患者,因此自然療法醫師以患者為主體,持更整體性的觀點…

…奇怪的是,以小孩為例你拿火腿給他們吃,他們不知道火腿是用豬肉、或是從動物的肉製成的!!小孩吃香腸時不會想到自己吃的東西和動物有關,他們認為就只吃ㄧ片香腸,當他們意識到這種關聯性後,會認為吃肉不太正常,不幸的是,社會用很多陷阱使人們相信吃肉是很正常的事,即使事實並非如此!!其實人吃素不會缺乏營養,包括維他命B12,雖然有人常說吃素和吃純素會缺乏營養,英國針對吃素不吃任何動物製品的孩童進行研究,結果發現他們並沒有營養不足,不缺維他命B12!!
法蘭西斯科.文森醫師:(說明吃動物脂肪和蛋白質有害身心)

包括許多醫生在內眾所周知動物脂肪比植物脂肪更有礙健康,事實上稍具常識的人都知道,植物脂肪是優質脂肪,動物脂肪則有害,一般民眾都知道脂肪的問題,關於蛋白質人們則不太清楚,大家都忽視這個問題,如今我們知道動物性脂肪會引發種種問題,植物性脂肪則不會,同理可證動物性蛋白質比植物性蛋白質有更多問題!!



法蘭西斯科.文森醫師:(有關動物性蛋白質會損害人體免疫系統)
「異源性」是指不同物種的蛋白質,如果我們把動物身上的組織移入人體,人體會排斥,我的意思是如果把豬的組織移植到人的皮膚上,人體會排斥,出現排斥反應、抗體,產生抗原抗體,這在免疫學上是人盡皆知的是,我們知道動物蛋屬於異源性,進入人體後會有問題;同樣的,人攝取動物脂肪會累積成膽固醇,攝取動物蛋白會累積成膠原,我們知道膽固醇會附著在血管壁和血管的基底膜上逐漸阻塞血管,膠原也會附著在血管的基底膜上造成發炎,不僅阻塞血管,還會引起發炎,把ㄧ種動物的血注入另ㄧ種動物會引起發炎稱「阿爾胡斯現象」,人因為吃肉血管內發炎的現象叫「慢性血清病」,由於當天吃生海鮮或輸入別人的血引起發炎叫「急性血清病」,有「阿爾胡斯現象」急性和慢性血清病是因為我們吃了異質蛋白,所以體內免疫系統會自我防禦,因而有發炎的現象成膠質病,或免役複合性疾病,目前約有三百種這類疾病,它們是︰多發性硬化症、重症肌無力症、潰瘍性大腸炎、克隆氏症、甲狀腺機能亢進、甲狀腺機能低下、慢性胃炎、男性不孕、女性不孕…幾乎涵蓋每種我們想像得到的疾病,通常跟成膠質病有關,例如多發性硬化症是因為血液中有太多脂肪,通常會導致心臟病發作或栓塞!!
法蘭西斯科.文森醫師:(茹素能預防消化道疾病和癌症)
上世紀中期英國知名外科醫師伯基特醫師 (Dr.Burkitt) 證明了有茹素文化的地區,人們沒有消化道疾病、沒有盲腸炎、結腸癌、直腸癌、息肉腫瘤,常茹素的人沒有這類消化道疾病,他也觀察到茹素的人很少罹患乳癌和其他幾種癌症,可見茹素能大為預防這類疾病…如今越來越多人偏好天然產品,有機產品的製造過程沒有添加化學物質,因此不只吃素食,也要具有生態意識,尊重自然的產物。

法蘭西斯科.文森醫師:(有關成長孩童茹素的營養建議)
跟成人ㄧ樣,孩童也適合茹素,唯一要注意的是~孩童正在發育所以他們需要攝取符合其年齡、身高和生長期的蛋白質量,因此孩童必須從素食中吸收恰當比例的蛋白質促進成長,不同於成年人ㄧ天攝取15%的蛋白質,發育中的孩童約需攝取30%;有些素食營養書籍中,介紹以階段性引導孩童茹素,孩子斷奶後何時開始吃固態食物、何時開始吃啤酒酵母、何時開始吃小麥胚芽和大豆卵磷脂…有一些書詳細說明在哪個階段該為孩童補充特定營養…舉例來說如螺旋藻是海草製成富含鐵質,那對孩童很重要,人體可吸收螺旋藻裡三成的維生素B12、讓孩童吃全麥食品、全麥麵包、全麥穀物,如果小孩不喜歡全麥食品,至少一半要用全穀類,參考一些基本的飲食和營養補充建議,孩童就能獲得完整的營養!!許多孩童有乳糖不耐的問題不能喝動物乳品,市面上有很多好的豆奶製品,有其妙的利益,可以讓孩子喝豆奶,有乳糖不耐症的孩童,豆奶是很好的食品,還有幾種植物乳品用各種豆子、穀物熬煮成漿都是孩童的絕佳食物,不過我主張在適當的階段,為發育中的孩童額外補充營養。
法蘭西斯科.文森醫師:(對全球觀眾的建議~)
我只建議大家吃素,人吃素後會更具有環保意識,更全面幫助地球發展!!
法蘭西斯科.文森醫師簡介(Dr.Verdu Vicente):歐洲著名的外科醫師,擁有自然療法、順勢療法與針灸學碩士學位及科學教育博士學位,目前任職於西班牙瓦倫西亞、馬德里薩拉戈大學教授,文森特醫師提倡素食主義和健康生活,強調必須尊重自然,鼓勵人們過著均衡、高雅的生活。


Hallo, gentle viewers, and welcome to another edition of Healthy Living. 

On today’s program Dr. Francisco Verdú Vicente of Valencia, Spain, an accomplished surgeon with a master’s degree in naturopathy, homeopathy and acupuncture and a doctorate in science education, shares his knowledge and insights on vegetarianism.

Dr. Verdú Vicente is also a professor at the Universities of Valencia, Madrid, and Zaragoza in Spain. An advocate of vegetarianism and healthy living, Dr. Verdú Vicente stresses the importance of respect for nature and encourages people to lead a balanced, noble life. 

He begins by discussing the field of naturopathy and its view of health.

Francisco: The naturopath has been around for a long time in Spain. And a natural doctor knows anatomy, physiology, and pathology, just as any other doctor would, but the difference between a doctor of natural medicine and a conventional doctor is the criteria used; that is to say, what criteria does a naturopath use when seeing patients? 

The criteria a naturopath uses will be to have a holistic, global vision of the patient.

If the patient complains of an upset stomach he won’t only see the stomach complaint he will take into account the psychological problems, their constitution, and then there are also homeopathic treatments to determine  their constitution’s (characteristics), and what type of psychological characteristics the patient has. Also it is very important that the naturopath dedicates a lot of time to the patient.

Therefore the naturopath is much more interested in the patient and has a more global vision. 

HOST: Dr. Verdú Vicente says that from a nutritional perspective, the vegetarian and vegan (animal-free) diets are complete and wholesome. 

Francisco: And it is curious, because the children, for example, when you give them ham, they don't really realize where it came from,  whether from a pig or that it came from an animal, right?

When they eat bologna, they think they are eating something independent of that. 

They assume they only eat a piece of bologna. When they start to become conscious, then they see it as a little abnormal. 

Society sadly has many traps to convince people to see it as something completely normal, when it isn’t. 

When you follow a vegetarian diet, there doesn’t have to be anything lacking, not even vitamin B12. Although many times it has been said that a vegetarian diet, including a vegan diet, can be lacking, they have done studies in England with vegetarian children that don’t eat animal products of any type and they are not lacking in anything, not even vitamin B12. 

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