I didn't mean to imply that we should only eat dirt. Just that dirt is not ALL bad. In fact our modern production techniques have replaced many of the beneficial bacteria we would get from dirt with disinfectants/antibiotics/pesticides, some of them carcinogens. Doesn't seem like wise tradeoff to me.
>milk and cheese are generally a good source of some of the fats you need in your diet as well as calcium.
Animal proteins slightly inhibit the bodies absorption of calcium which makes cheese/milk less than ideal source of calcium. It also comes loaded with saturated fats and cholestoral.
Eating dirt is not actually a bad idea. One of the nutrients that vegetarians lack a natural source for is B12. B12 is made by micro-organisms that live in...DIRT! Meat eaters get B12 because the animals that they consume eat enough dirt for excess B12 to get absorbed in their intestinal tract. The lack of B12 in a modern vegetarian diet is due to the hygenie of modern food cultivation. Since other things live in soil, like anthrax, leprosy and other nasty viruses it is probably a safer trade off to just take supplements.
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someone wearing a metal coil braclet rests their arm on the pad? Doesnt a coil passed through a magnetic field generate electrical current?
I didn't mean to imply that we should only eat dirt. Just that dirt is not ALL bad. In fact our modern production techniques have replaced many of the beneficial bacteria we would get from dirt with disinfectants/antibiotics/pesticides, some of them carcinogens. Doesn't seem like wise tradeoff to me.
>milk and cheese are generally a good source of some of the fats you need in your diet as well as calcium.
Animal proteins slightly inhibit the bodies absorption of calcium which makes cheese/milk less than ideal source of calcium. It also comes loaded with saturated fats and cholestoral.
Eating dirt is not actually a bad idea. One of the nutrients that vegetarians lack a natural source for is B12. B12 is made by micro-organisms that live in...DIRT! Meat eaters get B12 because the animals that they consume eat enough dirt for excess B12 to get absorbed in their intestinal tract. The lack of B12 in a modern vegetarian diet is due to the hygenie of modern food cultivation. Since other things live in soil, like anthrax, leprosy and other nasty viruses it is probably a safer trade off to just take supplements.