I want to get away from this COVID-19 horse shit for at least one other article... Yes, I am waiting so "breathlessly" for today's "bullshit" report put out by the criminal scumbag Manitoba provincial "Health Minister" whom I truly cannot stand to even look at.. .But otherwise I have already been railing away at this Scam for way too long and other important information has been missed by yours truly..... I therefore want to change gears and look at a subject that I actually hold quite dear to myself.... I have been for all my life a MEAT EATER... I honestly LOVE getting out on my rear deck (once the snow clears of course..) and pull out the old barbeque and fry up some great slabs of REAL beef!!! I honestly have never ever tried those fraudulent "fake meat" crap and I probably never will... There is nothing like the taste of REAL BEEF that to me is dripping with fat and tasting like heaven..... I therefore will state that I will never ever be a "vegetarian" as I see that entire concept so ludicrous, especially when some essential vitamins that our bodies do need absolutely do come from animal tissue!Well, I really do not like to say that I was right about being a meat lover, but I am right... For according to the following report that comes from my fellow Canadian real truth seeker, Penny, who of course hails from the insanity of southern Ontario aka the "center of the Universe" (in their minds of course..), and writes the fabulous blog "Penny For Your Thoughts" at www.pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com, Meat Eaters tend to have BETTER psychological health than vegetarians! I want to share Penny's article right here for my own readers to view for themselves, and I do have my own thoughts and comments to follow:
Meat Eaters Tend To Have Better Psyhcological Health Than Vegetarians
"People who avoid meat consumption tend to have worse psychological health than those who eat meat, according to new research published in Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition. The study, which did not draw any conclusions about causation, found that vegetarians/vegans were at a greater risk of depression, anxiety, and self-harm.“Dietary choices have been a powerful indicator of social class and subsequent mate selection (e.g., whom we marry) since antiquity. Consequently, ‘what we eat’ and ‘how we eat’ are integral parts of our identity and directly influence our health via physiological, social, and psychological pathways,” explained study author Urska Dobersek, an assistant professor at the University of Southern Indiana.“Therefore, given the dramatic surge in veganism and mental illness over the past two decades, a rigorous systematic review was a necessary first step in examining the relations between meat and mental health.”The researchers reviewed 18 previous studies on the relationship between meat consumption and psychological health (which was narrowed down to depression, anxiety, deliberate self-harm, stress perception, and quality of life.) The studies included 149,559 meat-consumers and 8,584 meat-abstainers from Europe, Asia, North America, and Oceania.“Vegetarian” can be a fuzzy term. To avoid confusion, the researchers only examined studies that provided a clear distinction between meat eaters and those who abstained from meat.The researchers found “clear evidence” that those who abstained from consuming meat tended to have higher rates or risk of depression, anxiety, and self-harm compared to those who did not. Less clear was how meat consumption was related to stress perception and quality of life.“My co-authors and I were truly surprised at how consistent the relation between meat-avoidance and the increased prevalence of mental illness was across populations. As we stated in our conclusion, ‘Our study does not support meat avoidance as a strategy to benefit psychological health,’” Dobersek told PsyPost.But the causal relationship between avoidance of meat and psychological health is still unclear. Of the 18 reviewed studies, 16 used a cross-sectional design.The two studies that provided some evidence of causality had mixed results. A randomized controlled trial found that vegetarians reported significantly better mood than omnivores and fish eaters after the trial, but a longitudinal study found a vegetarian diet was predictive of depression and anxiety.“Correlation does not imply a causal relation and we present several explanations for our results. For example, individuals struggling with mental illness may alter their diets as a form of self-treatment; vegan and strict vegetarian diets may lead to nutrient deficiencies that increase the risk of mental illness; many individuals with eating disorders use veganism and vegetarianism as a ‘cover’ to hide their illness; and individuals who are extremely sensitive to or focused on the suffering of animals may become both vegetarian and depressed/anxious as a result,” Dobersek explained"
Vegetarian diets and mental illness have been reported on previously:
A vegan diet during pregnancy also puts the fetal brain in danger of stunted development and reduced cognitive capacities later in life.
"Vitamin B12 is the largest and most complex of all vitamins, found only in animal-based foods.
This vitamin is made exclusively in the guts of animals by bacteria. It then migrates from the gut to muscle. The higher predatory animals are the best sources, along with seafood and fish.
Vitamin B12 deficiency has been linked to brain shrinkage and even Alzheimer’s disease by some research.
Original article continues below:
“There are two major questions that need to be addressed. First, why do most vegans and vegetarians return to eating meat? Is it a biological drive to overcome nutrient deficiencies or are the perceived benefits overwhelmed by the social stigma of non-Western dietary patterns? Or perhaps, is it that the novelty and attention lose their effect over time while the effort required to maintain a vegan and vegetarian lifestyle remains the same. Second, what is the temporal pattern of the relation? In other words, does the shift in diet occur before or after the psychological issues are manifest?”
I lean towards the body knowing what it needs so it drives the individual back to eating meat. A basic survival instinct.
Dobersek and her colleagues decided to conduct a systematic review because the research on meat-abstention had become increasingly contradictory“The ‘average person’ does not have the requisite knowledge and training to place the results from a single research project into the larger body of scientific and historical knowledge. I think this reality drives the ‘diet-wars’ and ubiquitous false-facts about nutrition,” Dobersek said.“Our study provides further evidence that because humans are omnivores, it is illogical and potentially unhealthy to recommend “eating a varied diet” followed by a long list of foods, beverages, and nutrients to avoid (e.g., meat, eggs, sugar, salt, fat, fruit juices, cholesterol, etc.). This is especially true, as my co-authors demonstrated, when the proscriptions and recommendations are based on a ‘fictional discourse on diet-disease relations.'”The study, “Meat and mental health: a systematic review of meat abstention and depression, anxiety, and related phenomena“, was authored by Urska Dobersek, Gabrielle Wy, Joshua Adkins, Sydney Altmeyer, Kaitlin Krout, Carl J. Lavie, and Edward Archer.
Posted by Penny at 9:44 AM NTS Notes: Honestly, what Penny states makes sense, for Vitamin B-12 which is essential for proper physical and mental health is better derived from animal protein.... I have to therefore laugh at the so called "vegetarians" that have to try to get that essential vitamin via supplements when it is easily AND better derived by eating MEAT!!!And yes, it is very essential to get animal protein in our diets, especially now with the impending threat of a world wide "meat shortage" that has been brought about by the master criminals behind the entire "COVID-19 pandemic" artificially..... That is why I have been stocking up as much as possible in my freezers with a healthy supply of meat products for the foreseeable future..And my other fellow Canadian real truth seeker, Greencrow, put out a most interesting comment to this article where she questions the vegetarian logic when we have long developed CANINE teeth for the consumption of meat! Those teeth are definitely there for a reason, right??So... I have of course been planning once again for another barbeque this coming weekend (weather permitting..) and want to throw some nice STEAKS and REAL HAMBURGERS on the grill.... I love meat and will never change that perspective, period!!!More to comeNTS