Why Vegans Have Smaller Brains and How Cows Reverse Climate Change
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A provocative and timely book that questions current thinking about diet, health and the environment. The authors challenge the ideas that meat is bad and plant-based is good, and that livestock farming is causing climate change.
An Oxford University study found that the less animal food you eat, the more your brain shrinks (atrophies) with age. Brain scans from breast-fed babies of vegan mothers also show brain atrophy, owing to deficiency of vitamin B12. This vitamin, which is vital for normal brain health, is not found in any plant food.
Many people have become resigned to the idea that heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s or another degenerative disease will kill them. This book shows that these illnesses were not our fate in pre-history and they need not be our destiny in the future. It explains how we can prevent and reverse chronic disease by eating the diet that drove human evolution, a diet based on meat, animal fat and offal.
What about the other reasons to eat meat? Readers will discover that plant-based eating is not only harming human health, it is also harming the planet. The authors show how crop farming is causing climate change, soil destruction, and ecological disaster. The flawed logic that we should replace meat with plant foods means that environmental destruction will continue, along with the socio-economic costs of diet-related disease. In contrast, regeneratively-grazed livestock mitigate climate change, enrich soils, support wildlife and provide nutritious food. This book firmly anchors the health benefits of an all-meat diet with farming and the environment.
Written in an accessible and engaging way, this book will appeal to everyone interested in diet, health, evolution and the environment.
Chests: Purchased, Want to read
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Reading duration: TBD to TBD
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Author: David Ellis, Alison Morgan, Anita Tagore
ISBN13: 9781917523059 via Indiebound
Genres: Health, Nonfiction