The Vegan Conspiracy -- parts I,II,III

[Jenny Lake]

It flies in the face of 'traditional diet' data that the illness above is meat-eating related. There are lots of infections that can cause lesions and bone loss.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteomalacia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pernicious_anemia (inability to uptake B-12)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteomyelitis (staph or TB commonly triggers it)
and tuberculosis of various tissues, spreadable through the lymph --possibly a set-up for bone cancers too
A lot of these problems start in the lungs or gastrointestinal tract, or are polio-like, and TSE, transmissable spongiform encephalopathy, can't be ruled out by its prevalence in game animals --once the CNS begins to fail and the vascular and lymph circulation decreases, everything starts to go. The vascular surgery correction of MS seems just so appropriate! So many times I've come across disease descriptions from the past that were narrowly limited to specific tissues when actually unrecognized syndromes were underway, and we have dozens of emerging syndromes now...everyone needs awareness of their 'exposure' history when disease develops. This is extraordinarily true in a high percentage of heart disease which is often a late effect of other failing organs.

SN9--any chance you've got a link to a "vegan nurishment path as old as the stories of Jesus"? Again and again I read this same phrase cruising the veg sites and never once adequately referenced, nor could I find one on my own.

[Jenny Lake]

Here's an interesting link about Arctic explorer Vilhjalmer Stefansson, not only for his Inuit diet experiment, but his involvement in the mid-1930s to support a Jewish socialist republic in Birobidzhan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilhjalmer_Stefansson

Low-carbohydrate diet of meat and fish
Stefansson is also a figure of considerable interest in dietary circles, especially those with an interest in vey low-carbohydrate diets. Stefansson documented the fact that most Inuit lived on a diet of about 90% meat and fish, often going 6-9 months a year on nothing but meat and fish--essentially, a no-carbohydrate diet. He found that he and his fellow European-descent explorers were also perfectly healthy on such a diet. When medical authorities questioned him on this, he and a fellow explorer agreed to undertake a study under the auspices of the Journal of the American Medical Association to demonstrate that they could eat a 100% meat diet in a closely-observed laboratory setting for the first several weeks, with paid observers for the rest of an entire year. The results were published in the Journal of the AMA, and both men were perfectly healthy on such a diet, without vitamin supplementation or anything else in their diet except meat.[9]