Special Report: Can you Alzheimer's-proof your brain

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Philip

Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 1:31 AM

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Dear friends,

 

Maneka Gandhi sent this to me today. . .. . . . . another reason to get off the

filthy meat drug.

 

Please go vegan. And do so immediately.

 

Please circulate this to your friends. . . . . I did.

 

Phil

 

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gandhim

 

gandhim

phil

 

When you bite into a hamburger or chicken sandwich, what do you think that this

grass eating animal was eating before it died? Most likely it was a mixture of

ground up eyeballs, anuses,bones, feathers, and euthanized dogs . Most animals

that we eat spend the entirety of their short lives in factories eating recycled

meat and animal fat. These herbivores have been turned into carnivores thanks to

our process of 'waste removal' better known as rendering.

Every day thousands of pounds of slaughterhouse waste such as brains, eyeballs,

spinal cords, intestines, bones, feathers or hooves as well as restaurant

grease, road kill, cats and dogs are produced. From this need for large waste

disposal came the development of rendering plants. Rendering plants recycle the

dead animals and their wastes into products known as bone meal, and animal fat.

These products are sold to the companies that grow animals for meat or milk

cattle, poultry, swine, sheep and put into their feed.. Each slaughterhouse has

a privately owned rendering plant nearby .

These facilities operate 24 hours a day all over the world. Till the BJP came to

government in 1998 rendering was banned in India by the department of Animal

Husbandry and Dairying, Ministry of Agriculture, which prohibited the use of

animal byproducts in ruminant feeds (Order No.2-4/99-AHT/FF) However , the BJP,

influenced by a coterie of slaughterhouse owners and interested bureaucrats,

repealed this ban and India's first rendering plants came up in 2001. No one in

India knows about them - and few people in America where there are thousands of

plants. They are not advertised - and for good reason. The process itself is

very disturbing and those who have witnessed it have often sworn off meat for

good. The rendering plant floor is piled high with 'raw product' - tonnes of

feet, tails, feathers, bones, spinal cords, hooves, milk sacs, grease,

intestines, stomachs and eyeballs of slaughtered animals.. In the heat, the

piles of dead animals seem to have a life of their own as millions of maggots

swarm over the carcasses. First the raw material is cut into small pieces and

then transported to another machine for fine shredding. It is then cooked at

280 degrees for one hour ,melting the meat away from bones in the hot 'soup.'

This continuous batch cooking process goes on for 24 hours a day, seven days a

week.

During this cooking process, the soup produces yellow grease or tallow that

rises to the top and is skimmed off. The cooked meat and bone are then sent to

a hammer mill press, which squeezes out the remaining moisture and pulverizes

the product into a gritty powder. Shaker screens remove excess hair and large

bone chips that are unsuitable for consumption. Now recycled meat, yellow

grease, and bone meal are produced and used exclusively to feed vegetarian

animals.

 

In India no testing is done of these plants. In America and Europe state

agencies spot check, yet testing for pesticides and other toxins in animal feeds

is not done or is done incompletely with toxic wastes accompanying the dead

animals - all of which the rendering plants do not remove. Poisoned cattle

stomachs, animals that have been lying dead for weeks before being picked up ,

animals that have been run over by trucks, all their noxious parts are part of

this. The package includes euthanasia drugs given to pets, animals with flea

collars containing organophosphate insecticides, fish oil laced with DDT, heavy

metals from pet ID tags, and plastics from thrown away meats. Labor costs are

rising and therefore many rendering plants refuse to hire extra hands to cut off

flea collars or unwrap spoiled shopmeat. Every week, millions of packages of

plastic-wrapped meat go through the rendering process and become one of the many

unwanted ingredients in animal feed.

 

Even if some people do realize how animal feed is made and feel that it is still

too far removed to be a concern to them, most of them do not know of the risks,

consumption of this meat entails. Perhaps the best-known health concern

associated with rendering plants is Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, or Mad Cow

Disease. In America regulations mandate that brain and other nerve tissue be

removed from cattle after they are slaughtered for human food. Yet these most

infectious parts, the brain and spinal cord, are allowed to go to a rendering

facility where they can be processed into pet and animal feed. This means it is

possible that a cow with Mad Cow Disease can be ground up and fed to a pig or

chicken that is, in turn, fed back to other cows that are eventually eaten by

people. India has no regulations of any kind. Behind the scenes and out of

public view, these practices are unfolding around the world putting millions of

people at risk for Mad Cow Disease.

 

Other diseases that can be contracted from rendering plant product feed include

tuberculosis , variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), and Alzheimer's. All of

these diseases, except Alzheimer's, are transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

diseases (TSEs), which means that they is are infectious diseases that leave the

brain resembling a sponge. The process by rendering plants makes chickens,

goats, sheep, pigs,cows and buffaloes into cannibals. � a factor that has been

cited as a cause of Alzheimer's disease which did not exist in the world until

this practice started. Millions of people are affected by Alzheimer's making it

one of the leading causes of death among the elderly across the globe.

Scientific evidence shows that people eating meat more than four times a week

for a prolonged period have a three times higher chance of suffering from

dementia than vegetarians. A preliminary 1989 study at the University of

Pennsylvania showed that over 5% of patients diagnosed with Alzheimer's were

actually dying from human spongiform encephalopathy. That means that as many as

200,000 people in the United States may already be dying from mad cow disease

each year. God knows how many in India but certainly thousands more after 2001.

In India, in 2001 the BJP led Government, prepared a secret position paper on

the 'Utilisation of Slaughter House Waste for the Preparation of Animal Feed'.

This is what the report said: 'India ranks topmost in the world in livestock

holding and has the potential to utilize slaughterhouse by products to partly

meet the growing requirement of animal feeds. The total availability of

offal/bones in the country generated from large slaughterhouses is estimated to

be more than 21-lakh tonnes/annum. It can also be used for the preparation of

animal feeds'. The report further goes on to explain that 'Presently in India,

live stock feed production is cereal based. This results in livestock,

especially poultry, pig and fish competing with humans for grains and cereals

which can easily be replaced with slaughterhouse waste.'

The Office International des Epizooties (OIE World Organisation for Animal

Health) had surveyed the risk of CJD/BSE in Asia . The report revealed that no

attention had been paid to any risk analysis on bovine spongiform encephalopathy

(BSE) in China, India, Pakistan and seven other countries. According to OIE,

significant quantities of animal feed of meat origin have been imported into

Asia, which may mean that the BSE agent could have reached domestic cattle in

these countries. The Report noted that 'the spread of BSE through rendering

plants cannot be excluded in some countries such as China, India, Japan,

Pakistan and Taiwan. Therefore, much more stringent management at

slaughterhouses and rendering plants, as well as extensive surveillance

programmes, are required in those countries.'

 

The Indian companies on the Internet advertise their rendered meal as having

been made from " spray-dry " machines that turn blood into a fine, brown powder

(gardeners know it as blood meal); gigantic kettles that boil fat to make

tallow; grinders that crush bones into minuscule fragments.. Millions of tons

are supplied to dairy industry, poultry farms, cattle feed-lots, pig farms,

fish-feed plants, and pet-food manufacturers. Leading manufacturers of 'Meal',

as they call it, are Standard Agro Vet (P) Ltd., Allanasons Ltd., Hind Agro

Ltd., Al Kabeer, and Hyderabad - also the four largest private slaughterhouses

in the country.

All animal feed manufacturers use meat and bone meal in their feeds.

Recent reports state most domestic animals are fed such rendered animal tissues.

A 1991 United States Department of agriculture report states that approximately

7.9 billion pounds of meat, bone meal, blood meal, and feather meal was produced

by rendering plants in 1983. Of that amount: 12 %percent was used in dairy and

beef cattle feed ,34 % in pet food ,34% in poultry feed and 20 %in pig food .

This has doubled by 2006. So has the use of animal protein in commercial dairy

feed since 1987 all over the globe. Grass or cereal fed cattle and other animals

are nonexistent abroad and lessening in India. BSE expert Richard Lacey states

'The time bomb of the twentieth century equivalent of the bubonic plague ticks

away.' Do you think Nature will forgive you for a baby chick is eating on

what's left of her mother after she's been stripped down, a calf being fed on

her mother's slaughtered remains, a pig being reared on a diet of dead pigs, a

goat being fed on a goat's leftovers

 

Maneka Gandhi

 

When I was Minister for Social Justice there were demands for giving grants to

build Alzheimer's Disease Homes - a disease unknown in India till the 1970s. In

the West the first 150 cases happened in 1948, rose to 600 by 1978 . Now there

are 500,000 cases in the U.K., 250,000 in Canada and 4.5 million in the U.S. 10%

of people over 65 in the US have it and 50% of 85 year olds. It is now very much

in India - which means homes have to be set up as it is almost impossible for

anyone to look after an Alzheimer's patient for a long time .

Alzheimer's disease is an irreversible brain disorder in which a person loses

his capacity to reason, think, recognize and function. The disease progresses

from mild forgetfulness to death in just 8 years and is most prevalent in people

over the age of 65. 55% of all senility cases are now Alzheimer's.

Is it to do with old age? If so, everyone would get it. But, the Journal of the

American Medical Association shows that very poor people in Nigeria/India are

far less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease than their relatives in New York.

Obviously it is a lifestyle related disease.

Alzheimer's is not a normal part of aging. It is caused by sticky plaque-like

deposits and neurofibrillary tangles that kill off brain cells until all memory

disintegrates. Ultimately the patient dies.

What is the cause of this deadly epidemic? There is no mention of anything that

could be considered Alzheimer's disease in any medical or other literature

before 1900. In the last 100 years, Alzheimer's disease has gone from

non-existence to a disease that affects 12 million people yearly and kills

200,000 people .

 

Dr Murray Waldman is the coroner of Toronto. He is a professor of Toronto

University and medical director of a large rehabilitation hospital. His book

Dying for a Hamburger has taken the medical world by storm.

 

He contends that Alzheimer's is caused by a protein called a prion. The same

prion that causes Mad cow Disease, (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE),

variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), and other neurodegenerative diseases

called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs ).

Prions are misshapen proteins normally found in the nervous systems of animals.

When prions come into contact with normal proteins, they cause these proteins to

become misshapen, too. As the chain reaction continues, more and more proteins

become misshapen and begin to impair normal neurological functions. In all prion

diseases the brain is clogged by dense deposits and dementia is the major

symptom. The disease shows up only in later age. It is irreversible. All these

factors are true of Alzheimer's.

 

Waldman correlates the growth of the industrial meat industry( where cows are

fed meat and chickens fed other chicken) and meat eating directly to the

increase in Alzheimer's. WHO's figures correlate with Waldman's theory. After

researching the spread of Alzheimer's disease , Waldman concludes that

Alzheimer's disease behaves like an infectious disease, not something

congenital. He has linked the spread of the disease to industrialized nations

that eat factory-farmed animal meats, saying that ,just like mad cow disease,

Alzheimer's disease is the result of the modern factory farm and increased meat

consumption in the last century. Till a few years ago scientists denied that mad

cow disease could be transmitted to humans through beef. Now hundreds of people

who ate infected beef have died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), with perhaps

lakhs more at risk. Could the same scenario hold true for Alzheimer's disease?

Waldman shows that Alzheimer's disease first showed up in medical records at

about the same time that world meat consumption began to rise and makes a direct

correlation between the levels of meat consumption and the number of Alzheimer's

disease afflicted across the world. In countries, where meat consumption is

lower, Alzheimer's disease are much lower than developed countries, where meat

consumption is high.

 

The Alzheimer's Society is the world's premier body on this disease. Their head

of Research, Dr Sorensen, refuses the prion theory (which is weird because the

Nobel Prize winner Prof Stanley Prusiner who discovered prions agrees with

Waldon). Instead, he says that the factors that cause heart disease are the same

that apply to Alzheimer's.

 

This still makes meat the culprit. Saturated fat and cholesterol have been

conclusively linked to heart disease and strokes. So have high levels of a

substance called homocysteine and high blood pressure - all created by animal

products.

Cholesterol is a waxy solid substance. High levels are found in

meat,dairy,eggs,fish. Too much cholesterol damages the blood vessels as it

deposits in the arteries . The only time vegetable fats carry cholesterol is

when they have been altered by industry to be hydrogenated (hardened for shelf

life) High cholesterol doubles the risk of Alzheimers unless you already have

the Alzheimer's gener ApoE in which case it goes up sixteen times. (Only 50% of

people with the ApoE gene actually develop the disease - those who eat a

high-fat diet during their 40s). 70% of people in the West, according to WHO

have high cholesterol.

In a 21-year study, investigators examined the association of cholesterol with

brain plaques and tangles in people who had died of Alzheimer's. They found a

strong correlation between increased cholesterol levels and increases in the

number of plaques and tangles in the brain , the two characteristics of

Alzheimer's disease..

Not only does meat and dairy consumption raise cholesterol, it raises the levels

of an amino acid called homocysteine, which is now widely seen as a risk marker

for heart disease. The American Heart Association has shown a clear association

between homocysteine levels, heart attack and stroke - and Alzheimer's.

Boston University investigators have found that elevated levels of Homocysteine

increases the risk of Alzheimer's three fold. Homocysteine is formed in the

human liver after ingesting another amino acid, methionine, found in animal food

.. High homocysteine levels make nerve cells weak and prone to premature death.

Like cholesterol it causes deposits in the arteries and 100gms of chicken have

more than 12 times of what your body needs. In Alzheimer's patients much higher

levels of homocysteine were found than in elderly individuals with no cognitive

impairment. In fact, now tests on levels of homocysteine are useful in

*predicting* who might get Alzheimer's.

The only things that brings down cholesterol and homocysteine levels are

vegetables, green leaves and citrus. People who adopt a diet free of meat, eggs,

and dairy products can drop their homocysteine levels by 20% in one week. This

is because folic acid, a B vitamin found in whole grains, green vegetables,

beans, and other plant-based foods, helps convert homocysteine to another, more

useful amino acid.

In a study, reported at the World Alzheimer's Congress in 2000, researchers

looked at 5,395 elder individuals who were free from dementia in 1993 and again

in 1999 . " People who remained free from dementia had consumed higher amounts of

beta-carotene, vitamin C, vitamin E and vegetables than the people in the study

who developed Alzheimer's disease. "

The same findings have been reported at Case Western University School of

Medicine and University Hospitals of Cleveland, Ohio, and St. George's Medical

School in London. Scientists at The Oxford Project to Investigate Memory and

Ageing have brought out an ideal menu: it is entirely vegetarian with no milk

products. WHO recommends stopping animal based food as exchanging red meat for

white, full cream for skimmed, butter with margerine � reduces less than 5%

cholesterol

Why do our doctors not look at prevention? Simple, there is no money in that.

Medicine, pharmaceuticals and hospitals are huge business. Why do medical

colleges not teach nutrition anywhere in the world? If prevention became the

norm who would need doctors ?

 

Maneka Gandhi

 

 

Philip [phil]

Saturday, September 05, 2009 8:10 AM

Will Schmidt; Erika Abrams; Chinny Krishna; Nandita Shah; gandhim

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____ Hi Trix

===============================================Special Report: Can you

Alzheimer's-proof your brain=============================================== The

answer is a resounding YES... you can. So no, it is NOT our fate to go senile

when we enter our golden years, even if it " runs in our family. " Thank

goodness, because it's not a pretty picture. If you know someone who has lost

touch, you know how they become, pathetic shells of their former selves. But it

doesn't have to happen to you. ======================================Alzheimer's

/ Dementia is Rare In India====================================== You see,

dementia and Alzheimer's in India is very rare. Here are the remarkable

statistics: In India, fewer than 1 in 100 people over the age of 65have any form

of dementia or Alzheimer's. Less than 1 percent. In the U.S., it's 1 in 8. 13

percent! More than 13 times higher in the U.S. than in India! It gets worse:

According the Alzheimer's Association, by age 85, over 47% of Australians have

Alzheimers. You are shocked, " Can't be true! " But it is. Plus, Alzheimer's

Disease International says that 24million people worldwide have Alzheimer's, and

over 5million of them are in the U.S. The U.S. has over 21% of all Alzheimer's

sufferers even though they only have 5% of theworld's population. Fair to say

that our lifestyles are killing us. Consultation with some of the foremost

anti-agingdoctors confirmed that dementia in any form is rare in India. Why?

India is still mostly vegetarian - Draw your own conclusions!

 

 

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