JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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cleo
Does owning red meat cause cancer? If you bought a steak and left it in the boot of your car or buried it in a field, would you be at increased risk of cancer? Probably not.
I notice the studies are all of people who eat meat, not people who keep dead cow parts in their cars. I suspect that makes quite a bit of difference. :-)
Yes, they do, Carcharodon. Dr. John Briffa, bless him, also has to pay the bills. I see he sells diet books.
If you want to be really healthy, throw out the TV, stop eating red or processed meat, and get a dog - http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/61316.php
domestic dog ownership can prevent people from getting ill, recover more quickly when they do fall ill, and give warning of early signs of cancer, seizures and hypoglycaemia....dog owners have lower blood pressure, lower cholesterol, and are less likely to have minor and serious health problems....dog owners had an 8.6 higher one year survival rate after a heart attack compared to people who did not have a dog
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cleo
On Steve Jobs - Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computer, was a fruitarian during the 1970s. "I was actually a fruitarian at that point in time. I ate only fruit. Now I'm a garbage can like everyone else. http://www.copacabanarunners.net/i-fructarianism.html
A fruit-only diet is no more healthy than a Diet Coke and sugar butty diet, and far from representative of a balanced vegetarian diet.
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cleo
ironchef -
The Oxford University study is dated 2009.
You'll find that many studies linking cancer (and other diseases) with eating meat go back a bit because we've known about it for a long time (do you need a research paper from this century to convince you that water is wet and fire hot?), but if you insist on later studies -
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/24/well-done-red-meat-prostate-cancer_n_1111037.html (2011) - men have a higher risk of developing aggressive prostate cancer if they consume a lot of ground beef and other red meat
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/neal-barnard-md/processed-meat-cancer_b_919034.html (2011) - The more hot dogs people eat, the higher their risk of colorectal cancer.
http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/97/19/1458.full (2005) - Red and processed meat intakes were associated with an increased risk of pancreatic cancer.
http://www.health.harvard.edu/fhg/updates/Red-meat-and-colon-cancer.shtml (2005) - A high consumption of red and processed meats was linked with a substantial increase in the risk of cancer in the lower colon and rectum
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/181874.php (2010) -the link between consumption of red and processed meat and colorectal cancer has been demonstrated in several studies
And the other side of the story -
A diet high in fibre from whole grains and cereals is linked to a lower risk of colorectal cancer - http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/237492.php (2011)
Not all vegetarian diets are equal; a person who stuffs himself with nothing but crisps, diet coke and white bread sprinkled with refined white sugar is technically a vegan, but no one would consider that a healthy diet.
Now would you like to provide even one link from anywhere in the past hundred years that backs up your claim that a vegan diet contains no fat and causes cancer?
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cleo
ironnchef -
All your links are about the effect of eating more veggies, not about the effect of a vegan/vegetarian diet. (You do understand that people who eat meat can also eat more veggies?)
Steve Jobs - yes, the poor man died young, of cancer. But he wasn't a vegan - he loved sushi. (PETA praised him for being vegetarian, but in fact he was a pescetarian.)
Maybe you don't understand the concept of vegetarians being **12 per cent less likely to contract cancer. 12% is not 100%. For some people, no amount of careful eating or even medical intervention is going to prevent the development of cancer.
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cleo
He was apparently celebrating some rather stupendous stunts he'd managed to pull off. A few celebratory beers + adrenaline junkie + no more sense than a tea strainer = an accident waiting to happen. Now his Mum and Dad are having to cope with losing a son in his early twenties. Sheer stupid irresponsibility.
Stupid enough to get us killed? The ones of us who did aren't posting on JT. Aren't doing anything, in fact.
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cleo
Trouble with a tree like that (apart from the general over-the-top tackiness of a pure-gold anything) is that any tinsel and baubles you decorated it with would disappear into the overall bling. And what's a Christmas tree without tinsel and baubles?
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cleo
Links....?
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cleo
Why would anyone want to imitate a caveman?
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cleo
Lovely. You're going to feed 7 billion with environmentally-friendly, grass-fed meat? Good luck with that. Try asking yourself why all the factory farms and feedlots don't switch to raising their animals naturally.
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cleo
ironchef -
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/5698784/Being-a-vegetarian-can-cut-your-risk-of-cancer-by-a-half-claim-scientists.html
Researchers who studied tens of thousands of Britons over more than a decade found that vegetarians were 12 per cent less likely to contract cancer than their meat eating counterparts.
You're confused if you think cutting meat out of the diet equals cutting fats out. It doesn't.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10687887
the high IGF-I activity associated with heavy ingestion of animal products may be largely responsible for the epidemic of 'Western' cancers
It's ME -
What are you talking about? What has veganism got to do with pets surviving in the wild? And how exactly does it lead to deer attacking humans? Consider - fewer 'farm' (=factory) animals means fewer animals suffering. It isn't rocket science.
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cleo
I don't think there's any reason to call the father names (unless you're calling them both names).
They made a baby out of wedlock, got married to make it legal, then found out they had problems, if the father's letter is to be believed. Two people in a situation of their own making that they want out of, only now it's not two people it's three, and both of them love the third. There is no solution that is going to satisfy all three equally; probably the more the two adults are prepared to make sacrifices, the better the situation will be. But it's never going to be idyllic.
People should think very, very hard before making babies.
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cleo
If you ever (Heaven forbid) find yourself in this kind of situation, I can almost guarantee that you will be convinced that you are the individual who is right, regardless of what the courts say.
Er....special rendition, anyone? (OT, I know...)
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cleo
I don't see the need for a vegetarian in Japan to buy 'vegetarian' products (whatever they are...) Why not just buy stuff that isn't meat, and eat it?
Blue, if you like eringi, try putting them whole in oden. Absolutely wonderful. Don't cut them, or even trim the bottoms - if you do, the good taste will leak out into the soup. They're also great sliced lengthways, laid in a dish with asparagus tips, drizzled with olive oil and a shaking of your favourite herb salt, covered and baked until the asparagus is just tender but still a bit crunchy. Don't waste the juices - use a piece of bread to soak them up. Yum.
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cleo
Fur is only sexy when it's got the original occupant still alive inside it. Try cuddling up in bed on a cold winter's night with your love and a warm, furry cat or dog snuggling at your feet. That's sexy.
Dead, scraped out bodies? Nah. Just disgusting.
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cleo
You're asking me about if I were in the same situation. If it were my son's child instead of my daughter's, then I'd want the child to be with her Daddy. I don't see how this is so difficult to understand. OF COURSE both sides see themselves as more fit/deserving to raise the child, that's human nature.
It's the father who is talking about getting her psychiatric help.
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cleo
DS - You're talking about organic, not vegan. Totally different topic. In terms of being wasteful and bad for the environment, meat production and the use of chemical fertilisers/herbicides/insecticides wins hands-down.
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cleo
tmarie, if the shoe were on the other foot and I was faced with divorce in a foreign land and the prospect of not being able to live with my infant kids, I would jump through any hoops that needed to be jumped through and break any laws that needed to be broken to keep the kids with me.
If it were my granddaughter....I don't think I would see things in terms of 'rightful' parent or 'non-rightful' parent. I think I would see it as my grandchild, the child of my daughter, and I would want her to be with her Mummy. If her Mummy was unable through illness or any other reason to care for her, then I would want and expect to care for her until her Mummy was able to step in again.
Then again, any court that ruled that either I or my daughter were not fit parents would obviously be in the wrong....
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cleo
She's been in Japan since February 2008. That's going on 5 years, and she's nine years old.
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cleo
How do you reckon that? Plant stuff in a field, harvest it and eat it, vs plant stuff in a field, harvest it, process it, spike it with growth hormones and antibiotics, feed it to animals kept in crowded conditions where they produce lots of methane gas (greenhouse effect) and waste products (pollution), kill and process the animals and eat them?
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cleo
What I meant was that it isn't important if 'these people' are 'allowed to get away with it' if that's what's in the best interests of the child; conversely, the little girl's happiness should not be sacrificed simply in order to see to it that they don't 'get away with it'. 'Not allowing them to get away with it' should not be a factor in any decision made.
I don't see how having the little girl unable to see either of her parents is in her best interests. How does the girl benefit by her mother being locked up for n number of years? Not at all, as far as I can see. From the father's letter it would appear that the mother is unstable. Can't see how being locked up would help that, either, especially if US prisons are the hell-holes some posters would have us believe.
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