Just from the research I've been doing today about peptides and cell mutation, I pretty much changed my outlook completely on how I'm going to raise my kid (someday, years from now). Before I was all about letting them make their own decisions, and not even raising them vegetarian... then when they're old enough to make decisions I'd let them go veg if they wanted to. But now I learned that a lot of the problems people develope as they get older (particularly the ones that run in my family) are caused by cell mutation (from mutagens in food)... these are just tiny little mutations in cell that nearly everone has nowadays and generally go unnoticed because it's just the norm. Gus says the cell mutations mostly occur during the first five years of life... so I figured I'd stick to a very careful, healthy vegan diet during pregnancy, raise the kid vegan for their first five years of their life, then let them eat animal products if they so choose... and from then on it's their decision, but I just don't want them to have the problems that me and the rest of my family suffer from.
Then Gus told me it's way too early to be thinking about this stuff... but I'm just glad I'm starting to care so early in my own life about the problems I may be causing myself and my posterity in the long-run. And no this is not some pro-vegan bullshit that I am buying into... none of the sources from the information I am reading are vegan.
Here are some of them, for anyone who is curious: http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/chondroitin-000293.htm
http://www.pnas.org/content/99/22/14452.full#ref-4
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1471-4159.2006.03822.x/pdf
https://www.llnl.gov/str/Food_Mutagens.intro.html
You kind of have to connect the dots between all these articles and some prior knowledge. Also, if anyone reading this happens to be knowledgable regarding these topics, then please feel free to share information! I still have a lot to understand. However, I can not appreciate any information that is contaminated by personal bias... whether it be in the favor of the dairy/meat industries, or PeTA/any other vegan movement. Morals and money aside, lets talk science. Oh, and the reason I asked Gus (my husband) about this is because he is more of a science buff than I am.. until recently I was just a history buff.
Pinny Nickels · Thu Dec 09, 2010 @ 07:02pm · 0 Comments |