The Protein Myth: Significantly Reducing the Risk of Cancer, Heart Disease, Stoke and Diabetes while Saving the Animals and the Planet

The Protein Myth: Significantly Reducing the Risk of Cancer, Heart Disease, Stoke and Diabetes while Saving the Animals and the Planet

by David Gerow Irving
The Protein Myth: Significantly Reducing the Risk of Cancer, Heart Disease, Stoke and Diabetes while Saving the Animals and the Planet

The Protein Myth: Significantly Reducing the Risk of Cancer, Heart Disease, Stoke and Diabetes while Saving the Animals and the Planet

by David Gerow Irving

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Overview

The Protein Myth illustrates how we can avoid the major killer diseases by eliminating animal products from the diet. It challenges the healthcare establishment to stop ignoring the scientific evidence that a diet based on animal protein costs millions of lives. For example, why do the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society turn a blind eye to the scientific facts that avoiding animal protein could prevent many women from getting breast cancer by lowering their oestrogen levels? The book links the Western diet to major problems facing the world such as 1) animal cruelty on factory farms, 2) the pollution of our atmosphere, rivers and streams, 3) obesity in children, 4) the needless vivisection of animals at university laboratories for the purpose of getting billions of tax dollars from the public, 5) the manufacture of drugs to treat counterfeit diseases, and 6) the creation of poverty in the developing world. The Protein Myth makes a compelling case that the way to a healthier life and a better world is to end our abuse and exploitation of animals.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781780990736
Publisher: Collective Ink
Publication date: 09/30/2011
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 444
File size: 783 KB

About the Author

David Irving's writings on animal rights issues have appeared on many blogs and journals. An accomplished musician and composer, he graduated Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Prelude to Health 1

Part I The Road to Better Health How Our Diet Endangers Our Health 7

Chapter 1 The Killer Diseases Is There a Cure? 8

Chapter 2 The Evolution of the Role of Nutrition in the Treatment of Disease 12

Chapter 3 Introducing Dr. Campbell The Discovery of a Dark Secret 19

Chapter 4 Got Cancer? The American Cancer Society 28

Chapter 5 Milk and Dairy Products Do They Prevent or Cause Osteoporosis? Can Eliminating Animal Products From the Diet Help Prevent Alzheimer's Disease, Diabetes, Macular Degeneration, Multiple Sclerosis, Kidney Stones, and Arthritis? 47

Chapter 6 The Uniformity of the Healthcare Organisations Did the Second Expert Report of the American Institute for Cancer Research Get It Wrong? The Need for a National Debate and composer, he graduated Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University 59

Chapter 7 Grading the Healthcare Organizations Is It Time for Women to Start Putting Up Fight Against the Healthcare Establishment? 70

Our Healthcare System at Work

Chapter 8 The Influence of Cultural Biases on Science Flawed Research: The Women's Health Initiative, The Nurses' Health Study, and The Women's Health Trial 79

Chapter 9 The Story Behind Cholesterol and Statins Is the Information Distributed by the Healthcare Establishment Causing People to Have Heart Attacks? 88

Chapter 10 The Treatment for Heart Disease Are Surgery and Drugs Necessary? Why Our Healthcare Organizations Are Not Revealing the Facts About Nutrition 101

Chapter 11 The Cattle Baron's Ball Indifference to Disease 112

Chapter 12 The Cult of Self-interest Resistance to Change 121

Chapter 13 Living with Ghosts 130

Chapter 14 The Complicity of the Major Healthcare Organizations with the Drug Industry 137

Chapter 15 The Good Old Boy Network Hard at Work 155

How We Got to Where We Are

Chapter 16 A Century of Government Research in Nutrition The Long Trail Toward Health 168

Chapter 17 Creating the Myth The History of Protein 182

Part II The Revenge of Nature The Consequences of a Meat and Dairy-Based Diet 203

Chapter 18 How Humans Fashioned Societies Founded on the Exploitation of Animals 204

Chapter 19 Descent into Hell The Cruelty on Factory Farms 213

Chapter 20 The Fraud Called Animal Research How the Universities Are Taking Our Tax Dollars 229

Chapter 21 Science at Work The Future of Healthcare Research

Suffer the Little Children 252

Chapter 22 How Our Diet Puts Our Children at Risk Congressional Cave-in to the Junk Food Industry 268

Chapter 23 Fight-Back in Paradise! Executives in the Sandbox 278

The Road to a Solution

Chapter 24 Hamburger Heaven How the Diet of the Western World is Creating Poverty in the Developing Countries and Threatening the Future of the Earth 290

Chapter 25 The World is Waiting for the Sunrise The Divorce of Ethics and Profit 303

Appendix I Animal Research Funded by Charities Personal Use and Toxicity Testing on Animals Not Related to Medical Research by Government and Private Sector Companies 311

Appendix II How to Get an NIH Grant (Satire) 315

Appendix III Additional Examples of Unnecessary Cruel Animal Research 317

References 322

Bibliography 376

Index 405

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