Remember that almost all meat, eggs, and milk purchased in the United States has been laden with antibiotics at factory farms.
Rising Threat of Infections Unfazed by AntibioticsA minor-league pitcher in his younger days, Richard Armbruster kept playing baseball recreationally into his 70s, until his right hip started bothering him. Last February he went to a St. Louis hospital for what was to be a routine hip replacement.
By late March, Mr. Armbruster, then 78, was dead. After a series of postsurgical complications, the final blow was a bloodstream infection that sent him into shock and resisted treatment with antibiotics.
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Thanks for posting this to 4 US, World News & Opinions.
Believe it or not, we can't all be vegetarians...only a small percentage of the population can remain healthy with no animal protein. If you're one of those people, you're very fortunate.
There are so many factors involved...blood type, ancestry, and so on. When I was in my early 30s I became a vegetarian. For 6 years, I was sick most of the time even though I took all the recommended supplements, and conscientiously combined plant proteins, etc. Plant protein is very difficult for some systems to digest. I was also painfully thin.
My doctor, one of the few GPs in those days who actually knew something about nutrition, suggested that I drop the vegetarian diet. As soon as I began eating meat, the perpetual colds and low energy abated.