"Pork can hepatitis E viruses. Particularly affected is raw meat, for example in the form of ground pork. In Germany, the registered hepatitis E cases in recent years have risen sharply. An expert explains the reason ..."
"The enthusiasm for vegan and vegetarian diet scored in Germany in recent months a noticeable damper. According to the latest figures from the market research company the booming market for meat substitutes since the summer to shrink course." ..
Kidney, heart, liver, even lungs, throats, even Panzen beef were eaten regularly times, those days seem to be over. Surely this was connected with the famine, where man was dependent to use all of animal origin organs and parts useful. Today the situation is different - times have changed ...
Throughout the development of Homo Sapiens much meat was consumed. Countless animals: wild boar (which later Hauschwein originated) and other animals had to believe it. Most of our primordial ancestors has the essential protein concerned about the meat. Ignore vegans and vegetarians so our evolution by refusing any animal products? Are vegans even against our evolution? ...
Fortunately, more and more scientists are now speaking out, such as Malhotra in the British Journal of Medicine last year and now Di Nicolantonio in openheart and Chowdhury in the Annals of Internal Medicine. They all conclude (among other things) that the saturated fat recommendations urgently need to be revised because they misinform the public and can even be harmful to health. Some of the most important arguments from DiNicolantonio's work are given as examples:
Depending on the level of education indicate 17 40% of the year Austrians to be vegetarian or vegan. Statistically located in 15% of Austrian households someone who feeds on pure vegetable or vegetarian. A recent study at the Medical University of Graz, coordinated by Univ.-Ass.in Mag.a Nathalie Burkert, however, shows that purely vegetarian nourishing people have a subjectively poorer health perception and therefore require frequent medical services. This requires a whole has a lower quality of life than is the case with those who feed on a balanced and varied diet. "For Austria are currently no relevant data on the relationship of various diets and health. This relationship was examined for the first time in our study, "says Nathalie Burkert.
Many dietitians design also promises a small revolution. After numerous studies have confirmed the effectiveness of low-carb diets, the diet is the first time the form is now recognized in a guideline. The decision whether the way to the ideal weight should be low-fat or low-carb is henceforth at the discretion of the therapist. Thus, the treatment strategy may in future individual risk based profile of the patient. In addition, include the exercise and behavioral therapy continue the basic program. The bariatric surgery continues to be the last option for weight loss.
"This observational study is a classic example of the cardinal mistake of nutrition research: correlations are reinterpreted as causalities - that principle meaningless statistical relationships are as cause-effect proof spread," explains Udo Pollmer, scientific director of the European Institute of Food Science and Nutrition (EU .LE eV) - but proved nothing, because even if the numbers would vote: Whether failure breakfast for the increased risk of heart attack is causally responsible or typical, but not recognized causes such as shift work or stress - no one knows it!
Fourteen cases of such poisoning after eating red snapper fillets were the National Reference Laboratory for marine biotoxins and the Documentation and Assessment of Poisonings at the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) of supervision labs, from Nord Poisons Centre, and other health and veterinary authorities end 20 12 reported.
Vitamin B12 is involved in many important processes in our body, such as cell division or the formation of blood. Does Vitamin B12 not in sufficient quantities, it can come on the basis of which to folate deficiency and cause permanent health problems. "Especially the elderly and vegetarians often do not take enough vitamin B12 about their nutrition," says Professor Rima Obeid from the Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine at the University Hospital in Homburg. "So increases, for example in the elderly the risk of suffering a stroke or developing dementia, clearly." The scientists of the University Hospital study in their studies, among other diagnostic markers to elucidate deficiency symptoms, treat or prevent any sense. "Often it is not enough simply to pay attention only to a healthy diet, but one must also take dietary supplement" the researcher reports.
It concerns with the Schwedinnenstudie an observational study, in which the diet raised a single time and in a questionable carbohydrate protein score was converted. The fat intake was strangely no consideration, making the score also suspect. Because in addition to carbohydrates and protein also play the fats yes an essential role for the cardiovascular health. Furthermore, in reasonable carbohydrate reduced diets suggested to replace part of the carbohydrates by protein AND fat, not least because too much protein LEAN (keyword "rabbit starvation") can cause problems.