How Cheetahs Dying Can Massively Improve Your Health

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buffalodoc — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:12:38 GMT

Organic or not, raw grain fed meat will still contain the bacteria that are harmful to humans. 100% grass fed animals have gut bacteria that are more benign and therefor grass fed meat is the only kind I would ever think of eating raw. For further benefits of grass fed animals check out eatwild.com.

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Miss Road Runner — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:46:33 GMT

Cheetahs are one of my favorite animals, and I happen to be a cross country college athlete, so I have a thing for speed as well. Cheetahs should not be fed soy! It can be very harmful to the body if eaten too much. I've been a vegetarian for almost 4 years, and I have lost my menstrual cycle and developed ovarian cysts because of eating too many soy products. Soy has properties in it that inhibit the body's ability to absorb certain nutrients, affect its ability to produce estrogen, can increase the body's demand for b-12, can cause thyroid cancer, and more. No wonder the cheetahs are getting sick!

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Hathorhetep — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:50:30 GMT

I've seen the cheetahs at Lincoln Park Zoo eat raw meat. It looks like goat or cow. I wonder: do they get AA amyloidosis from eating the meat they are given? Is their meat source a vaccinated, barn kept herd? That makes as much sense to me as wondering how it passes from cat to cat. It might pass from weakling vaccinated cattle, sheep, or goats to the cats. Or, perhaps there is something in the fact that they can't run andf get the exercise they are made for. That could cause problems in them the way lack of exercise causes problems for humans.

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nowuccas — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:42:47 GMT

Preparing raw foods: This should always be done on a wooden surface, rather than plastic, because tests have shown that bacterial contamination (which is everpresent, even on freshly cleaned surfaces, in small amounts, due to those carried in the air) is much greater on plastic.

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nowuccas — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:34:18 GMT

On achieving successful reproduction of the cheetah in captivity: I saw a documentary demonstrating that a female cheetah, when kept seperate from a number of males, (at least a few) yet able to compare them, and later able to choose which one's enclosure to enter, via a one way door, ovulated and subsequently bore a healthy litter.

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justasIam — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:39:12 GMT

Hello Treedweller and sjw440.

Biophotons are real, and its really old science. Every one of our cells stores light, and its been well documented. College textbooks may have not caught up to the latest advances in bio-physics.To learn more about bio-photons just go to wikipedia for a small primer. Also google the work of Dr. Fritz Albert Popp who is one of the leading experts in the field. So sjw440, Mercola has not lost his footing, you are just behind in the science. By the way, moderation in all things is not the key to a long life. Moderate cocaine? No thanks...

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sjw440 — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:25:38 GMT

Dr Mercola, Stored light? Eat raw meat? You're no longer treading the slippery slope, you've lost your footing and you're slip sliding away. Moderation in all things is the key to a long healthy life.

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Beldeu Singh — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:48:56 GMT

Yes, certainly, all canivores must have raw meat from freshly killed animals for optimum health. In the wild, these animals get the special exercise from the short burst of the hunt and chase which they do not get in captivity. And, equally important, they get all their antioxidants from the blood and interstitial fluids and from the cytoplasm of the herbivores that are hunted by them. The antioxidant levels decline during the course of preservation of meat and it is not as healthy as fresh meat. Cooking is even worse as the process destroys antioxidants.

The production of normal proteins in the cells of canivores is possible only through antioxidant-driven biochemical pathways. As the antioxidant levels in such animals in captivity decline as a result of being fed with preserved meats, abnormal proteins begin to appear. It is a complex process involving the 'reading' of info for protein synthesis in cells and involves the mythelation-demythelation activity that are all antioxidant-driven. This process of normal protein synthesis is disrupted by low antioxidant levels or excess free radicals that finally result in abnormal protein formation that precipitates a health problem. So, one has to go back to the original diet of raw meat from freshly killed animals to prevent such problems.

Beldeu Singh

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walrusjm — Sat, 31 May 2008 03:41:54 GMT

The keepers do take really good care of the diet of animals that are used for breeding to help repopulate. Im not saying that they dont make mistakes, im sure they do, but it is also because the cheetahs are a weak species. Several thousands of years ago they almost went extinct. And the whole population we know today can all be tracked back to the same few that repopulated them. So there was no longer much genetic difference and inbreeding and cross genetics made their species weak. Thats why out of all the big cats, cheetahs are more able to catch disease than say that of the tiger or even the smaller ones like the ocelot.

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HealingMindN — Sat, 31 May 2008 00:27:01 GMT

This article harkens back to "Are Beautiful People Also Healthier?" in that we all need nutritional information rather than simply processed "nutrition." The original source of our nutritional information is sunlight and tranmuted into biophotons through the food chain for our convenient digestion and further conversion. It all makes complete sense that the closer we are to that original biophotonic information, the closer we are to our original life patterns, therefore, our complete and overall health.

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freeseb — Fri, 30 May 2008 16:56:09 GMT

"No human foragers have been recorded as living without cooking, and people who choose a ‘raw-foodist’ life-style

experience low energy and impaired reproductive function. This suggests that cooking may be obligatory for humans.

The possibility that cooking is obligatory is supported by calculations suggesting that a diet of raw food could not

supply sufficient calories for a normal hunter–gatherer lifestyle. In particular, many plant foods are too fiber-rich when

raw, while most raw meat appears too tough to allow easy chewing. If cooking is indeed obligatory for humans but not

for other apes, this means that human biology must have adapted to the ingestion of cooked food (i.e. food that is

tender and low in fiber) in ways that no longer allow efficient processing of raw foods. Cooking has been practiced for

ample time to allow the evolution of such adaptations. Digestive adaptations have not been investigated in detail but

may include small teeth, small hind-guts, large small intestines, a fast gut passage rate, and possibly reduced ability to

detoxify. The adoption of cooking can also be expected to have had far-reaching effects on such aspects of human

biology as life-history, social behavior, and evolutionary psychology. Since dietary adaptations are central to understanding

species evolution, cooking appears to have been a key feature of the environment of human evolutionary adaptedness.

Further investigation is therefore needed of the ways in which human digestive physiology is constrained by the need

for food of relatively high caloric density compared to other great apes."

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luckylight — Fri, 30 May 2008 16:49:07 GMT

People, listen, only 10 PERCENT of the meat in this country is tested before it goes to the stores. Our cows, chickens, turkeys, sheeps and horses are ground up and fed to one another, including roadkill. Eating raw meat is no guarantee of anything unless it's organic, range free and grain/grass fed. Raw or cooked, most meat in this country is TOXIC and spreads disease.

Read Howard Lymans' books, listen to his lectures...a 4th generation cattle rancher who won't eat meat!

http://www.madcowboy.com/

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markrygielski — Fri, 30 May 2008 16:47:55 GMT

Mouth watering raw tuna tartar recipe.

Grind two smal pieces of raw tuna filettes (4" x 3" or smaller) in a meat grinder or chop them with a heavy kitchen knife thoroughly. Add olive oil, salt, pepper or cayenne pepper powder, chopped raw onion, chopped pickled cucumbers, or better yet fermented, small cucumbers from Polish delicatessen. Add two, three or four raw egg yolks and soy souce. Mixed the ingredients with a fork. Put the tartar on your favorite bread with butter. Enjoy these extremely tasty sandwiches. Mark R.

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Dima Prok — Fri, 30 May 2008 16:47:31 GMT

Am I the only one who noticed the title of the article doesn't make any sense? In fact it's the most stupid things I've heard. "How Cheetahs Dying Can Massively Improve Your Health". How DOES it improve my health? Is there some ritual of killing a Cheetah like a sacrifice to improve my heatlh? It doesn't say anything in the article.

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Jono Coach — Fri, 30 May 2008 15:48:47 GMT

Dear Dr. Mercola:

Excellent article. However, Dr. Al Sears of the Wellness Centre in Florida recommends foods be prepared/cooked "rare". I steam my roasts with Balsamic vinegar to a brown exterior colour with the interior ranging from "rare" to "blood rare" to "raw" in the middle.

Got to be careful with meat.

Jono from Porcupine (in the heart of the Great Boreal Forest on the austere Canadian Shield, northeast Ontario)