Re: pork question - use in Traditional Chinese Medicine

[Guest guest]

I'm aware in general of the thinking referred to below and basically

agree. However I do eat and enjoy pork occasionally. Will I try

monkey... I don't know:) With that disclosure I do want to say that

my acupuncturist has recommended pork for a kidney condition basing

it on Traditional Chinese Medicine teachings. Worked for me. When I

get weak in a certain way I've learned to eat pork for a day or two

and I feel stronger. The first couple times I really gorged on pork

for several days, but I haven't seemed to need to lately maybe

because I'm stronger generally or I just recognize it earlier and

don't need as much. Usually I don't have a taste for pork though.

But here is at least one 'traditional' culture that saw pork as a

healthy for some purpose(s)

> I've always heard it's best to consume animals that are not at all

close to

> you biologically. I.e. humans are not very much like ruminants or

chickens,

> so they are safer to consume. But humans should not eat monkeys,

because we

> share too many of the same pathogens and allergens. I feel pretty

much the

> same way about pork (though we do eat it sometimes and I sure love

bacon!).

> Pigs are omnivores, like ourselves, and we are so close

biologically that

> they have done organ transplants between pigs and humans, and the

flu virus

> jumps from birds to pigs to humans. Eating raw or rare pork is much

more

> dangerous than eating raw fish or beef, because you have a better

chance of

> " catching " anything the pig had.

>

> A number of researchers have noted this, and that may be one of the

reasons

> for lack of pork recipes. Sally Fallon also notes that there have

been

> links between pork and cancer and some changes in blood chemistry.

But she

> DOES include recipes for shellfish (shrimp especially), so I don't

think

> the issues are primarily religious. I'd have a hard time including

pork in

> good conscience in a book about healthy eating, even though there

isn't a

> lot of hard science on it, because it is an iffy subject (though I

don't

> have any religious issues with it).

>

>

> Heidi Schuppenhauer

> Trillium Custom Software Inc.

> heidis@t...

[Guest guest]

The insulin used for diabetics used to come from pork too. I think if you

are looking for glandular material, pork really is close to human. It's for

exactly that reason that it could also be dangerous. Like someone said here

once, it's never a case of black and white, good and evil! My grandmother,

however, insisted on a slice of fatty ham with every meal, a practice she

continued until her death at 96 or so. (The nitrates didn't get her either!).

-- Heidi

At 04:06 AM 4/25/2002 +0000, you wrote:

>I'm aware in general of the thinking referred to below and basically

>agree. However I do eat and enjoy pork occasionally. Will I try

>monkey... I don't know:) With that disclosure I do want to say that

>my acupuncturist has recommended pork for a kidney condition basing

>it on Traditional Chinese Medicine teachings. Worked for me. When I

>get weak in a certain way I've learned to eat pork for a day or two

>and I feel stronger. The first couple times I really gorged on pork

>for several days, but I haven't seemed to need to lately maybe

>because I'm stronger generally or I just recognize it earlier and

>don't need as much. Usually I don't have a taste for pork though.

>But here is at least one 'traditional' culture that saw pork as a

>healthy for some purpose(s)

>

> > I've always heard it's best to consume animals that are not at all

>close to

> > you biologically. I.e. humans are not very much like ruminants or

>chickens,

> > so they are safer to consume. But humans should not eat monkeys,

>because we

> > share too many of the same pathogens and allergens. I feel pretty

>much the

> > same way about pork (though we do eat it sometimes and I sure love

>bacon!).

> > Pigs are omnivores, like ourselves, and we are so close

>biologically that

> > they have done organ transplants between pigs and humans, and the

>flu virus

> > jumps from birds to pigs to humans. Eating raw or rare pork is much

>more

> > dangerous than eating raw fish or beef, because you have a better

>chance of

> > " catching " anything the pig had.

> >

> > A number of researchers have noted this, and that may be one of the

>reasons

> > for lack of pork recipes. Sally Fallon also notes that there have

>been

> > links between pork and cancer and some changes in blood chemistry.

>But she

> > DOES include recipes for shellfish (shrimp especially), so I don't

>think

> > the issues are primarily religious. I'd have a hard time including

>pork in

> > good conscience in a book about healthy eating, even though there

>isn't a

> > lot of hard science on it, because it is an iffy subject (though I

>don't

> > have any religious issues with it).

> >

> >

> > Heidi Schuppenhauer

> > Trillium Custom Software Inc.

> > heidis@t...

>

>

>