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The Best <nospam@hotmail.com> wrote:
: Larry DeLuca, EdM, CSCS wrote in message <8396a6$d2$1@news1.bu.edu>...
:>JD (jd@do.not.reply.com) wrote:
:>: I don't deny the existence of fat in restaurant food, but let's go
:>: over a typical holiday spread:
:>: 1.    one meat (main course)

: Why eat meat? it is dead food with no living nutrients and lots of health
: hazards associated to it.

Plants are dead when we eat them, too.  Even if you chew up live grass
your stomach acid has a pH of 2, and they are dead in short order upon
arrival there.  

Plant or animal our digestive enzymes break down food products into their
basic molecular building blocks, which we use to build our own important
biomolecules.  

Why eat meat?  It's an excellent source of protein, and contains all the
essential amino acids.  It provides nucleic acids, fats, and a very small
amount of carbohydrate as well.  We are omnivores - millions of years of
evolution have refined and reinforced our ability to digest meat as a
part of our diet and to extract useful nutrients from it.

If you don't want to eat meat because you don't like it or find it morally 
objectionable to do so that's fine, but don't confuse personal distaste
(or ethics) with a lack of nutritive value.

					larry...