Meat and Osteoporosis
Eating meat causes your blood to become more acidic. To combat this, your body uses the minerals in it’s bones. Although your blood will be balanced, your bones will be left weak.
Why does this matter to vegans?
Studies have shown that a person with a vegan/vegetarian diet had 50% less bone loss over a person with a standard American diet.
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The heavy meat eating Masai males, Eskimos, and Greenlanders develop osteoporosis very early in their lives. Eskimos become bent, shrunken and disabled in their late 20s while Greenlanders have the same result in their 30s. Interestingly, Masaian males diminish in height and lose bone structure after their two-year stint as warriors, during which time they try to live on flesh alone. In comparison, the Masaian women, who remain in the villages while the males are being warriors, eat plant foods, and remain remarkably free of osteoporosis. Hm!