Could
the veggies we eat be controlling our population by deliberately shortening our
lives? Have they been slowly killing us decades before our time? Perhaps the
humans could live hundreds of years, like it said in the Old Testament, but
then the plants decided to drastically reduce our lifespan. And over time
everyone got used to it and started calling it aging and natural. When it
really isn’t natural, never has been!
In Africa a
bunch of antelopes were murdered by acacia trees.
Wild animals know that acacia
trees pass an alarm signal to the other trees, so they won’t eat from the trees
downwind from the one they nibbled on. In addition, they have to eat quickly,
because acacia steps up production of poison in the leaves within only 5 to 10
minutes! The tree emits a chemical signal that can travel through the air up to
50 yards. Some 3,000 antelopes died on
game ranches in the Transvaal, because they were fenced in and didn’t have any
choice but to eat the leaves of forewarned trees.
So
how do veggies kill us? With poisonous proteins called lectins. This poison is
insidious, it acts slowly over time causing various diseases that used to be thought
of as natural symptoms of old age. But those diseases are not age-related at
all, they are caused by the plants we eat to make sure we don’t live too long!
A
really scary thing I read was that the scientist found that lectins can cross
through the intestinal walls and end up in different organs! The list of
diseases they could be causing is huge and growing.
Cooking
the veggies eliminates or reduces the lectins, but not in all cases. Lectins
are not created equal. For example, cooking potatoes doesn’t help. So, yes, you
might want to stop eating potatoes, among other things. But it’s not as simple
as not eating a few particular foods. The lectin-free diets do not really work,
because everything we eat contains lectins without exceptions. The scientists
don’t really know yet how each type of a lectin affects our bodies. The lists
of foods we are recommended to avoid only name a few groups, such as grains,
legumes and nightshade veggies. But I found a list that shows everything else.
So,
if an acacia tree, when being munched on, can warn her friends and relatives to
produce poison in their leaves, then why can’t a carrot warn all the other
carrots in the field? The experiments showed that plants when hurt release
volatile organic compounds (VOCs) into the air to warn all the neighboring
plants. So imagine the screaming of huge fields being harvested! Incidentally, the
VOCs are known to cause diseases. All around the world more people are affected
by various allergies, which are getting worse and worse every year. No one
really knows why. Could it be because plants have declared a war on us?
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