First of all, know that this is not an article to persuade you into being a vegetarian. This article is to shed the light on why some people can eat meat, why others should not and what you can do about it.

It’s been more than 30 years since Dr. Wayne Pickering, creator of the Mango Man Diet, began trying to find out about how to be healthy. He started on this journey after having been as much as 50 pounds overweight with three serious bouts of Rheumatic Fever, gout at age 23, terrible gum problems, Rheumatoid Arthritis so bad he had to quit one job in the oil fields, a number of sinus problems and horrendous stomach problems with gas that defied description — he was almost ready to give up.

But then Wayne moved to Florida where he saw a variety of people who were enjoying health to the max and gave him hope. With no one to lean on for help he did a lot of trial and error diets.

Finally, after one day splashing Muriatic Acid into his face by accident, he couldn’t see out of his right eye for weeks and was told he would never see out of it again. That’s when he met a fantastic person named George W. Foster who helped him to understand his body and how wonderfully we are designed. After five days of working with Dr. Foster, he TOTALLY cleared up the problem, and it was this great accident that led him to what he is doing to this day.

From many years of counseling people on nutrition, Wayne Pickering found that some people can eat meat and not feel a lot of negative nutritional effects, but many others can not. Being a vegetarian is probably one if the beggest and best life changes most people can make for their health and improve the way they feel.

If people are going to eat flesh (beef, chicken, fish and other meats), you must eat it sensibly in no more than 4-6 ounces at any one time. Never fry, char-broil, grill or microwave flesh, or anything else for that matter. And of course, combine foods properly for optimum digestion, i.e. “eat greens with proteins.” That could mean lots of non-starchy vegetables with whatever source of flesh you’re consuming at the time. This was one of the reasons that sparked Wayne Pickering’s development of “The Food Combining Guide!”

Here are some facts for you to think about, though:

• Humans are born to be herbivores, not carnivores.
• Flesh is the DEAD carcass of animals … simple as that! If we eat live foods like fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts and some grains, they have an abundant supply of nutrients and energy. DEAD FOODS ARE DEAD!
• Flesh-eating animals have a short bowel to enable then to rapidly expel putrefactive flesh, while humans have a long and complicated alimentary tract to enable plant nutrients to be slowly and properly absorbed by the body
• Flesh eaters have a different type of intestinal bacteria from the non-flesh eaters. Humans naturally have a non-flesh intestinal tract.
• Flesh eaters have long, sharp teeth. Humans have the teeth to eat fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts and some grains.
• Humans can grind with their jaws, flesh eaters cannot. Flesh eaters’ jaws move up and down only. Notice how your dog eats food in gulps and when you feed it meat, it tears it apart and swallows it with very little chewing while a cow slowly chews the food and grinds with its jaws.
• Humans, horses, cows, antelopes, and the monkey family all sweat through their skin. All flesh eaters sweat through their tongues.
• Humans suck their liquids, flesh eaters all lap their liquids.
• Human saliva contains starch-splitting enzymes, flesh eaters do not.
• Flesh eaters have large livers, humans have comparatively small livers.
• Flesh eaters secrete into their stomach 10 times the hydrochloric acid as do non-flesh eaters to cope with the feathers, sinew, bones and larger quantities of meats.
• Flesh eaters take nourishment from the whole beast while humans who do eat flesh usually eat just the muscle part of the beast.
• Humans seldom eat raw meat. They first have to cook it to help disguise it from the corpse it really is.

In summation, flesh eating is a horrendously wasteful eating habit for humans. Slaughtered cows live first on vegetation, and their flesh is therefore second-hand. Even though the whole of their bodies generally is not consumed by humans, cows still have to be fed on land that might otherwise be growing food for the starving billions of people on this earth. JUST A THOUGHT!

And one other thought to consider: We really are gatherers and NOT totally hunters. 

If you’re interested in learning more about being a vegetarian and on the subject and the theory (and practical application!) of eating well, view the Mango Man Diet .