Optimum Nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow
COVID taught us that eating animals and selling their flesh under poor hygiene, can be risky for humans.
Most pandemics originated from animals, where poor hygiene allowed pathogens to spread and attack humans. For example, take the Spanish Flu, and the 14th century plague. They were carried by birds, and rats respectively, resulting in more than 50 million deaths each. At Fempton Institute, our courses are based on vegetarian nutrition. We're proud of it, and we respect everyone of course. We suggest a balanced nutrition for humans, because we believe it's more sustainable, and it doesn't add unnecessary violence on animals. For example, Nobel prize Linus Pauling once said that: 'Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow'. This bold statement still resound as a powerful invitation to reconsider what is food, and why we have it.
We don't think pleasure should be the main reason for our food, especially when our pleasure means inflicting pain to others. Pain and pleasure are connected, they appear and disappear together, so we should look to balance them, since the world constantly tend to balance itself. This was found in many cultures, including the Chinese TAO, and the Indian law of karma.
Some of the environmental effects that have been associated with meat production, are pollution through fossil fuel, animal methane, industrial waste, water and land consumption.
According to Carsten Gerhardt, a partner at AT Kearney, "The shift towards vegetarian and vegan lifestyles is undeniable, with many consumers cutting down on their meat consumption. This is a result of becoming more conscious towards the environment, and animal welfare".
On August 2019, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (a body of the United Nations), released a summary of the 2019 special report, which asserted that a shift towards plant-based diets, would help to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
But there are reasons to move forwards, and try to improve our nutrition.
For example, diabetes. According to the world health organization, As of 2019, an estimated 463 million people had diabetes worldwide. This is 8.8% of the population, with type 2 diabetes making up about 90% of the cases. Rates are similar in women and men, and unfortunately trends suggest that rates will continue to rise. Diabetes may develop due to genetics predisposition, but the main trigger is linked to nutrition and lifestyle.
Today there is conflict of interest with the food industry, trying to push governments to have a blind eye on junk food, including soft drinks, alcohol, tobacco, processed food and sugar.
According to Cancer Research UK, colorectal cancer, is the third most common cancer in UK. The World Health Organization concluded in 2015, that there is enough evidence to classify processed meat as "carcinogenic to humans,". They also classified red meat as "probably carcinogenic."
So, at Fempton we believe in a sustainable nutrition, that helps body and mind to stay healthy, and to live in harmony with all beings. This is the ancient philosophy of AIiur-veda, and many other holistic schools of medicine. I hope it make sense to you as well.
Join us! Good things will happen.
We don't think pleasure should be the main reason for our food, especially when our pleasure means inflicting pain to others. Pain and pleasure are connected, they appear and disappear together, so we should look to balance them, since the world constantly tend to balance itself. This was found in many cultures, including the Chinese TAO, and the Indian law of karma.
Some of the environmental effects that have been associated with meat production, are pollution through fossil fuel, animal methane, industrial waste, water and land consumption.
According to Carsten Gerhardt, a partner at AT Kearney, "The shift towards vegetarian and vegan lifestyles is undeniable, with many consumers cutting down on their meat consumption. This is a result of becoming more conscious towards the environment, and animal welfare".
On August 2019, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (a body of the United Nations), released a summary of the 2019 special report, which asserted that a shift towards plant-based diets, would help to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
But there are reasons to move forwards, and try to improve our nutrition.
For example, diabetes. According to the world health organization, As of 2019, an estimated 463 million people had diabetes worldwide. This is 8.8% of the population, with type 2 diabetes making up about 90% of the cases. Rates are similar in women and men, and unfortunately trends suggest that rates will continue to rise. Diabetes may develop due to genetics predisposition, but the main trigger is linked to nutrition and lifestyle.
Today there is conflict of interest with the food industry, trying to push governments to have a blind eye on junk food, including soft drinks, alcohol, tobacco, processed food and sugar.
According to Cancer Research UK, colorectal cancer, is the third most common cancer in UK. The World Health Organization concluded in 2015, that there is enough evidence to classify processed meat as "carcinogenic to humans,". They also classified red meat as "probably carcinogenic."
So, at Fempton we believe in a sustainable nutrition, that helps body and mind to stay healthy, and to live in harmony with all beings. This is the ancient philosophy of AIiur-veda, and many other holistic schools of medicine. I hope it make sense to you as well.
Join us! Good things will happen.
