Pork – A real food safety issue for humanity.
I am presenting these abstracts with a “fear of peak resistance”. Only one thing encourages me to overcome that fear – the pure intention to save human beings from a great health issue. I am presenting these pieces of information not with the intention to proof any religious believe or condemn any cultural behavior or hit any life-style. My whole intention is to point out what experts are saying about what the world is eating blindly.
Pork (meat from the domestic pig) is dangerous to health. A great care is recommended by experts before its consumption. Then why one eat a food full of risk where other sources are available that are less risky. Some may argue that the relevant adverse health cases are very rare . Let’s accept for a while but they can not deny the fact that all those cases are not forged. Most are properly investigated and the culprit was only one – pork itself. Some may argue that these pieces of information are not correct or not based on scientific evidences. Let’s accept this also for a while but we can not resist to accept this logic that whether we should eat an item which is doubtful instead of those many other which are doubtless and proven as safe and healthy by scientists and professionals.
So please give a mercy on your health and adopt healthy, pure, hygienic and safe life-style. Eat what is good. Not what is risky. Eat what is good for both health and taste . Not what is good only for taste.
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Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig
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Pigs can harbour a range of parasites and diseases that can be transmitted to humans. These include trichinosis, Taenia solium, cysticercosis, and brucellosis. Pigs are also known to host large concentrations of parasitic ascarid worms in their digestive tract.( http://www.thepigsite.com/pighealth/)
The presence of these diseases and parasites is one reason pork meat should always be well cooked or cured before eating.
Pigs are susceptible to bronchitis and pneumonia. They have small lungs in relation to body size; for this reason, bronchitis or pneumonia can kill a pig quickly. (http://www.pigs.org/...sp?article_id=3)
There is concern that pigs may allow animal viruses such as influenza or Ebola Reston to infect humans more easily. Some strains of influenza are endemic in pigs (see Swine influenza), and pigs also can acquire human influenza.
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Reference: http://en.allexperts.../Pork-haram.htm
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Dr. E. Kazim. M.D. in his article "Medical aspects of forbidden foods in Islam" (July 1981 issue of Muslim Journal has described diseases carried or caused by the flesh of the swine.
He writes:
The pig is a scavenger. It is an omnivorous animal. It eats everything. There are many diseases carried from swine to man, particularly parasite infestations. Lately extensive research has been focused on senility-old age is characterized by hardening of inner lining of the blood vessels of the heart, brain etc. a process called atheroselerosis. When a clot forms, it results in coronary thrombosis or a heart attack, cerebral thrombosis or stroke.
Different dietary factors are responsible for atheroselerosis. Gross atheroma may be produced in rabbit by feeding it with cholesterol, but when you add lard (derived from hog fat) to the cholesterol, the incidence of atheroma is increased and thus you would produce coronary thrombosis, and myocardial infraction.
Besides, lard contains 2800 units of vitamin D per 100 grams and no vitamin A at all. Lately vitamin D has been held responsible for atheroma, by causing increased absorption of calcium in the blood vessels. In human beings, serum cholesterol is not dependent on the intake of cholesterol in the diet, but depends upon the proportion of animal fats in the diet, which elevates the beta-lipo protein level in the blood. Animal fats contain saturated fatty acids and these saturated fatty acids have been found to be as one of the causes of atheroma in man. Medium fat bacon contains 25% proteins and 55% fat.
According to medical research, the fat content in pork is more than any other meat (beef, mutton etc.) and it takes longer to digest. Dr. M Jaffer in an article in the Islamic Review (London) of January 1997 issue has listed 16 kinds of harmful germs, which have been discovered in pork in modern researches and the diseases, which could be caused by them. The number of patients suffering from tapeworm disease is the highest in the world among pork eating nations. Other diseases attributed to pigs are caused by tri-chinelia spirates and intestinal worms occupy first place among such nations too.
Dr. Glen Shepherd wrote the following on the dangers of eating pork in Washington Post (31 May 1952).
"One in six people in USA and Canada have germs in their muscles - trichinosis 8 from eating pork infected with trichina worms. Many people who are infected shows no symptoms. Most of those, who do have, recover slowly. Some die; some are reduced to permanent invalids. All were careless pork caters".
He continued "No one is immune from the disease and there is no cure. Neither antibiotics nor drugs or vaccines affect these tiny deadly worms. Preventing infection is the real answer."
After reading the statement of Dr. Shepherd, one can realize that there is no real guarantee of safety when eating pork that one would not be affected by trichina worm. That is why modern doctors advise three prohibitions during illness: no liquor, no pork and no smoking.
Many things acquire bacteria by poor handling and some thing are by nature impure and bacteria prone- like scavengers.
I am presenting these abstracts with a “fear of peak resistance”. Only one thing encourages me to overcome that fear – the pure intention to save human beings from a great health issue. I am presenting these pieces of information not with the intention to proof any religious believe or condemn any cultural behavior or hit any life-style. My whole intention is to point out what experts are saying about what the world is eating blindly.
Pork (meat from the domestic pig) is dangerous to health. A great care is recommended by experts before its consumption. Then why one eat a food full of risk where other sources are available that are less risky. Some may argue that the relevant adverse health cases are very rare . Let’s accept for a while but they can not deny the fact that all those cases are not forged. Most are properly investigated and the culprit was only one – pork itself. Some may argue that these pieces of information are not correct or not based on scientific evidences. Let’s accept this also for a while but we can not resist to accept this logic that whether we should eat an item which is doubtful instead of those many other which are doubtless and proven as safe and healthy by scientists and professionals.
So please give a mercy on your health and adopt healthy, pure, hygienic and safe life-style. Eat what is good. Not what is risky. Eat what is good for both health and taste . Not what is good only for taste.
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Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig
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Pigs can harbour a range of parasites and diseases that can be transmitted to humans. These include trichinosis, Taenia solium, cysticercosis, and brucellosis. Pigs are also known to host large concentrations of parasitic ascarid worms in their digestive tract.( http://www.thepigsite.com/pighealth/)
The presence of these diseases and parasites is one reason pork meat should always be well cooked or cured before eating.
Pigs are susceptible to bronchitis and pneumonia. They have small lungs in relation to body size; for this reason, bronchitis or pneumonia can kill a pig quickly. (http://www.pigs.org/...sp?article_id=3)
There is concern that pigs may allow animal viruses such as influenza or Ebola Reston to infect humans more easily. Some strains of influenza are endemic in pigs (see Swine influenza), and pigs also can acquire human influenza.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Reference: http://en.allexperts.../Pork-haram.htm
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Dr. E. Kazim. M.D. in his article "Medical aspects of forbidden foods in Islam" (July 1981 issue of Muslim Journal has described diseases carried or caused by the flesh of the swine.
He writes:
The pig is a scavenger. It is an omnivorous animal. It eats everything. There are many diseases carried from swine to man, particularly parasite infestations. Lately extensive research has been focused on senility-old age is characterized by hardening of inner lining of the blood vessels of the heart, brain etc. a process called atheroselerosis. When a clot forms, it results in coronary thrombosis or a heart attack, cerebral thrombosis or stroke.
Different dietary factors are responsible for atheroselerosis. Gross atheroma may be produced in rabbit by feeding it with cholesterol, but when you add lard (derived from hog fat) to the cholesterol, the incidence of atheroma is increased and thus you would produce coronary thrombosis, and myocardial infraction.
Besides, lard contains 2800 units of vitamin D per 100 grams and no vitamin A at all. Lately vitamin D has been held responsible for atheroma, by causing increased absorption of calcium in the blood vessels. In human beings, serum cholesterol is not dependent on the intake of cholesterol in the diet, but depends upon the proportion of animal fats in the diet, which elevates the beta-lipo protein level in the blood. Animal fats contain saturated fatty acids and these saturated fatty acids have been found to be as one of the causes of atheroma in man. Medium fat bacon contains 25% proteins and 55% fat.
According to medical research, the fat content in pork is more than any other meat (beef, mutton etc.) and it takes longer to digest. Dr. M Jaffer in an article in the Islamic Review (London) of January 1997 issue has listed 16 kinds of harmful germs, which have been discovered in pork in modern researches and the diseases, which could be caused by them. The number of patients suffering from tapeworm disease is the highest in the world among pork eating nations. Other diseases attributed to pigs are caused by tri-chinelia spirates and intestinal worms occupy first place among such nations too.
Dr. Glen Shepherd wrote the following on the dangers of eating pork in Washington Post (31 May 1952).
"One in six people in USA and Canada have germs in their muscles - trichinosis 8 from eating pork infected with trichina worms. Many people who are infected shows no symptoms. Most of those, who do have, recover slowly. Some die; some are reduced to permanent invalids. All were careless pork caters".
He continued "No one is immune from the disease and there is no cure. Neither antibiotics nor drugs or vaccines affect these tiny deadly worms. Preventing infection is the real answer."
After reading the statement of Dr. Shepherd, one can realize that there is no real guarantee of safety when eating pork that one would not be affected by trichina worm. That is why modern doctors advise three prohibitions during illness: no liquor, no pork and no smoking.
Many things acquire bacteria by poor handling and some thing are by nature impure and bacteria prone- like scavengers.
