United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends. The overall performance of WHO will be measured by the impact of its work on women’s health. WHO activities aimed at health development give priority to health outcomes in poor, disadvantaged or vulnerable groups.
Vegan International contributes to the United Nations World Health Organization goals by provided documented information on the relationship between diet and disease. For example, at the September 2009 NGO Conference on Disarmament in Mexico City, Representative Sharon Wallenberg had a conversation with the Secretary of Mexico’s Department of Health, Doctor Enrico Ruelas, regarding his concern over Mexico’s skyrocketing incidence of Diabetes. Ms. Wallenberg informed Dr. Ruelas of the correlation between the meat and dairy based diet and incidence of diabetes. Ms. Wallenberg followed up by sending a copy of Dr. Neal Barnyard’s book on Diabetes to Dr. Ruelas.
As a result of development, the former healthful vegetable, rice and beans diet has been replaced by the meat and dairy based diet causing skyrocketing incidence of diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.
Vegan International provides information on the relationship between the meat and dairy based diet and disease. Heart disease is the number one killer of both men and women in the United States and the developed world. Diabetes is skyrocketing in the developing world. Heart disease, diabetes and cancer are all linked to the meat and dairy based diet. As a result of development, the former healthful vegetable, rice and beans diet has been replaced by the meat and dairy based diet causing skyrocketing incidence of diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.
According to WHO, one of the greatest threats to international health security arises from outbreaks of emerging and epidemic-prone diseases. One of the factors fueling these outbreaks is the way food is produced and traded, and the way antibiotics are used and misused. The World Health Organization has declared this to be one of the greatest threats to global health. According to WHO Director General Margaret Chan, “A post-antibiotic era means an end to modern medicine as we know it. Things as common as strep throat or a child’s scratched knee could once again kill.” According to the U.S. Center for Disease Control, there are an estimated 2 million drug-resistant infections that occur each year with a staggering 23,000 deaths. Animals raised for food are routinely given antibiotics in their feed and water. This is done to stimulate growth while simultaneously enabling stressed animals to survive in the disease ridden conditions on factory farms.
Vegan International provides information relating to the misuse of antibiotics. More disease results from the meat and dairy based diet because it is more susceptible to contamination, and overuse of antibiotics in animals raised for food causes antibiotic resistance in people.
WHO activities aimed at health development give priority to health outcomes in poor, disadvantaged or vulnerable groups. Vegan International provides proof that the plant based diet is the most affordable and most healthful diet available.
The compassionate vegan diet can prevent heart disease, the developed world’s leading cause of death of both men and women, diabetes and cancer.
Heart Disease occurs when plaques composed of cholesterol and fat from meat, fish, and dairy form in the arteries, preventing normal blood flow. The body produces enough of its own cholesterol. Meat, fish, and dairy add extra unneeded cholesterol which ultimately restricts blood flow causing heart disease, strokes, and erectile dysfunction.
Diabetes occurs when fat from meat, fish, and dairy fills the body’s cells. This makes it impossible for glucose from digestion to enter, and nourish the cells. All food – protein, carbohydrate, and fat – is broken down by the digestive process into glucose, a simple sugar. Glucose is used to nourish all the cells of the body. If glucose cannot enter, and nourish fat filled cells, it stays in the blood stream. Glucose, simple sugar, is removed from the blood by the kidneys and is excreted in urine causing the symptoms of diabetes.
Cancer starts when something goes wrong in a cell. The cell begins multiplying out of control, and forms a tumor. Meat, fish, and dairy products are high in hormones, and other carcinogens which speed the growth of abnormal cells. Meat, fish, and dairy contain no fiber, which is necessary to eliminate excess hormones, and toxins from the body. The plant based diet is high in protein, contains antioxidants, and protective nutrients which help prevent cancer, and also contains fiber which facilitates the removal of carcinogens and toxins.
There are a plethora of compassionate choices available for those who care about their own health, and the well-being of our fellow travelers on spaceship Earth. There are plant milks: soy, almond and coconut; non- dairy frozen desserts, meat substitutes like meatless meatballs, chic’kn cutlets, crabless cakes, and many more. There is even delicious non-bacon. Holidays can be festive with cruelty free, and delicious tofurky.
Heart Disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States today. Heart Disease results when the coronary arteries which bring blood and oxygen to the heart start to narrow, pinching off blood flow and threatening the viability of the heart. Arteries narrow due to the growth of small raised areas – little bumps – on the inside of arteries. These bumps are called plaques and are composed of cholesterol, fat, and cells over growing from the artery’s muscle layer. These plaques start forming in young adulthood – even in childhood. Fortunately, a vegan diet has been proven to prevent and reverse heart disease. (Read More)
Worldwide about 200 million people have diabetes. Diabetes is diagnosed when someone has an unusually high level of glucose in their blood, experiences fatigue, is losing water rapidly, and has excessive thirst. (Read More)
Cancer is currently the second leading cause of death in the developed world. Cancer starts deep within the cells of the body. In the cell, thousands of biological and chemical interactions occur every second. Each cell works hard to control the use of oxygen and various nutrients, communicate messages, create new substances, and build new cells. The trillions of cells in the body communicate, remove potentially toxic substances, repair injured cells, and prevent cells with damaged genetic material from reproducing. Cancer begins when something goes wrong in a cell. A cell’s DNA – the genetic blueprint deep inside a cell’s nucleus – can become damaged. An impaired cell multiplying out of control is the beginning of cancer. This growing mass of cells, or tumor, eventually invades healthy tissues. The tumor can spread to nearby tissues or to the blood stream where it can metastasize, or pass on to other organs or parts of the body. (Read More)
As the U. S. Congress scrambled to pass a funding bill to prevent another government shutdown, a well-heeled set of operatives was hard at work behind the scenes, ensuring that our government ramps up subsidies for a cruel, wasteful and irresponsible industry: factory-farming dairy production. (Read More)
Given the recent turn of events, it is unclear whether the U.S. Affordable Care Act really has been given a reprieve, or whether millions still risk losing their current health insurance benefits. Regardless, it is critical for the politicians in Washington to understand that the primary cause of America’s health care crisis is not a lack of health insurance. It is not rising drug costs or insufficient access to primary care medicine. It is federal agriculture policy. (Read More)
In October (2015), 22 scientists from 10 countries met at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon, France to evaluate the carcinogenicity of the consumption of red meat and processed meat. (Read More)