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Pork - no, thank you!

  • 20-08-2006 12:58pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 689 ✭✭✭


    Influenza (flu) is one of the most famous illnesses which pigs share with humans. This illness is harbored in the lungs of pigs during the summer months and tends to affect pigs and humans in the cooler months. Sausage contains bits of pigs' lungs, so those who eat pork sausage tend to suffer more during epidemics of influenza. Pig meat contains excessive quantities of histamine and imidazole compounds, which can lead to itching and inflammation; growth hormone, which promotes inflammation and growth; sulphur-containing mesenchymal mucus, which leads to swelling and deposits of mucus in tendons and cartilage, resulting in arthritis, rheumatism, etc.

    Sulfur helps cause firm human tendons and ligaments to be replaced by the pig's soft mesenchymal tissues, and degeneration of human cartilage. Eating pork can also lead to gallstones and obesity, probably due to its high cholesterol and saturated fat content. The pig is the main carrier of the taenia solium worm, which is found it its flesh. These tapeworms are found in human intestines with greater frequency in nations where pigs are eaten. This type of tapeworm can pass through the intestines and affect many other organs, and is incurable once it reaches beyond a certain stage. One in six people in the US and Canada has trichinosis from eating trichina worms which are found in pork.

    For more see http://www.themodernreligion.com/misc/hh/pork.html


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,297 ✭✭✭Reyman


    All interesting, but hardly for the fitness forum surely?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 689 ✭✭✭esperanza


    Reyman wrote:
    All interesting, but hardly for the fitness forum surely?

    Well, seen as there's no health forum on boards.ie, this was the best I could find. Health and fitness are interrelated, aren't they.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,341 ✭✭✭✭Chucky the tree


    what about the food forum aswell?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 689 ✭✭✭esperanza


    what about the food forum aswell?

    What about boards.ie creating a Health forum? Where do I make a posting about a bad back for example? ??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,816 ✭✭✭Vorsprung


    Biology/Medicine?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,027 ✭✭✭flywheel


    esperanza wrote:
    Well, seen as there's no health forum on boards.ie, this was the best I could find.

    food / drink forum?
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=35
    esperanza wrote:
    Where do I make a posting about a bad back for example? ??

    depends on what you were looking for... suppose here if you were looking for recommendations on a professional to see about it e.g. physio etc... info re medical instruction would break this boards charter which you'd know as you already read it ;)


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