Don Kirkman wrote:
>
> It seems to me I heard somewhere that Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD wrote in
> article >:
>
> >Don Kirkman wrote:
>
> >> It seems to me I heard somewhere that Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD wrote in
> >> article >:
>
> >> >Don Kirkman wrote:
>
> >> >> It seems to me I heard somewhere that Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD wrote in
> >> >> article >:
>
> >> >> >You just described salad :-)
>
> >> >> So how often do you eat a salad of Sudan grass, timothy or alfalfa hay,
> >> >> rolled barley, and meadow grasses, and maybe some dried shredded sugar
> >> >> beet pulp or cottonseed cake?
>
> >> >When I eat salad, I typically add alfalfa, cereals, and grasses (herbs)
> >> >to romaine and iceberg lettuce leaves.
>
> >> Yes, and cows don't eat lettuce at all.
>
> >They do eat romaine lettuce if you provide it.
>
> And you would pay fifty cents or a dollar a bundle for fifty pounds of
> romaine for any cows you might own (dozens or hundreds for dairy
> farmers)? You're daft!
>
> >> Nor do you make your main diet
> >> alfalfa, grasses, or hay. You add alfalfa *sprouts*, which cows do not
> >> eat, and I doubt you add raw barley or hay, which cows eat regularly.
>
> >Cows can eat cooked barley.
>
> And you'd boil up forty or fifty pounds of rolled barley for your herd
> of ten or twelve cows which can eat raw rolled barley perfectly well
> (and actually would prefer it)? I'm beginning to think you uttered
> another untruth when you wrote that you had been on a farm. :-) And
> "can eat" != "will eat."
>
> >No matter how you try to refute it, there is nothing wrong with calling
> >what cows eat "salad" for purposes of enlightening folks that for losing
> >weight it is not what we eat but how much we eat that matters. The cows
> >aren't bothered by it, so why should you?
>
> The cows aren't reading your ignorant drivel. You can't enlighten folks
> by feeding them false information.
>
> >> You would not survive on a cow's
> >> diet since your stomach cannot process the cellulose--unless you have a
> >> four-chambered stomach like cattle do.
>
> >Actually, that would depend on the actual composition of the diet.
> >Cellulose is fiber and though indigestible is not toxic.
>
> I specified the actual composition of the diet: "a cow's diet." Thank
> you for agreeing with me that your stomach cannot process the cellulose.
> The natural diet of a cow is very high cellulose, and would not leave
> room for enough other nutrients for a human.
>
> In truth cellulose, a carbohydrate, is the foundation of a ruminant's
> natural diet. "By definition, herbivores are able to digest cellulose
> perfectly, making them the only domestic animals that can eat grass.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^
> Without herbivores, grass would have no other use. By feeding cereals to
> herbivores, we have substituted a product that can be consumed by
> ruminants only (grass) with a product that can be consumed by man or
> other animals (maize)."
> http://europa.eu.int/comm/agricultur..._en/report.htm
>
> Sort of a two-fer there; cows naturally eat and digest cellulose
> perfectly, and no other domestic animals (including humans) can eat
> grass. :-)
>
> You seem to be equally uninformed on a wide variety of topics. :-)
"A discerning man keeps wisdom in view, but a fool's eyes wander to the
ends of the earth."
Would be more than happy to "glow" and chat about this and other things
like cardiology, diabetes and nutrition that interest those following
this thread here during the next on-line chat (12/08/05):
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In Christ's love always,
Andrew
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