Diseases of Civilization (aka "Lifestyle Diseases")
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2008
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
According to the World Health Organization, people who live in high-income countries and middle-income countries predominantly die of chronic "lifestyle" diseases or "diseases of civilization"(Alzheimer's disease, atherosclerosis, asthma, cancer, chronic liver disease, Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, osteoporosis, stroke, depression, diverticulitis, gallstones, and obesity). In low-income countries, people predominantly die of infectious diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and influenza. we’ve come so far in learning how to prevent infectious diseases. We should all be very grateful that we don’t have to contend with malaria on a daily basis – that we wake up and have little chance of contracting whooping cough. But what have we traded this for? We have all the information we need to prevent 80% of premature deaths and we do nothing. For what?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Food for Thought. My name is Colleen Patrick Edro from Compassionate Cooks. |
| 0:18.0 | I founded Compassionate Cooks to empower people, to make informed food choices and to debunk myths about vegetarianism and |
| 0:26.1 | animal rights. You can learn more about who we are and what we do by visiting |
| 0:30.3 | our website Compassionate Cooks.com. I also encourage you to visit and |
| 0:34.8 | join our message board to find community and camaraderie and support. You can |
| 0:39.7 | find it by going to compassionate cooks community.com. I also want to remind you that if you want to help |
| 0:46.0 | spread the word about this podcast in a way that will encourage people to listen, hopefully, |
| 0:50.8 | we have podcast sampler CDs and you can order them at our website. |
| 0:55.0 | I'd also like to announce that a new CD is hot off the presses. |
| 1:01.0 | It's called Compassion in Action, The Joys and benefits of living vegan and the intention in creating the |
| 1:07.7 | CD was to express just that in a 70 minute CD and I'm sure you appreciate how difficult that was for me to do |
| 1:15.5 | considering the fact that these episodes these podcast episodes now average 40 |
| 1:20.4 | 45 sometimes 50 minutes. So imagine trying to compress all of this down into 70 minutes. |
| 1:28.3 | And I made this CD for vegans and non-vegans, mostly for non-vegans. For vegans and listeners of this |
| 1:36.4 | podcast, I don't think you'll learn much that's new on the CD. You know my basic |
| 1:42.2 | approach to and philosophy of what it means to be vegan and |
| 1:46.1 | that is in short to try and create as little harm as possible and as much |
| 1:51.4 | compassion as possible in this world. |
| 1:54.0 | For me, being vegan is about being unconditionally compassionate, |
| 1:58.0 | not trying to attain some impossible level of perfection. |
| 2:02.0 | Being vegan is a means to do that, to be fully compassionate, it's |
| 2:06.0 | certainly not an end. So I wanted to express this in a CD so that you can most certainly |
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