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    Let Food be the Medicine for Healthcare and Climate
    Let Food be the Medicine for Healthcare and Climate
    Let Food be the Medicine for Healthcare and Climate
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    Let Food be the Medicine for Healthcare and Climate

    By Peter A.J. Holst MD PhD

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    Increased consumption of energy, animal fat and red meat has occurred in different regions of the world after the transition to a more industrialized diet and fast food in these countries.

    USA

    Western Europe

    The Netherlands

    Middle East

    East Asia

    Polynesia

    Fast food and an increase in meat consumption in the West is imitated in other parts of the world. The ceiling of meat and meat products production has already been achieved with the current 7 billion world population. The production of meat (products), poultry, pork and other meat has tripled between 1980 and 2010 and is expected to double again by 2050. The increase in meat and dairy products are only produced through artificial insemination of livestock. Cows are constantly re-fertilized after the birth of the calves by artificial insemination, so that their milk will never stop flowing. Milk, cheese and meat production are inextricably linked.

    All climate changes show that growing plants for food is much better for the planet than animal breeding for food. Global warming is the greatest threat to all life on earth. All life depends on the oceans. The circulation in the North Atlantic has slowed to the lowest level since centuries. Scientists fear that the delay of the Atlantic Gulf Stream will destroy the fishing industry and lead to a rise in sea level.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPeter A.J. Holst MD PhD
    Release dateJun 25, 2018
    ISBN9781386904069
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      Let Food be the Medicine for Healthcare and Climate - Peter A.J. Holst MD PhD

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      Peter A.J. Holst worked as a general practitioner in Rijswijk-Den Haag from 1970 to 1984. In his early years as a general practitioner, Holst was also supervisor of a clinic for birth control in Delft (Dr. Rutgers Foundation) for several years. The Rutgers Foundation was successful in the seventies of the twentieth century with its counseling agencies for contraception, the Rutgershuizen. In 1969 and 1970 he held evening office hours at the Rutgershuis in Delft. When the St Hippolytus hospital on the Phoenixstraat in Delft moved to a new location, the former hospital was transformed into a business collection building and, under the direction of Holst, the incubator department on the top floor of this building was converted into a number of consultation and examination rooms of the new Rutgershuis in Delft. He has placed about 250 IUDs in all of the following practical years, including in his own general practice during evening consultation hours for contraception and cervical smears. He held back-guard consultation hours for the morning after pill. Real ‘Hagueneses’ then asked for the 'morning after save pill'.

      In 1970 he established himself as a general practitioner in Rijswijk Steenvoorde bordering on The Hague Moerwijk-Morgenstond. Under the influence of the Nederlands Huisartsen Instituut and the Nederlands Huisartsen Genootschap, his practice was set up from the beginning with a surveillance schedule. This means that age groups are always tested for the risks that occur in the age group. As additional operations during consultation contacts at least once the blood pressure was measured, for example also once from 50 years the eye pressure measured and noted, the stool examined for occult blood loss from 50 years, in risk groups also an electrocardiogram was made, etc. At the beginning of my general practice, I found a severe pneumonia in a young woman of 20 years old. Very special for this age. After treatment with an antibiotic she recovered. Because she had a cage with a parakeet in her bedroom, however, I wondered whether the presence of a cage bird in the house could possibly cause more serious illness.  A 17 year old boy died of bone cancer in his leg during the first years of my practice. This young man and his father had constantly kept and bred at least 100 tropical songbirds in a basement. One can imagine the risk of repeated bird flu and the occurrence of blood and bone marrow episodes with slow-moving carcinogenic bone infection in such intensive contact. Because of the many consultation hours and home visits to my own patients and control patients, ten lung cancer patients came to my attention in a year. Of these, there were six birds keepers in the years before the diagnosis. After consulting with Professor F. de Waard of the RIVM, department of epidemiology, I have set up a ten-year practice survey and follow-up studies. The statistical link was demonstrated, which was later confirmed in studies in Berlin and Glasgow.

      In 1987, this research led to his PhD at the University of Utrecht on the relationship he demonstrated between breeding and keeping birds indoors and lung cancer. He defended the hypothesis that lung cancer in bird keepers and bird breeders is the result of persistent infection of the deeper basal cells in the airways. His promoters were Prof. F. de Waard, epidemiologist of the RIVM, Professor P. Zwart, special veterinary faculty and D. Kromhout, nutritional epidemiologist. These basal cells, also called cancer stem cells, are still multipotent and do not die if the cell is infected with a bacterium like the Chlamydia that can only propagate in a living host cell. The practical studies and the dust measurements with TNO were subsidized by the Dutch Prevention Fund. After this he started working as director of Health, Safety and Environment services.

      After his retirement in 2005, he started traveling a lot. Born in Zeeland, on land in the sea, the sea-hole and the wide world continued to attract him. In the meantime he has crossed all the oceans several times after more than 20 cruises. The volcanic islands in the Pacific Ocean are very impressive. All first life forms originated here and spread out via South-America to Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia. From the primordial soup of the Pacific Ocean the fish, amphibians, birds, dinosaurs and mammals were created. Very special is that no great apes existed in both Americas. In North and South America there are no great apes, only howler monkeys and capuchin monkeys. The great apes and homo sapiens have arisen in central Africa. The oldest cultures are found in the Far East. From around 4,000 years ago, the 10,000 Polynesian islands in the Pacific Ocean were last occupied by humans from Taiwan and South-East China.

      Only apes can touch their reproductive organs by hand. This evolution is both anatomically and functionally meaningful. Monkeys and great apes have a great hand skill. They can pick their nose. From an evolutionary point of view, it is far more important that they are the only living beings who can touch their sexual organs with their hands. For the more intelligent species of great apes, such as bonobos and chimpanzees, the liberation of the instinctive process of procreation came within reach. Only humans, thanks to the increased brain volume and complexity of the brain, are capable of birth control, both contraception and fertility studies and treatments. This process began in the middle of the twentieth century

      The knowledge and control of the reproductive processes has also been used by humans in livestock farming. Artificial insemination in breeding animals was applied on a large scale. Since the fifties of the 20th century, intensive breeding in livestock farming has increased significantly. Bovine leukemia virus (BLV) and chicken leukemia virus (ALV) have been detected in cows and poultry. The proportion of animal proteins and fats in the diet has increased strongly in the West. Large differences are found worldwide in cancer deaths, which are spectacularly lower in India, China and Japan. Difference in diet is the cause of this.

      Gratitude

      I would like to thank the Netherlands Prevention Fund for the financial support they have given to the research in my general practice, the research in collaboration with The Hague pulmonologists and the dust measurements by TNO in homes in Zoetermeer.

      The British American Tobacco came to us with a delegation, directly after the first research report in the British Medical Journal. I have had several follow-up meetings. All research data were reviewed in collaboration with the statistical institute of the University of Leiden. This led to the publication at Springer Verlag of my book: Bird Keeping as a Source of Lung Cancer and Other Human Diseases. A Need for Higher Hygienic Standards. It was known that smoking cigarettes is bad for health but now it was shown that especially in bird breeders there is much more risk for lung cancer. This hobby is widespread in the Netherlands, Belgium and England, three countries with the highest lung cancer mortality rates in the world. The number of smokers in the Netherlands has decreased with equal tax income. Asbestos remediation has been fully initiated, thanks to improved regulation of working conditions and environmental measures. The lung cancer problem due to the large-scale breeding of tropical birds and pigeons is great. It appears to be difficult to enforce

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