In all digestive disorders, there is a lack of nutriments absorbed by the body. This is the next best advice to growing your own food or sprouting seeds and making your own juices. It is rare for a person who has gone to these precautions to have any sort of digestive problems. Meat and Colon Disease Everyone is familiar with the stench of putrefying cooked meat that has been left out of the refrigerator in a warm place for many hours. This same fetid phenomenon occurs in the human intestine as digestion of meat takes place.
Meat requires many more hours than fruits, vegetables, or grains to digest.
During this time, the meat decomposes and harmful acids and other toxic compounds are released into the intestine. There is a high incidence of colon cancer among meat eaters. There are 57,000 deaths a year from colon and rectal cancer yearly in the United States. Studies have shown that a lower incidence of colon and rectal cancer occurs among Mormons of Utah because they are advised by their Prophet, Joseph Smith, that meat is to be used sparingly only in times of cold and famine. The Seventh-Day Adventists, who are vegetarians, also have a very low incidence of colon cancer.