and to avoid beef and dairy products
Mounting research shows there’s a compelling link between a particular kind of protein and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Lou Gehrig’s disease.
http://www.realfarmacy.com/alzheimers-foodborne/The CAFO-Alzheimer’s Connection
If you eat meat from a cow infected with Mad Cow Disease, you can contract the human version of the disease, known as Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). As noted by Center for Food Safety,11 which reported on the 2012 Mad Cow outbreak:
“Tissue from infected cows’ central nervous systems (including brain or spinal cord) is the most infectious part of a cow. Such tissue may be found in hot dogs, taco fillings, bologna, and other products containing gelatin, and ground or chopped meat.
People who eat contaminated beef products are at risk of contracting the human version of mad cow disease… The disease slowly eats holes in the brain over a matter of years, turning it sponge-like, and invariably results in death…
The incubation period for ‘mad cow’ disease in cattle is thought to be approximately five years; it may be latent in humans for a decade or more before manifesting itself.”
Just last year, Mad Cow claimed the life of a Texas man—the fourth American victim of the disease.12 Symptoms of vCJD are similar to Alzheimer’s and include staggering, memory loss, impaired vision, and dementia,13 and there’s no known cure.