{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 57/1908-12-17/p023","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"With regard to individual foods, we can highlight certain advantages of plant-based nutrition. When humans obtain their protein from plant-based foods, which admittedly requires harder work, they develop strengths that refresh their nervous system. Much of what humanity would face if meat-based nutrition became predominant can be avoided by giving preference to plant-based foods. We can see how contradictory the effects of vegetarian and animal-based foods are. To illustrate this, we can say the following: Let us look at the physical process under the influence of meat-based foods. The red blood cells become heavy and darker, and the blood has a greater tendency to clot. Salts and phosphates are more easily deposited. With a predominantly plant-based diet, the blood cells' tendency to settle is much lower. It becomes possible for humans to prevent their blood from becoming too dark in color. This enables them to control the connection between their thoughts from their ego, whereas heavy blood is an expression of their slavish devotion to what is incorporated into their astral body through animal food. This image shows us, as an external expression of truth, what we wanted to say. Human beings become stronger internally through their relationship with the plant world. Through meat-based nutrition, they incorporate something that gradually becomes foreign matter, which goes its own way within them. This can be avoided if the diet consists primarily of plants. When the substances within us go their own way, they exert forces that cause hysterical and epileptic states. Because the nervous system receives these impregnations from outside, it succumbs to various nervous disorders. Thus we see how, in a certain sense, “man is what he eats.”","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Questions Regarding Nutrition in the Light of Spiritual Science","site_heading":null,"date":"1908-12-17","location":null,"word_count":277,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1908-12-17/p023","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"eLib2014","book_title":"Where and How Does One Find the Spirit?","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA057/English/eLib2014/19081217p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1908-12-17/p023"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1908-12-17/p023","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Es bilden sich in leichterer Weise Einschläge von Salzen, von Phosphaten. Bei vorzugsweise pflanzlicher Nahrung ist die Senkungskraft der Blutkörperchen viel geringer. Es wird dem Menschen möglich, das Blut nicht bis zur dunkelsten Färbung kommen zu lassen. Dadurch aber ist er gerade imstande, vom Ich aus den Zusammenhang seiner Gedanken zu beherrschen, während schweres Blut ein Ausdruck dafür ist, daß er sklavisch hingegeben ist an das, was seinem astralischen Leibe durch die Tiernahrung eingegliedert ist. Dieses Bild zeigt uns durchaus als äußeren Wahrheitsausdruck, was wir sagen wollten. Der Mensch wird durch das Verhältnis zur Pflanzenwelt innerlich kräftiger. Durch Fleischnahrung gliedert er sich etwas ein, was nach und nach zu wirklichen Fremdstoffen wird, die eigene Wege gehen in ihm. Das wird vermieden, wenn die Nahrung vorzugsweise aus Pflanzen besteht. Wenn die Stoffe in uns eigene Wege gehen, so üben sie gerade Kräfte aus, die hysterische, epileptische Zustände hervorrufen. Weil das Nervensystem diese Imprägnierungen von außen erhält, verfällt es den verschiedenartigen Nervenkrankheiten. 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