Eight medical reasons to prohibit swine flesh

Why did Islam prohibit eating theflesh of swine?
The answer to this question has remained debatable among Muslims and
those of other religions who eat the flesh of swine and breed pigs, as
they were unconvinced of the reasons for which Islam forbade eating
the flesh of swine until they werepanic-stricken by the epidemic
outbreak of swine flu that overwhelmed the world.
Let Dr. Hassaan Mustafa, a member of the World Union of Health in
Canada, enumerate to us the diseases transmitted by the flesh of swine
to man:
1. The pig cannot get rid of the entire quantity of uric acid that
isformed in its body, given that it isthe main element of urine. It
getsrid of only 2% and 98% remains in its flesh. That simply means
that the flesh of swine is saturated with the main element of urine,
which the bodies of all living beings on the surface of the earth
endeavor to get rid of through the urinary system, due to the
poisonous substances it contains. This is why those who eat the flesh
of swine have high rates of arthritis, due to the high rate of uric
acid in their blood.
2. The flesh of swine is hard to digest; and it takes four
completehours in order to be digested, given that the amount of
digested protein that is absorbedafter that process does not exceed
14%. For this reason, the flesh of swine is nutritiously bad and
unworthy of the money paid for it, given that the flesh of swine, in
many countries, is moreexpensive than the flesh of other animals whose
flesh is edible with no similar problems.
3. The flesh of swine contains high rates of the growth hormone, which
accelerates the proliferation of cancer cells if there are any.
4. The fat of swine is hard to digest and emulsify in the digestive
system. The greatest portion of it is formed of harmfulsaturated fats.
It is absorbed from the intestines into the blood in the form of huge
molecules, that might possibly sediment on the walls of blood vessels
and block them, causing blood clot, let alone sclerosis andnoticeable
high rates of cholesterol and saturated fats (triglycerides) in the
blood.
5. The fat of swine sediments in the human body in the same place it
comes from in the pig; and this is indeed strange!!! If thefat comes
from the belly of the pig, it would settle in the belly of the person
who eats it. In this way, the fat of swine helps distort the human
body.
6. Eating the flesh of swine paves the way for many ailments and skin
problems and diseases, like pimples, sores, fat sacks, and itching,
for it contains a high rateof histamine.
7. Pigs and their flesh are the source of more than 57 parasitic,
germ-caused and virus-caused diseases transmitted to man, of which a
mention may be made ofTrichinella, from which the flesh of swine could
hardly be free. Trichinella parasites remain in the muscles of man,
causing severe pains that might probably paralyze their movement. They
might also remain in the diaphragm, causing breathlessness and
consequently death. Moreover, those parasites might remain for more
than thirty years in the muscles after encasing themselves in a calcic
sac.
It is quite interesting to know that an American researcher published
on the Archives of Internal Medicine website in 11/6/2001 that the
renowned German musician Mozart (d.1791) likely died because of eating
uncooked flesh of swine 44 days before the beginning of his 15-day
fatal ailment. He was infected by Trichinella, which hadnot yet been
known at that time.
8. The body of the pig in itself is regarded as a biological factory
that has the potential to producevirus-caused diseases and epidemics
that might affect man due to the genetic resemblance of pig cells to
those of man. The world pandemic called swine flu which we are
witnessing now is a result of the metamorphosis and merging of the
viruses of bird flu, human flu and swine flu, together inside the body
of the pig. They have been metamorphosed into a new deadly virus that
is transferred from pigs to people and from man to man. In Canada, a
case has been recently recorded where that disease was transmitted
from an infected person to a herd of pigs, thus making that pandemic
enter a dangerous integrated cycle.