1) Long life. Nutritionists believe that vegetarians live longer than non-vegetarians. The Hanseatic people in northern Pakistan and the Indians in central Mexico are primitive vegetarian peoples, and their average life expectancy is extremely high. Admirable. Buddhist monks and Seventh-Day Adventists also live longer because of food. ?
2) light weight. Vegetarians weigh less than meat eaters because they have less unnecessary fat. ?
3) reduce cholesterol content. Vegetarians always have less cholesterol in their blood than meat eaters. If there is too much cholesterol in the blood, it will often cause blood vessel obstruction and become the main cause of diseases such as hypertension and heart disease. ?
4) reduce the risk of cancer. Studies have pointed out that meat is closely related to colon cancer. ?
5) Less parasites and the like. Striped worms and several other parasites are transmitted to humans through infected meat. ?
6) Reduce the burden on the kidneys. Waste from various higher animals and human bodies is brought to the kidneys through blood. Once the meat eaten by meat eaters contains animal blood, the burden on the kidneys becomes heavier. ?
7) Easy to store. Plant protein is usually easier to store than animal protein. ?
8) The price is low. Vegetable protein is cheaper than meat. ?
9) Ecological principles. The land needed to produce one pound of beef can produce ten pounds of vegetable protein. Many ecologists predict that the population explosion will force the whole world to be vegetarian. ?
10) is full of changes. Vegetarian housewives often find that using vegetable protein can cook excellent and delicious dishes better than using ordinary meat, and the cooking methods are varied, which can arouse good appetite. ?
[Author: Shi Yuan reposted from: Beijing Jinyulai Mental Health Counseling Center]?
My job is fashionable-editing a fashion magazine, but since I became a vegetarian last year, many people around me are curious. They can't associate vegetarianism, a dietary habit that only Buddhists used to have, with fashionable and energetic modern people. ?
After SARS, when people have to re-examine their dietary concepts and habits, vegetarian food is likely to become the dietary fashion of China people in the future. ?
This prediction is not because I am a vegetarian, but because my vegetarian reasons and experiences will become the knowledge of more and more people of insight. ?
If you can save 5000 or more lives by doing nothing, don't you want to do such a thing? ?
Most people will definitely answer simply: yes. ?
This thing is vegetarianism. ?
Let's do a simple calculation. Since you no longer eat all the meat, you will eat at least one chicken every month. From now on, let's just say that you still have 40 years to live (the average life expectancy of China people is 67 years), then 480 chickens will not die because of you; Because you don't eat fish, at least four fish survive every month, so 40 years later 1920 fish won't die because of you; Because you don't eat all aquatic animals, such as shrimp, clams, crabs and eels, you have saved thousands of lives, so in 40 years, you have saved more than 5,000 lives, but you only need to change your eating habits for such a thing. This was my initial motivation to become a vegetarian. ?
I think every kind person should cherish his innate sympathy, and cherishing other people's lives means cherishing himself. And our body and mind have benefited a lot from it. ?
The essence of poor temperament is that there are too many toxins accumulated in the body that cannot be removed?
Our internal organs are like a huge factory, and many organs are responsible for different functions. Various toxins in food will be filtered and decomposed by the liver and gallbladder to ensure the cleanliness and health of the body. ?
However, because the meat we eat now contains huge toxins, even if the liver and gallbladder work day and night, it is not enough to completely remove the accumulated toxins, so that these toxins do great harm to our internal organs. ?
The liver is damaged first. Because the work of liver detoxification is very heavy, a worker who works 24 hours a day and never has holidays seems to have a tired day. If the liver doesn't work normally, toxins will accumulate more and bring greater burden to the liver. Once the liver has staged problems, people's "liver fire" will be particularly prosperous, showing irritability, unable to bear a little injustice, and always solving interpersonal relationships with a confrontational attitude. ?
The second is cardiovascular. Because a lot of animal fat is accumulated in the blood, people now live in an excellent environment and seldom exercise. These fats and cholesterol become the direct cause of blood viscosity. The fat and cholesterol contained in blood will make people become qi stagnation and blood stasis, which will have psychological effects on people such as anxiety, suspicion and even world-weariness. ?
Again, it's nerves. Because all kinds of toxins enter the human body, the liver and gallbladder can not be completely removed, and many toxins will enter the human brain with the blood, causing a lot of damage to the nervous system. Depression, schizophrenia, or neurotic reaction as we often say, are all caused by the imbalance of various elements secretion in the body. The accumulation of various toxins in the body is an important reason for this imbalance. ?
Is this how toxins accumulate?
Hairy crabs are fed dead cats, dead dogs or hormones, and eels take birth control pills. This is not sensational, it is publicly disclosed by the media. ?
The reason why crab farmers use these terrible means is only to satisfy the gluttony of hairy crabs in the city. As for the men who ate Monopterus albus fed by birth control pills, the number of sperm in semen was greatly reduced. ?
At present, the fish served in some restaurants are fed with fish bone meal or fish meal. These feeds are made of fish bones or carrion mixed with a lot of hormones. It takes only half the time for fish to grow to the same weight after eating this feed. But this kind of feeding method is also used by some Europeans to feed cattle, which eventually drives them crazy. So mad cow disease became the last weapon for poor cows to defend themselves. Will this way of feeding fish now lead to mad fish disease in the future? ?
And ham. In order to increase the production of ham, some pig farmers have designed a kind of "standing cage" for pigs, which can only make pigs stand but not lie down, so that the four legs of pigs are always in a state of tension, without fat, only muscles. Pigs are naturally lying down, and now they are allowed to stand every day. These pigs finally get schizophrenia. ?
A key question is how the negative emotions of animals affect people. ?
Scientific experiments in various countries have fully proved that all kinds of animals secrete corresponding elements because of certain emotions. For example, after ham and pigs suffer from schizophrenia, their bodies will be filled with a lot of toxins; Animals such as fish, cattle and sheep are slaughtered because of fear and hatred, and the instantly released toxins will stay in the body for as long as 16 hours. ?
The medical experiment of a Nobel Prize winner also proved the phenomenon that emotions become tangible things. The experimenter inserted a tube into a person's nose, and the other end of the tube was ice and snow. If people's mood is stable, ice and snow will not change color; If this person is angry, breathing can turn the snow and ice into purple, and the purple snow and ice will be injected into the mouse, and the mouse will die within 2 minutes. And the angry mother will breast-feed the newborn just after giving birth, and the baby will die because of this milk sweat. ?
Emotion is materialistic, not purely abstract. Just like a materialized body will produce certain emotions, physiology and psychology are highly interactive, and physical poisoning will lead to emotional poisoning, and vice versa. ?
Knowing these hazards, I tried to get rid of the habit of eating meat. Because the benefits of vegetarianism are obvious.
Although vegetables and fruits are now promoted by chemical fertilizers, firstly, the contents of these drugs in plants are lower than various hormones in animals, and more importantly, by soaking for a long time, the chemical fertilizer residues in the tendons and epidermis of vegetables and fruits can be largely eliminated; However, toxins accumulated in animals are difficult to decompose and excrete because they penetrate into animal cells and tissues. ?
Another reason is that our cells grow healthily in a weak alkaline environment. The nature of plants is weak alkaline, but the meat quality of all animals is acidic. If a large amount of acidic substances are accumulated in the body, symptoms such as fatigue and limb weakness will occur. Acidic substances are also hotbeds for many bacteria. ?
In addition, the previous eating habits of orientals, especially China people, determine that our inheritance is different from that of westerners, such as short intestine and fast peristalsis. Therefore, our digestion of meat has brought a huge burden to the organs, which is just as inappropriate as letting Tai Chi, which has been soothing and elegant, spread the boxing path. ?
What is vegetarian food?
There are several kinds of vegetarians. One is vegetarians, that is, they eat aquatic animals instead of land animals. One is the big poison, that is, all meat is not eaten, even onions, garlic and leeks, because these dishes are spicy and fishy, which makes people's temperament fluctuate easily. ?
There are several ways to be a vegetarian: one is a vegetarian with meat noodles, that is, eating vegetables fried with meat, but not eating all kinds of meat; There is also a vegetarian diet, that is, a few days a month to eat vegan. There is also a vegetarian diet, which means not eating all the meat for many years. ?
My vegetarian course went through the following stages.
The first stage: eating flower elements and small elements. This period lasted about a year. The difference between me and other vegetarians is that I first give up eating all living things and only eat Sanjin meat, which is what the sage said: I don't eat when I smell killing, I don't eat when I see killing, and I don't eat when I am autotrophic. First one day, then two days, and then gradually increase the number of vegetarian days. ?
The second stage: eating meat. On the one hand, it won't give too much trouble to people who don't understand the meaning of vegetarianism. I'll follow whatever you order, just picking vegetables to eat. ?
The second stage: eating vegan. At this stage, because people around me already know that I am a vegetarian, as if I was born a vegetarian, I am no longer surprised by my diet. At this time, I can be very comfortable, just eat vegetables and fruits, and don't give anyone any burden. ?
What about nutrition? Is that enough? ?
This is a concern of almost all people who dare not be a vegetarian. ?
Vegetarianism is as scientific as all other eating habits. If you don't know nutrition, you will be undernourished if you eat anything. ?
My experience is that vegetarians can basically ensure comprehensive nutrition as long as they grasp the balance of five colors. The so-called five-color balance means that the daily food ratio should be matched with red, yellow, green, white and black to meet the daily nutritional needs. ?
Red: tomatoes and other vegetables and fruits rich in vitamin A; ?
Yellow: sweet potatoes, pumpkins and other foods that contain crude fiber and help digestion; ?
White: rice, noodles and tofu, supplemented with enough protein, calcium and carbohydrates; ?
Green: all-green vegetables, supplemented with various vitamins and refined fiber; ?
Black: Mushrooms, fungi and other foods that help detoxify or activate the cardiovascular system. ?
Tofu is the best food for all vegetarians. It is not only richer in protein and calcium than meat, but also very beneficial to human absorption. ?
If the protein absorption rate of meat is only 0.3, the protein attraction rate of tofu can be as high as 0.7 or even 0.8. ?
Therefore, as long as the diet is balanced, nutrition can completely meet the normal needs of others. For example, when I was a vegetarian, I not only went to work normally, but also took an MBA from Peking University on weekends. A lot of schoolwork and editing work are extremely exhausting, but vegetarianism has not only brought me health obstacles, but has made positive changes in my body and mind. ?
The initial change is that periodontitis, which has troubled me for many years, tends to heal. The principle of periodontitis attack is that the oral environment is in an acidic state for a long time, and anaerobic bacteria and candida are easy to breed, so gingival bleeding, periodontal swelling and pain or oral ulcers occur. Before I became a vegetarian, I had an attack every month, which was very painful. After being a vegetarian, the oral environment has been greatly improved because all foods are alkaline vegetables and fruits. There is only one toothache and two ulcers a year, and those two ulcers are caused by eating too many foods that are easy to get angry, such as crispy rice and walnuts. ?
The next change is a significant improvement in sleep quality. Because the burden of organs used for digestion is greatly reduced, when sleeping, the whole body is in a very leisurely state, just like employees who don't have to work overtime, they are always in a good mood, and there will be no vicious circle of hoarding food and dreaming, so sleep will naturally be stable and deep. ?
With the passage of time, the influence of vegetarianism on my character gradually emerged. ?
I used to be a hothead. I like three times five divided by two, and I am straightforward with people. From the efficiency point of view, this seems to be an advantage, but many times, this way will make me regret my recklessness or thoughtlessness. ?
After I became a vegetarian, my temperament gradually became peaceful and calm, and I felt that my body was light and nothing could pose a heavy burden mentally. Treat people with a gentle rhythm. The benefits of this change surprised me.
First, people around me have a lot less pressure because of my gentleness. Second, I can look at things from the simplest and simplest perspective, which makes it easier for me to grasp the essence and solve it properly. People around us have realized this change and get along with each other more easily and harmoniously. ?
Will vegetarianism win respect?
As a healthy eating habit, vegetarianism has positive effects on both body and mind. And a healthy person is always welcome, and the virtue and wisdom people possess because of their clear mind and body will make others respect them more. When I travel abroad and buy a plane ticket, I have to make a statement, so when I change my boarding pass, the staff around me see on the screen that I ordered a vegetarian meal, and I always look respectful, because in today's western society, vegetarians are very civilized people, usually celebrities or senior intellectuals. Westerners believe that a person will not become a vegetarian unless he reaches a certain level of moral education, so vegetarians are particularly respected. ?
Some people want to be vegetarian, but they are afraid of being regarded as different by others. I had the same worry. Nowadays, the world is very interesting. In the early years, the economic conditions were not good enough, so it was normal not to eat meat. Now, just returning to a simple life will be considered eccentric. But my experience is that since vegetarianism is both civilized and healthy, we should declare it with confidence and tell the benefits of vegetarianism in a way that others can accept without causing others to dislike it, so that people around us will gradually turn from understanding to recognition, and our pressure will be reduced. It seems that people around me are happy to accompany me to be a vegetarian now. I treat people at home and outside, all vegetarian dishes. Friends or customers say that they usually eat too much fish, and occasionally eat a pure vegetable white rice, which is very refreshing. ?
The pressure from family members may be greater than that from society. As the whole family does not change their eating habits together, it is inevitable that eating meat and vegetarianism are incompatible. I don't think vegetarians should point out or force their families to change immediately in other radical ways, which is likely to make them rebellious. ?
On the one hand, when family members haven't changed their eating habits, they can eat minced meat or cook vegetarian dishes without interfering with each other; ?
On the other hand, improve the level of cooking vegetarian dishes, so that family members have a good impression on vegetarian dishes; We should also make ourselves healthy, so that our family members don't have to worry about the nutritional problems after vegetarianism, thus giving birth to the confidence of vegetarianism as soon as possible. ?
It is also very important to establish a vegetarian habit and stick to it, that is, to interact with more people with vegetarian habits, influence each other and encourage each other, so as to strengthen their confidence in vegetarianism. ?
Let's start the vegetarian action one day earlier in order that we can all walk the future with a calm and serene heart and a comfortable and healthy body! ?
This is online. I am 2 1 year old. Sophomore. Since July 3, I have been a vegetarian and very healthy. I know an old woman who has been a vegetarian for more than 20 years and has a very good spirit! Do not take medicine. So vegetarianism is a very healthy thing. Hold on! Come on!