What do you think would happen if you do not have anything except for all sorts of meat and dairy products? You will die in about a year. And what happens if you eat only vegan or vegetarian foods, vegetables, fruits, legumes, cereals, nuts and seeds? You will certainly be much healthier than most people.
This fact should be the initial step in understanding what is and what is not a good diet. So if somebody you ever say that meat is essential, you can be sure this person does not know what he says. You know these cases, when a smoker who smokes like a chimney suddenly becomes a major expert on health, when it comes to vegetarianism.
Health is the main concern of parents are not vegetarians, when their offspring decide to stop eating meat. Parents believe their children are ill or weakened by a bunch of diseases without the daily servings of protein of dead animals. In fact, they should be happy because all the evidence shows that vegetarians are much healthier than meat-eaters always.
According to recent data, including the World Health Organization report, people who use meat, eat twice as sweet, and three times more fatty foods than is necessary for the organism. If we consider the age group from 11 to 16 years, then in this age, children consume three times more unhealthy food. A good example of a fatty and sweet food can serve as a cola, hamburgers, chips and ice cream. If these products are the main source of food, it is bad in terms of what children consume, but also what they do not get fed on a diet.
Let's look at a hamburger and what harmful substances it contains. At the head of the list - saturated animal fat - all hamburgers percentage of its content is very high. Fat is mixed with minced meat, even if the meat seems to skim. Chips are also often fried in animal fat and they soaked them in the cooking process.
This, of course, does not mean that all fats are unhealthy food - it all depends on what kind of fat you eat. There are two main types of fat - saturated fats, found mainly in vegetables, and saturated fats in foods of animal origin. Unsaturated fats are healthier for the body than saturated, and a certain quantity is necessary in any diet. Saturated fats are not necessary and probably one of the most important discoveries related to human health, is the fact that saturated animal fats affect the development of heart disease.
Why is this so important? Because heart disease is the most dangerous lethal disease in the Western world. Meat and fish also contain a substance called cholesterol and a substance together with fats cause heart disease. Unsaturated fats such as olive, sunflower and corn oil, on the contrary, help to reduce zakuporivaemost vessels in animal fats.
Hamburgers, as well as almost all meat products contain many harmful substances, but they lack many needed for the body substances such as fiber and five much-needed vitamins.
Fibres are hard particles of fruits and vegetables that the body can not digest. They contain no nutrients, and pass through the esophagus without any changes, but they are very important to the body. The fibers can deduce from the innards leftovers. Fiber does the work of brushes, cleaning the intestines. If you consume enough fiber products, the food will take longer to move along the insides of the digestive system, with poisonous substances will have a greater effect on the body. Lack of fiber foods in conjunction with the abundant use of animal fat leads to a fatal disease like cancer of the colon.
Recent medical studies have also identified three vitamin that helps protect the body from nearly 60 diseases, including deadly as heart disease, paralysis and cancer. This vitamin A (only from plant foods), vitamins C and E, which are also called antioxidants. These vitamins displace molecules called free radicals. The body constantly produces free radicals as a result of breathing, doing physical exercises and even digesting food. They are part of the process of oxidation - a similar process leads to corrosion. These molecules do not cause the body to corrosion, but they act as uncontrollable hooligans, scurrying through the body, burst into the cells and destroy them. Antioxidants clean free radicals and stop their harmful effects on the body, which can lead to infection.
In 1996, nearly 200 studies have confirmed what are the benefits of antioxidants. For example, the National Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School have found that use an vitamins A, C and E with fresh fruit and vegetables, we can reduce the risk of cancer and heart disease. These vitamins even help keep your brain in old age.
However, none of these three antioxidants not found in meat. The flesh contains little or no vitamin D, which controls the level of calcium in the blood, or potassium, which promotes blood coagulation. The only source of these vital substances to the health of fruits, vegetables and sunlight, as well as butter.
Over the years there have been many scientific studies on how different diets affect the well-being of man. These studies have undoubtedly shown that a vegetarian or vegan diet is best for human health. Some of these studies compared the diets of tens of thousands of people in such remote places of the planet as China and America, Japan and Europe.
One of the most extensive and most recent research was conducted in the UK Oxford University, and his first results were published in 1995. The study examined 11,000 people after the age of 13 years and came to the staggering conclusion that the vegetarians had 40% fewer cancers and 30% less heart disease and they have less chance of sudden death after old age.
In the same year in the U.S., a group of doctors called the Physicians Committee, came to the more surprising results. They compared a hundred different studies conducted in different parts of the globe, and on the basis of the data concluded that vegetarians have a 57% lower risk of heart disease and 50% of cancer diseases. They also found that vegetarians are much rarer cases of high blood pressure, but even those who have the pressure was high, it still had a tendency to fall.
To reassure parents say that these doctors also found that the brains of young vegetarians is developing quite normally. In children, vegetarians, at the age of ten years, there is a tendency to accelerate the mental development, in contrast to peers meat-eaters. Arguments Committee of Physicians, was so convincing that the U.S. government agreed that "vegetarians good health, they receive all the necessary nutrients and vegetarianism is a suitable diet for the citizens of the United States."
The most common argument against meat-eaters such discoveries - vegetarians are healthier because they drink and smoke less, so the study yielded such good results. Not true, since such a serious investigation always compare identical groups of people. In other words participated in the study but not drink vegetarians and carnivores.
But none of the above mentioned facts can not prevent the meat industry advertising meat as the healthiest food in the world. Although it is true, the advertisements caused parents to worry. Believe me, the producers of meat products do not sell the meat to make people more healthy, they do it to earn - more money.
Okay, so what diseases are sick vegetarians, meat-eaters who do not get sick? None of these! Surprisingly, is not it?
"I became a vegetarian because of animal welfare, but received the same and other unexpected benefits. I began to feel better - more flexible, which is very important for an athlete. I no longer need to sleep for many hours and waking up, now I feel a relaxed and cheerful. My skin was better and I am now much more energetic. I love being a vegetarian. "
This fact should be the initial step in understanding what is and what is not a good diet. So if somebody you ever say that meat is essential, you can be sure this person does not know what he says. You know these cases, when a smoker who smokes like a chimney suddenly becomes a major expert on health, when it comes to vegetarianism.
Health is the main concern of parents are not vegetarians, when their offspring decide to stop eating meat. Parents believe their children are ill or weakened by a bunch of diseases without the daily servings of protein of dead animals. In fact, they should be happy because all the evidence shows that vegetarians are much healthier than meat-eaters always.
According to recent data, including the World Health Organization report, people who use meat, eat twice as sweet, and three times more fatty foods than is necessary for the organism. If we consider the age group from 11 to 16 years, then in this age, children consume three times more unhealthy food. A good example of a fatty and sweet food can serve as a cola, hamburgers, chips and ice cream. If these products are the main source of food, it is bad in terms of what children consume, but also what they do not get fed on a diet.
Let's look at a hamburger and what harmful substances it contains. At the head of the list - saturated animal fat - all hamburgers percentage of its content is very high. Fat is mixed with minced meat, even if the meat seems to skim. Chips are also often fried in animal fat and they soaked them in the cooking process.
This, of course, does not mean that all fats are unhealthy food - it all depends on what kind of fat you eat. There are two main types of fat - saturated fats, found mainly in vegetables, and saturated fats in foods of animal origin. Unsaturated fats are healthier for the body than saturated, and a certain quantity is necessary in any diet. Saturated fats are not necessary and probably one of the most important discoveries related to human health, is the fact that saturated animal fats affect the development of heart disease.
Why is this so important? Because heart disease is the most dangerous lethal disease in the Western world. Meat and fish also contain a substance called cholesterol and a substance together with fats cause heart disease. Unsaturated fats such as olive, sunflower and corn oil, on the contrary, help to reduce zakuporivaemost vessels in animal fats.
Hamburgers, as well as almost all meat products contain many harmful substances, but they lack many needed for the body substances such as fiber and five much-needed vitamins.
Fibres are hard particles of fruits and vegetables that the body can not digest. They contain no nutrients, and pass through the esophagus without any changes, but they are very important to the body. The fibers can deduce from the innards leftovers. Fiber does the work of brushes, cleaning the intestines. If you consume enough fiber products, the food will take longer to move along the insides of the digestive system, with poisonous substances will have a greater effect on the body. Lack of fiber foods in conjunction with the abundant use of animal fat leads to a fatal disease like cancer of the colon.
Recent medical studies have also identified three vitamin that helps protect the body from nearly 60 diseases, including deadly as heart disease, paralysis and cancer. This vitamin A (only from plant foods), vitamins C and E, which are also called antioxidants. These vitamins displace molecules called free radicals. The body constantly produces free radicals as a result of breathing, doing physical exercises and even digesting food. They are part of the process of oxidation - a similar process leads to corrosion. These molecules do not cause the body to corrosion, but they act as uncontrollable hooligans, scurrying through the body, burst into the cells and destroy them. Antioxidants clean free radicals and stop their harmful effects on the body, which can lead to infection.
In 1996, nearly 200 studies have confirmed what are the benefits of antioxidants. For example, the National Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School have found that use an vitamins A, C and E with fresh fruit and vegetables, we can reduce the risk of cancer and heart disease. These vitamins even help keep your brain in old age.
However, none of these three antioxidants not found in meat. The flesh contains little or no vitamin D, which controls the level of calcium in the blood, or potassium, which promotes blood coagulation. The only source of these vital substances to the health of fruits, vegetables and sunlight, as well as butter.
Over the years there have been many scientific studies on how different diets affect the well-being of man. These studies have undoubtedly shown that a vegetarian or vegan diet is best for human health. Some of these studies compared the diets of tens of thousands of people in such remote places of the planet as China and America, Japan and Europe.
One of the most extensive and most recent research was conducted in the UK Oxford University, and his first results were published in 1995. The study examined 11,000 people after the age of 13 years and came to the staggering conclusion that the vegetarians had 40% fewer cancers and 30% less heart disease and they have less chance of sudden death after old age.
In the same year in the U.S., a group of doctors called the Physicians Committee, came to the more surprising results. They compared a hundred different studies conducted in different parts of the globe, and on the basis of the data concluded that vegetarians have a 57% lower risk of heart disease and 50% of cancer diseases. They also found that vegetarians are much rarer cases of high blood pressure, but even those who have the pressure was high, it still had a tendency to fall.
To reassure parents say that these doctors also found that the brains of young vegetarians is developing quite normally. In children, vegetarians, at the age of ten years, there is a tendency to accelerate the mental development, in contrast to peers meat-eaters. Arguments Committee of Physicians, was so convincing that the U.S. government agreed that "vegetarians good health, they receive all the necessary nutrients and vegetarianism is a suitable diet for the citizens of the United States."
The most common argument against meat-eaters such discoveries - vegetarians are healthier because they drink and smoke less, so the study yielded such good results. Not true, since such a serious investigation always compare identical groups of people. In other words participated in the study but not drink vegetarians and carnivores.
But none of the above mentioned facts can not prevent the meat industry advertising meat as the healthiest food in the world. Although it is true, the advertisements caused parents to worry. Believe me, the producers of meat products do not sell the meat to make people more healthy, they do it to earn - more money.
Okay, so what diseases are sick vegetarians, meat-eaters who do not get sick? None of these! Surprisingly, is not it?
"I became a vegetarian because of animal welfare, but received the same and other unexpected benefits. I began to feel better - more flexible, which is very important for an athlete. I no longer need to sleep for many hours and waking up, now I feel a relaxed and cheerful. My skin was better and I am now much more energetic. I love being a vegetarian. "
