Whatever for human organ building, nutrition, health care or preservation, vegetarian is essential to achieve physical and mental healthy. Human bodies are built up by a variety of chemical elements.
About 80% of the chemical elements belong to the alkaline, and about 20% belong to the acidic. In order to maintain chemical equilibrium of the human body, alkaline food we eat should accounts for 80% and acidic food should be 20%. Calorie consumption means burning body fat and sugar, generating acid waste, which leads blood to be acidic. In this case, people will feel tired and in low spirits. Our staple food, flour and rice are already acid food, if we eat other acidic food, such as fish, eggs, the alkaline minerals in our body will seriously inadequate.
As a result, it can even hamper the proper function of all organs, causing disease such as hypertension, cardiovascular, kidney, cirrhosis and other diseases. Therefore we should try to supplement the basic food to keep the body's acid-base balance.
Vegetarian has a long history in China. The way of vegetarian varies from person to person.
Vegetarian is more common in the elderly in our country. Sometimes, people tend to consider vegetarian as longevity because vegetarian food can bring a great benefit for physical and mental.
Modern nutrition and medical claimed that a long-term high-fat, high protein, high-energy diet will cause hyperlipoidemia, diabetes and other so-called modern "diseases of civilization." Meanwhile, latest studies have found that many plant foods contain not only the known nutrients, it also contains flavonoids, polysaccharides, polyphenols and other compounds which plays an important role on the human body to maintain it's balance.
Now a new trend of natural pure vegetarian diet is sweeping across the globe with unexpectedly speed. All people are willing to eat vegetables, whether it is based on health factors or it is just considered as a simple life, human regression to the original natural craves again on the taste.
Researchers have predicted that: edible natural and organic vegetarian will become the diet trend in the 21st century that we can't change. Vegetarian has lower blood fat than the average person, the chance of heart disease and vegans is much more lower, and vegetarians is usually not fat as they don't eat meat, the amount of animal fat intake is low; and because eating more fruits and vegetables, grain and bean, the eating of cellulose is higher than average person.
Scientists do many different styles of tests on vegetarians and non-vegetarians and the results are staggering: vegetarians, in terms of physical strength, endurance and efficiency, are 2 to 3 times as that of non-vegetarians. Nowadays vegetarians are respected in developed countries such as in Europe, America, and Southeast Asia.
And it is considered as the highest etiquette to entertain friends with vegetarian dinner.
However, Vegan will have adverse effects on the body. There is a data analysis shows that it makes no difference between the incidence rate of cardiovascular diseases in vegetarians and non-vegetarians. And bladder cancer, breast cancer incidence rate is significantly higher than that of non-vegetarians. Vegetarians often take up high cellulose, which reduces the absorption of iron, calcium, copper and zinc, and results in a variety of nutritional deficiency diseases. For example, vitamin B12 is generally only can be found in animal food, hence, Vegetarians often lack vitamin B12 and thus they are prone to severe anemia. Vegetarian can lead to lower estrogen levels in women.
Women of childbearing age with low estrogen levels can lead to birth disorders; girls of development with low estrogen levels can lead to delays or dysplasia for secondary sexual characteristics; menopausal women with low levels estrogen are prone to have gotten osteoporosis, fracture and aging accelerated.
Therefore, vegetarian should take notice on nutritional balance in order to ensure a healthy and vibrant body.
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