ISSUE 77 : 01-15 August 06 Last update August 1 ,2006 -*-
     
 

Vegetarian – the right way

Vegetarian is one of the healthy lifestyles. Do it at the right way can promote health and even cure many ailments.

Downside of Eating Meat The downside of eating meat are as following:
1.Obesity from over eating of protein and fat.
2.Hypercholesterolemia from saturated fat.
3.Hypertension from artheriosclerotic blood vessels.
4.Ishemic heart disease from occluded cardiac arteries.
5.Depleted brain function or even paralysis from cerebrovascular accident.
6.Gout from overloaded purine.
7.Degenerated arthritis from absorbed putrifractive toxin.
Allergy from foreign protein absorption.
9.Asthma related to chronic constipation.
10.Renal disease from overloaded amine.
11.Cancer
12.Depleted immune function.

Vegetarian is the answer for the better health.

Pitfalls of Wrong Doing Vegetarianism
There are two trends of wrong doing vegetarianism.

1.Over restricted, often practiced in Chinese elderly. Eating well polished rice with some salted cucumbers. It leads to malnutrition. Some other Chinese vegetarianism practiced at the temple, eating white rice with over cooked food. Most recipes are very oily with great amount of tofu. It leads to unproportional nutrient supply. High fat, high protein very low vitamins and phyto-chemical. Most vegetarian in this wrong way suffer from obesity, hyperlipidemia, heart disease etc. like those meat eaters.

2. Luxurious vegetarian, become very popular in these few years at the even of ten days Chinese vegetarian festival. This style of food contains of many meat imitated, oily menus. Very few overcooked vegetables. Some meals in Chinese restaurant are taken without rice. Ofcourse, artificial flavors, food additive, sugar and MSG[monosodium glutamate] are used unlimited. Obesity, high blood fat, high blood sugar, allergy, joint pain are the aftermatch of Chinese vegetarian festival. Eating vegetarian at the right way is more important than convincing people to accept vegetarianism.

Three principles

The right way to be vegetarian should prepare oneself as following:

1.Prepare the mind. Vegetarian is not just the way to eat. It means the way of thinking and the way of life one is living for. Human being is not the only creature that can survive in this world by oppressing and destroying all the other creatures or even the world environment. To be a good vegetarian should be appreciated to this philosophy. So he should be kind to everyone. He has plain living and high thinking. For those Buddhists, they should clink to the law of Panjasila.

2.Prepare the body. Vegetarianism is away to lead a healthy life. It means that one should know how to take the appropriate nutrient and get rid of toxins out of the body. Therefore one should eat natural food, fresh and clean. No junk food allowed. Eat at the certain amount that one feel enough, but not at the full stomach. One should do the fasting for health program to detoxify oneself too.

3.Prepare the kitchen. Vegetarian at the right way should prepare the food of high quality and appropriate nutrients. Do it as the following regimens.

Six Regimens

1.Eat brown rice. Brown rice contains complex carbohydrate, vitamin B, fibers, selenium, protein and even some unsaturated fat. Complex carbohydrate and vitamin B go together into the energy producing cycle to generate energy. Fibers fill up stomach to prevent over eating. They also clean up the bowel along the way they pass. Eating brown rice can have a good bowel habit, which prevent many disease such as allergy, asthma, joint pain and even cancer. Vitamin E and selenium work with other vitamins as antioxidants. Brown rice has protein too. It supplies appropriate proportion of essential amino acid, just only lycine which is a little bit lower. It can be compensated by taking some other whole grain or even tofu. Whole wheat bread is also savoury.

2.Eat beans and soy products and some other whole grains. Beans, nuts and many various kind of whole grains are encourages as healthy vegetarian foods. Soy bean is most savoury for its complete combination of essential amino acids, even though it has just a little bit low amount of methionine. This can be compensated by taking brown rice. Tofu is the most popular soy products. It is a valuable food, containing of protein, soluble fibers, important mineral such as calcium and many phyto-chemical substances. Tofu can be used as main protein supplement. Soluble fibers prevent constipation. Calcium in tofu is higher than cow milk. One serving of tofu [100 gm.] supply 250 mg. calcium, equal to calcium supplement from a cup of milk. All soy products consist of genistine, a kind of super-antioxidants to prevent degenerative change. It has phytoestrogen which can regulate menstrual function, protect ovarian, breast and prostatic cancers.

3.Eat fresh fruit and fresh vegetables. Fresh fruit and fresh vegetables have vitamins, minerals, hormones, enzymes and vital energy. Cooking destroys many vegetables factors. Eating vegetarian at the right way has to maintain 5 serving of fresh fruits and vegetables per day. 1 serving = fresh fruit juice 250 ml. = 1 apple medium size or other fruit at same amount = 100 gm. salad. Various kind of vegetables are good source of iron such as bean sprout, water crest, spinach etc.

4.Take grounded black sesame. Black sesame is a good source of calcium 1,452 mg./100 gm. Taking 1 table spoon of black sesame with meal, 3 times/day get 650 mg. calcium. take 3 spoonful of sesame plus 100 gm. of tofu can reach the mineral daily requirement of calcium.

5. Take vitamin B12 tablet. Vitamin B12 is essential in red blood cell production and neuromuscular function. In vegetarian food vitamin B12 is scarce. Some bacteria can synthesize this vitamin. So there is some report that fermented soy source may have some, nevertheless long term vegan are usually found deficiency of vitamin B12. Anemia, lastitude, anorexia are most common symptoms. To prevent this one should take vitamin B12 supplement [100 mcg. tab] according to how many decade one has taken vegetarian as following: Less than one decade = no need, one decade = 1 tab./week, two decade = 2 tab./week and so on. Chew the tablet before swallowing in order to enhance absorption. This is the recommendation for European, who are usually found to be lack of intrinsic factor to absorb B12 from the gut. For Asian people, who usually have such factor to absorb B12 may not be so strict to this rule. But one should be aware by observing some suggestive symptoms. If so vitamin supplement is recommended.

6. Take essential fatty acid supplement. Essential fatty acid [EFA] like gamma linolenic acid-GLA [Omega-6] from evening primrose oil and eicosapentaenoic acid-EPA and dicosahexaenoic acid-DHA [Omega-3] from marine products have been proved to be essential in cells metabolism. Long lasting deficiency of this group of nutrient leads to many ailments ie. inflammation, joint pain, migraine, dysmenorhea, increase rate of pletlets aggregrasion. Long term vegetarians may have very low level of serum cholesterol. This is the early laboratory finding of EFA deficiency, which reflex the malfunction of liver. To prevent this problem one should have blood test every 6 months. If serum cholesterol level lower than 150 mg.% , one should take EFA of any form such as fish oil 2 gm./day or evening primrose oil 2 gm./day. Take it until the serum cholesterol has been raised to the normal level at 150-200 mg.%

Vegetarian who strict to the 3 principles and 6 regimens can expect to live a long healthy life.