Vegetarianism is a very broad term. If you look at food
recommendations by various health authors some commonalities are that
raw fruits and vegetables are health builders, lightly steamed
vegetables if they need some cooking. Eating nuts and seeds prolongs
life. Herbs and spices have many health benefits.
Vegetarian sources of protein include those in vegetables and grains,
which eaten together balance the amino acids, and seeds and nuts, but
nutritional yeast can be added daily for balanced amino acids and also
B Vitamins.
Whole grains and high fiber foods like legumes are good for your
intestines, heart, and health in general. Grains are an issue with me,
as it took me a few decades to identify whole wheat and grains
containing gluten as one cause of IBS-type symptoms for me. I was
avoiding hi-carbohydrate foods but now eat buckwheat, rice, millet, and
quinoa.
OTOH, white flour and white sugar are universally-acknowledged health
robbers, along with artificial ingredients in foods. The wrong oils,
wrong omega 6: omega 3 balance, and cooking methods can kill.
I think that is where vegetarianism in itself will not be a deciding
factor in health as much as whether one eats live-enzyme raw and
fermented foods or dead ones- cooked foods, processed foods, whole
wheat cookies, deep fat fried potatoes and sugary soy drinks. I'm
finding that eating the foods that make the body more alkaline and
correct the omega 6:3 ratio is helping me a lot. The ratio should be
as low as 2:1 but is as high in the western diet as 30:1. It's
impossible to have a healthy ratio without high omega 3 oil containing
foods such as flaxseed, a very small number of other seed oils, kelp
and fish oils. A good source of data-
http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts-C00001-01c21xq.html
Nancy
On Jan 22, 2008, at 3:34 AM, Wayne Fugitt wrote:
I have always said, ......... the problem lies in finding enough
quality foods, and it is even worse today, and impossible.
Sol said
I just know my body really deteriorated into severe ill health over
30 years of almost constant vegetarianism.
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