With the increasing living standards, urban people have excessive intake of fat, protein fat, and sugar, resulting in excess nutrients that not only cause obesity, but also cause high blood sugar, high blood lipids, and high uric acid. As a result, many people began to noticeably reduce their eating or even started to eat vegetarian food. Experts said that the appropriate reduction in meat intake, a vegetarian one day a week or vegetarian one-day meal, this way of eating can reduce cholesterol, reduce the burden on the stomach, longevity.
The benefits of vegetarianism
Vegetarian digestible, reduce toxins from the body
Vegetarian mainly refers to the dietary habits of vegetables, fruits, beans, grains, seeds and nuts. Zhi Zhiyong, a TCM physician at the Department of Gastroenterology at Liwan District Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that these vegetarian diets are easily digested and absorbed, and the meat is not digestible in the stomach, and even the majority of the fashion of the large intestine is undigested or only half digested.
From the anatomical structure of the human body, the human intestine is similar to the herbivore, but unlike the carnivorous animals, the stomach acid of the carnivorous animal is twenty times that of human beings. Such a strong acid environment is sufficient to digest the meat and bones.
Dr. Wang believes that when animals are slaughtered, they will have a lot of toxic secretions due to anger, fear, sadness, pain, and struggle. People will eat this kind of meat and eat toxins into their bodies, which will increase the detoxification of the kidneys and liver. Organ load makes people susceptible to disease and prone to aging.
In addition, vegetarian food contains a lot of cellulose, can stimulate the speeding up of peristalsis, which is conducive to laxative, so that the harmful substances discharged in time, reducing the damage of harmful substances on the intestinal wall.
The lack of vegetarianism
Vitamin A deficiency, but also susceptible to stones
Although vegetarian diets have many benefits, full vegetarianism can lead to iron deficiency anemia and calcium deficiency. Excessive intake of vegetables can also be harmful, such as spinach, green vegetables, celery, tomatoes, etc. contain more oxalic acid, combined with calcium in other foods, easy to form calcium oxalate stones, which is a lot of women who like to eat vegetarian stones One of the causes of the disease. At the same time, vegetarians often lack of vitamin A, vitamin E intake, the lack of these two vitamins, so that gallbladder epithelial cells easily fall off, resulting in cholesterol deposition, but also easy to form stones.
In addition, complete vegetarianism leads to imbalance in the proportion of food ingredients, resulting in insufficient intake of animal protein. Even if supplemented with plant proteins such as legumes, their absorption and utilization are far less than those of animal proteins. When a fully vegetarian protein intake is insufficient, protein, carbohydrates, and fat in the body will be unbalanced, which will cause a drop in immunity, anemia, and indigestion. The relevant departments have conducted special nutritional surveys on some “family membersâ€. The analysis results show that they basically suffer from different degrees of malnutrition, have weak immune functions, and are prone to various infectious diseases.
Metropolitan people have great work pressure. To maintain their energy, they should eat proper amounts of protein and fat every day, and use reasonable diets and meat and vegetables to avoid diseases.
Solution
One day a day or one day a meal is more appropriate
According to report, Liu Xiaojun, the chief physician of the Encephalopathy Department of the Second Hospital of Guangdong Province, once spent a whole year of vegetarianism. He said that full vegetarianism requires great perseverance and is particularly difficult to maintain. In our country's food culture, dinner is definitely a must. Once you are vegetarian, your friends will gradually alienate you. On one occasion, a group of friends from Director Liu met to deliberately order a dish for a friend. As a result, the friend said that he did not eat meat because of his vegetarian diet. He had originally had a lively dinner. Because this friend was vegetarian, everyone was a little disappointed. . From then on, good friends often seldom call this vegetarian friend.
In addition to the disappointment at the table, pure vegetarianism is still unable to meet the fast-paced needs of the city. Director Liu said that because of vegetarianism, it does not stick to a bit of phlegm, the gastrointestinal emptying is fast, and it is particularly prone to hunger, so vegetarians eat very much at that time. Not only did the vegetarian diet not lose weight, but it was 20 pounds longer.
Director Liu said that a more realistic and appropriate approach is to have a vegetarian meal every day or a meal a day for three meals a day. This way, a reasonable mix of ingredients will not only avoid excessive intake of fat and fat, but also make nutrition more comprehensive. This is the way to health and longevity.
Tips
Women should not be vegetarian in three periods
(1) Childbearing age: If you are a vegetarian, you can cause a decrease in estrogen levels and cause birth disorders;
(2) adolescence: long-term vegetarian diet can cause female hormone levels can not "reach the standard" and lead to secondary sexual development or stunting retardation, hinder women's breast, gonadal development and affect the female form beauty;
(3) Menopause: Menopausal women have reduced or lacked estrogen production and secretion due to ovarian atrophy. If you have a long vegetarian diet at this time, the symptoms of "menopausal syndrome" are particularly pronounced. The lack of estrogen levels can easily lead to osteoporosis, which is the cause of bone fractures.
The interviewed expert/ Guangdong Province, the Second Chinese Hospital chief physician Liu Xiaojun Liwan District Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital attending physician Wang Zhiyong