Vegetarianism mainly refers to the eating habits based on plant foods such as fruits, vegetables, beans, grains, seeds and nuts. Eating vegetarian food has many advantages, but it doesn't mean that you never know the taste of meat. Every year165438+1October 25th is designated as "International Vegetarian Day". The establishment of "International Vegetarian Day" is to advocate people to eat more vegetarian food and less meat, give full play to the benefits of vegetarian food, promote human health and stay away from diseases!
With the improvement of living standards, modern people consume too much fat, protein fat and sugar, resulting in overnutrition and malnutrition. From the point of view of nutrition, the golden ratio of meat and vegetables in human diet should be 2:5, that is, 2 points for meat and 6 points for vegetables. However, with the development of economy and the improvement of life, people tend to eat more animal food, and even turn this ratio upside down to become a vegetarian with 7 meat 1 minute. The so-called disease comes from the mouth, and unhealthy eating habits are the root causes of many modern diseases such as obesity and diabetes. The confirmation of International Vegetarian Day reminds people to get rid of this uncoordinated eating habit, eat more vegetarian food and develop healthy eating habits.
In addition, because meat has more calories and less cellulose content, the amount of feces produced after digestion is large, which is not conducive to intestinal peristalsis. Feces accumulate in the intestines for a long time, and the water is absorbed, which becomes dry and forms constipation. At the same time, feces accumulate in the intestine, and the toxins in it are absorbed by the intestine, which will cause diseases such as bad breath, fullness and vomiting. On the contrary, many vegetarian foods such as vegetables contain a lot of cellulose, which can increase intestinal peristalsis and promote defecation, which is beneficial to human health. Let's look at the benefits of eating vegetarian food.
Benefits of vegetarianism 1: Longevity.
Regular vegetarianism can prolong life. According to nutritionists, vegetarians can live longer than non-vegetarians. Hanseatic people in northern Pakistan and Indians in central Mexico are primitive vegetarians with enviable average life expectancy. Buddhist monks also live long because of food.
The second benefit of vegetarianism: reducing the accumulation of toxins in the body.
Vegetarian nutrition is very easy to digest and absorb, while meat is difficult to digest in the stomach. Even if it enters the large intestine, most of it is undigested or only half digested, so meat is extremely corrupt in the large intestine and harmful to the human body.
Benefit 3 of vegetarian diet: lower cholesterol content
Vegetarians always have less cholesterol in their blood than meat eaters. If there is too much cholesterol in the blood, it will often cause blood vessel obstruction and become the main cause of diseases such as hypertension and heart disease.
Benefit 4 of vegetarianism: It can prevent cancer.
Some cancers are closely related to meat, especially colorectal cancer. Factor food contains a lot of cellulose, which can stimulate intestinal peristalsis, promote defecation, make harmful substances in the body excrete in real time, and reduce the stimulation and damage of harmful substances to intestinal wall. American research data show that the cancer incidence of vegetarians is 20% to 40% lower than that of meat eaters. In addition, gastric cancer, lung cancer and liver cancer are all related to food toxins, so vegetarian diet can really delay the change of cancer cells.
Five benefits of vegetarianism: it can reduce chronic diseases.
For renal patients with renal insufficiency, vegetarian diet can reduce the burden on the kidneys without reducing the intake of protein. It is also reported in the literature that vegetarian diet can improve rheumatoid arthritis, and vegetarian diet can improve immunity and prevent the occurrence of chronic diseases.
Benefit 6 of vegetarianism: Avoid uric acid is too high.
Eating meat regularly will produce too much uric acid, which will lead to the overload of the kidney, which is related to the occurrence of renal failure and kidney calculi. Vegetarianism can eliminate this influence.
Benefit 7 of vegetarianism: It helps to neutralize the body's acid and alkali.
People's constitution is alkaline. Eating too much meat tends to make body fluids acidic and increase the chance of getting sick. Vegetarian diet contributes to the acid-base neutralization of constitution.
Benefit 8 of vegetarianism: Reduce the risk of pancreatitis
Eating a lot of meat will lead to a sharp increase in trypsin secretion, and poor excretion of pancreatic head will lead to serious digestive diseases such as pancreatitis. All fruits, vegetables and grains are easy to be directly digested and absorbed. Cellulose in plants can stimulate intestinal peristalsis, support loose feces and prevent constipation.
Benefits of vegetarianism 9: Stabilizing the nervous system
Generally speaking, grains, hard nuts, vegetables and fruits commonly used in vegetarianism, including enough protein, carbohydrates, vegetable oils, minerals and vitamins, are all essential nutrients for human body. Vegetarian food can build human tissues, maintain and repair tissues, generate heat, supply human physical strength, make human blood alkaline, prevent blood from being harmful and acidic, be rich in vitamins and stabilize the nervous system.
Benefits of vegetarianism 10: Enhance human endurance.
Vegetarians can endure long hours of hard work more than meat eaters, and this endurance is nearly three times; Fatigue recovery time is about one fifth of that of meat eaters. For example, some of the world champion records in swimming, basketball, football, weightlifting, boxing, wrestling, race walking, marathon and cycling were created and maintained by vegetarian athletes. These vegetarian athletes are far more explosive, endurance and physical fitness than meat-eating athletes.