Vegetarians don't eat meat, including pigs, cattle, mutton and fish and shrimp. Fish oil is rich in essential fatty acids, which has significant preventive and therapeutic effects on cardiovascular diseases. If you don't eat fish, you will naturally reduce a major source of essential fatty acids that play an important role in human health.
People who are vegetarian for a long time will lack vitamin B 12, which will lead to thickening of the inner wall of arterial blood vessels and arteriosclerosis. Vitamin B 12 needed by human body is mainly obtained from meat, eggs or milk. If you are a vegetarian for a long time, eat less eggs and drink less milk, and don't take vitamin tablets at ordinary times, after 5 to 6 years, your body will lack vitamin B 12, leading to anemia. Insufficient vitamin B 12 can also cause fatigue, irritability, loss of appetite and memory loss. In addition, vegetarian dishes are often rich in oil and salt, which easily leads to high blood pressure in vegetarians.
With the popularization of scientific knowledge and the continuous improvement of people's quality of life, the elderly began to realize that excessive consumption of greasy food such as big fish and meat may lead to many diseases. Therefore, many old people have a soft spot for vegetarianism, and some old people don't eat meat all year round. Medical experts believe that this is not in line with physiology and nutrition, it is unwise and harmful to physical and mental health. Long-term vegetarianism can only accelerate aging.
Simple vegetarian intake will lead to imbalance of food composition and many diseases.
The relevant departments conducted a special nutrition survey on some monks. The analysis results show that they are basically malnourished to varying degrees, have weak immune function and are prone to various infectious diseases. This is related to people's aging, hair whitening, tooth loss, osteoporosis, cardiovascular diseases and so on. Manganese deficiency not only affects bone development and cannot meet the needs of metabolism, but also causes bone pain, fatigue, hunchback, fracture and other diseases. Manganese contained in plant food is difficult to be absorbed by human body, and only manganese contained in meat food is easy to be absorbed by human body.
People need a lot of protein and fat every day to stay energetic, and meat products just supplement this deficiency of vegetarian food. In addition, there are more plant fiber components in vegetarian diet, which can reduce the reabsorption of cholic acid and the concentration of bile salts. Furthermore, vegetarians often have insufficient intake of vitamin A and vitamin E. The lack of these two vitamins makes gallbladder epithelial cells fall off easily, which leads to cholesterol deposition and stones. Therefore, vegetarianism is not a magic weapon for good health. If the elderly want to maintain a strong body, they need a reasonable diet and a combination of meat and vegetables to avoid being troubled by diseases.