Go Vegetarian
A busy lifestyle will never help you to lead a healthy life. You have to make some lifestyle changes in order to lead a healthy life. If you are not aware of how to be healthy, then here are a few health tips that can be useful to you. The basic foundation for a strong body is laid by the food we eat. So, first, understand the type of foods you eat and eliminate those that are not good for the body. Try to eat a well-balanced meal every day. It will provide you with all the necessary nutrients required for the proper functioning of all the organs in the body.
Include a lot of fruits and vegetables. They are full of all the essential nutrients. They can be digested easily too. Instead of consuming unhealthy and junk foods you can include a lot of fruits and vegetables for snacking. Processed, oily and fatty foods are not good for the body. They may increase your calorie intake but may not provide you with the necessary nutrition. People become obese and prone to various health problems by eating such kinds of foods. Another important thing is water. Water is very essential for many functions in the body. So drink a lot of water, at least eight glasses a day. It helps to eliminate all waste materials.
Exercises are also very important for a healthy lifestyle. They are very important because they help you to increase the flexibility, gain strength and improve the overall fitness of the body. There are different kinds of exercises. Most of them are very easy and can be done from your home itself. If you have a health club nearby, it is a good idea to enroll and visit it regularly. By doing various kinds of exercises like stretching, weight-training and cardio workouts you will be able to improve your health greatly. Try to create a workout schedule of about 30 minutes for at least thrice a week. You will be able to experience good results immediately. Doing regular exercises and following the health tips can help you to prevent different health problems.
Digestion is the process by which foods and liquids are broken down to their smallest parts so that the body can absorb them and nourish cells to provide us with energy. Without digestion we wouldn’t be able to absorb the nutrients from our foods.
Eating processed foods can cause bloating, fatigue, and you might not get many nutrients from it. Eating foods that nature has given us helps us feel alert, satisfied and energized. Juicing gives us tons of energy instantly because our body doesn’t have to work hard to digest and breakdown the juice
Avoid Cold Drinks during a meal
Drinking cold beverages during a meal can slow down digestion. Food is broken down and digested more effectively at body temperature.
You can think of it as almost freezing your insides temporarily so that they cannot do what they need to do at that moment. So, instead, food goes by improperly digested, and your body’s unable to retrieve the nutrients and energy from it that it needs. By decreasing the activity of your digestive system, cold beverages rob you of the nutrition of the food you ate. Also, when you drink cold beverages, your body has to use energy in order to warm up that liquid inside your body. This is also robbing your body of the energy it needs to properly process the food you have eaten. Instead of working to get all the nutrition of the food, your digestive system is instead working on regulating the temperature of the cold drink. If you need to drink while eating, try warm water or herbal teas. Be careful with caffeine. Caffeine can cause excess production of stomach acid so it is wise to avoid caffeine. Cut sugars
Chew your food!
Chewing your food releases valuable enzymes in your mouth and lubricate the food allowing for less stress on your esophagus and stomach. Enzymes released while you chew your food, helps to break chemical bonds.
So what are some benefits to chewing your food thoroughly?
– Aids in the proper transport of nutrients in your body.
– Helps start the important digestive process which is important to being healthy.
– You are more than likely to not eat as much by eating thoroughly. When you are eating slower, your brain can tell you that you are full, causing you to eat less.
– Helps to prevent the heavy feeling that sometimes follows a meal and it also will help you lose body fat since you are not eating as much.
What are some of the side effects of not chewing thoroughly?
– Poorly digested food means poor absorption of the vitamins and nutrients that the foods you are eating provide.
– Eating rapidly and swallowing large mouthfuls contributes to the reflux which can damage the lining of the throat and esophagus. About 44% of Americans experience reflux or heartburn at
least once a month, 20% have it every week and 7% suffer from it daily.
– Other side effects include flatulence, indigestion, heartburn, gas, IBS, and other discomforts. Chewing each bit thoroughly allows less air to enter in which decreases gas and burping. With an
increasing number of individuals with IBS, constipation, abdominal spasms and bloating, chewing food could possibly prevent a number if these daily discomforts. (Getyouinshape)
Few important points for our healthy eating and healthy living
- Eat Organic Food
- Eat Raw Fruits
- Eat Raw Vegetables
- Take Proper Combination of Food
- Maintain Proper Timing of the Food
- Eat Properly chewing the food
- Saliva mixing with the food
- Low diet food & Avoid Late night food
- Do Fasting once or twice in a month
- Proper Tooth Cleaning
The type of food we are eating is not supplying our body with the nutrients our body requires. These nutrients deficiencies create craving & those craving drive us into eating often, constantly hungry. The fast & junk food Cos. know about these food craving so they exploit us by selling nutrient deficient food. We eat healthy food but we do not know how to prepare, combine or chew our food to get the nutrient. Bad eating habits creates food related toxins & illnesses. We should eat plenty of natural raw or steamed vegetables, fruits, sprouted grains and seeds which contains oxygen, water, fiver, carbohydrate. Daily consumption of sea salt or rock salt to produce hydrochloric acid. Processed foods are dead & contaminated foods it can not be digested & promote illnesses & premature aging, when hungry wait for healthy food. Some time our body need some particular food and for that our body produces appropriate gastric juice. So when we feel hungry then only we eat.
Most important part of digestion is masticating or chewing the food properly. Saliva is a very powerful healer, an important secret of longevity is the amount of saliva we mix with our food before swallowing it, saliva keeps us healthy. We should eat little amount of pure fat with our food. Man is the only animal who cook food before eat, but we don’t cook we destroy it and make it a garbage and it takes more energy to process it than what our body absorb it.
We mix 50 diff. type of foods at a time that is a disaster it is impossible to digest all at a time. Eat Healthy live Healthy. Do Fasting to increase the strength of our body.
BMI or body mass indes calculator specially designed to measure the amount of body fat, based on the standard relationship between height and weight.
As I read about BMI calculation want to share here that, at very first note down your weight in kilograms and then divide it by your height value which is measured in meters, squared. Wait I explain you with simple example that yours heights value is like 1.7mX1.7m gives 2.89(that’s the height squared in meters) and after that if your weight is 70 kg, so divide 70 by 2.89 and you will find the answer is 24.22 and this value is became your Body Mass Index.
These are the weight ranges, set by the World Health Organisation:
◦If your BMI is less than 18.4 you are underweight for your height
◦If your BMI is between 18.5 and 24.9 you’re an ideal weight for your height
◦If your BMI is between 25 and 29.9 you’re over the ideal weight for your height
◦If your BMI is between 30 and 39.9 you are obese
◦If your BMI is over 40 you are very obese
Few Dangerous act after meal:
- Don’t smoke — Experiments from experts proves that smoking a cigarette after meal is comparable to smoking 10 cigarettes (chances of cancer is higher)
- Don’t eat fruits immediately — Immediately eating fruits after meals will cause stomach to be bloated with air. Thre fore take fruits 1 -2 hours after meal or 1 hour before meal.
- Don’t drink tea — Because tea leaves contain a high content of acid. This substance will cause the protein content in the food we consume to be hundred thus difficult to digest.
- Don’t loosen your belt — Loosening the belt after meal will easily cause the intestine to be twisted and blocked.
- Don’t bathe — Bathing after meal will cause the increase of blood flow to the hands, legs and body thus the amount of blood around the stomach will therefore decrease, this will weaken the
digestive system in our stomach.
- Don’t sleep immediately —The food we intake will not be to digest properly. Thus will lead to gastric and infection in our intestine.
Chapter 11 (b) Reason why we should be Vegetarian & Its History
God has designed us to eat only Vegetarian foods
Our Teeth system is different for Non Veg eating Animals
Our Jaw can move in any direction where as non veg eating animals jaw can move only up and down
Our Intestine is about 7 times the body length where as non veg animals intestine is 3 times the body length
Level of Hydrochloric Acid in stomach of Non Veg animals is 1-2where as our level is 2-3 coz we depends on fermentation of food which need more time bacteria restructure what we eat
Life span of non veg animals is about 1/3 to that of Veg. animals.
When an animal knows that it is going to slaughtered, stress & fear develops and certain glands produces toxic compounds which is very harmful for eaters. It can change their nature like animals too.
Pork meat is most harmful coz pig suffers most before death.
So from these details , I believe that we should be Vegetarian.
Vegetarianism encompasses the practice of following plant-based diets (fruits, vegetables, etc.), with or without the inclusion of dairy products or eggs, and with the exclusion of meat (red meat, poultry, and seafood). Abstention from by-products of animal slaughter, such as animal-derived rennet and gelatin, may also be practiced.
Vegetarianism can be adopted for different reasons. Many object to eating meat out of respect for sentient life. Such ethical motivations have been codified under various religious beliefs, along with the concept of animal rights. Other motivations for vegetarianism include health, political, environmental, cultural, aesthetic or economic. There are varieties of the diet as well: an ovo-vegetarian diet includes eggs but not dairy products, a lacto-vegetarian diet includes dairy products but not eggs, and an ovo-lacto vegetarian diet includes both eggs and dairy products. A vegan diet excludes all animal products, including eggs, dairy, and honey.
Various packaged or processed foods, including cake, cookies, chocolate and marshmallows, often contain unfamiliar animal ingredients, and may be a special concern for vegetarians due to the likelihood of such additions. Often, products are scrutinized by vegetarians for animal-derived ingredients prior to purchase or consumption. Vegetarians vary in their feelings regarding these ingredients, however. For example, while some vegetarians may be unaware of animal-derived rennet’s role in the usual production of cheese and may therefore unknowingly consume the product, other vegetarians may not be bothered by its consumption. The results of a 2009 International survey suggest the standard definition of vegetarianism is different in different nations. Vegetarians in some nations consume more animal products than those in others.
Semi-vegetarian diets consist largely of vegetarian foods, but may include fish or poultry, or sometimes other meats on an infrequent basis. Those with diets containing fish or poultry may define “meat” only as mammalian flesh and may identify with vegetarianism. A pescetarian diet, for example, includes “fish but no meat”. The common use association between such diets and vegetarianism has led vegetarian groups such as the Vegetarian Society to state that diets containing these ingredients are not vegetarian, due to fish and birds being animals.
Etymology
The Vegetarian Society, founded in 1847, says that the word “vegetarian” is derived from the Latin word vegetus meaning lively or vigorous. Despite this, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) and other standard dictionaries state that the word was formed from the term “vegetable” and the suffix “-arian”. The OED writes that the word came into general use after the formation of the Vegetarian Society at Ramsgate in 1847, though it offers two examples of usage from 1839 and 1842.
History
Main article: History of vegetarianism
The earliest records of (lacto) vegetarianism come from ancient India and ancient Greece in the 6th century BCE. In the Asian instance the diet was closely connected with the idea of nonviolence towards animals (called ahimsa in India) and was promoted by religious groups and philosophers. Among the Hellenes, Egyptians and others, it had medical or Ritual purification purposes.
Indian emperor Ashoka asserted protection to fauna:
“Twenty-six years after my coronation various animals were declared to be protected parrots, mainas, aruna, ruddy geese, wild ducks, nandimukhas, gelatas, bats, queen ants, terrapins, boneless fish, vedareyaka, gangapuputaka, sankiya fish, tortoises, porcupines, squirrels, deer, bulls, okapinda, wild asses, wild pigeons, domestic pigeons and all four-footed creatures that are neither useful nor edible. Those nanny goats, ewes and sows which are with young or giving milk to their young are protected, and so are young ones less than six months old. Cocks are not to be caponized, husks hiding living beings are not to be burnt and forests are not to be burnt either without reason or to kill creatures. One animal is not to be fed to another.” Edicts of Ashoka, Fifth Pillar
Vegetarian label used in India on packed foodstuff:
Following the Christianisation of the Roman Empire in late antiquity, vegetarianism practically disappeared from Europe as it was in other Continents, except India. Several orders of monks in medieval Europe restricted or banned the consumption of meat for ascetic reasons, but none of them eschewed fish. (The medieval definition of “fish” included such animals as seals, porpoises, dolphins, barnacle geese, puffins, and beavers.)
It re-emerged during the Renaissance, becoming more widespread in the 19th and 20th centuries. In 1847, the first Vegetarian Society was founded in the United Kingdom; Germany, the Netherlands, and other countries followed. The International Vegetarian Union, a union of the national societies, was founded in 1908. In the Western world, the popularity of vegetarianism grew during the 20th century as a result of nutritional, ethical, and more recently, environmental and economic concerns.
Veganism is the practice of abstaining from the use of animal products. Ethical vegans reject the commodity status of animals and the use of animal products for any purpose, while dietary vegans (or strict vegetarians) eliminate them from their diet only. Another form, environmental veganism, rejects the use of animal products on the premise that the industrial practice is environmentally damaging and unsustainable.
The term “vegan” was coined in England in 1944 by Donald Watson, co-founder of the British Vegan Society, to mean “non-dairy vegetarian”; the society also opposed the consumption of eggs. In 1951, the society extended the definition of “veganism” to mean “the doctrine that man should live without exploiting animals,” and in 1960 H. Jay Dinshah started the American Vegan Society, linking veganism to the Jain concept of ahimsa, the avoidance of violence against living things.
It is a small but growing movement. The number of vegan restaurants is increasing, and some of the top athletes in certain endurance sports for instance, the Ironman triathlon and the ultra marathon practise veganism, including raw veganism. The American Dietetic Association and Dietitians of Canada regard a well-planned vegan diet as appropriate for all stages of the life-cycle. Well-planned vegan diets have been found to offer protection against many degenerative conditions, including heart disease. They tend to be higher in dietary fibre, magnesium, folic acid, vitamin C, vitamin E, iron, and phytochemicals, and lower in calories, saturated fat, cholesterol, long-chain omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin D, calcium, zinc, and vitamin B12. Because plant foods tend not to contain significant amounts of B12, researchers agree that vegans should eat foods fortified with B12 or take a daily supplement.
Jainism
Jain vegetarianism
Followers of Jainism believe that everything from animals to inanimate objects have life in different degree and they go to great lengths to minimise any harm to it. Most Jains are lacto-vegetarians but more devout Jains do not eat root vegetables because this would involve the killing of plants. Instead they focus on eating beans and fruits, whose cultivation do not involve killing of plants. No products obtained from dead animals are allowed. Jains hold self termination from starvation as the ideal state and some dedicated monks do perform this act of self annihilation. This is for them an indispensable condition for spiritual progress. Some particularly dedicated individuals are fruitarians. Honey is forbidden, because its collection is seen as violence against the bees. Some Jains do not consume plant parts that grow underground such as roots and bulbs, because tiny animals may be killed when the plants are pulled up.
