The Many Advantages of Vegetarianism
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You can indeed reap a lot of benefits by being a vegetarian and people have become more aware of the health benefits of being a vegetarian. Animal rights issues is only one of the reasons why people decide to go on a vegetarian diet. People are beginning to care more about the environment. However, the main reason why people go on vegetarian diet is because of health benefits.
Meat is not good for you as it clogs your thinking. This is especially true if you eat red meat; white meat has less fat compared to red meat. Excessive intake of fats into your body can result in having a high level of cholesterol. If you think that not eating meat is going to make you look scrawny or unhealthy please think again. Just imagine that cows, goats, gorillas, elephants, rhinoceroses and so on are all vegetarians (herbivores) but look at how tough these animals are, not to mention their life span which is longer compared to the carnivores (meat eating animals).
If you look at the chicken and vulture (carnivores), these animals eat just about everything and notice how unhealthy these animals look. The Chinese believe that the chi or life force in your body is less when you consume meat and so do the Indians with their ancient yogic principles, their life force was called prana.
The great Tai Chi masters of China were adept at preserving their chi, even if some of the masters were not vegetarians, they still had a balanced diet. It has now been scientifically proven that a balanced vegetarian diet is better compared to a diet that is taken with meat.
The protein myth
There are a lot of misconceptions about being a vegetarian; protein is one of the main topics of debate as a lot of people think that you can only get protein from meat. Vegetarians get a lot of protein, if they eat a variety of fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes. What vegetarians don’t get is the excess protein of traditional American diet, excess that leads to kidney overload and mineral deficiency diseases.
A lot of people also think that a vegetarian diet is not a balanced diet. Vegetarian diets have a proportion of three macronutrients, which are complex carbohydrates, protein, and fat. Vegetarian food sources (plants) tend to be higher sources of most micronutrients. Another myth that needs to be clarified is the so-called lack of calcium among vegetarians. Many vegetables, especially green, leafy ones, have a good supply of calcium. The truth is that vegetarians suffer less from osteoporosis (a deficiency of calcium that leads to weak bones).
It is not my intention to force people to become vegetarians. However, vegetarianism is my answer to complete health and wholeness. The three issues to consider in regard to vegetarianism are: spiritual, mental, and physical (nutritional).
The spiritual incentive
The spiritually aspiring person attempts to work on his/her self. The purpose of spiritual growth is to move away from the animal nature into the more human nature that God intended for us to have. Meat eating inhibits this. Again, the same science that sometimes attempts to ignore the existence of a force higher than man also has proved, in the laboratory, that aggression levels are much higher in meat eaters than non-meat eaters! The animal instincts become more powerful every time you eat meat. Another spiritual aspect of being a meat eater is when one must question the necessity and the method as well as the karma of killing animals. However, everyone has their own mores which they must determine for themselves. It is not the purpose of my dissertation to force a specific moral behavior on anyone. Most spiritual people believe auras. Kirilian photography shows us that a force field remains around dead or amputated tissue. You adopt that animal aura when you eat a dead animal. Fruits and vegetables have a higher vibrational aura than animal products. Is it not personal evolution that the spiritual candidate is interested in? If so, meat eating is urgently prohibited.
Fear as food
“You are what you eat”, is a slogan that I love to use to show the mental aspect of vegetarianism. When animals are slaughtered, fear and aggression enzymes are shot into their cells from their glands and other organs, just as in humans, and are part of the dead carcass that goes on to the food store. They remain in the meat until the consumer ingests those same enzymes, which are molecularly very similar to those found in humans. Fruits and vegetables do not have emotions; therefore, when they are picked they do not release any emotions cells prior to digestion. The enzymes within fruits and vegetables supply the body with sufficient nutrients that will always uphold a healthy state of mind.
Fruits and vegetables are high in nutrients; the very thing the body needs to live a long disease and pain free life. The same cannot be said for meat. Nutritionally, the alkaline-based digestive system of humans will not properly break down substantial acid substances, the greatest of which is meat.
The health dangers of eating meat
Colon cancer is rampant! This is caused by the slow evacuation and the putrefaction in the colon of the remains of meat. Lifelong vegetarians never suffer from such an illness. Many meat eaters believe that meat is the sole source of protein. However, the quality of this protein is so poor that little of it can ever be utilized by humans because it is incomplete and lacks the correct combination of amino acids, the building blocks of protein. Studies show that the average American gets five times the amount of protein needed. It is a common medical fact that excess protein is dangerous, the prime danger being that uric acid (the waste product produced in the process of digesting protein) attacks the kidneys, breaking down the kidney cells called nephrons. This condition is called nephritis; the prime cause of it is overburdening the kidneys. More usable protein is found in one tablespoon of tofu or soybeans than the average serving of meat!
Have you ever seen what happens to a piece of meat that stays in the sun for three days? Meat can stay in the warmth of the intestine for at least four days until it is digested. It does nothing but wait for passage. Often, it usually stays there for much longer, traces remaining for up to several months. Colonic therapists always see meat passing through in people who have been vegetarians for several years, thus indicating that meat remains undigested there for a long time. Occasionally this has been documented in twenty-year vegetarians!
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What are your thoughts on Pescetarianism?
The reason vegetarians suffer from deficiencies is due to thinking the foods they’re eating has all the nutrients their bodies need. In truth the foods grown today lack considerably vitamins and minerals both by design thanks to large corp farms and to nutrient deficient soils. So many vegetarians find themselves in the same boat as many meat eaters, sickly.
“Vegetarians Are In Tuned Spiritually” is a big lie that needs to stop being told. How do you measure spiritual enlightenment? Where’s the evidence of karma from eating meat? I’ve found no evidence to say these people are spiritually in tuned. The few vegetarians I know and love are hardly in tuned with anything but their egos like the rest of us.
Food as Fear? How do you know plants don’t feel fear because scientist have determined they do feel, so why not feel fear? This is nonsense told by people to create the illusion there’s a ethical difference between meat eaters and vegetarians when there clearly is not. So your karma logic should apply to the eating of plants because they also feel. Google Plants Have Feelings.
In regards to meat not being fully digested in the body, this is true due to our lack of enzymes to do the job. But it not just meat it’s any cooked food, so as you can see vegetarians also need to take enzymes with their meals as well. Interesting to note, raw meat have enzymes within it that would assist in it’s breakdown but how many of us want to eat raw meat? I can honestly say I don’t.
All of the health conditions of eating meat that were listed are also listed illnesses of vegetarians, how is that possible unless there’s more to this than this article is mentioning. Google Long Term Health Effects of Vegetarianism.
This article is one sided, understandably so but the truth of the matter is everyone’s not meant to be meat eaters but by the same token everyone’s not able to thrive on a meat-less diet. There is no one size fit all in regards to eating. We must eat according to our body needs and the only way to do that is to listen to it and not all these well meaning but misleading experts.
Meat eaters less spiritual..BS! I’m a big red meat eater, and I also am a very spiritual person. Just because veggies think consciousness is only in living animals….The Universe feeds upon itself! ANY existing being consumes some type of consciousness, energy, etc. Veggies need to get over themselves.
I do agree that animals need to be treated better, and slaughtered cleaner. I lived on a farm and we slaughtered our own, and were thankful.
Human’s have been eating meat for eons, if we were not meant to eat meat, we would not desire it–like we don’t desire eating bark or grass.