It Is Better To Be A Vegetarian
It is better to be a vegetarian. A vegetarian diet is very good for the body. Being vegetarian can bring good health and prolong your life.
Five years ago, I started to be a vegetarian. I experienced the good results of being a vegetarian. I included raw vegetables in my diet, and my health becomes better. My body benefited a lot from my being a vegetarian.
I used to believe that a vegetarian diet is not complete. I ran with the wrong notion then that a vegetarian diet lacks or has no protein in it. Most people believed that vegetables and other plant-based foods cannot supply the body of the needful protein for growth because this nutrient is only found in animal meat.
But this is wrong. Fruits, grains, nuts and vegetables do have proteins in them, and in better quality compared with those from animal meats. Plant proteins are lighter and easily digested by the body, whereas animal proteins are heavy proteins that are hard for the body to digest. They can putrefy in the stomach, cause dyspepsia, constipation, and other abnormalities in the body that may cause a hosts of diseases.
Most people also believe that plants cannot supply the body with vitamin B12. This is the reason why they taunt the vegetarians as anemic and sallow. This is not true. Some fruits and vegetables do provide us with vitamin B12. One example is spirulina, which comes from an algae. Also, when the body has sufficient supply of cobalt, it produces its own vitamin B12. Cobalt is a part of vitamin B12. Nova Scotia dulse and the Norwegian kelp are rich sources of cobalt. The above sources are all seaweeds, and they indirectly provide our body with vitamin B12. It is even believed, but not confirmed, that our saliva upon waking up in the morning has good supply of vitamin B12.
A vegetarian diet has many health benefits. The phytonutrients in fruits, grains, nuts, and vegetables not only supply the essential nutrients that are needful for a healthy body, but they have also healing powers against many diseases. And some of these plants have potent phytochemical to fight against cancer.
A vegetarian diet can bring back the suppleness of your body and the luster of your skin and hair. It prevents premature aging, and rejuvenates the body. It can restore your eyesight, and sharpen your memory. A vegetarian diet improves your whole being physically, mentally, socially, and spiritually.
I was a pretty strict vegetarian for about 5 years…it is definitely very possible to get the full amount of protein and the nutrients you need…but it’s also pretty easy to eat nothing but a whole lot of carbs if you don’t make sure you eat enough of those veggies! I was pretty much a carbarian (if there is such a word) and not so much a vegetarian, lol.