The Vegan Lifestyle

Many people are not aware of the many good health benefits of cruciferous vegetables. Some peole do not eat vegetables. They believe vegetables lack the essential proteins for growth, and are only good for cows and other animals.

Vegetables are rich sources of proteins too. In fact, the proteins in vegetables are much better than the proteins from meat. Plant-based proteins such as those found in vegetables are light and are easily digested and assimilated by the body. Proteins from flesh meats are heavy proteins that are hard to digest and can cause much acidity in the body.

From the very beginning of humanity, vegetables were the best food for man. The complete nutrients in vegetables and plants supply man’s need for sustenance. They have strong and healthy body free from all diseases, and most of them were centenarians reaching their old age up to over 600 years,  with one reaching 969 years old!

Vegetables are rich in phytonutrients that are very essential for optimum health. Most of these nutrients in vegetables and plants are not only excellent for food, but they are also very effective cures for a lot of diseases including cancer.

Among these functional food are the cruciferous vegetables, such as cabbage, broccoli, brussels sprouts, kale, mustard, turnip, rutabaga, bok choy, kholrabi, and cauliflower. These vegetables contain a potent phytonutrient called di-indole methane or DIM that effectively restores the hormonal imbalance called estrogen dominance. Enlarged prostate, lack of sex drive, memory loss, headaches, insomnia, irregular menstrual cycles, mood swings, belly fats, hair loss, dry skin and premature aging are among the many abnormalities and diseases caused by estrogen dominance.

How do we develop this hormonal imbalance called estrogen dominance?

Estrogen dominance develops as we grow older. When we are over 40 years old, our hormone level changes, and this produces more estrogen than needed in our body.This causes low sex drive, belly fats, soft muscles, saggy skin, and others.

Estrogen dominance is also caused by environmental pollutants that are dumped by chemical, industrial, and agricultural companies into the environment. These toxins imitate the effects of estrogen, and they are called xenoestrogens. These synthetic substances destroy  the estrogen level in our body and causes a lot of maladies such as depression, foggy thinking, man’s boobs, unwanted facial hair, skin problems, and premature aging.

Eating flesh meats can also cause estrogen dominance. Most flesh meats of  animals contain massive amount of hormones.  Eating the flesh meats of hormone-fed animals such as cows, chickens and others can dangerously upset the natural estrogen balance in our body.

Beware of plastic food wrappers,  and water and drinks containers. Plastics  release toxic xenoestrogens that can wreck havoc to the hormonal balance of estrogen in our body. These causes headaches, prostate problems, bloating, water retention, hair loss, and insomnia.

Let us learn how and endeavor to eat vegetables now. Let us eat cruciferous vegetables and enjoy its many good health benefits. Let us spare ourselves and our family of the many maladies and diseases that plague so many people today. Let us take good care of the life God has given us, and let us live this life full of joy and happiness and free from all diseases and sufferings.

People spend lots of money to maintain their health. Millions are paid in hospital bills, doctor’s fees, laboratory fees, medicines, and in regular medical checkup. Almost all of man’s striving and endeavors are for his health, happiness, and well being.

But money cannot buy health. Rich people are not exempt from diseases, and even the richest die of terminal cancers which their money has no power to reverse. It is for man’s good to finally come into realization of how futile and worthless wealth can be in a life bereft of good health, and therefore very mandatory that he strives to acquire good health.

Good nutrition is one among the eight secrets of good health. Food is the most basic need of man to live. But it is not only the eating and gulping of food you like – it must be nutritionally balanced to be truly beneficial for the body.

A nutritionally balanced diet must include carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins and minerals. Rich sources of these nutrients are fruits, nuts, grains, and vegetables.

Most people, especially the children prefer meat than vegetables. They believe that proteins can only be obtained from meats, fish, and other animal products. But this is not true. On the contrary, plants, seeds, grains and vegetables are more abundant sources of proteins. Proteins from meats are heavy proteins and are hard to digest. Plant-based proteins are light proteins and are easily digested and assimilated by the body.

Fruits, nuts, grains, and vegetables have all the nutrients needed for excellent health. True, no plant or herbs can produce vitamin B12 – a very essential vitamin in the formation and production of the red blood cells. But the human body can produce its own vitamin B12 when it has enough supply of cobalt which is available in plants or herbs such as Nova Scotia dulse, and Norwegian kelp (types of seaweeds). Vitamin B12 or cobalamin is also partially found in food rich in vitamin B1 or thiamine such as nuts, seeds, beans, brown rice, whole-grain cereals, oats, and leafy vegetables.

Flesh meats of animals, on the other hand, are very harmful to health. Meats of diseased animals are carriers of communicable diseases which are easily transferred to human beings. Most animals today are feed with growth hormones, feed additives, and their meats are loaded with preservatives, food colors, and other toxic chemicals that are dangerous to the body. Healthy animals are butchered in dirty slaughter houses, and bacteria and other pathogens thrive on these meats, and are already putrefying and decayed before it reach the consumers. Eating of flesh meats had long been suspected as the cause of tumors and cancers. Only in this modern time have it been verified and confirmed by medical doctors as true.

Think twice before eating meat. Where do people get these dreadful diseases: cancers, tumors, mad-cow disease, foot-and-mouth disease, bird’s flu, and the latest scare – the Ebola Reston virus?