Is vegetarianism good for your health all the year round?

Long-term vegetarianism is good for your health, but you should pay attention to reasonable collocation.

Vegetarian nutrition

Although vegetarianism can be roughly divided into vegan, dairy products, egg white and egg white, in principle, vegetarianism generally means not eating animal protein. Because you don't eat meat, you can lower and regulate cholesterol, and you won't get uric acid is too high because of eating meat, nor will you increase the incidence of renal failure and kidney calculi. In addition, people's physique is alkaline, eating too much meat is easy to make the physique acidic, which will increase the chance of getting sick. Vegetarian food helps to neutralize the acidity and alkalinity of the constitution.

The benefits of vegetarianism are well known, but an incorrect diet is equally harmful. For example, eating processed products with too many processing procedures not only has less nutrients, but also contains chemicals and pigments that will have an impact on the human body; Excessive use of grease in cooking will burden the human body. Therefore, when you are vegetarian, don't use too complicated cooking procedures and eat more fresh vegetables; Oil must be appropriate and raw materials should be selected (traditional tofu is better than boxed tofu, and sesame has lower sugar content and higher nutrition than sesame paste); Changing rice varieties frequently, eating brown rice occasionally, or adding grains and oats to rice are all good ways to balance nutrition.

Knowing the benefits of vegetarianism, perhaps your only worry is that you can't get the nutrition of meat. In fact, as long as you can choose a variety of dishes when you are vegetarian, you can get enough nutrition without favoring several dishes. In addition, because the cell tissue of meat itself is close to the human body, the absorption capacity of the human body is better. Vegetarians need to master several principles in diet because they reduce the intake of meat:

1. White rice and flour should be replaced by whole wheat bread, germ bread and brown rice.

2. Meat is high in protein, but beans such as soybeans, edamame and mung beans, or bean products such as tofu and dried beans are also rich in protein, which can supplement the shortage of meat, and you don't worry about high cholesterol if you eat more beans.

3. Eat cashew nuts, almonds and other drupes, which are rich in oil and can supplement the calories needed by the human body.

4. It is best to have four or five changes in green vegetables; The iron content in meat can be supplemented by eating more high-iron fruits such as tomatoes, kiwis and grapes.

Don't use more oil to cook vegetarian food. Only by mastering the principle of light vegetarian diet, less salt and less sugar can we meet the healthy orientation of vegetarian diet.

6. Vegetarians are easy to lack vitamin B 12, and eating more comprehensive vitamins can improve it. For a woman who loves beauty, it is not so easy to stay slim by being a vegetarian. If the cooking method is not correct, use too much oil, or try to choose some fried foods such as fried tofu skin or sweet foods such as mung bean cake. Although these foods are vegetarian, high oil and sugar make it difficult for you not to be fat.

If you are a vegetarian beginner, you may feel that you have eaten a lot at first, but you will soon be hungry. This is precisely because plants are easily absorbed by the stomach. Don't worry, stick to it, and you will deeply feel how good vegetarian food is for your health.

Vegetarian food is mostly plant food, or natural food. Originally, it refers to the forbidden animal raw materials, the forbidden temple five-pain vegetables (namely garlic, garlic, Ferula, Ci Cong and Ming Cong) and the Taoist five-meat vegetables (namely leeks, onions, garlic, mustard greens and parsley). Now it mainly refers to vegetarian dishes made of vegetables (including fungi), fruits and bean products gluten. Make good use of vegetarian soup made of bamboo shoots and bean sprouts to enhance the flavor? The benefits of eating vegetarian dishes mainly include the following points:

Vegetarian nutrition is the easiest to digest and absorb: all meat is difficult to digest in the stomach, even if it enters the large intestine, most of it is undigested or only partially digested, so carnivores are extremely corrupt in the large intestine, which is toxic and harmful to the human body. On the contrary, the nutrition of all fruits and vegetables is the easiest to be directly digested and absorbed, and the cellulose in plants can also prevent constipation.

Vegetarianism can reduce the absorption of animal toxins and slow down aging: when animals are slaughtered, they will produce a lot of toxic secretions due to anger, fear, sadness, pain and struggle. When people eat their meat, they will unconsciously eat these toxins into their own bodies, which will increase the load of detoxification organs such as kidneys and livers, making people prone to illness and aging; It means that if the machine is used too much or improperly, it needs more maintenance and its life will be shorter.

Vegetarianism makes people calm and clear-headed: when eating animals, they also eat animal hormones together, which makes people irritable and lose their temper. On the contrary, vegetarians are gentle and always calm, just like herbivores such as elephants and giraffes, they don't bully others. Animal fat blocks blood vessels, which will produce cholesterol and make the body (including the brain) aging. Vegetarians have clean blood and their brain power can be greatly improved.

China vegetarian dishes are an important part of China's diet, which are characterized by freshness, exquisite materials selection, exquisite skills, various varieties and unique flavor. Vegetarian dishes usually refer to dishes cooked with vegetable oil, vegetables, bean products, gluten, bamboo shoots, fungi, algae and dried and fresh fruits.

China vegetarian dishes are composed of three flavors: temple vegetarian dishes, palace vegetarian dishes and folk vegetarian dishes. Temple vegetarian dishes, also called vegetarian dishes, are specially made by Ji Xiang chefs (monk chefs) for monks and pilgrims. Palace vegetarian dishes are specially prepared by the royal chef for the emperor to enjoy during fasting; Folk vegetarian dishes: based on inheriting traditional vegetarian dishes and absorbing the essence of palace and temple vegetarian dishes, they are developed in folk vegetarian restaurants. Here are some side dishes:

Persimmon straw mushroom

Ingredients: 10 tomato, about 1000g rape leaf,10 straw mushroom 45.

Methods: 1. Wash the rape leaves, take them out and put them on a plate. 2. Peel the tomatoes, cut off the roots, dig out the pulp inside, and put it on the rape leaves, mouth down. Wash Volvariella volvacea and stir-fry in 4% mature oil, then stir-fry with cooking wine, soy sauce, white sugar, vegetarian soup and monosodium glutamate, thicken and put in tomatoes.

Dry-roasted winter bamboo shoots

Ingredients: 250g of bamboo shoots, 30g of mushrooms, 25g of carrots and 25g of green beans.

Methods: 1. Slice the winter bamboo shoots, cut into thick strips with a cross knife, dice the winter mushrooms and carrots, chop the watercress in Danxian County, mince the onion and ginger, cook the winter bamboo shoots, winter mushrooms, diced carrots and string beans in boiling water and take them out; 2. Choke the pot with chopped green onion, stir-fry red oil, cooking wine, vegetarian soup, salt and sugar with watercress, then add all the raw materials, simmer for 10 minute with low fire after boiling, and then collect the juice with medium fire until the juice is completely oily.

Longan shrimp

Ingredients: 250g fresh mushrooms, 6 longan carrots, 6 red cherry carrots and 25g green beans,10g.

Shuifa winter bamboo shoots 15g

Method: 1, cut mushrooms into shrimp shapes, wash carrots and winter bamboo shoots and cut them into dices; 2. Beat egg whites, starch and baking powder into batter, and stick shrimps in 70% hot oil and fry until light yellow; 3. Leave the bottom oil in the pot, add shredded ginger and ingredients, add salt, monosodium glutamate, cooking wine and fresh soup, thicken after boiling, pour in "shrimp", top the plate twice, and serve with longan and red cherry.

Broth radish feast

Ingredients: ivory white radish about 1000 grams of coriander leaves a little.

Methods: 1. Cleaning radish, peeling, cutting into long slices, then cutting five blades connected together, thoroughly rinsing with water, draining, pat dry starch, steaming in a cage, thoroughly rinsing with water, and soaking in clear water; 2. Boil the vegetarian soup with salt, soak the radish slices and cook them slightly, then take them out and put them in the soup basin; 3. Boil the vegetarian soup, add salt, pepper and monosodium glutamate, skim off the floating foam, pour it into the soup basin and sprinkle with coriander.

After reading the following text, you can naturally feel where the cancer comes from without the research reports of doctors and scientists (although there are many reports in this regard). If you are addicted to meat again, it will be a bit like eating puffer fish. These materials come from the United States, which is ten times stricter than Chinese mainland in food inspection and prevention.

"Why did I become a vegetarian?" An American writer wrote: "When you really understand that meat is filthy and a corpse with infectious diseases, can you gobble it fearlessly?" I didn't eat any meat, nor did I eat any vitamin tablets, and I lived a healthy life for half my life. I have traveled many times in the United States and often eat in restaurants and other people's homes. The process of abandoning meat and becoming a vegetarian has never made me feel uncomfortable. Let me take my time.

"When I was traveling, I ate two or three mouthfuls of liver one day and felt that the taste was wrong. I was really startled when I used the knife. There is a nest of worms in the pustule, which has been cooked. From that day on, every time I saw my liver, I felt queasy. But beef was still my favorite, until one thing shocked me, and I completely cut off beef! The thing is, my neighbor chooses the best cows from the herd and supplies milk himself. One day, the hygienist came to check that the cow had tuberculosis and should be destroyed. Neighbors said they didn't believe it and ignored it. Later, another inspector came to check and reported the same situation. My neighbor reluctantly sent the cattle to a bigger slaughterhouse and got permission to watch the cutting. What appeared in front of him was a whole lung corroded by tuberculosis ... Shortly after this incident, I led the whole class to go hiking and pass by the slaughterhouse. I asked the government meat inspector who was the guide. "Excuse me, man, what would you do if a cow got tuberculosis and a lung rotted?" "I also ask you, there is a rotten spot on your apple, what would you do? Didn't you cut it and eat it? "I noticed the surprised expression on the students' faces. Out of the slaughterhouse, I asked them if peeling apples is the same as cutting beef. "No, just kidding!" They denied it with one voice. They said, "The blood of the sick lung will circulate all over the body." So I pointed out another difference: "animal germs will parasitize us, while apple mold will only live on fruits and vegetables." Moreover, it will not circulate everywhere. " Even if you eat the rotten scar of an apple, you won't get sick. "In this way, some meat products that I used to hate make me more and more annoying.

"I used to love chicken. But after visiting a chicken farm nearby, I lost my appetite in this area. I see chicken farmers patrol the henhouse every day, picking out sick chickens and laying fewer eggs and sending them to the market. Those guys who are depressed and their asses are wet have all entered the processing factory. To my surprise, there is no inspection work at all. My stomach seems to tell me not to send dead chickens into my purse again.

"On one occasion, my friends and I went fishing in a mountain stream in Arizona. I don't know what happened. Nearly half of the fish I caught had tumors, either inside or outside. That's disgusting. After consulting the relevant information, we learned from the government report that fish cancer is common in some mountain streams, especially trout. The infection rate is as high as 90%. " .

Compared with China, the sky in the United States is much purer and the water is much cleaner. Even so, American fish are infected with cancer. What about the animals in China? You can imagine.

Now a northerner in China chews pig's head with Erguotou, which is very different from the pig's leg when Chu and Han fought. At present, there is pollution inside and outside animal carcasses: in modern agriculture, fertilizers and pesticides are widely used, animals eat plants, toxins enter animals, and people eat animals, and people become the highest enrichment of toxic substances. No way, carnivores are at the top of the food chain.

Needless to say, pesticide residues on plants, but the research results of Edward State University in the United States show that the content of pesticide residues such as DDT in meat is 13 times that of plants, which means that the pesticide residues on meat eaters may be 13 times higher than that of vegetarians. What's more, pesticide residues on plants can be washed, but pesticide residues on animal meat can't be washed away.

There is a saying that people who eat hairy crabs and pond fish now are brave people.

Farmers are a terrible group of people. They use sacks to pour chemicals into animal feed and lakes and rivers to stimulate the growth of livestock, poultry, fish and shrimp, force feed, inject hormones, and add stomach medicine, antibiotics, sedatives and preservatives to the feed (this nitrate-containing meat is dangerous for cats), completely ignoring the carcinogenic effects of these chemicals, and meat eaters enjoy it with their eyes open.

There is also a kind of poison called botulinum poisoning. "Botox is extremely harmful!" Zhang Luping, head of the Beijing Science Center for Human and Animal Environmental Protection, once again appealed to people to be vigilant after witnessing the scene of killing animals.

A dog market in Beijing. Zhang Luping described it as a bloody place, which only a hard-hearted person could see. In front of other dogs, the butcher put a serrated sharp weapon on a dog's head, made it faint, hung it, stabbed it to death, and skinned it immediately. Bloody and steaming dog meat hung in front of the dog. Zhang Luping clearly saw that the dog that was banished to the end of the world changed from collective barking to silence, and the dog's eyes were full of tears. Eyes frightened, sad, sad, angry, cursing ... "If they can talk," she said, "they must be cursing the butcher.

Such dog meat is harmful to people's health. The most terrible thing is that animals will secrete a toxin after being killed, which is very harmful to human body. Modern scientific research shows that this toxin is a harmful adrenaline substance. Similarly, after pigs, cattle, turtles and chickens are slaughtered, they not only secrete emergency toxins, but also have sewage in their bodies, so it is not safe to eat meat.

In Zhang Luping's view, cancer, mad cow disease, bird flu, foot-and-mouth disease, SARS and other diseases are directly related to animal botulism. It's all some kind of resistance from animals.

Cancer and meat are positively related.

In other words, the more meat you eat, the easier it is to get cancer. A survey by a medical committee composed of famous doctors from Union Medical College Hospital shows that there is a positive correlation between meat and cancer. The survey report wrote: "The incidence of cancer in Beijing is 5.2 times that of 1996. We surveyed hospitals and residents in urban areas. The prevalence of colorectal cancer was less than10/100000 in last century, 20/100000 in 1980s, 24/100000 in 1990s and 60.45/100000 in 200. Why are there more and more cancer patients in cities? It has something to do with diet. Eat more meat, not coarse grains, loss of cellulose ... the growth rate of cancer is similar to that of meat.

Another medical investigation team reported: "China used to be a low incidence area of colorectal cancer, less than10/100000. However, in the past two or three decades, with the change of food structure and the increase of meat consumption, the incidence rate has been rising, reaching 24.31100000, which is equivalent to the international average incidence level. According to research estimates, after 2000, the incidence of colorectal cancer will be 65438 0.45 times higher than that in the 1980s. The mortality rate of colorectal cancer in Shanghai increased from 1972 to 1989, an increase of 75%. After 2000, the incidence of colorectal cancer will be 65438 0.45 times higher than that in the 1980s.

50% of cancers are related to diet. In the "2004 Tianjin Cancer Prevention Publicity Week", experts said. "The number of new cancer cases in Tianjin is 6.5438+0.6 million, and it is growing and younger. According to reports, although cancer is related to genetic factors, it is mainly caused by environmental factors including diet. For example, eating more meat, eating more staple food and lacking cellulose, that is, eating less coarse grains and miscellaneous grains, leads to an increase in the incidence of colorectal cancer; The intake of high fat and high protein is an important reason for the rising incidence of breast cancer and colorectal cancer; About 75% of head and neck cancers are caused by drinking and smoking.

Foreign studies have also confirmed that cancer is closely related to meat. According to the research report of British Vegetarian Association 1995, it is found that the possibility of premature death of vegetarians is only half that of non-vegetarians, and vegetarians are less likely to suffer from heart disease and cancer, mainly because the cholesterol content in the blood of vegetarians is low ... What is in meat and why does it cause cancer? In addition to the recognized medical theory, many schools and experts point carcinogens to poisons in meat. As mentioned above, botulism is terrible, but it cannot be overemphasized. Guo Geng, a famous environmental expert in China and the head of Beijing Elk Garden, said, "I will give you a proof to understand how painful and resentful it is for animals, big or small, to be tied up and killed. Since you hate it, toxins will flow all over your body, so meat contains toxins. This poison is very powerful. For example, breast-feeding women are angry, and the milk will contain toxins, which makes the baby easy to get sick. Don't believe that if you see a woman with a baby angry, squeeze out her milk and put it in the sun for a while, it will turn green, and normal milk will turn white in the sun.

How can vegetarianism prevent cancer? After years of research, Dr. Johnson of Anderson Hospital of the University of Texas in the United States found a fact. The number of people suffering from cancer is always low in places where a lot of potassium is consumed on weekdays. It turns out that the content of potassium in human cells is often ten times that of sodium. When cells divide, the content of potassium decreases and the content of sodium increases, and cancer cells are no exception. Whenever cells are damaged, potassium will leak out of the cells and cancer cells will begin to multiply. People suffer from chronic diseases. If there is a way to increase the potassium content of cells in the body, the risk of cancer will be reduced. On the contrary, potassium in the elderly is particularly easy to leak from the cell membrane, so with the increase of age, the probability of cancer also increases. Medical research has further found that if potassium is added to the culture solution of some cancer cells, they will suddenly become normal cells. Hematopoietic cancer cells in mice were originally incapable of hematopoiesis, but when the potassium in their culture solution increased to more than ten times, hematopoiesis appeared. This proves that the ratio of potassium to sodium is the key to the formation of cancer cells ... It is according to this principle that more potassium and less salt are the secret of dietotherapy to prevent cancer in recent years. Both salt and monosodium glutamate (a kind of sodium salt) contain a lot of sodium, while vegetables and beans contain a lot of potassium, so eating more fruits and vegetables and beans and eating less salt and monosodium glutamate is an important measure to prevent cancer, hypertension and diabetes. .

The saying that God made us vegetarian has been circulated for many years, and it has also been recognized and acquiesced by many medical institutions and experts. That is to say, from the perspective of human structure and function, people may be more suitable for vegetarianism. Therefore, some people say that people are vegetarian animals, and they only start eating meat for various reasons, and the results are rewarded again and again.

The medical profession has done such a study, comparing the intestines of carnivores with those of people. Take the tiger as an example. Its intestines look short and straight without many wrinkles. We know that meat is perishable, so God gave the tiger a short intestine, so that the digestive residue of meat would not stay in the intestine for too long. People's intestines are always about 30 feet long, and the large intestine alone is five feet long, which is nearly three times that of tigers, so people should not eat meat; Because meat is perishable, it is more prone to decay and fermentation at the temperature of the intestines. We can imagine that the feces of herbivores do not smell like carnivores. It is conceivable that carrion will produce many pathogenic bacteria and toxins in the human intestine.

As for herbivores such as cattle and sheep, God gave them several stomachs, because they only eat grass, which has a lot of fiber, takes a long time to digest and needs a lot of food to maintain their body functions ... so they have several stomachs to ruminate, and their intestines are longer than humans. God doesn't want people to eat grass. We have cereals, hard nuts, beans, fruits and so on. As food. The cellulose in these foods is not as thick as grass and difficult to digest. There is no need to ruminate, a stomach is enough. Moreover, people's molars are developed, which is suitable for grinding food, that is, for eating whole grains and beans. Carnivores, with sharp front teeth and serrated teeth, are obviously used to grab life and crush the body ... Knowing this, people may understand why human beings are riddled with diseases, because people eat things that should not be eaten against the will of nature.

People often worry that vegetarian food is not nutritious enough. For this kind of worry, the most common response of vegetarians is to laugh without answering. They may be happy to compete with meat eaters for health. There is no doubt that vegetarians are healthier from all angles: their bodies are lighter, their reactions are more agile, their brains are richer, they are easier to fall asleep, they need less sleep time and are more cheerful, so they are less depressed and have fewer colds. Once they recover faster, they are less prone to calcium deficiency, and even better, they are less prone to cancer, hypertension, diabetes and Alzheimer's Harmo's disease, one of Alzheimer's Harmo's diseases. This year, a set of national data shows that the proportion in the north is higher than that in the south, and there are more women than men. The most dangerous people are the elderly women in the north. They happen to be frequent customers of fat meat stuffing ... In theory, vegetarian food can get better nutrition than meat. First of all, we should break the stereotype that meat is higher than vegetarian protein. In fact, the protein content of many vegetarians is higher than that of meat: for example, the protein content in nuts and melon seeds is 30%, and the grain content is about 10%; the protein content in beans is even higher, nearly 40%, which is twice that of meat; the protein content in bean skin is as high as 50%; and the protein in soybeans is completely protein, which is more easily absorbed by the human body.

People joke that Cantonese people are not as strong as a northern man who eats steamed buns. People often use meat as a tonic. In fact, meat is not only less than beans in protein, but also the most deficient in vitamins and minerals in various foods.

Pea, wheat and oats contain twice as much iron as beef, and almost every plant contains more iron than meat. The calcium content of meat is not as much as that of vegetarian food: per100g of food, the calcium content of chicken is 5 (mg), beef is 8, pork is 12, fish is 30, pea is 7 1, mushroom is 125, auricularia is 207 and laver is 850.

Even the fat that meat is good at is always covered by vegetarianism. For example, the oil content of walnuts is as high as 66.9%; Peanut accounts for 48.7%, sesame 48.23%, soybean 20.20%, fatty acid 13 and animal fat 6, but all kinds of plant fats exist. Animal fat is saturated fat with high cholesterol content, which is easy to cause arteriosclerosis, hypertension and heart disease, and is beneficial to the proliferation of cancer cells. Vegetable fat is unsaturated fat, which can promote bile acid excretion, lower cholesterol and avoid heart disease and various cardiovascular diseases.

A vegetarian is not short of nutrition, and a long-lived vegetarian is the best proof.

There is an American medical organization that makes a comparative study of vegetarianism. Meatballs are extremely easy to find, but it is not easy to find a vegetarian. So they went to temples in China, remote temples in Sichuan and Hunan, and it didn't matter if they asked, which startled them. What are the ages of these old monks and the control group? The average age is 80.

Vegetarian diet makes the body strong.

It may be thousands of years since meat eaters are strong and vegetarians are weak. The actual situation may surprise all meat eaters who think they are better than vegetarians (vegetarians will not be surprised, they have long known that they are better than meat eaters), which is completely contrary to our concept: the Olympic Games seems to be a place where vegetarians show their great strength, and I don't know when the Olympic Games will become a place where vegetarians gather. Maureen Ross, the first Olympic swimming champion, is a vegetarian. His speed is amazing, he is persistent and powerful, and he is the most famous athlete. His appearance set off a wave of vegetarianism among western athletes.

Decades later, a sports theory specializing in vegetarianism also appeared. This is the Handbook of Sports Nutrition for Vegetarians written by Lisa. Dove is a sports dietitian in Miami. She also participated in the marathon and triathlon. Her hard sports career benefited greatly from vegetarianism. She is also the coach of several Olympic athletes. She said that vegetarianism is very effective for people who exercise a lot or are interested in fitness.

She didn't exaggerate the power of vegetarians. She said: A meat eater can be as explosive as a vegetarian, but after the explosive power, a vegetarian begins to show his endurance, and the endurance of a vegetarian is far behind that of a meat eater. Just as a cheetah can't catch an antelope at once, it will never catch up. Wang Yongyuan, a carnivore, will lose the endurance race.

Therefore, dove said, "Olympic athletes or professional athletes don't have to eat meat. Being vegetarian can still make you a tough' sports machine'.

In the book, she lists the training secrets and three-meal recipes of 17 top athletes in the world, including Olympic wrestler Campbell, six-time triathlete Scott and professional American football player Hill. These people are vegetarians or basically vegetarians (for example, they don't eat meat, just eat a little fish). Dove said that eating more plants has many benefits, one of which is that vegetables and fruits are rich in carbohydrates. "This is helpful for long-distance running or sprinting.

What makes China people lose their glasses is that carl lewis, the world's most famous king of middle and long distance running, is a strict vegetarian. Recalling his sports career, he said, "I found that a person can be a successful athlete without protein. As a matter of fact, the best year for me to participate in track competition was the first year for me to be a strict vegetarian. Besides, by continuing to be a strict vegetarian, my weight has been controlled, and I like my appearance. I know it sounds silly, but we all want to like who we are. I like to eat a lot, and I feel good. Here is my story.

The idea that eating meat makes people wild and powerful may come from ancient barbaric times. At that time, predatory tribes such as hunting clans and thieves and pirates had nothing to eat, and they often succeeded in capturing countries with agricultural culture. The peaceful character of vegetarians is always suppressed by the savage momentum of carnivores. For example, Huns and Mongols, regarded as "yellow perils", swept through Europe twice in a thousand years, leaving these "civilized people" lost again and again. The concept of bravery of meat eaters has deepened in human minds again and again. But even these Mongols, who are meat-eating westerners, were defeated by the herbivorous Japanese twice in the13rd century. According to historical records, those Japanese warriors who seldom eat meat but only a little sashimi, but eat a lot of rice and vegetables, were even fiercer in ancient Bi Meng, making it impossible for those grassland warriors and Korean soldiers to get close and losing like a mountain along the coast of Japan. The Mongolian conquest of the invincible world was stopped by the Japanese.

As we all know, ancient Rome was a rich and decadent society. Even slaves can eat meat porridge or something. But in this society, the gladiators who need courage, strength and agility most are vegetarians. In Rome, gladiators have another name, "Barley Chewer". These gladiators usually eat rye bread or soaked barley. The film Gladiator truly reflects their food. The yellow sticky stuff is probably porridge mixed with peas and oats. You know, they don't have to chew barley because they are abused. Gladiators are generally the treasures of manor owners, rich people and even princes. Although they are slaves, they are slaves who make their faces glittering and their pockets bulging, just like the owners of English castles now have noble thoroughbred horses. Although it is a beast, it can eat better than its owner when necessary. Those Roman slaves chewed raw barley because they wanted to fight and get a chance in a duel to the death. They have learned the lesson of blood, and of course they know what to eat is more conducive to their physical strength and brave perseverance. Indeed, it is hard for us to imagine that a well-fed man can defeat these skinny slaves. In addition, raw vegetables and some grains have been proved by many nutritionists and doctors at home and abroad to be more beneficial than cooked food because they are better than natural nutrients. This is why they eat barley raw.

Another example can illustrate the courage and health of vegetarians. That's a Shaolin monk from China. China people have always thought that the monks in Shaolin Temple are "the wine wears the intestines, but the Buddha's heart stays", because the scribbling of film and television works has added a big "stain" to this famous temple. Mages have repeatedly come out to clarify that the official disciples of Shaolin Temple are vegetarian and practice in strict accordance with Buddhist rules. Indeed, the first commandment of Buddhism is to abstain from killing. Even monks' weapons never have swords, but sticks at most, and they don't care about human life. Eating meat is bound to kill, so how can this Zen ancestral court openly raise a group of monks with wine and meat and undermine Shaolin's prestige in Buddhism? There should be no doubt that Shaolin samurai are vegetarians. They are powerful. They can hear with their ears and see with their eyes. This shows that vegetarians can do more light, violent and healthy work than meat eaters.

Vegetarianism makes people smart.

Are vegetarians smarter or carnivores smarter? There has been a lot of debate about this. In fact, history is obvious. The Han nationality has been a vegetarian or semi-vegetarian nation since ancient times, and it goes without saying who is smarter than the surrounding carnivorous clan tribes. Zhanghua's classic, Wu Mei and Feng Min both tell us that a nation's creative brain is active between heaven and earth. Even in modern times, defeated by western powers, it is a matter of opinion whether a westerner is smart or a China person is smart.

India is a vegetarian country (except Muslims, of course) because it believes in Hinduism. Whether Indians are smart is also a matter of public opinion. In the world, mathematics and philosophy, the kings of wisdom, are dominated by Indians. As we all know, Indians are best at mathematics. Many mathematicians in the world are Indians, and even after studying, India has become the first country in software. Indian classical philosophy surpassed ancient Greece and Egypt, and its depth and system of studying things even surpassed Germanic (German) philosophy represented by Hegel and Nietzsche, which was beyond the reach of other countries.

Most of the most influential religions in the East come from India, so the wisdom and profoundness of Buddhism are self-evident. Most people who study Buddhism and believe in Buddhism suddenly realize after getting started, feeling: it's too profound and too intelligent! Indeed, a western scientist (forgetting his name) said that the more he studied, the more he felt that modern science was only confirming that Buddhism was discovered as early as 3,000 years ago ... The older Hinduism was as huge and rational as Buddhism ... It was widely circulated in the West, and Jesus returned to India to preach after studying in India for more than ten years ... So far, the ancient Greek philosophy most admired by the world intellectuals was also created by vegetarians. The ancient Greek masters Socrates, Plato and Pythagoras were all strict vegetarians ... In the past, most of us knew a little about their works and political tendencies, but little about their life tendencies that influenced our lives. This is actually their most important and essential aspect. Leonardo da Vinci, Tolstoy, Bernard Shaw, Gandhi and Einstein (who have been strict vegetarians for a long time), why are they vegetarians? Because they all have a kind of love and non-violence that they think is the most sacred. Unfortunately, there is another notorious person who is also a vegetarian. He is Hitler, and the influence of vegetarianism on his intelligence is beyond doubt.

These intellectual kingdoms that need the most brains are all made by vegetarians, so there is really nothing to say.

One of the characteristics of vegetarianism is its flexible mind. The mark of a meat eater is a dull mind. China people are repeatedly wary of westerners because they are too flexible.

After changing to a vegetarian diet, many people find that their brains are flexible, their imagination is rich, their understanding is improved, their thinking is agile, and some memories are also increased ... In short, the function of their brains is obviously getting better and better, which is more exciting than when they were young. In fact, vegetarian children all over the world are often extremely smart. Therefore, it is true that vegetarianism improves their brain power.

As early as more than two thousand years ago, our ancestors had the same observation and judgment! "Carnivorous, brave and fierce; It is smart to eat grains. " This is a quote from "Big Wear Li Ji", which has been handed down in black and white for so many generations.