Vegetarian nutrition
Although vegetarianism can be roughly divided into vegan, dairy, egg white and egg white, in principle, vegetarianism generally refers to not eating animal protein. Because you don't eat meat, you can lower and regulate your cholesterol, and you won't get too high uric acid because of eating meat, and you won't increase the incidence of renal failure and kidney calculi. In addition, human constitution is alkaline, and eating too much meat will easily make the constitution acidic, which will increase the chance of getting sick. Vegetarianism will help to neutralize the acid and alkali of the constitution.
The benefits of being a vegetarian are well known, but eating incorrectly is equally harmful. For example, if you eat processed products with too many processing procedures, not only are there fewer nutrients, but the chemicals and pigments contained in them will also affect the human body; Excessive use of grease in cooking will cause a burden on the human body. Therefore, when cooking vegetarian food, don't use too complicated cooking procedures and eat more fresh vegetables; Oil must be appropriate, and raw and rough materials should be selected (traditional tofu is better than boxed tofu, and sesame is lower in sugar and higher in nutrition than sesame paste); Changing rice varieties frequently, eating brown rice occasionally, or adding grains and oats to rice are all good ways to achieve balanced nutrition.
Knowing the benefits of vegetarianism, perhaps your only worry is that you can't get the nutrients that meat has. In fact, as long as you can choose a variety of dishes when you are a vegetarian, you can get enough nutrition without preferring several dishes. In addition, because the cell tissue of meat itself is close to the human body, the human body has better absorption capacity, and vegetarians need to master several principles in diet because of reducing the intake of meat:
1.Whole wheat bread, germ bread and brown rice should be used instead of white rice and flour.
2. Meat is high in protein, but beans such as soybeans, edamame, mung beans, or bean products such as tofu and dried beans are also rich in protein, which can supplement the lack of meat, and eating more beans does not worry about high cholesterol.
3. Take more cashews, 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.
5. Don't use more oil to cook vegetarian food in order to make it more delicious. Only by mastering the principle of light vegetarian food, less salt and less sugar can it meet the healthy orientation of vegetarian food.
6. Vegetarians are easy to lack vitamin B 12, and eating more comprehensive vitamins can improve it. It is not so easy for a woman who loves beauty to keep slim by being vegetarian. If you cook incorrectly, use too much oil, or try to choose some fried foods such as fried bean curd 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 get fat.
If you are a vegetarian beginner, you may feel that you eat a lot at first, but you are hungry quickly. This is precisely because plants are easily absorbed by the stomach. Don't worry, persevere, and you will deeply feel how good vegetarianism is for your health.
Vegetarian food is mostly plant-based food, or it is called natural food. Originally, it refers to the forbidden animal raw materials, the forbidden temple dishes with five pains (namely garlic, garlic, Ferula, Cicong and mingcong) and the Taoist dishes with five meats (namely leek, onion, garlic, mustard and coriander). Now it mainly refers to vegetarian dishes made of vegetables (including fungi), fruits and bean products gluten, and makes good use of vegetarian soup made of bamboo shoots and bean sprouts to enhance freshness? 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, and even when 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 human body. On the contrary, the nutrition of all fruits and vegetables is the easiest to digest and absorb directly, 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, and people will eat their meat and 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 is shorter.
Vegetarianism makes people calm and clear-headed: when eating animals, they also eat animal hormones and hormones together, which makes people easily 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' blood is clean and their brain power can be greatly improved.
China vegetarian dishes are an important part of Chinese food, which are characterized by their 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 known as vegetarian dishes, are specially made by Xiangji Chef (monk chef) for monks and pilgrims. Palace vegetarian dishes are specially made by the royal chef and enjoyed by emperors during fasting; Folk vegetarian dishes: They are dishes developed in folk vegetarian restaurants on the basis of inheriting traditional vegetarian dishes and absorbing the essence of palace and temple vegetarian dishes. Here are a few side dishes:
Persimmon straw mushroom
Raw materials: tomatoes 10 only about 1000g rape leaves10 straw mushroom 45.
Method: 1, blanch the rape leaves, take them out and put them on a plate with sesame oil; 2. Peel the tomatoes, cut off the roots, dig out the inner pulp and put it on the rape leaves with the mouth facing down. Clean the straw mushroom and stir-fry it in 4 mature oils, then stir-fry it with cooking wine, soy sauce, white sugar, vegetarian soup and monosodium glutamate, thicken it and put it into the tomatoes.
Dry-roasted winter bamboo shoots
Ingredients: 250g of bamboo shoots, 30g of mushrooms, 25g of carrots and 25g of green beans.
Method: 1, slice the winter bamboo shoots, cut them into thick strips with a cross knife, dice the winter mushrooms and carrots, chop the Danxian watercress, mince the onion and ginger, cook the winter bamboo shoots, winter mushrooms, diced carrots and green beans in boiling water and take them out; 2. Choke the pot with chopped green onion, stir-fry red oil, seasoning wine, vegetarian soup, salt and white sugar with watercress, then add all the raw materials, simmer for 10 minute with low fire after boiling, and collect juice on medium fire until the juice is completely oily and clear. Serve.
Shrimp with longan
Ingredients: 250g fresh mushrooms, 6 carrots for longan and 6 carrots for red cherry, 25g green beans10g.
Water-soaked winter bamboo shoots15g
Method: 1, cut mushrooms into shrimp shapes, clean carrots and winter bamboo shoots and cut them into dices; 2. Egg white, starch and baking powder are made into batter, and shrimps are stuck in 70% hot oil and fried to light yellow; 3. Leave the bottom oil in the pan, add shredded ginger and ingredients, add salt, monosodium glutamate, cooking wine, fresh soup, thicken after boiling, pour in "shrimp", top the plate twice, and serve with longan and red cherry.
Clear soup radish Yan
Ingredients: ivory white radish about 1000 grams of coriander leaves a little.
Method: 1, wash and peel the radish, cut it into long slices, then cut it into five blades connected with each other, rinse thoroughly in water, pat dry the starch after draining, steam it in a cage, rinse thoroughly in water, and then soak it in clear water; 2. Boil the plain soup with salt, soak the radish slices and cook them slightly, then remove them into the soup basin; 3. Boil the plain soup, add salt, pepper and monosodium glutamate, remove the floating foam, and pour it in the soup basin and sprinkle coriander.
Terrible Botulinum 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 a lot of reports in this field). If you are addicted to meat again, it will be a bit like eating puffer fish. And these materials are 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 without fear?" I didn't eat any meat or any vitamin pills, and I lived a healthy life for half my life. I have traveled many times in the United States, often eating in restaurants and other people's homes, and 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 took two or three bites of liver one day, and I felt that the taste was wrong. I really got a fright when I used a knife. There was a nest of bugs in the pustule, which had already been cooked. From that day on, every time I saw the liver, I felt queasy. But beef is still my favorite, until one thing shocked me, I completely cut off beef! The thing is, my neighbor chose the best cow from the herd and supplied his own milk. One day, the hygienist came to check that the cow had tuberculosis and should be destroyed. The neighbor said that he 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 larger 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 my class to go hiking and passed by the slaughterhouse. I asked the government meat inspector who was the guide, "Excuse me, man, if a cow suffers from tuberculosis and one lung is rotten, what do you do?" "I also ask you, there is a rotten spot on your apple, what will you do? Didn't you cut it off and eat it? " I noticed the surprised expression on the students' faces. When I got out of the slaughterhouse, I asked them if peeling apples was the same as cutting beef. "Different, just kidding!" They denied it with one voice. They said, "The blood from 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 around." Even if you eat the rotten scars of apples, you won't get sick. " In this way, some meat products that I used to hate made me hate more and more.
"I used to love to eat chicken. But after visiting a chicken farm nearby, I lost my appetite in this area. I see that chicken farmers patrol chicken houses every day, picking out sick chickens and chickens that lay fewer eggs and sending them to the market. Those guys who are depressed and have wet bottoms 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 leather bag again.
"Once, I went fishing in a mountain stream in Arizona with my friends. I couldn't figure out what happened. Nearly half of the fish I caught had tumors, either inside or outside. It was disgusting. After consulting the relevant information, we learned from the government report that fish cancer is prevalent 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, fish in the United States are infected with cancer. What about animals in China? You can imagine.
Now the pig's head meat chewed by a northern man in China with Erguotou is very different from the pig's leg when Chu and Han fought. Nowadays, animal carcasses are contaminated both inside and outside: in modern agriculture, fertilizers and pesticides are widely used, animals eat plants, toxins enter animals, and people eat animals, so people become the highest enrichment of toxic substances. No way, carnivores are at the top of the food chain.
Needless to say, there are 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, that is, the pesticide residue 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 in animal meat cannot be washed away.
There is a saying that people who eat hairy crabs and pond fish now are brave people.
Farmers are a group of terrible people. They pour chemicals into animal feed and lakes and rivers in sacks, stimulate the growth of livestock, poultry, fish and shrimp, force feed, inject hormones, add stomach medicine, antibiotics, sedatives and preservatives to the feed (this kind of nitrate-containing meat is dangerous for cats), regardless of the carcinogenic effects of these chemicals, and meat eaters enjoy it with their eyes open.
There is also a kind of poison called botulism. "Botox is extremely harmful!" Zhang Luping, the head of Beijing Science Center for Human and Animal Environmental Protection, once again appealed to people to be vigilant after witnessing a scene of killing animals.
A dog market in Beijing. Zhang Luping described it as a bloody place that only a person with a heart of stone can see. In front of other dogs, the butcher buckled a serrated sharp weapon on a dog's head, causing it to faint, hanging it, stabbing it to death, and peeling it immediately. Bloody and steaming dog meat hangs in front of the dogs. Zhang Luping clearly saw that the dog who was reduced to the end of the world went 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 when animals are killed, they secrete a toxin, which is very harmful to human body. Modern scientific research shows that this toxin is a harmful adrenaline substance. Similarly, when pigs, cattle, soft-shelled turtles and chickens are killed, they not only secrete emergency toxins, but also have sewage in their bodies, so it is not safe to eat meat.
Cancer, mad cow disease, bird flu, foot-and-mouth disease, SARS and other diseases are all directly related to animal botulism in Zhang Luping's view. It's all some kind of resistance from animals.
Cancer is positively related to meat.
That is to say, the more meat you eat, the more likely you are to get cancer. A survey by a medical committee composed of famous doctors from Union Medical College Hospital and other units shows that there is a positive correlation between meat and cancer. The survey report wrote: "The incidence of cancer in Beijing, 1996 is 5.2 times that of 1955. We investigated hospitals and residents in urban areas. The prevalence rate of colorectal cancer in the last century was below 10/100,000, 20/100,000 in the 1980s, 24/100,000 in the 1990s and 60.45/100,000 per year. Why are there more and more cancer patients in cities? It's related to diet. Eating more meat, not eating coarse grains, and losing 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, which was less than 10/100,000. However, with the change of food structure and the increase of meat consumption in recent twenty or thirty years, the incidence rate has been rising, reaching 24.31/100,000, which is equivalent to the international average incidence level. According to research estimates, after 2000, the incidence of colorectal cancer will be 1.45 times higher than that in the 1980s. The mortality rate of colorectal cancer in Shanghai increased by 75% from 1972 to 1989. After 2000, the incidence of colorectal cancer will be 1.45 times higher than that in the 1980s.
Fifty percent 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 1.6 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 foods 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 the British Vegetarian Society in 1995, it is found that vegetarians are only half as likely to die prematurely as non-vegetarians, and vegetarians are less likely to get heart disease and cancer, mainly because of the low cholesterol content in the blood of vegetarians ... What is in the meat and why does it cause cancer? In addition to the recognized medical theory, many schools and experts point carcinogens to the poison in meat. As mentioned above, botulism is terrible, but this matter cannot be overemphasized. Guo Geng, a famous environmental expert in China and the head of Beijing Elk Garden, said: "I will give you a piece of evidence to understand how painful and resentful it is for animals, big or small, to be bound and killed. Since you hate, toxins will flow all over your body, so meat contains toxins. This poison is very powerful. For example, if a breast-feeding woman is angry, the milk will contain toxins, and the baby will easily get sick if she eats it. Do not believe that if you see a woman with a baby angry, squeeze out a little of her milk and put it in the sun for a while, it will turn green, and normal milk will be white when exposed to the sun.
How does vegetarianism prevent cancer? After years of research, Dr. Johnson of Anderson Hospital of the University of Texas in the United States found a fact. Where a large amount of potassium is ingested on weekdays, the number of people suffering from cancer is always low. 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. Every time a cell is injured, potassium leaks out of the cell and cancer cells begin to multiply. People suffer from chronic diseases. If there are ways to increase the potassium content of cells in the body, the chances of cancer will be reduced. On the contrary, potassium in the elderly is particularly easy to leak from the cell membrane, so the chance of cancer increases with age. Medical research has further found that if potassium is added to the culture solution of some cancer cells, they will suddenly become normal cells. Blood cancer cells in mice could not make blood originally, but when the potassium in their culture solution was increased to more than ten times, there was a phenomenon of hematopoiesis. 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. Salt and monosodium glutamate (a kind of sodium salt) both 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, high blood pressure and diabetes. .
The saying that God made us vegetarian has been circulating for many years, and it has been agreed and acquiesced by many medical institutions and experts. That is, from the perspective of human structure and function, people may be more suitable for vegetarianism. Therefore, some people say that people used to be a vegetarian animal, and it was only for various reasons that people began to eat meat, and the results were 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 short intestines, so that the digestive residues of meat would not stay in the intestines for too long. The intestines of people 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 easy to rot, it is easier to rot and ferment at the temperature of intestines. We can imagine that the feces of herbivores do not have the smell of meat eaters. It can be imagined how many pathogenic bacteria and toxins will be produced by rotten meat in human intestines.
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 grains, hard nuts, beans, fruits, etc. as food. The cellulose of these foods is not as thick as grass and difficult to digest. There is no need to ruminate, so a stomach is enough. Moreover, people's molars are developed and suitable for grinding food, that is, they are suitable for eating grains and beans. Carnivores, with sharp front teeth and jagged 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 violate the will of nature and eat things they shouldn't eat.
People often worry that vegetarian food is not nutritious enough. For this 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 more abundant, they fall asleep more easily, they need less sleep time, they are more cheerful, so they have less depression, they have less colds, and once they get better faster, they are less prone to calcium deficiency, and even better, they are less prone to cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes and Alzheimer's disease-an important cause of Alzheimer's disease is fat. A set of national data this year 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 elderly women in the north. They happen to be frequent buyers 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 vegetarian foods is higher than that of meat: for example, the protein content in various nuts and melon seeds is 30%, the grain content is about 10%, the protein content in beans is higher, nearly 40%, which is twice as high as that of meat, and the protein content in soybean skin is as high as 50%, and the protein in soybean is completely protein, which is more easily absorbed by human body.
People joke that Cantonese people are not as strong as a northern man eating 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.
Peas, 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: per 100 grams 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, fungus is 207, and laver is 850 ... China people are generally short of calcium.
Even the fat that meat is good at is always overshadowed by vegetarianism. For example, the oil content of walnuts is as high as 66.9%; Peanut accounts for 48.7%, sesame accounts for 48.23%, and soybean accounts for 20.20% ... There are 13 kinds of fatty acids, 6 kinds of animal fats, but all of them are vegetable fats, and animal fats are saturated fats with high cholesterol content, which are easy to cause arteriosclerosis, hypertension and heart disease, and are beneficial to the proliferation of cancer cells; Vegetable fat is unsaturated fat, which can promote bile acid excretion, reduce cholesterol and avoid heart disease and various cardiovascular diseases.
Vegetarianism is not short of nutrition, and a long-lived vegetarian is the best proof.
There is an American medical organization to conduct a comparative study on vegetarianism. The meat group is extremely easy to find, but it is not easy to find a pure 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. How old were those old monks and those as control group? Average 80 years old.
Vegetarianism 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 stronger than vegetarians (vegetarians will not be surprised, they have long known that they are stronger than meat eaters), which is completely contrary to our concept: the Olympic Games seems to be a place where vegetarians show great strength, and I don't know when the Olympic Games will become a place where vegetarians gather. Maureen Ross, the swimming champion of the first Olympic Games, is a vegetarian. His speed is amazing, he is persistent and powerful, and he is the most famous athlete. His appearance has set off a wave of vegetarianism among western athletes.
After several decades, the sports theory specialized in vegetarianism also appeared, which is the Handbook of Sports Nutrition for Vegetarians, written by Lisa. Dove is a sports nutritionist in Miami. She also participates in marathons and triathlons. Her strenuous sports career has 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 doesn'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 began to show his strength of 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 one swoop, it will never catch up with it. Wang Yongyuan, a carnivore, will lose the endurance race.
Therefore, Dove said, "Olympic athletes or professional athletes don't have to eat meat, and vegetarianism can still make you a tough' sports machine'." .
In her book, she lists the training secrets and three-meal recipes of 17 top athletes in the world, including Olympic wrestler Campbell, six-time triathlon champion Scott and professional American football player Hill. These people are vegan or basically vegetarian (such as not eating meat, just eating a little fish). Dove said that eating more plants has many advantages, one of which is that vegetables and fruits are rich in carbohydrates. "This is helpful for long-distance running or sprinting.
What makes Chinese 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 become a successful athlete without protein. In fact, the best year for my track race was the first year for me to eat a strict vegetarian diet. Besides, by continuing to eat a strict vegetarian diet, my weight is under control and I like the way I look. I know it sounds silly, but we all want to like the way we look. I like eating a lot, and I feel great. Here is my story.
The idea that eating meat makes people wild and powerful may come from the ancient barbaric times. At that time, carnivorous tribes such as hunting clans and mountain bandits and pirates had nothing to eat, and they often succeeded in capturing countries with agricultural culture. The peaceful character of vegetarians was always suppressed by the savage momentum of carnivores, like the Huns and Mongols who were regarded as "yellow perils" swept through Europe twice in a thousand years, making these "civilized people" be lost again and again. The concept of bravery of meat eaters has deepened again and again in human mind. But even these Mongolians, who were also meat-eating westerners, were defeated by the herbivorous Japanese twice in the 13th 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, are fiercer than the Mongols, making it impossible for those grassland fighters and Korean soldiers to get close, and they are defeated like a mountain along the coast of Japan. The process of the Mongols conquering 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, physical strength and agility most are vegetarians. In Roman, gladiator has 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 a porridge mixed with peas and oats. You know, they don't have to chew that barley because they are abused. Gladiators are generally the treasures of manor owners, rich people and even governors. Although they are slaves, they are slaves who make their faces look golden and make their pockets swell, just like the owners of English castles now have noble thoroughbred horses. Although they are beasts, they can eat better than their owners if necessary. Those Roman slaves chewed raw barley because they wanted to fight and get a chance in a duel of life and death. They had a lesson in blood, and of course they knew what to eat was more beneficial to their physical strength and brave perseverance. Indeed, it is hard for us to imagine that a man who has eaten enough wine and meat can defeat these skinny slaves. In addition, raw vegetables and some grains have been proved by many nutritionists and medical scientists at home and abroad to be more beneficial than cooked food, because they are better than natural nutrients. That's why they chew barley raw.
There is another example to illustrate the courage and health of vegetarians. That's the Shaolin monk in China. China people always thought that the monks in Shaolin Temple were "the wine and the meat pass through the intestines, but the Buddha's heart stays" because of the scribbling of film and television works, which added a big "stain" to this famous temple. The mages came out many times to clarify that all the official disciples in Shaolin Temple are vegetarians and practice strictly according to the rules of Buddhism. Indeed, the first precept of Buddhism is to abstain from killing. Even the weapons of the monks never have any swords, but at most they are sticks, not taking people's lives as their priority. 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, and they can be heard by ears and seen by eyes. This shows that vegetarians can do more light, violent and healthy work than meat eaters.
Vegetarianism makes people smart.
Are vegetarians smart or carnivores smart? There have been many arguments about this. In fact, history is obvious. Since ancient times, the Han nationality has been a vegetarian or semi-vegetarian nation, and it goes without saying who is smarter with the surrounding carnivorous clans and tribes. Hua Zhang's classics, Wu Mei and Min Feng all tell that a nation's creative brain is active between heaven and earth. Even in modern times, when it was defeated by the western powers, whether a westerner is smart or a Chinese is a matter of public opinion.
India is a vegetarian country (except Muslims, of course) because it believes in Hinduism. Whether Indians are smart or not is also a matter of public opinion. In the world, the king of wisdom-mathematics and philosophy are dominated by Indians. It is universally acknowledged that Indians are the best at mathematics. Many mathematicians in the world are from India, and even after studying, India has become the first country in software. Indian classical philosophy surpassed ancient Greece and ancient Egypt, and its depth and system of studying things even surpassed Germanic (German) philosophy represented by Hegel and Nietzsche, and other countries could not look forward to it.
The most influential religions in the East are mostly from India, so it goes without saying that the wisdom and profundity of Buddhism. Most people who study and believe in Buddhism suddenly realize and sigh with emotion after getting started: too profound, too intelligent! Indeed, a western scientist (who forgot his name) said that the more he studied, the more he felt that modern science was just confirming the discovery of Buddhism as early as 3,000 years ago ... The older Hinduism was as vast and rational as Buddhism ... It was widely spread in the West, and Jesus returned to India after studying in India for more than ten years to preach Christianity ... The ancient Greek philosophy that the world's intellectuals admire most so far was also created by vegetarians, and the ancient Greek masters Socrates, Plato and Pythagoras were all strict vegetarians ... In the past, we mostly knew a little about their works and political tendencies, but little about their life tendencies that affected their whole lives. This is actually their most important and essential aspect. Leonardo da Vinci, Tolstoy, Bernard Shaw, Gandhi and Einstein (who were strict vegetarians for a long time), why are they vegetarians? Because they all have a kind of love and nonviolence that they think is the most sacred. Unfortunately, there is another notorious person who is also a vegetarian. He is Hitler, and there is no doubt about the influence of vegetarianism on his intelligence.
These intellectual kingdoms that need the most brains to build are all made by vegetarians, so there is really nothing to say.
One of the hallmarks of vegetarianism is a flexible mind. The mark of a meat eater is a dull mind. China people have been repeatedly guarded by 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 of their memories are increased ... In short, the function of the brain is obviously getting better and better, which is more wonderful than when they were young. In fact, children who are vegetarian all over the world are often extremely intelligent. 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; Eating grain is smart and clever. " This is the words in "Da Dai Li Ji", which has been handed down in black and white for so many generations.