I can still exercise every day, neither fat nor thin, and my' body mass index' is within the normal range. It can be said that my life quality is good, and I feel that I am in the best period of my life. I feel that all this has something to do with my diet. Let me talk about my experience.
0 1: Why are you a vegetarian?
I am a vegetarian so as not to kill anything. Usually, it is painful for us to cut a wound on the skin, not to mention that animals cut their necks and dig their hearts.
I saw the scene of killing pigs in the countryside when I was a child. The pig was tied to a big bench. Before the butcher did it, the pig's desperate howl was earth-shattering. With a knife, the pig's dying struggle overturned the wooden bench.
It was a long time before the pig died completely while bleeding. How cruel! How can you eat pork when you see this?
In fact, all meat comes from killing, not killing.
I once read an absurd story about cannibals, who locked up their children and raised them before fattening them up. This kind of thing did happen in real life. During the civil war in Congo in 1960s, two UN peacekeepers were kidnapped by local tribes, brutally killed and eaten. Reports of cannibalism and other atrocities shocked the western world.
In Congo, cannibalism has nothing to do with religion, etiquette or war. It's just a dietary preference. Huxley, a famous British biologist, said in "Man's Position in Nature":
"In the north of Congo, Africa, there was once a people named Anzikui. This man is cruel. No matter friends or relatives, they have to eat ... their butcher shops are full of human flesh, not beef and mutton.
They used enemies captured in the war to feed their hunger, fattened slaves who could not sell the price and slaughtered them. "
A priest once quoted the local aborigines as saying, "You white people only know that pork is delicious, but how can pork be compared with human flesh!" "He also said," You eat poultry and goats, and we eat people. Why not? What is the difference? "
Indeed, it is really difficult for animal eaters to give a convincing answer to the aborigines. "Civilized" people raise chickens, pigs and cattle on a large scale, with hundreds of millions. It is sinful to keep them and eat them, but it is not surprising.
But please put yourself in someone else's shoes. If you are born without freedom, your life experience is a narrow cage, and the result of your growth is being slaughtered and becoming someone else's dish. How do you feel?
Don't do to others what you don't want them to do to you. Only cutting meat can fundamentally put an end to this unreasonable phenomenon.
02: What's the difference between eating animals and eating plants?
Some people may say that you value the life and feelings of animals so much, but plants are also life! Don't vegetarians eat plants?
Yes, plants are also life. There are not only plants in the air and water, but also microorganisms and bacteria. Even fasting, just drinking water and breathing will inevitably kill people.
But there is still a difference. Many animals have a strong sense of self. Even ants cherish life, let alone big animals.
Animals such as cows, pigs, dogs and cats that we usually see all have their psychological activities. We can observe that they have their own emotions, even complex psychological activities such as pride, jealousy, gratitude and depression.
People keep them in captivity to eat meat, which has violated the animal's nature of being active and loving the sun. In the early and middle period of their lives, they were killed and their hearts were full of resentment and resentment!
Compared with animals, plants have little sense of life. On the other hand, animals have a sound nervous system, and the whole body has obvious pain. When they are killed, they will suffer great pain. But science has proved that plants have no nervous system similar to animals and have the same pain.
As for microorganisms and bacteria, not to mention life consciousness and pain.
Therefore, the evil thoughts of killing animals and eating meat are far deeper than those of eating plants, and the evil thoughts of killing microorganisms and bacteria when drinking water and breathing are far smaller than those of eating plants.
03: Why do you want to "eat without talking"?
It is not that plants are unconscious, nor that there is nothing wrong with eating plants. Of course, because eating plants does little harm to plants, if vegetarians are practitioners, blessing plants with the merits of practice is also a kind of compensation for plants.
Even if you don't practice, as a vegetarian, it is necessary to express gratitude for the plants you eat.
When we eat, we can silently express our gratitude to the plants we have eaten with our heart. Personally, I meditated like this: "Because of your contribution, I can gain nutrition and the strength of life.
Your life is valuable, thank you! "When you express it with your heart, you will feel that the energy of plants is integrated into your body. This is our communication with plants.
We should thank God that all natural and social conditions can operate in an orderly manner. Sunlight, air and water are the basis for the growth of all things. Without them, we would have no food and life.
Therefore, in the process of eating, we should refrain from talking and "eat without talking". If you don't use your brain when eating, you can't communicate well with plants.
Even if you don't talk about gratitude, talking constantly during meals is not conducive to digestion and nutrient absorption. When talking to people, you should respond in time.
You can't use it both ways. When you want to talk, the food in your mouth has not been chewed carefully, so you should swallow it first. The harm of this practice will be further explained below.
04: Why should you chew slowly?
The digestion of food begins not after swallowing, but when chewing in the mouth. If you swallow food without chewing carefully for a long time, it will increase the burden on your stomach.
Some people don't fill many tooth defects, even if they don't plan to fill them, they can't chew food carefully, and nine times out of ten they will get stomach trouble.
The process of chewing is also the process of saliva secretion. Saliva contains amylase and lysozyme, which can help digestion and have bactericidal effect. Saliva can "bind" chewed food into "food balls", which is beneficial to swallowing.
At the same time, amylase in saliva can decompose starch in food into maltose, which not only makes people feel sweet, but also makes food enter the digestion process in the mouth.
Japanese researchers have found that saliva can scavenge superoxide radicals produced by carcinogens. The disinfection process of saliva will last for 30 minutes not only in the mouth but also in the stomach.
Chewing each bite of food for 30 times can fully mix saliva with food, remove free radicals to the greatest extent, and have the best anti-cancer effect.
The measure of chewing slowly is the number of chews per meal. Generally speaking, it is best to ensure that each bite is not less than 15 times, and the number of times for foods that are not easy to chew should be increased accordingly.
05: How to control seven-point satiety
Eating seven points full can completely ensure the intake of nutrients. If you can insist on eating seven full meals a day, you can not only keep your head clear, but also control your weight and lose weight successfully.
"I feel full, but I can still eat, but I will be full if I eat any more." This is how I feel when I am seven minutes full.
A person's stomach sends a signal to the brain when he is seven minutes full, but it usually takes twenty minutes for the brain nerves to receive the signal of satiety.
In other words, if you eat a meal in a hurry in less than this time, you will have eaten too much before your brain reminds you, resulting in too much energy actually ingested.
Chewing slowly can prolong the meal time, stimulate the nerve center of satiety and feed back the signal of "I'm full" to the brain. Therefore, we will stop eating in time because we feel full.
Eat with a plan. Seven full points refers to the whole meal. If you plan to eat sweets and fruits after dinner, you should reserve a place for the quantity of sweets and fruits.
06: We should live a good life and save natural resources.
As mentioned above, plants are spiritual. We came into this world with a task to complete. In order to prolong our life, we need to eat a reasonable number of plants.
In this respect, plants also understand and cooperate. But because plants are also a kind of life, we must make full use of every trace of plants from the consideration of respecting plant life.
I used to see some old ladies chanting Buddha repeatedly say, "sin, sin!" " When others waste food and plates. If you accidentally drop a grain of rice, you should pick it up and eat it. Although they don't talk about profound truth, their simple mood still expresses their opposition to wasting natural resources.
As mentioned above, often eating seven points full is actually "good for yourself and good for the world". Eating too much is bad for your health. It's hard to lose weight through exercise and other methods!
There are indeed many hungry people in the world. Our savings may not be directly related to the improvement of their lives, but it can have an impact through world food prices.
More importantly, the contribution of plants cannot be measured by money. We can't buy as many plant resources as we want just because we have money, and we don't take waste seriously.
Otherwise, even if we are vegetarian, waste will leave us with bad karma. This is probably what the old ladies said: "sin, sin!" What it really means!