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In fact, a lot of people who call themselves vegetarians are just on the spur of the moment. I think only those who last more than a year can be counted as true vegetarians.

The neighbor of my house, Xiao Li, has been insisting on a vegetarian diet ever since she went to college and graduated to work. However, many of his classmates were unable to persevere on.

Li said she became a vegetarian because of the influence of her university teacher.

Xiao Li's teacher was a charming woman. He was in his late forties and had been well-kept. Anyone who didn't know her would think of her as a young woman:

Her figure was convex, and her face was suffused with the luster and vitality of a thirty-something. Dress is also very unique, always leading the school knowledge of the female trend. The sound was even more wonderful and magnetic. Whichever class she attended, she could charm a lot of fans. Thus, his words were very persuasive.

"Little Li is the fan who was bewitched by this teacher." For my teacher in higher mathematics, she had been vegetarian for decades and taught our class in the eleventh year of university. Almost every class encouraged us to eat vegetarian food.

"She told us that since she was young, her physical fitness was poor and that she never applied for a physical education class in school. Ever since she started eating, her body was much better than before. Her family of three all ate vegetarian food. Their daughter had been able to swim for a long time when she was very young, and often won awards for long distance running. Her grades were especially good as well, and she was currently studying at a famous school in the country. This teacher hadn't participated in the medical examination organized by the school for a few years, and judging from her complexion, she looked exceptionally healthy and spirited. She didn't wear a cotton jacket in the winter. She eats vegetarian, but she also pays attention to nutrition. Nuts, kelp and the like all buy some very natural ones. The walnuts and peanuts she buys are very light ones to eat. " Xiao Li's theory

Little Li was very slim, and her complexion was quite good. She said she wasn't exactly a vegetarian. But since the vegetarian diet, she had become more sensitive to the smell of meat. We share that.

"For the first two or three weeks, my body often felt hungry, so I always brought snacks like banana nuts and dates with me. I can still be full of energy by not eating or eating raw food (no staple food) all day. In general, vegetarians are healthier than those who eat meat and eggs because they no longer ingest animal protein and toxins. But they also need to be careful to eat naturally, process less, and eat in a variety of ways before they are well-balanced and healthy. " She said so when she was sharing her experiences with me.

Xiao Li told me that a professor from Taiwan University with the surname Chen had spent more than two years visiting 49 temples across Taiwan and examining 249 monks. The conclusions reached are:

Vegetarian food is not anaemic. Of the 249 monks, only 5 were anaemic, caused by stomach and intestinal parasites.

Doctor Miller, the founder of Tai'an Hospital, once said, "As long as there are enough grains, beans, vegetables, and fruits, you will get much more nourishment than you would if you ate any Vita Life Pills or Mineral Pills."

We have always believed that "meat is necessary for health". In the 1950s, scientists planned meat proteins as "first class" and vegetarian foods as "second class". But at present this classification has been completely overturned. Because vegetarian proteins and meat proteins are exactly the same in terms of nutritional utility. This distinction no longer exists.

In addition, plant legumes contain plant protein, nutrition than animal protein integrity and safety, and easier to be digested and absorbed by the human stomach. Meat protein, containing too many acidic elements, urea, purine, harmful to the human body, harm the acid-base balance of human cells. Plant proteins, on the other hand, have less acidic elements, soybeans and other bean products, which provide higher amino acids and calories than meat. Furthermore, there is no animal waste.

But to be a true vegetarian, one has to resist all sorts of temptations.

After all, in China, a large country with abundant delicacies, eating was a very important pleasure!

Can you resist the temptation of that delicious dish whenever your parents offer you the fragrant Red Braised Meat and Steamed Fish?

Can you resist the temptation to eat when everyone is gathered together at a restaurant, when waiters bring in a variety of specialties that are full of flavors?

So, how do you become a vegetarian? Xiao Li's experience is:

"If you want to try out a healthy lifestyle like a vegetarian diet but don't want to force yourself, I suggest you take it step by step.

First, reduce the consumption of meat, increase the consumption of some fruits and vegetables, or abandon the land meat and become a "semi-vegetarian."

The second step, pay attention to eat less and eat more food, this will gradually reduce the stomach capacity, stomach does not need to digest a large number of different kinds of food, digestive system can also effectively absorb nutrition. In addition, the volume of the stomach is reduced, so that hunger will not be as intense as before. Because the stomach is easier to digest, there is no need to draw large amounts of blood from the brain.

Third, good breakfast, full lunch, and very little dinner. If three meals a day were ten, it would take at least four or five minutes, three or two for lunch and three for dinner. However, according to the modern way of life, dinner is often a family chat or dinner, social time, the most simple dinner arrangement, seems inhumane, but even so, we should still try to change the habit of eating meat, eating.

If you are interested in becoming a complete vegetarian but are worried about not being able to adapt, you can choose seven days of a certain period (such as a longer holiday) to try to eat no meat at all for seven days, but you can eat cheeses instead.

In addition, whether or not vegetarian also depends on fate, if like vegetarian food, might as well have one day a week, or every day a persistent vegetarian food. Vegetarians also need to focus on nutrition. As much as possible to eat different kinds of vegetables, legumes, raw fruits, grains to increase the absorption of different nutrition opportunities to achieve balance.

"That's how I came to be a vegetarian." "No," she said.

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For a long time, the concept of vegetarianism was hardly ever heard of, since the concept of eating meat was regarded as a sign of affluence.

Today, more and more people are leaning towards vegetarianism, and the number of vegetarians is on the rise.

"Over 5 million Chinese vegetarians!" "Ning Nan said." There are roughly 30 to 40 million different types of vegetarians in the United States, and China has more people than the United States. "

Among the rising vegan trends in Chinese cities, Ning Nan told me that his little Hook was an early follower.

We each drank half a bottle of red wine and talked more.

"My little Hook, who used to be a typical carnivore. Once, however, after reading a report by the United Nations on the production of more greenhouse gases from raising, slaughtering and processing livestock than from cars, he told me that he had decided to become a vegetarian. "

"In order to pursue output value unilaterally, antibiotics and hormones are being used in large quantities, and industrial farms are causing serious environmental damage, although they are providing more and more meat for the market. But these fertilizers and pesticides pollute China's groundwater and rivers. The findings of scientific research are shocking: animal proteins (especially milk proteins) can significantly increase the risk of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, kidney stones, osteoporosis, hypertension, cataract and Alzheimer's disease. And what's even more shocking is that all these diseases can be controlled and treated by adjusting the diet. " He told Ning Nan his reason for not eating meat.

"For example, it took a year for the countryside to raise a pig, and it was only during the Spring Festival that a big pig was killed and eaten. There were billions of people on earth now, and they had to eat meat every day. In order to make the pigs grow faster, they invented a lot of fodder. If the pigs ate it, they would grow up in two months. What's in this feed? Some foreign scholars have reported that more than 2700 different drugs, including hormones and antibiotics, are currently being used in livestock, which ensure that animals can grow up quickly and safely, grow fat, and gain a lot of meat. There were also prawns, fish, sea cucumbers, and crabs. In order to make them grow as fast as possible, their breeders would put hormones into their fodder … What would hormones cause? Previously, women during menopause in the United States advocated estrogen supplementation and oral use, and later scientific research found that estrogen supplementation was associated with cancer. There were even more varieties of cooked meat. When some restaurant chefs were cooking meat, they would put in fresh meat powder, such as roast beef. Now, these beef were becoming more and more tender. Even the restaurant owner himself did not dare to eat roast beef and mutton skewers. This was because all of the meat was made from tender meat powder! If you eat this meat into your stomach, won't your stomach corrode as well? "

"I used to get sleepy after eating meat. But since the vegetarian diet, after eating also not tired, has been full of energy, "said Xu Ke.

Indeed, vegan dishes are now delicious and attractive. Unlike a decade ago, vegan restaurants were mostly made of tofu and greens. Today, you can eat anything you want, but everything here is made of vegetarian food.

"For example, cumin roast mutton, black bean sauce fish, salad, spring rolls -- these are all cooked in vegan dishes. Chinese vegan chefs can use ingenious methods to make tofu taste of meat. Although some vegans believe this undermines vegetarianism, it does so while satisfying the taste buds and avoiding harming the Earth and animals. " Ning Nan said to me as she picked up the menu.

"Most people don't want to give up meat." Ning Nan said. Like me. Though I can understand what a vegetarian was up to. But being environmentally responsible does not mean giving up meat altogether. "

"You don't have to be vegetarian. The important thing is that you know how the meat you eat is made. I believe that raising animals in a sustainable way may improve the use of fertilizers and pesticides.

"Once you change your mind, you can talk about other things." Ning Nan said, "The atmosphere in society changed."

I nodded appreciatively.