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Your Diet - your Life Vegetarianism is important for you, your life and your planet. Director Den Greenhow, medical doctor, vegetarian and gourmet grazer, gives you ten good reasons to make the switch. And hey, it needn't be all at once. Just try it one piece of pizza at a time. It all makes a difference! Health Animal fat, contained in all meat, is bad for you. It's associated with cancer, strokes and heart disease and is known to raise blood cholesterol levels. Red meat consumption is linked to bowel cancer risk The doc doesn't hesitate to recommend a veggie diet for health! And yes, that includes a growing child ... (for scientific examples see article on the next page). Beauty Fruit and veg. are full of phyto-nutrients that protect the body against ageing. Meat on the other hand, contains concentrated environmental pollutants which encourage the body to look older (incidentally the modest Dr. Greenhow has been a vegetarian since he was seventeen and looks far younger than his years). Taste Veggie food really tastes good! You can taste the flavour of everything on your plate and don't feel 'heavy' after every meal. There are lots of good recipes out there. Young Dr. Greenhow would never want to go back to eating meat .... Weight Studies have shown vegetarian children are leaner and fitter than meat eating children. Adults have smaller bums and less love handles. The doc doesn't know a vegetarian who needs to diet! Energy Your energy will go up as you are ingesting a better balance of vitamins and minerals. In addition, a veggie diet works better to sustain you as it takes longer for the food to release energy. It can even get you through the nightmare of medical school! Peace Fast fatty food promotes is addictive and promotes addictive behaviour. If there are habits you want to lose - smoking, drinking, violence - lose meat first! Karma the average person eats 4000 animals in their lifetime. Those animals are cute, and as well as that are sentient and feel pain. Do you really want to take their life away for you to eat? What goes around, comes around. 'Green' ing our world has been altered. Not only is meat full of drugs, but fish are often heavilly contaminated by dioxins and PCB's especially farmed fish. It is better to eat organic flax seeds to gain Omega 3 oils. Well, he is called Dr. Green how! Love Factory farming is cruel and stresses animals beyond what society should accept. The Pope recently said factory farming is immoral. Cutting costs to produce cheap meat makes for miserable animals and miserable meat. Do you really want this misery inside you? Turning into your poop? And is killing really justified because an animal is 'organic'? Think about it! Feed the world! 1 kg of meat takes as much resources as 10 kg as grain. Given that over half the world goes to bed hungry every night, don't you want to do your bit? Now click on 'next' for the article on the health benefits of being veggie. TWO USEFUL BOOKS - One a definitive health perspective and the other a comprehensive moral perspective on meat free diets |
