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By Sanjeev Sharma, on May 19th, 2011 | Tags: diabetes, Heart Disease | Category: Diet Plans, Health Reasons | Is your health important to you? Then you need to STOP eating processed meat now. While red meat consumption is a good source of proteins, there are studies that have found some links between eating large amounts of red meat and various health issues.
In scientific studies, there are some inconsistencies associating meat consumption with the development of coronary heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. However, make no mistake about processed meats – there is clear evidence that eating processed meat in your diet is linked to coronary heart disease, stroke, and diabetes.
As already mentioned, while there are
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By Sanjeev Sharma, on April 18th, 2011 | Tags: Chinese Cooking, diabetes, Obesity | Category: Diet Plans, Health Reasons | With obesity becoming a major health issue for people everywhere, the problem of childhood obesity is also gaining more attention – our children are getting fatter and less fit than before. Survey has found that from the early 1980′s up to the late 2000′s, children are fatter, heavier, and weaker, where 17% of all children are overweight. There are a number of reasons why this is so – starting off with poor diet and eating habits, lack of exercise, sedentary lifestyle, and the list goes on.
Looking at the problem of adult obesity, it
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By Sanjeev Sharma, on March 18th, 2011 | Tags: Chinese Cooking, diabetes | Category: Diet Plans, Health Reasons, Vegetarian Benefits | Diabetes mellitus is a condition when a person has high blood sugar – this is either because the body is not producing enough insulin, or the cells do not respond to the insulin that is produced. Some symptoms of having high blood sugar includes frequent urination, increased thirsty, and increased hunger. Type 1 diabetes is where the body fails to produce enough insulin, and the patient is required to inject insulin. Type 2 Diabetes is where a person has insulin resistance, where their body fails to use insulin properly. It is for this second type that
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By Sanjeev Sharma, on February 18th, 2011 | Tags: Chinese Cooking, Hypertension | Category: Diet Plans, Health Reasons | It’s well known and widely accepted that vegetarian food is healthy and that vegetarian diets have many health benefits. But did you known that healthy vegetarian food can also work to lower your risks of hypertension? Meaning that healthy vegetarian diet can help reduce your risks of having high blood pressure. Hypertension is one of the key risk factors for causing various serious health problems such as strokes, heart attacks, heart failures, and it is also a leading cause of chronic kidney failure. Even just moderate elevated blood pressure can lead to shortened life expectancy, and
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By Sanjeev Sharma, on February 15th, 2011 | Category: Health Reasons, Recipes, Red Meat | Last year on this very day, I received a mail from Craig Ballantyne that I would like to share with my readers.
“Dear Sanjeev,
Did you read about the massive meat recall that is taking place in California?
Over 4 million pounds of meat has been recalled because of E.Coli.
I sure as heck wouldn’t want to be eating ground beef in a California restaurant this weekend, that’s for sure!
It’s really sad to hear about these recalls, because you just know that some poor child has gotten sick. I remember years ago when a similar outbreak killed
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By Sanjeev Sharma, on January 6th, 2011 | Category: Health Reasons, Nutrition | The intense cold weather unleashed in many parts of the world which is attributed, ironically to the global warming, has raised considerably the fear of, viral infections, cold and cough. It is therefore necessary that you should do all it takes to protect yourself.
And that is where being a vegetarian helps.
One of the best ways to boost your immune system, keep it strong and avoid falling sick with colds, flu and other infections, is to pay extra attention to what you eat. Experts recommend a diet which is rich in
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By Sanjeev Sharma, on May 9th, 2009 | Category: Health Reasons | In response to my post titled Is Human Design Indeed a Vegetarian Design, one dear reader had referred to an article by Dr. McArdle who is an anatomist, a primatologist and more importantly a vegetarian.
In the conclusion of that article Dr. McArdle had stated, “Humans are classic examples of omnivores in all relevant anatomical traits. There is no basis in anatomy or physiology for the assumption that humans are pre-adapted to the vegetarian diet. For that reason, the best arguments in support of a meat-free diet remain ecological,ethical, and health concerns.”
In the above
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