Could the vegetarian diet enable people's longevity
Could the vegetarian diet enable people's longevity
Mentioning the vegetarian diet, people will associate it with two respects naturally: First, Buddhism, second, keep in good health.
The vegetarian diet mainly means that does not eat the animal food, but eat the vegetables, food of melon and fruit. As to the Buddhist sons and younger brothers, abstain from eating meat and is called eating " the room " ,It is one kind that repairs behavior of opposing. If you abstain from eating meat, others will definitely ask: "Did you profess Buddhism? "
The ancient thinks, the vegetarian diet is favorable to keeping in good health. Pediatrist perfectly sound to propose vegetarian diet can make physique of people, spirit in best state " keep in good health, four want ", in write Ming Dynasty. With the development of modern nutrition, the experts find, a lot of heart brain blood vessel diseases, hepatopathy, diabetes,etc., all crossing and eating the meat causes. So someone think vegetarian diet can let people longevity.
Does the vegetarian diet have relations with the longevity on earth? This is not a simple problem, we must talk about from nutrition.
Five major kinds of nutriment
The material which maintains human development, growing, activity is called the nutriment, as follows, mainly
(1)Carbon hyrate, including the carbohydrate, starch, mainly offer the heat that the human activity needs;
(2)Fat, except offer the heat that the human activity needs, form the necessary material of the human body;
(3)The albumen, also called the protein, it is a main material which forms the human body, can offer heat too;
(4)Vitamin, many kind including linking A, B, C, D, E, B12 etc., mainly participate in the physiological function of the human body;
(5)Many kind of mineral including potassium, sodium, calcium, iron, zinc, selenium etc., is the physiological function of participating in human body too.
The food is mainly summarized as meat, three big classes of grain and vegetables fruit. Generally speaking, five kinds of nutriment described above exist in various food, just the difference exists in many kinds of content of nutrient component of various food.
The grain includes highest carbohydrate, account for 70%, it is close to 10% to includes albumens; The meat includes most protein, among them the red meat is high in 40% content. The fat comes from soya bean and peanut of the plant, come from the fat. Vitamin A, vitamin C is the most among fresh green vegetables and fruit, calcium is the most in milk, there are more B vitamins in coarse food grain, but vitamin B12 mainly exists in meat and viscera of the animal.
The human body needs the meal of equilibrium
Rice, pieces of food that make, meat, oil, vegetables cooking and cooked food that become, form basic form of people's rational nutriment.
The albumen is supplied abundantly, then the body is stalwart, the development is good, scarce and weak and sickly. The carbohydrate and fat are main raw materials of the human heating, delivery volume wants the foot, otherwise can't maintain the weight and work; Too many, it is apt to form the fat. The vegetables, fruit are eaten very little, will make vitamin, mineral scarce, not very healthy, it is apt to fall ill. So need meal of equilibrium. Someone thinks, a certain thing nutrition is good, eat in a large amount, eat everyday; Another someone, to a certain things (such as the egg, meat) Do not like, will never eat. So come down for a long time, nutrition is uneven, harmful to health.
Better habit to vary, take different food often, all to take, particular about food. People have a kind of habits and acquired characteristics, is that " things eaten continuously, do not want to eat; The thing not eaten for a long time, want to eat. " This facilitates keeping nutritive equilibrium.
The vegetarian diet lets people's nutrition not be complete
The vegetarian diet mean that eats the diet not sucking the animal food. Besides animal's albumen, other nutriment are basically complete in the vegetarian diet. So the vegetarian diet can maintain human body's most basic life, growth, development, multiplies and the activity.
But the albumen forms the important material of the human body after all, can't be scarce. If replace with the plant albumen, such as the grain, can? Generally speaking, it is more difficult. Because plant albumen content relatively low, quality (including essential amino acid of human body kind and amount of quantity) Not so good as animal's albumen, so the plant albumen is no matter on the quantity or quality, it is difficult to reach the ideal standard. Take animal's meat as the food, has already become the main source that the whole mankind has absorbed the albumen. This is a human common understanding, indubitable.
Plant albumen, including vegetables, fruit, grain,etc., is the people's important nutriment, albumen source of vegetarian, can keep life, as it wipes out to be better together with meat function its too.
The vegetarian diet may not encourage the longevity
Why anyone's edible meat food will catch disease? This is in the food of edible animal's meat because of them, do not use it appropriately. Meat and viscera, fish, shrimp of the animal,etc., all contain more cholesterol. Cholesterol human body essential nutriment, spend too many, can cause arteriosclerosis. Arteriosclerosis is infarction of brain, heart infarction and cause of disease of cerebral embolism, the main reason that the elderly cause death. It is the seed of trouble to blame animal's food, in fact eat too much animal's food, not faults of animal food.
It is a complicated problem to be in fact long-lived, including one's own inherent cause of the human body and environmental factor. Air, water and soil, culture, education, science, economy, politics, interpersonal relationships in the environment,etc., a lot of factors are closely related with the longevity. Nutrition is only a part among them.
According to the scientist's research at present, can't verify yet the vegetarian diet facilitates the longevity, but has already verified, the diet of nutritive equilibrium including animal's albumen, facilitate human health and longevity.