Nutritions Daily – Wellness Living

The belief that a vegetarian diet facilitates easier weight loss has now the support of scientific studies. Vegetarians tend to be slimmer than meat eaters and have lesser chances of encountering problems like heart diseases, diabetes and high blood pressure.

But this does not mean that turning vegetarian overnight will make you slimmer. There are a number of vegetarian food items which include higher amount of calories like nuts, peanut butter, salad dressings, sweets etc. which can make you fatter. Not only that, vegetarians must make sure that their diet provides all the necessary nutrients, especially proteins.

Advantages of vegetarian diet

Bones – the rigid framework that supports our body, muscle and tissues, are actually living tissues in a constant state of break down and build up. Bones are also porous, that consist of a flexible porous framework of a protein substance known as collagen, plus a lot of calcium phosphate that serves as a mineral filler.

As bones are in a constant state of rebuilding, when it become porous they would lose its strength in supporting our body structures. And hence the danger here is facing bones fracture incident.

Researchers worldwide, including from World Health Organization, the American Ministry of Agriculture, as well as other international health institutes , has indicate that if people were to include in their daily dietary of at least 5 portions of either vegetables and/or fruit, it may helps  in reducing approximate of 20% in cancer risks. Several fruits, like orange, apple, grape, grapefruit, strawberry, honeydew, watermelon, lemon, pineapple, kiwi fruit and so on, may even have important roles in reducing cancer risk effectively.  These fruits may have some special substances that are hardly found in other foods sources, of which could possibly helps in preventing the development of breast cancer, prostate gland cancer, colon cancer.

Depression, is just not being sad or feeling discouraged, it is an illness. It may just ‘look and sound’ like felling ‘blues’ , but in fact depression last much longer and have greater impact on one’s life. Depression, can simply happen to anyone, at any stage. It could possible cause people to live in state of feeling hopeless, or in such severe sadness state that one may just lost interest in their daily activities.

Especially during time of transition, depression are particularly vulnerable in elderly, of which could be few time higher at risk. Apart from this, hormones could also be part of the cause. This is why depression is such common during premenstrual and postpartum period.