The Earth nor my health! Thorough research vegetarian

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By presenting a menu for vegetarian restaurants and hotels also are increasing in the West. Interest has increased the vegetarian in recent years as macrobiotic Japan even. We spoke with to the Vegetarian Society for Japan about the element in our body as well as for the environment and healthy and vegetarian diet.

Q’s to Europe and America, including vegetarian person texture for instance Hollywood star and singer. He is any better?

A well, Cameron Diaz, Richard Gere, Michael Jackson, and the sporting world in the field of music and theatre, many vegetarians there are various circles, such as Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis.

And dating back to the Japan of Kenji Miyazawa, as Gandhi a India politicians and thinkers, and Pythagorean, Aristotle, da Vinci was a vegetarian.

Vegetarians have any meal?

Q Oh yeah and who was vegetarian so well. Eat only vegetables vegetarian?

A is easy to seems and changed the endings = vegetable vegetables vegetarian (VEGETARIAN) is a word originally is derived from Latin meaning “the wholesome, fresh and spirited ‘vegetus’. United Kingdom vegetarian association inaugural ceremony venue announced in n/a

Vegetarian and generally there is to avoid animal products, which centered on plant foods, such as cereals, legumes, nuts and seeds, vegetable and fruit diet, some type to the vegetarian. Table below is classified by the food, various types, such as the classification of which depends on the region.

Food classification

Vegan	Vegan	Meat and animal food such as fish and seafood, eggs, and dairy products are strict vegetarians don’t eat any.
Lacto vegetarian	Lacto Vegetarian	Avoid meats, seafood, and eggs will take on milk and dairy products.
Lacto ovo vegetarian	Lacto Ovo Vegetarian	Avoid meat and seafood in addition to milk and dairy products take eggs. A vegetarian sect and the most numerous said.
Pesco-vegetarian	Pesco-Vegetarian	Avoid meat and seafood is taken. vegetarian fish said.
po~uyo~u vegetarian	Pollo-Vegetarian	Birds (chickens, turkeys, ducks, etc.), including poultry meat intake.
furutarian	Fruitarian	Plant body killing limping to take the fruit to be taken. Grains and food processing and cooking, too many people.

Q it was unexpected. Is that by my idea choice of various types. For example, say I don’t eat meat but decided, if unwittingly, and etc that you eat, when such penalties as there is?

A religious from precepts that not in is not particularly such penalties. Nor can also blame the person say other people are eating. Only problem is of myself.

Vegetarian Nutrition is your problem?

On the practice of Q vegetarian doesn’t matter in terms of nutrition?

A 6/2003 Canada and the American Dietetic Association in cooperative, announced new guidelines about the vegetarian diet. It is examines the various research until now, considering both the drawbacks and benefits of a vegetarian diet, expressed as an expert.

According to it is properly prepared vegetarian meals are beneficial in the health, meet the nutritional needs, to the treatment and prevention of some diseases have the advantage.

Meals according to the Food Guide pyramid like the figure above, the requirement of the essential nutrients are met.

Is certainly part of the animal difficult to absorb than a vegetable, such as calcium and iron are given menus to properly consider it the problem is not.

As they say, vegetarian lacking essential nutrients is a vitamin B12 use of such supplements in recommends certain nutrients such as vitamin B12 vitamin, such as vegan, vegetarian,. A type of intake of milk, dairy products and eggs vegetarian it not worry.

Why practicing vegetarian

Why Q vegetarian population has been increasing is probably what?

A reason for becoming a vegetarian variety, for such reasons.
for the maintenance and promotion of health,
Ecology consciousness
for animal cruelty
religion, creed and the thought is in the other any reason
In some, such as Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity, Jainism, Hinduism, recommend vegan perspective, such as the cleaning of retributive justice, mercy and benevolence, mentally and physically.

As the reasons why increasing recently for the health and ecological concerns two reasons often think.

Hard to be vegetarian lifestyle-related diseases

Tempeh, one of the sources of vegetarian protein. What you ferment soybeans.

What good is better for Q health?

A vegetarian meal features take the plant food. Fit chemicals such as carotenoids, isoflavones, catechins, fiber, such as rich in plant-based foods, is shown less than a biased towards the carnivorous diet diseases of various studies.

American Heart Association introduces vegetarian many preventive recipes in America, high mortality rate due to heart disease.

Vegetarian meals are Earth friendly

Be a vegetarian in terms of ecology Q to contribute?

A as bait animals that eat plants. Energy charges the same food, even to produce animal protein is required compared to vegetable protein from several times about 10 times more acreage.

Uses 16 pounds of grain and soybeans to make 1 kg of beef in the recent breeding. Carnivorous one minute is equivalent to the vegan-20 minutes. On Earth the current population is about n/a people, and also about 800 million of said 1 billion people are malnourished. It is since it runs more vegetarian, food through more people it can be.

There is also the warming of the Earth is not just because of the CO2 emissions from cars and industrial. For example, compared to beef and get protein in soy, beef will use fossil fuel, about 40 times.

Is vegetarian diet that contribute to hunger and environment problems from this perspective,.

Avoid extreme diets, from can

Q vegetarian, and we can say with people to people simply do not eat only vegetables but have more spirituality, philosophy of life.

Know why a person of interest becomes a vegetarian animal protection movement and environmental issues for the Western. What are the points to watch out for on the novice to practice as a vegetarian?

A semi vegetarian sometimes adopt a vegetarian, and a Pesco vegetarian eating seafood, lacto ovo vegetarian, milk, dairy products or eggs to eat nutritionally well learnt, the problem will not.

Avoid harsh extreme diet restrictions from the beginning better. Own style but FYI the Food Guide Pyramid, and medicine is also nutritionally appropriate meals trying to hope.

Q Finally, tell us about the activities of the vegetarian association, NPO Japan, Japan vegetarian society.

A to do for spreading the knowledge required to raise awareness on issues such as the starvation of the dignity of the vegetarian diet and health related, nutrition, ethics, life, environmental preservation, and developing countries and serve the purposes and is interested in vegan people and good practice in the shared network planning, Osaka vegetarian society was established in the 4/1993.

Join as an affiliate of Japan to the world vegetarian Congress held in Netherlands Haag 8/1994 International Vegetarian Union (IVU, headquarters: United Kingdom) by and belong to the IVU. That after growth of number of employees, and renamed “Japan vegetarian society” 5/1995, received a particular non-profit organization (NPOs) authentication than Osaka, 5/2001 activities “thinking about the health of people and the planet” theme, outside Japan.

Japan vegetarian association, NPO has been aiming at the dissemination of vegetarianism based on proper scientific knowledge. Many academic researchers of members, for the promotion of further academic research “Japan vegetarian society” was established 5/2000.
I think and like to spread future, those interested in vegetarian required knowledge and good practice.

Q today will really appreciate. Could understanding and misunderstanding had assumed that rants about vegetarian also relieved. Right now is health boom, would stuff even my health good that it is, if I can thing of others and the environment.

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Attended the banquet and Japan Vegetarian Society of society of vegetarian association NPO Japan going educational activities, to promote the health aspects, as well as for the environment friendly vegetarian diet. Then, hear about your membership and Takai meitoku says of the President of, also according to some United States dietitian Nakamoto Keiko kambara St. i accepted of Tokyo Medical University, famous for vegetarian health studies, the society’s membership even “should not lack in nutrition? Vegetarian health science ” ( nutrition and cooking, December 2003 issue, pages n/a ) , made reference to knocked. We appreciate your cooperation.

System related links
Vegetarian information network
NPO Japan vegetarian association
Japan vegetarian society
Vegetarian ( IVU)