Posts Tagged ‘vegetarian diet’

It is possible to spice up your life by adding a variety of fresh produce to your meals. There are ways to sauté without adding any oil or fat. There are luscious desserts, which don’t call for white flour or white sugar.

These recipes are for people who want to eat vegetarian or a high quality protein diet and keep the food as fresh, and wholesome as possible. These recipes will be utilizing a wide variety of produce and spices. They will be whole grain, cooked and raw vegetables, along with fruits and herbs.

The recipes will cover breakfast, lunch, dinners, and desserts. By utilizing the variety of fresh produce, grains, beans, spices and protein you will be consuming vitamins, minerals, and enzymes which will produce a more vibrant and radiant life.

You will taste and feel the difference by adding fresh ingredients. All recipes will be easy to prepare perfect for a fast paced world. Good taste should be fast and easy to come by. From sauces to easy deserts there will be something to please the palate. 

These culinary delights will be for your ultimate well-being and in a simple step by step form. Some will introduce you to new and exotic ingredients, but most will be everyday produce, protein, and herbs creatively combined for luscious meals, and desserts.  

The flavors, textures, and colors will enliven your palate, so that meals are more appealing to the senses. We want to take you on a journey to a time and place where food was enjoyed from the preparation to the finished product.

When you devote time to preparing food you are investing in a long and healthy life. An anti-aging regimen starts in the kitchen. We will show you not only how, but where to get some of the ingredients for these healing recipes.

Some of the recipes will be good for fruitarians, vegetarians, and those who like to add some grass fed dairy or meat to the diet. All the recipes can with a few adjustments work for any diet preference.

The simplicity of most of the recipes makes them wonderful for family time. These are the type of recipes to get the whole family involved. Food should be enjoyable and health rendering without the stress of long preparation time.

Many of the meals are festive and make great holiday meals. They also incorporate great tips and product recommendations. By utilizing the dynamic variety of flavors and textures, which come with plant food, you will ultimately enjoy greater health, vitality and a very happy palate.

Holy guacamole or should we say whole food guacamole, is a good term for a super food. The avocado is packed with nutrients. Today avocados are eaten more than apple pie. That is good news considering that it is low in calories, and has no cholesterol, no sodium, and has a mono and polyunsaturated fat content.

Avocado

Avocados are a fruit, and fruitarians do include these in their diets. They are not sweet, so it can be used by diabetics. The nutrient content is impressive. It is a source of vitamin K, dietary fiber, potassium, folic acid, vitamin B6, vitamin C, cooper, carotenoids, and tocopherols, (vitamin E).         

In a laboratory study published in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, an extract of avocado containing these carotenoids, and topopherols, inhibited the growth of both androgen-dependent and androgen-independent prostate cancer cells.

Monounsaturated fatty acids including oleic acid have been shown to offer significant protection against breast cancer. Oleic acid has shown promise in its ability to significantly decrease cholesterol.  Potassium is a mineral that helps regulate blood pressure.

Diets containing foods that are a good source of potassium and low in sodium reduce the risk of both high blood pressure and stroke.

This could be the perfect green pill, a small but potent concentrated source of  nutrients. This fruit provides potent protection against many of today’s common ailments.

Guacamole

Guacamole is one way than avocado finds its way into main stream diets. Between salsa and guacamole the American public is eating their full of avocados. There are more than 500 varieties of avocados grown worldwide.

Hass avocado the most readily available and most common was found to contain the highest content of lutein that surpassed the amount in some of the most popular fruits.

Raw Avocado

The nice thing about avocados is they are eaten raw for the most part. This is on the menu of many raw food aficionados. It is used in blended green smoothies, eaten in salads and used for snacks. In fact is a beloved fruit ask David Wolfe, also known as David Avocado Wolfe.

A raw vegan diet consists of fruits, vegetables, avocado, nuts and seeds. Avocados provide a way to have highly digestible fat in a vegetarian diet. Avocados are available year round. Since they supply vitamins A, B-complex, C, E, H, K, and folic acid, plus the minerals magnesium, copper, iron, calcium, and potassium it would seem a wise choice.

Besides being an alkalizing food. It is highly versatile and can be used in many recipes. With avocados a little goes a long way. It doesn’t take much time or effort to include this green gem in your eating plan.

The subject of vegetarianism usually centers on compassion for all the Earth’s creatures. This is noble and commendable. However, it is an illusion. While we concede that an animal is considered a higher form of life than a plant, we can’t negate the fact that a plant is a life form. This is the basis for the vegetarian dilemma.

Actually

Actually plants are more complex than we think. They like all living things want to survive and react to treats. It is known they respond to their environment. Playing music and talking to plants is not an uncommon practice.

Scientifically Speaking

“Plants are not static or silly,” said Monika Hilker of the Institute of Biology at the Free University of Berlin. “They respond to tactile cues, they recognize different wavelengths of light, they listen to chemical signals, they can even talk” through chemical signals. Touch, sight, hearing, speech. “These are sensory modalities and abilities we normally think of as only being in animals,” Dr. Hilker said.

Plants can’t run away from a threat but they can stand their ground. “They are very good at avoiding getting eaten,” said Linda Walling of the University of California, Riverside. “It’s an unusual situation where insects can overcome those defenses.”

“I’m amazed at how fast some of these things happen,” said Consuelo M. De Moraes of Pennsylvania State University. Dr. De Moraes and her colleagues did labeling experiments to clock a plant’s systemic response time and found that, in less than 20 minutes from the moment the caterpillar had begun feeding on its leaves, the plant had plucked carbon from the air and forged defensive compounds from scratch.

“Even if you have quite a bit of knowledge about plants,” Dr. De Moraes said, “it’s still surprising to see how sophisticated they can be.”

Fruitarians Argument

Fruitarians are known to take the high moral ground. There argument is when fruit is ripe it falls to the ground, without our help. This is for the most part true. Ripe fruit will leave the branches when fully done. Now the real argument is this healthy for long term sustenance for the human race?

In reality the vegetarian dilemma was not a part of the dialog of early man. You ate to survive, and survived on what was around.

Morally and Ethically

Our focus is to be stewards of the planet. Before we concede more, we must realize that what goes into soda pop, cookies, pastry, and processed food is where the argument should be. Pharmaceuticals are in our lakes, and drinking water. The more scientist invent the more we change the environment.

Grazing cows, deer, goats, and bison live off the pastures. Now if we want to be morally right we can consume the animals and leave the plants alone. Ethically living is to appreciate and not plunder the land. Cattle are not to be fed garbage so they become fatter faster.

The Wrong Argument

The argument that most of these groups ponder is neither going to solve or save the resources. The argument is usually among the groups that already believe in conservation. Fruitarians will try to up vegetarians who will then go on to up the people on paleo (cave man) diets. These are considered the diets of our distant ancestors, that roamed the earth eons ago.

Since most of us were not around to confirm this information, it would make sense to say that a whole food natural diet is fine. We always aspire to do the right thing and at the same time win the argument.

We are at a crossroad and semantics will not save the environment. We can’t dismiss the fact that we may never see eye to eye. What we need is to stop arguing among ourselves and engage in going forward together and find opportunities to steer the planet in the right direction. We can’t afford to be fighting while trying to survive on a planet in peril.