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Adopting a Vegan LifestyleMarch 12 New College InstituteNancy Bell
My Lifestyle-Related Issues
High cholesterol
High blood pressure
Overweight
Not sleeping well
Depression
Avoiding Medications
4 pills
Understanding the effect food has on
the body
The “Western Diet”
The Challenge No animal products for 6 weeks
Avoid processed foods
Learn to use new foods
Learn new methods of food preparation
What (Exactly) is Vegan?To be healthy and free of diseases of the body and mind, eat more foods as grown, and avoid processed foods and animal products.
The new basic 4 good groups Whole grains
Legumes, seeds, nuts
Vegetables
Fruits
My results… Six Weeks 150 point drop in cholesterol
38-pound weight loss
Blood pressure to normal
Better sleep
More energy
Enhanced concentration
No cravings
What I Learned There is a better way to eat Many billions of dollars are spent on
“unnecessary” treatments, surgeries and prescription drugs
Lifestyle changes eliminate the need for medical interventions
What the Experts Say… Advances in high tech medicine have
not altered the advances of the killer diseases – primarily: cancer, heart diseases and diabetes.
We are with diet, especially with meat, where we were 20 years ago with tobacco.
How to Do it Do your research about your own health
conditions, if any, and lifestyle recommendations
Become familiar with the vegan diet (Reading list in handout)
Start with a 7-day cleanse
The Cleanse Eat only grains for two days + water
Can lightly sweeten with one of these: agave nectar, maple syrup, honey
Day 3 add fruits
Day 4 add veggies
Day 5 add seeds and nuts
Day 6+ break out the vegan recipe books
Cooking Vegan Food Keep it simple Focus on “foods as grown” Start with grains every morning Choose 1 day each week to cook for the
week Familiarize yourself with vegan
substitutions for recipe ingredients
Consider a Lifestyle Class
www.chiphealth.com
Rocky Mount Lifestyle Health Center
21-Day Vegan Kickstart online class
Eating vegan even part time can benefit your health
OBESITY (5 – 20% < meat eaters), LOWERS BMI REDUCEs RISK OF TYPE II DIABETES, LOWERs INCIDENTS OF
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, LOWERs RATES OF CERTAIN CANCERS
(especially colon cancers) Read: “Eat to Live,” “The China Study”
DRUGS Over reliance upon prescription drugs
produces undesirable side effects and dependence and is unnecessary.
Prescription medicines have eroded the principle of self-sufficiency in health and wellness.
What About Protein? Osteoporosis is not a deficiency disease
but a disease of dietary excess – too much protein.
Protein rich animal foods load the blood with acid, which the body may neutralize by stealing minerals from bone.
Fruits and vegetables counteract dietary acid
Toxic hunger – Eating low nutrient foods leads to the desire to over consume calories.
Maintaining cholesterol levels below 150 makes one practically heart attack proof
Low blood cholesterol levels may actually reverse the process of atherosclerosis.
The only source of cholesterol is animal products
Nearly 90% of all coronary deaths could be prevented if cholesterol was below 182, blood pressure was under 120, and no diabetes was present
THE MEDICAL ARGUMENT
Our lifestyle is turning diabetes into one of
the worse and fastest growing epidemics.
Since 1950, fat intake has quadrupled
sugar tripled
animal protein doubled, and
starch intake has been cut in half
USDA studies show that more than 1/3 of broiler chicken carcasses on the market are contaminated with illness-causing bacteria.
THE ANIMAL ARGUMENT
Eating vegan can save the planet Nearly 20% of man-made pollution
comes from the meat industry. It takes 40 calories of fossil fuel energy
to create one calorie of feed-lot beef in the U.S.
Plant production 2.2 calories of fossil fuels
The SAVE THE PLANET Argument
Lifestyle Changes are Up to You
Gender, age and heredity cannot be altered by lifestyle changes, but the following factors can: cholesterol levels smoking high blood pressure sloth stress
What’s YOUR Argument?
Forks Over Kniveshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7ijukNzlUg
Questions?