Watch what you eat

Currently suffering from a little tad of headache because of Korean Overdose..I am getting addicted to this new korean drama called Dream High because it reminded me of Korean version of Glee..Thanks to the winter holidays, most of the English drama that I followed was on hold and it had been taken off  pps. Darn..

Writing my literature was as hard as I had expected, and it took me almost two hours to construct and write ONE page. It only defines ONE term in my research topic. Easy job? Arrrr..kill me. haha. Well, just need to put in more effort and heart into it. I will be fine i will be fine. Each and everyone of us will be fine. Just that we all need to take a long walk in Hell before rosing up to heaven.

On health

We are taking heath and nutrition subject this term and we were shown a video on 100% plant based diet in class two days ago. I don't know about the rest, but it had a great impact in me. Well, it goes like this.

As you can see around the world now, we are all getting Americanize in a way or so. Either it is in our eating habit, music, clothing, gadgets etc. Or heart deceases like heart attack, stroke, angina or obesity, diabetes and cancer sounds familiar to you? These are all caused by our changes of eating habit through the years. Why people in the past who depends on vegetables as their main source of food can live longer than those whose main diet consists of meat now?

Like what our parents always tell us, in those days : 'We only eat chicken during Chinese New Year. You all the new generation are so lucky nowadays. ' Since people say eating beef, pork or lamb is bad for health, they  encourage people to consume more chicken and fish instead. But is it really better for health? We always perceived chicken and fish as a healthier choice of meat since it is white meat and it is believed to have less fat than others.

In this video that we watched, it mentioned that eating chicken and fish is as bad as eating other meats. It has the same effect to our body as other meats. Meaning, it can still lead to sickness like obesity, diabetes, cancer etc. The reason why is because animal based food contained bad cholesterol that will clog our blood artery. It is also called 'The Animal's Revenge'  where we kill animals for food, and the animal left a little gift for us, which are clogged arteries. So no matter what meat you consumer, whether it is white meat or red meat the results will be the same. But it is just the matter of how long it takes to clog your artery.

In this video, it says that one glass of milk is equivalent to 21 piece of bacon. Sadly, milk is not as good as what we think. Heart deceases like hyper tension, heart attack etc happened because the arteries were clogged by all those cholesterol we consumer everyday. Not surprisingly, plant based diet is able to reverse the clogged arteries. It is said that many people had recovered from heart deceases because they practice 100% plant based diet instead of taking surgeries.

Cancer. We all know that cancer cells exist in everyone's body. Our body immune system is the best cure for cancer as it will prevent the cancer cells from multiplying. But nowadays, our immune system were weaken by  our eating habit and therefore, our immune system is not able to kill the cancer cells. That is why you see so many people were diagnose with cancer nowadays as compared to the older days. In this video, it says that research had proved that 100% plant based diet is able to strengthen our immune system and enable our body to fight with the cancer cells without going through chemotherapy etc. A saying goes like this, Animal based food feeds cancer, plant based food feeds immune system.

Do you know that by consuming more animal based food, our menstrual cycle will starts earlier than usual and menopause will start later? Earlier menstrual cycle will lead to higher risk of breast cancer.

Don't believe me? Try reading this..

http://www.drmcdougall.com/newsletter/nov_dec97.html

So yes, plant based diet is proved by many doctors that it is able to reverse heart diseases, cancer, diabetes and obesity and improve our health drastically. But the question is, will we start practicing it now?

After watching the video, most of us know what are the benefits of 100% plant based diet, but how many people will actually practice it. As for me, at least not now. I believe that we are still young and we should eat while we can. Not to say, i will eat Macdonald everyday and consume meat like some carnivore. haha. We have to eat everything in moderation of course. When I reach the age where I should starting watching what I consume, perhaps after 30 years old, i will definitely start practicing this diet slowly.

The reason why I wrote this in my blog, is for those whose parents are suffering from high cholesterol level or anything that I had mentioned above, perhaps you can suggest to them to start practicing this diet slowly. I am not saying you must cut off the meat from their diet straightaway. But maybe do it in a weekly basis and slowly practice the habit of eating vegetables as their main diet instead of meat. Well, i would definitely propose this to my mum ( so she could control my dad's diet ) when I go home. =) After all, no harm eating more vegetables right?

Oh! one more point that i remembered. Rearing animals for our consumption also leads to a lot of environmental issues like green house effect and deforestation.

p/s we were suppose to prepare a note based on the video. So ya, writing it down in my blog so I could remember it. =p Eat up your vege people!!! Wash properly before that though.. pesticides, herbicides and sometimes, hormones...Yeap, we are all living in dangerous world where everything we consume seems to be harmful to us now. tsk tsk tsk..