Vegeterian Diets --Let Me Count The Ways There are several types of vegeterians: Lacto-ovo-vegetarians eat plant foods, milk, milk products and eggs, but avoid flesh foods (meat, poultry and fish). Lacto-vegetarians eat plant foods, milk and milk products, but avoid eggs and flesh foods. Ovo-vegetarians eat plant foods and eggs, but avoid milk, milk products and flesh foods. Pesco/pollo-vegetarians eat meats like seafood and chicken, but do not eat other meats, such as beef, lamb, and pork. Total vegetarians, also called vegans, eat plant foods only. Read the Source Article |
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DIET AND FITNESS
Inflammation --The Secret Cause of
Disease
By Susan M. Callahan, Associate Editor and Featured
Columnist
What do heart disease and a paper cut have in common?
The answer is that both are injuries and, surprisingly, the
body’s response to each of these injuries is fundamentally
the same. Both injuries create inflammation. Almost
everyone knows what inflammation looks like when it
occurs on the skin---you get a cut, it gets infected, the skin
becomes swollen with pus. Or you ram your knee into the
end of the coffee table, and the knee swells up.
Inside the body, when certain injuries occur, the same
process of inflammation occurs.
Your arteries, for example, become inflamed if they are
injured. How are they injured? Arteries can become “cut”,
injured in fact, when they are nicked . Injuries to arteries
occur when jagged molecules called “free radicals” ram
into them, much like out of control race cars crashing
against the walls of a speedway. Reduce the number of
free radicals, reduce injury. It turns out that free radicals
are released whenever we eat foods high in unsaturated fat
or sugar. Eat a fried chicken dinner cooked in lard or butter,
and your arteries literally spasm for hours. Or eat a piece
of cheesecake and the arteries spasm from the beating they
take from the bombardment of free radicals against their
walls. By the way, free radicals are also the elements which
age you, in the same way as the free radicals in air age an
apple, turning it brown.
Once nicked, the body’s response is to patch up the nicks
using cholesterol, the body’s equivalent of spackling
compound. There are two types of spackle. Good spackle is
soft and smooth—that is the so-c alled good cholesterol,
HGL. Bad spackle is small, and rough—the so-called bad
cholesterol, LDL. If your blood has enough good spackle in
it, when the arteries are cut, the chances are the body will
send good spackle. If the spackle is smooth, the cut is
repaired smoothly. If the spackle is rough, the cut is not
repaired smoothly and jagged edges ---plaque---form. As a
result, when the river of blood flows past the repair, part of
the jagged messy plaque job can break off. The plaque can
travel down the river of blood to your heart and cause an
attack. Or it can travel to your brain and cause a stroke.
That’s the bad news.
The good news is that you can reduce or even eliminate
free radicals with nutrition and exercise. Vegetables,
especially the colorful green, red and yellow ones,
neutralize free radicals. Also, omega 3 oils found in fatty
fish such as salmon and sardines and nuts like walnuts can
lower inflammation in the body. These foods lower
inflammation throughout the body, wherever it occurs.
The anti-inflammatory action of vegetables and fish may be
one reason studies have found that eating salmon and oily
fish retards the progression of dementia, heart disease and
may even aid the body in fighting cancer.
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TODAY'S FEATURED
VEGETERIAN MEAL
RED CABBAGE SALAD
One head of red cabbage
One yellow onion
One apple
Two hard boiled eggs (For Ovo Vegeterians)
Olive Oil
Walnuts, 1/4 cup
Dried Cranberries or Raisins
(Your selection of Fish or Chicken
1. Chop the head of cabbage, sautee with
olive oil and 1/4 water until wilted
2. Dice the onion, carmelize in olive oil
3. Dice the apple
4. Dice the hard boiled egg
5. Prepare the fish or chicken, steamed with
a teaspoon of olive oil
Mix the cooked cabbage with the diced
apple, carmelized onion, cranberries(or
raisins) and walnuts. Add fish or chicken on
top.
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