How To Become Vegetarian

Vegetarian Recipes: Artichoke Soup

1 lb. each of artichokes and potatoes,
1 Spanish onion,
1 oz. of butter,
1 pint of milk,
and pepper and salt to taste.

Peel, wash, and cut into dice the artichokes, potatoes, and onion. Cook them until tender in 1 quart of water with the butter and seasoning. When the vegetables are tender rub them through a sieve. Return the liquid to the saucepan, add the milk, and boil the soup up again. Add water if the soup is too thick. Serve with Allinson plain rusks, or small dice of bread fried crisp in butter or vege-butter.

1 lb. each of artichokes and potatoes,
1 Spanish onion,
1 oz. of butter,
1 pint of milk,
and pepper and salt to taste.

Peel, wash, and cut into dice the artichokes, potatoes, and onion. Cook them until tender in 1 quart of water with the butter and seasoning. When the vegetables are tender rub them through a sieve. Return the liquid to the saucepan, add the milk, and boil the soup up again. Add water if the soup is too thick. Serve with Allinson plain rusks, or small dice of bread fried crisp in butter or vege-butter.

1 lb. each of artichokes and potatoes,
1 Spanish onion,
1 oz. of butter,
1 pint of milk,
and pepper and salt to taste.

Peel, wash, and cut into dice the artichokes, potatoes, and onion. Cook them until tender in 1 quart of water with the butter and seasoning. When the vegetables are tender rub them through a sieve. Return the liquid to the saucepan, add the milk, and boil the soup up again. Add water if the soup is too thick. Serve with Allinson plain rusks, or small dice of bread fried crisp in butter or vege-butter.

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Healthy Low-Sugar Vegetarian Recipes ? Have You Tried this ?Stuffed Apricots in Syrup? Before?

If you’re spending too much time working in front of your computer, your eyes would get tired easily as it requires adequate nourishment in order to sustain its performance. Good eye vision can be normally promoted by the consumption of food that is rich of vitamin A. Since dried apricots are rich in vitamin A, can we actually enhance the flavor of the food by making it as a delicious dessert?

A little-known fact about dried apricots that eating it is a great way of eating 5-9 fruits a day!

Introducing the “Stuffed Apricots in Syrup” – which is a famous Turkish delight and it can be a perfect dessert to satisfy your sugar cravings without ruining your diet plan. Unlike other desserts, the aromatic and enticing warm, spicy-sweet taste is perfected by cardamom pods – an aromatic spice originated from south India and Sri Lanka, and it is commonly used to treat respiratory problems and has anti-inflammatory properties and reducing muscle spasms.

Besides that, you’ll be able to enjoy the rich cheese taste filling – that is made from paneer or ricotta cheese, almonds and cardamom.

If you are looking for a low-sugar dessert which does not take much time to prepare, here’s what you need:

10 large dried apricots that are perfectly slit 50 g of paneer or ricotta cheese, grated very finely ½ teaspoon of cardamom powder 5-6 almonds, coarsely chopped 125 g of sugar 250 ml of water 2-3 cardamom pods Some rose petals to garnish

Once you have prepared the ingredients above, here’s how you start making this “Stuffed Apricots in Syrup” dessert:

In order to make syrup, heat the water and the sugar and the cardamom pods in a pan and stir until the sugar dissolves. Then, carefully remove the pan from heat and add in the apricots and leave it to cool.

The filling is simply easy to prepare. All you have to do is mix together cheese, almonds and cardamom powder.

Remove the apricots from syrup and fill the slit with cheese mixture. Return to the syrup and chill to serve. Garnish with rose petals and orange zest.

Since this dessert is simple and need less time to prepare, start rewarding yourself a good taste of “Stuffed Apricots in Syrup” or you can share it among your family and friends. You’ll be excited to hear compliments about your unique healthy and nutritious Turkish dessert delight!

Vegetarianism For Physical, Mental and Spiritual Health

A rich man is sleeping in his house. Suddenly he is awakened by the burglar alarm.

”Ach! These stupid systems never work properly!” he exclaims, rubbing his eyes and struggling to stand up. He goes downstairs and, still cursing the system, turns off the alarm. Going back to his bedroom he quickly falls asleep again.

The burglars can’t believe their good luck, as they take their time to carefully find and steal every available expensive item in the house.

The health situation of most people in the meat-eating nations of the world is analogous to that rich man’s condition. Usually when people experience uncomfortable symptoms and sickness, they turn to doctors and medicines to turn off the symptoms so that they can again be comfortable. Just like the rich man who believes he is safe falls back asleep, so most people, under the illusion of recovered health go back to eating the wrong food, and resume other bad habits. Meanwhile, the cause of the suppressed symptoms remains and gets worse. Over time the person becomes more and more sick.

The physical cause of more than 90% of human sickness is the same: too many toxins in the body. Most of these toxins are located in the stomach, intestinal system, organs and circulation system. As an example let’s look at the common cold. Here the symptoms are a running nose, fever, sore throat, sneezing, and so on. The use of medicine turns off these “problems”. Unfortunately they are alarms, not problems. They are also the means for the body to rid itself of the real problem — excess toxins. The increased flow of mucous provides a channel for toxins to flow out. The fever causes sweat, which is also a medium for elimination. At the same time the message of the sore throat and the sneezing is: “Stop eating! Drink more and more!” Because they go on eating even though they are not hungry, most people who catch colds are compelled to continue suffering for many days or even weeks at a stretch. If they were simply to fast on water or lemon water (with a little salt, not sugar), the cold almost always fulfills its purpose and stops within one or two days.

In this case, what is the reason for the effectiveness of fasting? To answer this question we should understand a most fundamental principle of our digestion system. The digestive system has two functions: 1) abstract energy from the food and immediately pass the waste matter out of the body and 2) clean itself of old static waste matter that has clung to the walls of the intestines and other organs for days, years, or even decades. The first function is well known to everyone. The second function is also known, but essentially ignored, by most conventional doctors. They especially neglect the fact that when the digestive system becomes clean, the body next directs its cleaning efforts at any other organs or systems which contain toxins.

The two functions of the digestion system are basically non-simultaneous. That is, whenever the body is busy in digesting newly consumed food, then no energy remains for deep cleaning activity. It is only when the stomach and intestines are more or less empty of fresh food, then those organs will automatically start cleaning themselves. The toxins causing the cold are rapidly eliminated, the symptoms stop, and the person can resume eating. Hopefully s/he is wiser due to having been sick, and is more careful to avoid over-toxifying the body.

From which foods does toxification more likely occur? Here the principle is easy to understand: food which is more difficult to digest is more likely to not be fully digested. When any food enters one’s mouth, digestive juices start secreting in the mouth, esophogaus, and stomach. When the food reaches the stomach, the digestive acids try to quickly break it down into small particles. Easy-to-digest food requires less acid secretion, difficult-to-digest food requires more acid. The process continues as the food solids and liquids are worked upon by the liver, the kidneys, the small intestine, the large intestine and other organs. Acids, fats and other toxic substances also pass into the blood stream, polluting the circulation system and adhering to the walls of the arteries and other blood-carrying channels. Thus, the difficult-to-digest foods are called acid-forming, while easy-to-digest foods are classified as alkaline. In the case of some extremely alkaline foods, such as juicy fruits, they contribute their own fruit acids which may help in the digestion of other foods. There are a few foods, like sugar, tea and onion which are not difficult to digest but are classified as acidic because they contain elements which greatly disturb the equilibrium of the body. These elements are mildy poisonous.

Here is a list of foods categorized from most alkaline to most acid-forming. (As one reads down the list, each succeeding item is somewhat more acid-forming.):

1) Lemon water
2) Herb tea
3) Honey (a little)
4) Citric fruit juice
5) Other fruit juices
6) Vegetable juice
7) Citric fruits
8) Juicy fruits
9) Other fruits (except banana)
10) Non-starchy vegetables *
11) Buckwheat
(up to here all items are relevant for “graduated fasting”)

12) Yoghurt
13) Starchy vegetables and banana *
14) Fresh tofu
15) Nuts
16) Raw sugar
17) Whole grains
18) Beans
19) Refined grains
20) Refined sugar
21) Tea, coffee
22) Fried foods
23)Milk varies according to personal situation **

Avoid extremely acidic food: 24)mushrooms, 25)onion, 26)garlic, 27)fish, 28)meat, 29)eggs

* Non-starchy vegetables may also be considered as salad-vegetables, i.e. they may be eaten raw. Starchy vegetables, like potato, are difficult to eat raw. Banana is much more starchy then most other fruits (unless it is extremely ripe, in which case its classification become more alkaline).

** Depending on the condition of one’s liver, and also on the functioning of milk-digestion enzymes, people differ in their capacity to digest milk and milk products. For some people milk is a medicine, e.g. certain patients of ulcer. For many, milk causes gas formation, and may thus be recognized as being highly acid-forming. Non-homogenised milk is much easier to digest than homogenised milk because when fats are forcibly mixed with the rest of the milk such that separation does not occur, such globules of “whole milk” become strenuous for the liver.

Items numbered from 1 to 11 generally have a cleansing effect on the body. If a person thus restricts his diet for any length of time to those initial items, the body will undergo a gradual or radical cleansing process. The higher up on the list the restriction is made, so the faster the cleansing will occur. In this regard, the most extreme method of cleaning the body is to neither eat nor drink anything, not even water. But such a method, though appropriate for some people for a short time, is dangerous for most people.

In any case we may thus clearly understand that if an individual uses simple natural means to keep the body relatively clean from toxins, and if there is a regular intake of a reasonable amount of nutrition (not too much and not too little), then there is the greatest possibility that such a person will maintain a high degree of health.

Of course many factors enter into “keeping the body relatively clean from toxins”. It is not only a matter of food and fasting. These factors include exercise, bathing, sleep, mental activity, purity of air and water, presence or absence of chemicals in the food, hormonal inbalances of the glands, and inborn genetic peculiarities. But of all these, food and fasting remain the foremost important for most people.

Thus we come to the main statement of this article: a vegetarian diet is better than a non-vegetarian diet for our all-round health. For the moment we are looking only at the physical aspect, and later will deal with the psychic and spiritual aspects. Vegetarianism is preferable for the bodily health because it consists of items which are easier to digest and thus much more alkaline than fish, meat and eggs.

The human body system has exactly the same food-eating and digesting characteristics as other vegetarian mammals (like cows, monkeys, deer and elephants), and totally different from the meat-eating mammals (like tigers, lions, wolves, dogs and cats). These characteristics include:

1) Vegetarian mammals including man have flat rear molar teeth for grinding their food. Meat-eaters do not have flat molars, and instead have sharp front teeth for tearing food.

2) Vegetarian mammals have an intestinal tract 10 to 12 times their body length. The intestines of meat-eaters is only 3 times their body length so that rapidly decaying meat can pass out quickly.

3) The stomach acid of vegetarians is 20 times less strong than that of meat-eaters.

4) Vegetarians have no claws, whereas meat-eaters have claws to catch and kill their prey.

5) Vegetarians perspire through their skin. Meat-eaters have no skin pores, and instead perspire through their tongues.

6) Vegetarian mammals require high-fiber diets (available in fruits, vegetables and whole grains) or else they eventually become constipated. Meat-eating mammals remain perfectly healthy even when their diets include very little fiber. Constipation is usually the first cause of digestion-related diseases in humans.

7) Meat-eaters can easily digest foods containing a high quantity of cholestorol and saturated fat. Vegetarians have a very limited capacity to deal with these same elements. For example laboratory experiements show that if dogs are gradually given more and more butter fat, even 250 grams every day, they show no increase in their serum cholesterol level. On the other hand, if vegetarian mammals eat much fat a great strain is first placed on the liver, fatty deposits develop on the inner walls of the arteries, and gradually the heart weakens through over-work, causing heart attacks and blood clots.

It is clear that human beings are bound to face difficulties in the digestion of meat, fish and eggs. Furthermore, humans who regularly eat such heavy foods gradually experience weakening of their digestive systems such that they are unable to rapidly eliminate waste matter, and thus their bodies get less and less time to perform self-cleaning.

Regarding heart disease, the cause of more than half of the deaths in the USA, the American Medical Association states that more than 90% of all heart disease could be prevented by vegetarian diet.

The editor-in-chief of the prestigious “American Journal of Cardiology” and a foremost expert on heart disease, DrWilliam Roberts, wrote: “When we kill animals to eat them, they end up killing us because their flesh was never intended for human beings, who are naturally herbivores.”

The reader may be interested in my own experience of low-protein diets. Not only have been a strict vegetarian for the last 25 years of my life, but numerous times for months at a stretch I have also eliminated from my diet milk products, grains, beans and starchy vegetables. During those periods, which continued for as long as 9 months at a time, I ate only fruit and salad. Without any major source of protein I felt stronger and better than during any other times of my life. Indeed I would maintain such a diet always, except that I prefer to be able to eat together with other people. Also, this sort of diet is awkward or even impossible in very poor societies where the climate is cold, such as in Mongolia and Russia (where I am presently working). Thus, only due to circumstances, not due to physical need, I eat a diet containing some high protein foods. Still, I prefer that my meals predominantly consist of fruits and salad-type vegetables.

Vegetarian recipes can make a good healthy recipes for your kids

Vegetarian healthy recipes and vegetarian healthy cooking are NOT BLAND, nor is it BORING! Jeez, I am practically screaming there. Well, you can never try hard to get an important point across. vegetarian healthy recipes and cooking, in lots of people’s minds, are boring and tasteless. Nothing is further from the truth – vegetarian healthy recipes are not only healthy for you, they also taste scrumptious and fantastic.

After you try some of the delightful vegetarian healthy recipes and vegetarian healthy dishes here, I am sure you’ll think otherwise.

Think about it for a second, vegetables are three of the most important food groups in our diet. They provide us with all the essential nutrients such as vitamins, calcium, and iron etc… In a normal person’s life span, he/she will consume vegetables more than any other type of food!

Cooking vegetarian healthy recipes will open you to a whole world of scrumptious, healthy, and easy to make dishes. These vegetarian healthy recipes are high in nutritional value, and low on fat. Taste, colors, aroma, and health – vegetarian healthy cooking has it all.

vegetarian healthy Fact: meat eaters ( red meat), are 3 times more likely than vegetarians to suffer from heart disease and breast cancer.

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Why? The major reason is that meat eating stresses 2 important detoxifying organs in your body, the liver and the kidneys. It also depletes your calcium, and increase the risk of osteoporosis.

vegetarian healthy Fact: people who eat red meat 5 or more times a week increase the risk of colon cancer by 400% compared to people who eat little, or no meat.

It sure is not looking lovely for meat eaters, and sadly, that includes me. (I do like to eat meat .) But hey, that’s not to say that you should stop eating meat. Instead, control your level of meat consumption (as I do), and eat more white meats such as chicken and fish, and less of read meat.

Cooking vegetarian healthy recipes for dinner regularly can help you reduce your consumption of meat, and simultaneously, lower your fat intake. And believe me, vegetarian healthy recipes and diet is far from tasteless and boring. Forget all the nonsense you hear about vegetarian healthy cooking. You should know that vegetarian healthy cooking is not just for vegetarians, it is for everyone who desires a better and happier lifestyle through healthy AND tasty eating – and that includes you. Click here to find some of the healthiest and tastiest vegetarian healthy recipes, and spice up your diet.

Finally, what benefits do you get from eating more veggies and less meat? How about disease and sickness prevention, lower blood pressure, keeps the kidneys healthy, improves discharge, and provides the body with vital nutrients.

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Vegetarian Body Building – Vanishing Misconceptions

There is no need to have an intake of meat to succeed in building a good body. Not all vegetarians are the gaunt images and the stereotypical thin people that are portrayed in many images. If you understand very well all about nutrition then you can make a diet that is filled with the healthy essentials that can support, you can build a good body by just having vegetarian food. There are a huge number of misconceptions that are related to body building and vegetarianism and hence you find that not many vegetarians bother to build a good body.

Proteins creating problems

Many people do think that you do not get the right amount of proteins if you do not consume the flesh of animals. This is not true at all. Proteins can be got from a lot of other sources even if you are a pure vegetarian. Various grains, eggs, soy products and even dairy products will let you get a lot of proteins that are necessary for your body.

However, you do find many vegetarians who want to build their body drinking supplement shakes along with whey proteins and also important minerals and vitamins like vitamin B12, zinc and iron. Meat does provide these items. However it does not provide that kind of quantity that really is needed by the body. The same goes in for foods that do contain the same sort of minerals and vitamins. If you are vegetarian or not it is important you get the necessary essentials.

Can not build muscle mass or strength

Vegetarians do have a much better chance of increasing their size and the strength of the muscles by just being on a diet that is meat free. Vegetarian body building is nothing but building on mass of the muscles and strength just by having a diet that is filled with vegetables, fruits and whole grains alone. Consumption of meat does bring down the metabolism as you need a lot of energy to digest these sorts of foods while however vegetarian foods do speed up digestion process.

To have to make sure your body has the right amounts of minerals and vitamins you have to be creative with the meals if you are a vegetarian who is building your body. Many people who have stopped taking in an intake of meat have consulted nutritionists so that they get the necessary supplements and essentials without loosing on anything.

Vegetarianism not healthy

It has been noticed that vegetarians have lower levels of blood sugar and also cholesterol. Meats do have cholesterol that has its own bad components or LDL. This dies increase the level of cholesterol and hence the level of blood pressure in turn. Saturated fats and trans fats have been dropped off the menu when you take off meats. All sorts of vegetarian food that is taken along with supplements can help in providing you with minerals and vitamins that a vegetarian body needs to build a good body.

How to Cook Pinto Beans – Vegetarian Protein

Go to www.caryellis.com for more tips on healthy vegetarian food and lifestyle. Learn with Cary Ellis how to cook pinto beans, soaking first, for hearty, delicious, super immunity vegetarian protein. Healthy, protein filled, great on a budget dried beans are often underrated, but a great resource for healthy lifestyle. An easy vegetarian recipe anyone can follow and a great source of vegan protein. Soaking dry beans before cooking begins sprouting, which restores life force and makes them more easily digestible. Check out more of Cary Ellis Healthy Lifestyle tips on youtube and at her websites – navigate to them from www.caryellis.com to find out about healthy fast weight loss, anti-aging and longevity and the super immunity lifestyle. Cary Ellis is author of Super Immunity Secrets, found in paperback and for kindle on amazon. It contains 50 easy healthy recipes and with 176 clinical studies on everyday spices and how protective they are against cancer, colds, flu and other serious illness. Get your copy today! Belongs in every healthy kitchen…

Punjabi Chola Recipe by Manjula, Indian Vegetarian Gourmet

www.ManjulasKitchen.com INGREDIENTS 1 cup chickpeas (Garbanzo beans, Kabuli chana) 2 tea bags 3 tablespoons oil 1 teaspoon cumin 1 tablespoon basen (Gram flour) 2 medium tomatoes 1 green chilly 1/2 shredded ginger 1 tablespoon coriander powder 1/2 teaspoon black pepper 1 teaspoon salt adjust to the taste 1/2 teaspoon black salt 1 teaspoon garam masala 1 teaspoon amchoor (Mango powder) Thank you

Quick and Easy Vegetarian Meals : Cooking Tofu for Vegetarian Stir Fry Recipe

Learn how cook tofu for vegetarian stir fry with this easy vegetarian recipe in this free cooking video on making easy vegetarian recipes and meals. Expert: Anne Brashier Bio: Anne Brashier is a licensed massage therapist with the American Massage Therapy Association. Filmmaker: Nili Nathan