Being vegetarian is one of the greatest things in the world. From
good health to sufficient energy in your daily life. Eating healthy
is one of the easiest ways to ensure both your mood and physical
wellbeing remain at their positive peek.
Uplift Your Mood
If you have an attack of the blues, try drinking some tea made
from walnut. Walnuts are plentiful with the mood boosting chemical
serotonin. Brew this wonderful little food in hot water (easier for
the body to acquire the serotonin) and drink away much of your
blues. The recipe is simple, use half a shell walnut for each cup of
hot water and steep for 3 minutes and drink 4 to 6 cups daily.
Apart from uplifting your mood, walnuts also protects your heart
from coronary disease, lowers cholesterol, boost your memory, fights
cancer, enhance blood flow and of course lifts your mood.
Best Salad Dressing
Researchers recommend using salad dressing with full fats in
salads to gain the full benefits of carotenoids. Their research
showed that people that ate low fat dressing, absorbed very little
of the carontenoids, people that ate none fat dressing, absorbed
almost zero of the nutrients, but those who ate full fat dressing,
absorbed the most of these little wonders. It should be noted that
eating cheese, nuts and avocado do allow you to absorb as much
carontenoids as possible according to researchers.
Benefits of Green Tea
Green tea has long been known for the numerous benefits it
provides. As a vegetarian, it's important not to overlook this tea
as part of your daily or regular diet. The tea aids in the fight of
cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, high cholesterol levels,
cardiovascular disease, infection and impaired immune function. But
what about the negative effect of insomnia since it contains
caffeine? What about it, the fact that it makes you a little sleepy
far out weights the benefits. Also, the caffeine in it contains 30
to 60 milligrams per 8 ounces of tea. Compare that to over 100
milligrams in 8 ounces of coffee.
If that's not enough to convince you of making green tea part of
your diet, lets look at the Japanese study of the benefits of green
tea against dioxin. Dioxin is a byproduct of paper and plastic
manufacturing. It is released into the air and settles in the soil
which finally makes its way into your food. Dioxin causes birth
defects, increases your risk of cancer and suppresses your immunity.
The Japanese researchers say that several antioxidant compounds in
green tea prevent dioxin from destroying DNA and cells.
Epigallocatechin gallate is one of the antioxidants that does a
fabulous job in preventing dioxin's effects. Epigallocatechin
gallate also makes up for one-third of green tea's antioxidant
compounds.
By now you should be convinced of all the positives of green tea
being a staple in your vegetarian diet.
