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vegetables, whole grains, and soybeans, is healthful, delicious, pleasing to the eye and known as nature's diet. It is recognized that choosing natural foods brings one into harmony with nature and helps to heal and maintain health. The energy of natural food changes the vibration of the nervous system so that it forces the lower vibration, negative thoughts out of the system. Vegetables bring the light and energy they absorb and store through photosynthesis into human body. Grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds bring into body the light, energy, and life force that can create a new living plant. This way of eating creates a whole new experience and lightness in the body.
The common and persistent fallacy that one must eat flesh in order to be strong has no foundation in fact; indeed the exact contrary is true. Vegetarian diet affords the most plentiful, wholesome, nourishing invigorating diet and is known to confer a wide range of health benefits. A healthy vegetarian diet can be a powerful aid to development and healing process. Studies suggest that an average person should consume at least 20 to 35 grams of fibre each day. Diets low in fat and saturated fat and high in fibre may also lower blood pressure. Vegetarian food is often high in fibre-rich bulky contents influence the health of the digestive tract and produces less total calories, thus may be beneficial for obesity. Vegetarian diets provide less saturated fat and antioxidants, promote overall lean body composition, and seem to produce fewer carcinogens in the body than meat eaters.
Science too has established the health benefits of eating vegetarian food. Research results have documented a 50 percent reduction in heart disease and longer life expectancy in people who eat a well-planned
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