Vegetarianism Scientific And Spiritual Basis

Author(s): Jashwant B Mehta
Publisher: Jashwant B Mehta

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It was found further that this was not due to the severity of their climates alone. Others peoples, living in harsh conditions, but subsisting with little or no animal flesh, had some of the highest life expectancies in the world. World health statistics found, for example, that an unusually large number of the Russian Caucasians, the Yucatan Indians, the East Indian Todas and the Pakistan Hunzakuts have life expectancies of 90 to 100 years.
The cultures with the very longest life spans in the world are the Vilcambas, who reside in the Andes of Ecuador, the Abkhasians, who live on the Black Sea in the USSR, and the Hunzas, who live in the Himalayas of Northern Pakistan. Researchers discovered a "striking similarity" in the diets of these groups, scattered through they are in different parts of the planet. All three are either totally vegetarian or close to it.
Particularly striking to researchers who have visited these cultures is that the people not only live so long, but that they enjoy full, active lives through their many years, and show no signs of the many degenerative diseases that afflict the elderly in our culture.
Dr. Neal Bernard is among a host of experts who have research findings on their side to prove that being a veggie is in ... As the President of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a US-based group of 6,000 physicians that promotes preventive medicine, Dr. Bernard quotes from his own research and those of cardiac rehabilitation gurus like Dean Ornish on the role of a vegetarian diet in reducing heart ailments, diabetes, cancer, blood pressure, kidney stones and even osteoporosis. Dr. Dean Ornish has proven angiographically that a reversal of heart disease is possible by the comprehensive lifestyle changes which includes dietary modifications. Dr. Bimal Chhajer, a Delhi based Cardiologist and a disciple of Dr. Dean Ornish strongly recommends a vegetarian diet for his patients undergoing treatment of preventive medicine for cardiac ailments. Precautions for a vegetarian diet
What vegetarians have to do to prevent the high incidence of heart disease, and obesity is to reduce the high intake of fats in the form of oils, ghee (butter oil), milk and milk products. Milk being an animal product has high cholesterol and fat. It is advisable to remove the fats before consuming the milk or milk products. Skimmed milk or double toned milk is very suitable for consumption for all sedentary adults.