| Healthy vegetarian recipes are considered to be | | | | bean-vegetable chili served with tortillas, baked beans |
| economical and humane. A balanced healthy | | | | and corn bread, hummus, cheese rolled in chopped |
| vegetarian diet provides essential nutrients, and it | | | | nuts, bread sticks with sesame seeds, macaroni and |
| keeps the weight down naturally. Take note: | | | | cheese, and split pea soup. These are complimentary |
| vegetarians have very few illnesses linked to fat | | | | proteins. A healthy vegetarian diet must contain |
| consumption. | | | | enough iron as the iron from plant sources serves |
| Consider this: until the most recent times, grains were | | | | only 1/4 as much as meat does. Every healthy |
| the staple diet, while meat was a luxury reserved for | | | | vegetarian recipe should include a high amount of |
| the wealthy few. However, today, in our affluent | | | | Vitamin C as the Vitamin C helps the to promote iron |
| society, we use grain to fatten the cattle stock! | | | | absorption. Good food high in Vitamin C are citrus |
| Many critics say this is a wasteful uses of resources, | | | | fruits, potatoes, cruciferous vegetables, peppers |
| as it takes less grain to feed a person directly than it | | | | melons and strawberries. Vitamin D is needed for |
| takes to fatten animals to feed that person. More | | | | calcium absorption and is contained in the foods egg |
| and more of our population has become vegetarian | | | | yolks, fortified milk and fatty fish. Also, exposure to |
| not only for the reason mentioned above, the reason | | | | sunlight enables the body to manufacture Vitamin D. |
| being that vegetarians are less likely to be obese or | | | | Healthy vegan or have a much more difficult time in |
| have heart or kidney disease and/or diabetes. it is a | | | | consuming enough calories without supplements. |
| known fact that vegetarians have lower blood | | | | Vegan and fruitarians must consume large amounts |
| pressure, and much fewer incidents of digestive tract | | | | of nut butters, dried fruits and breads just to |
| diseases. As well, vegetarians healthy recipes are a | | | | maintain their weight. |
| more economical use of the earth's resources. | | | | The facts remain - eating healthy vegetarian recipes |
| Consider this: on the whole Americans consume | | | | has many health benefits, one of which being the |
| about twice the amount of protein required, and | | | | avoidance of OBESITY - the reason being their |
| medical experts warn that we are paying for our high | | | | healthy vegetarian recipes are bulky, filling, high in |
| meat consumption, and animal fats as well, through | | | | fiber, low in fat and therefore, low in calories. Studies |
| record rates of strokes, heart disease and certain | | | | have shown that a cholesterol free plant based diet |
| cancers and other disorders. Of course, there are | | | | is also low in saturated fats and can reduce the risk |
| many non-believers. | | | | of atherosclerosis, heart disease and stroke. Healthy |
| Healthy Vegetarian recipes must combine grains, | | | | vegetarian recipes also have proved to show less |
| seeds and legumes in order to get the amount of | | | | osteoporosis, kidney stones, gallstones, and |
| protein they need with all the essential amino acids. | | | | adult-onset diabetes. |
| There are numerous amounts of healthy vegetarian | | | | Having read the above information, which would you |
| recipes. Some examples of these are;rice and beans, | | | | choose? Healthy Vegetarian Recipes? |