Vitamins
For being spiritual,
good nourishment is
essential. The vegetarian, seeking his joy of
life in the non-violent respect
for all living beings, must be
more
careful with his diet than a
meat eater. He must garner his
vitamins,
proteins and minerals more than
a meat eater has to. For a piece
of
meat is a kind of vitamine pill.
But a piece of meat also gives
toxic
waste like ammonia when broken
down in one's digestive tract
and that
on its turn gives, according
some studies, cancer of the
colon and
problems with e.g. one's
vitamine D household which
regulates the
absorption of calcium and other
minerals. Vitamin D is also
built up by
the body catching sunlight
regularly. Older people need to
pay special
attention concerning vitamins.
When a vegetarian consumes
different
kinds of vegetables, cereal,
beans, milk and fruits with a
proper
alternation and combined
eventually with nuts and seeds
as an extra
source of protein, he will
suffer no lack
whatsoever (veganists must eat
sea weed or another B12 product,
and
lacto vegetarians in case of a
lactose allergy must simply only
eat
fermented dairy like cheese). A
point of attention are the fatty
acids
omega 3 & 6, good for one's
brain, ones immunity, ones
circulation
and the growth of cartilage e.g.
and other tissues. They are
essentially a kind of vitamins
because they cannot be produced
by the
body itself. They are supplied
by a cheese sandwich each day or
by one
or two table spoons of linseed
oil (or having fatty fish as a
meat
eater). Much of the hunger of
meat eaters is purely a
conditioned, fake
kind of hunger that only, with
the consumption of sugar and
non-essentail fat, leads to overweight and such, including
the accompanying welfare
diseases (of diabetes, heart
troubles etc. ).
If one regularly eats vegetarian
food though and even so now and
then
for a day takes to a fast on
fruit juice and milk (e.g. once
in the
fifteen days with the regularity
of the sun and the moon, see vko), one may even
increase one's life span with
five to ten years, so we may
conclude
from scientific research data on
the life expectancies of old
aged
vegetarians. Do not eat too much
nor too little and thus be
hearty and
hale; a good diet is the key to
a healthy life! For those who
doubt the
correctness of these positions
taken, we below present a table
offering
an overview of all the essential
vitamins. The need for protein,
which
for the vegetarian is covered by
the consumption of the
complementary
proteins of cereal and beans, is
in combination with these
vitamins, as
you can see, also perfectly
covered by a diet of beans,
cereal, milk
vegetables and fruits, and with
the variegation of the
foodstuffs
presented below you will
suffer no lack of
any
kind of mineral when you
regularly eat figs, spinach en
broccoli for
your iron. Pills are not needed
thus, being a conscientious
vegetarian!
To
your health and happiness!
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Your
vitamins together
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Kind
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Functions
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Found
in
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Deficiency
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Excess
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A
(Retinol)
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Helps the immune
system; slows aging; gives
a good skin, hair, teeth,
bones,and eyesight
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Liver, green
leaf,
butter, margarine, egg
yoke, cheese
|
Blindness at
night,
sores in the mouth,
dandruff, acne, frequent
infections
|
Headaches,
nausea,
dizziness, fatigue and
problems with the eyes,
the skin and the skeleton
|
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B1
(Thiamin)
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Stimulates
growth;
mental resilience; good
brain function, muscles,
heart and nervous
system
|
Green leaf,
dried
yeast, carrots, milk,
whole-wheat bread, beans,
meats, nuts
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Beriberi,
fatigue
|
Stomach ache,
headache, allergy
|
|
B2
(Riboflavin)
|
Stimulates
growth,
good for one's hair, skin
and nails ; needed for
reproduction
|
Milk and/or
dairy
products, eggs, meat,
leafy vegetables, yeast,
whole wheat products
|
Sore mouth,
insomnia, burning eyes,
flaky skin at the sides of
the nose.
|
??
|
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B3
(Niacin)
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Needed for the
hormones of sexual
reproduction; improves
circulation; gives a
healthy
skin, nervous system,
digestion
|
Meat,
vegetables,
whole-wheat products,
peanuts, eggs, fish
|
Insomnia,
muscular
weakness, skin problems,
sore mouth, psychic
afflictions
|
Vascular
dilation
('flushing'), damage to
the liver and eyes
|
|
B5
(Pantotheen acid)
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Provides
anti-stress hormone;
improves the nervous
system, helps with healing
wounds
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Meat,
whole-wheat
products, liver, eggs,
nuts, yeast, vegetables
|
Depression, skin
problems, fatigue, loss of
appetite
|
Diarrhea
|
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B6
(Pyridoxine)
|
Natural means
for
urine secretion; lessens
nausea, maintains the
immune system, involved
with the nervous system
|
Meat,
whole-wheat
products, fish, legume,
bananas, yeast, avocado
|
Anemia, dry
skin,
nervousness, PMS
(premenstrual syndrome)
|
Damage to the
nerves in the limbs
|
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B8
(Biotin)
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Needed for
growth,
good skin and hair, and to
supply energy to the body
|
Meat, milk
and/or
dairy products, eggs,
whole-wheat products,
nuts, rice
|
Premature gray
hair, hair loss,
depression, serious eczema
|
??
|
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B11
(Folium acid)
|
Needed for
formation of body cells
and red blood cells;
prevents spina
bifida
in the fetus.
|
Green leaf
vegetables, carrots,
liver, eggs
|
Nervousness,
birth
defects, gasping,
insomnia, bad memory
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Stomach and
intestine trouble, allergy
|
|
B12
(Cobalamin)
|
Needed for a
healthy nervous system,
formation of red
bloodcells; concentration,
memory and maintaining
one's balance
|
Beef, cheese,
milk
and/or dairy products,
eggs, fish, meat
|
Anemia, fatigue,
painful tongue,
hallucinations
|
??
|
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C
Ascorbine acid)
|
Antioxidant;
needed
for the absorption of
iron; helps with the
healing of wounds; needed
for healthy bones and
tissues
|
Potatoes,
vegetables, legume, fruit
|
Bleeds, blue
spots,
lessened immune activity
|
Diarrhea,
intestinal troubles,
kidney stones
|
|
D
(Cholacalciferol)
|
Needed for
healthy
bones and teeth, the
kidney function, the
absorption of important
minerals
|
Sunlight, milk
en
dairy products, fat fish,
cod-liver oil
|
Affected teeth,
osteoporosis, rachitis
with children
|
Calcification
throughout the body (not
with 'authentic' D)
|
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E
(Tocoferol)
|
Antioxidant;
slows
down aging, provides the
body with oxygen, cures
the skin and prevents
scar tissue
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Green leaf
vegetables, vegetable oils
halvarine, margarine,
whole-wheat products
|
Cataract,
anemia,
liver spots, prevents
miscarriage
|
Troubled blood
clotting (only in
combination with a vit.
K-deficiency)
|
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K
(Fylochinon)
|
Influences blood
clotting; needed for the
kidney function for
healthy bones and teeth
|
Yogurt, alfalfa,
egg yoke, sprouts, green
leaf vegetables
|
Nose bleeds or
even
intestinal bleeds with an
excess of antibiotics used
|
??
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- This
table was also published in HP de
Tijd (a dutch magazine) of 11
Sept.
2005.
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Vitamin F is an obsolete term
for the essential fatty
acids omega 3 en 6. A good
cheese sandwich or one or two
table spoons
of linseed oil supplies for your
daily need.
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Selenium is an
element common in animal
products and is good for one's
immune system
and fights the symptoms of
aging; it is found in Brazil
nuts (a lot, a
few suffices), bread (10% a
slice) and pasta (50% each
meal).
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Beware of
artificial vitamins, they can
unsettle your biochemistry and
immune
system. The artificial D in
margarine e.g. is known to be
the cause of
problems with the calcium
management of the body in case
of an excess.
Eat for that reason always
natural food stuff; fresh butter
e.g., but
do so sparingly because of the
cholesterol in that case.
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Definitions of different kinds
of vegetarians:
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Ovo-vegetaranism: a form of
vegetarianism eating eggs, but
no dairy.
For the production of eggs many
male chicken are shredded.
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Lacto-ovo-vegetarianism: one
consumes dairy products and
eggs. This is
currently the most common
variety in the Western world.
.
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Lacto-vegetarianism: consume
dairy products but no eggs.
One has to
take care of one's protein
intake: cereal, beans, nuts
and cheese. Most
vegetarians in India and those
in the classical Mediterranean
lands
-Fish-vegetarianism:
they
eat like lacto-vegetarians,
but also without the fish; in
fact
these are no real vegetarians
for they eat cold blooded
animals.
-Veganist:
a
form of vegetarianism not
consuming anything of the
animal kingdom nor
do they use leather products.
These folks have to mind their
vitamin
B12 and wear plastic or linen
shoes. They have to consume
linseed oil
for their essential fatty
acids.
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Only fruit:
the most extreme form of
vegetarianism. People only
eating fruit not
only respect animal life, but
also tree and plant life.
Therefore they
eat (in the most extreme
cases) only fruits and nuts,
which allows
trees and plants to live and
because the fruits and nuts
were meant to
serve as food. These people
have to consume food
supplements in order
not to suffer deficiencies,
for fruit only is too
one-sided as a food
source, in nature e.g. become
chimpanzees, who only eat
fruits and
leaves, after a few days
aggressive and do they kill
another monkey to
consume it for their proteins
and vitamins. People have an
almost
identical digestive system as
monkeys. Gorillas being purely
plant
feeders e.g. have to eat all
day through and lick stones to
gather
their minerals and other
nutritional substances.
(zie
further the article: "vegetarianism")
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See
wikipedia for more about nutrients.
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Read more about the
body and the
spiritual essence.
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Links: of the
vegetarian society,
vegetarisme.nl and
the Order
of Time Linking Library.
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See also Bhagavad
Gîtâ chapter seventeen about
food
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Vegetarian
Recipes and Resources:
Vegetarianism is especially
recommended
for those who want to follow a
truly spiritual lifestyle.
Do
you
have to slim
down?*
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2006
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