Healthy Vegetarian Eating / was Sick Easier

[Guest guest]

I should have added that you might want to look at the links in the Links ;=)

section for further info on health and vegetarianism.

 

Of course, we can all eat an *un*healthy vegetarian diet - by consuming junk

food, not eating enough vegetables, both raw and cooked, not enough whole

grains, not enough blahblah blah blah blah. And to some degree, many of us

have been there at some time in our lives. However, a well balanced diet is

healthier than an unbalanced diet (as if we didn't know), and the same

applies to vegetarians.

 

For those of us who have a few kilos to shed, the best advice I can give - on

short order - is to cut down (not exclude) fats/oils, exercise more, avoid

refined

foods (the so-called white foods - sugar, flour, rice, etc.) in favour of the

whole

foods (brown rice, wholewheat and wholegrain flours, etc.) and skip the

sugars until your weight is where you want it. At the risk of being whipped by a

soggy buckwheat noodle, I'd also suggest cutting back on (sweet) fruit and

getting your nutrients from vegetables, cutting down on dairy and to a great

extent on dairy substitutes, and make sure that you take in around 500

calories less than you 'need' to maintain your weight. There's no magic

formula, sad to say, but if you don't lose weight after following these rough

and ready 'rules' then, well, you're not really following them but think you are

and need to reassess. Sad but true.

 

As for the original query about getting sick easier on a veggie diet, I think

that

you must know, after some four plus years of vegetarianism, that your ex-

boyfriend's pronouncement was simply to stir up trouble? I'd not worry about it

or him, if I were you LOL

 

And now back to my what-to-make-for-lunch crisis . . .

 

Best,

 

pat (who mis-signed herself in the last email)

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veggiehound wrote:

 

>Best,

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>pat (who mis-signed herself in the last email)

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Heh, I've always wondered why you use different accounts for the

different lists. Seems like it would be more confusing, what with the

other nickname. Do you just like to keep all your list mail in separate

accounts?

 

Suzanne

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> Heh, I've always wondered why you use different accounts for the

> different lists. Seems like it would be more confusing, what with the

> other nickname. Do you just like to keep all your list mail in separate

> accounts?

 

Heh heh - I wonder too! It started before gave us more mail space. And

before I decided to read my messages on the webpages. And the gf nickname

started as a joke. But ya know, I am really really ready to consolidate em all

now ;=) Watch this space. (Ahahhh! But which I ask you *which* personality

will become *the* personality???? It's The Three Faces of Eve Rides Again!)

 

And yes, I keep list mail separate from other mail ;=)

 

Best,

 

Pat ;=)