| 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 only |
| Consider this: until the most recent times, grains were | | | | 1/4 as much as meat does. Every healthy vegetarian |
| the staple diet, while meat was a luxury reserved for | | | | recipe should include a high amount of Vitamin C as |
| the wealthy few. However, today, in our affluent | | | | the Vitamin C helps the to promote iron absorption. |
| society, we use grain to fatten the cattle stock! Many | | | | Good food high in Vitamin C are citrus fruits, potatoes, |
| critics say this is a wasteful uses of resources, as it | | | | cruciferous vegetables, peppers melons and |
| takes less grain to feed a person directly than it takes | | | | strawberries. Vitamin D is needed for calcium |
| to fatten animals to feed that person. More and more | | | | absorption and is contained in the foods egg yolks, |
| of our population has become vegetarian not only for | | | | fortified milk and fatty fish. Also, exposure to sunlight |
| the reason mentioned above, the reason being that | | | | enables the body to manufacture Vitamin D. |
| vegetarians are less likely to be obese or have heart | | | | Healthy vegan or have a much more difficult time in |
| or kidney disease and/or diabetes. it is a known fact | | | | consuming enough calories without supplements. |
| that vegetarians have lower blood pressure, and much | | | | Vegan and fruitarians must consume large amounts of |
| fewer incidents of digestive tract diseases. As well, | | | | nut butters, dried fruits and breads just to maintain their |
| vegetarians healthy recipes are a more economical | | | | weight. |
| use of the earth's resources. | | | | The facts remain - eating healthy vegetarian recipes |
| Consider this: on the whole Americans consume about | | | | has many health benefits, one of which being the |
| twice the amount of protein required, and medical | | | | avoidance of OBESITY - the reason being their |
| experts warn that we are paying for our high meat | | | | healthy vegetarian recipes are bulky, filling, high in fiber, |
| consumption, and animal fats as well, through record | | | | low in fat and therefore, low in calories. Studies have |
| rates of strokes, heart disease and certain cancers | | | | shown that a cholesterol free plant based diet is also |
| and other disorders. Of course, there are many | | | | low in saturated fats and can reduce the risk of |
| non-believers. | | | | 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 adult-onset |
| protein they need with all the essential amino acids. | | | | 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? |