Eating VEGAN - Is It Really Healthy?

A vegan lunch - an impossibility for some, a great joy for others.

Interesting - Albert Einstein

Already decades ago Albert Einstein said:

"Nothing will increase people's health and the chance of survival on earth as much as the move to a vegetarian diet."

These are actually amazing words spoken at a time when little was known about the connections and effects of diet on our health, the environment, the climate and world hunger, as well as animal and human rights. Perhaps Mr. Einstein would even use the word vegan ’today.

Nowadays, vegan diet no longer means ascetic practice of real renunciation, but can and should mean enjoyment and joy - thanks to a large culinary offer, because no food is healthy if we do not enjoy it.

Cons of Meat Consumption

The consumption of animal products, such as milk, cheese and eggs, can unfortunately have serious global disadvantages. These include:

• Diseases such as cancer, heart attack, high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer's, dementia and stroke. (Here at the Sonnmatt Health Center, we experience how these diseases can be partially cured and how they can be prevented ¨)

• Keeping animals can sometimes be excruciating for animals and promote disease.

• Many meat lovers would make adjustments when they saw the animals being kept and slaughtered. This sometimes happens without stunning the animals.

• In order for the animals to develop enough fat, they have to be fed generously. It is said that 50% of the world's grain harvest and around 90% of the world's soy harvest are used for fattening animals worldwide. When we think of the many starving children and adults, one becomes uncomfortable.

• With more than 50%, livestock husbandry is the largest cause of climate-damaging greenhouse gases!

• The production of 1 kg of meat consumes up to 16 kg of plants and over 10 tons of water. The progressive destruction of the environment through deforestation of the rainforest for fodder plants, flooding the earth with large amounts of liquid manure, all of this also pollutes our drinking water!

• Worldwide around 39 million tons of animals caught in the sea are thrown back into the sea as "bycatch", dead or injured. These include whales, sea birds, sharks, seals and sea turtles.

If these so-called facts are correct, then we as a whole of humanity are challenged. Our tastes are much easier to change and adapt in less time than we could repair the damage in nature.

Of course, if you have your own garden, you always have an advantage. How nice it is to harvest fruits and vegetables from it. Wonderful!

But even with a vegan diet, there are some important facts to consider.

7 Rules For A Healthy Vegan Diet

1. The vegan diet should be as varied as possible.

2. Vitamin B12 should be taken as a dietary supplement. In winter, our health can also be supported with vitamin D (D2 or D3 vegan origin).

3. In order to optimize iron absorption, beverages or foods containing vitamin C can be taken with meals.

4. Avoid refined sugar and white flour. Children in particular like sweets, which usually do more harm than good.

5. Fats are important and can be obtained from whole foods like seeds and nuts. Omega-3 fatty acids are easily obtained from freshly ground flaxseed.

6. All foods that have been industrially processed (e.g. vegetable oils, spreadable fats, refined sugar) should be consumed rarely or not at all.

7. Fresh fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts and whole grain products are preferred. They form the foundation of a healthy vegan diet.

‘CHINA Study’ by Prof. Dr. Campbell

Similar to Dr. Michael Greger in his book “How Not To Die” (“How not to die”) is proven by scientific studies that a vegan diet is the right direction for our health. Those who want long-term quality of life have better prospects with this lifestyle.

The animal industry and its political representatives are of course in no way interested in sacrificing their financial benefits for the health of the population. The EU alone spends more than 50 billion euros annually on subsidies for the agricultural industry, most of which goes to the animal industry.

Regarding STRAWBERRY, I feel urged to add something that has become important to me:

The strawberry can have about 400 diseases. Logically, this means that if it is planted for sale and profit, it has to be sprayed with a wide variety of anti-disease toxins. In the US, for example, the strawberry is officially considered the most poisonous fruit. Of course, this only applies if it does not come from your own garden, because from there it would be one of the healthiest.

What we see in the picture and what we appreciate so much about the strawberry is the ovary. The seeds are actually the fruits. Nice that the ovary tastes so good !!

Challenge For Parents

This topic is particularly important for parents, as they want to give their children the best possible start in life through a healthy diet. As parents and grandparents, we are challenged to assume one of the most important responsibilities in the field of education, namely to learn about healthy eating and to acquire scientifically sound knowledge.

Professor Campbell says:

“The first month can be a challenge, but after that it becomes a lot easier. And for many of you it will be a real treat.

I know it's hard to believe before you've experienced it, but your sense of taste changes when you only eat plant-based foods.

The bottom line is that you will be able to enjoy plant-based foods with great joy and great satisfaction, even though the transition phase can be a psychological and practical challenge. It takes time and a little effort. You may not get any support from your friends and family. But the health benefits are nothing short of a miracle. And you will be surprised how easy it is once you develop new habits. "

Our ladies love it when we men support them in the kitchen. And if we value their commitment to our health, then quality of life will increase.

Benefits Of A Vegan Diet (Oxford)

A study by Oxford University from 2016 clearly shows the enormous advantages of a vegan diet:

• A worldwide vegan diet would mean that a total of 8.1 million people could be saved from death every year.

• With a completely vegan lifestyle for all of humanity, enormous costs could be saved every year: over 1 trillion dollars for saved health costs and around 570 billion dollars for environmental costs.

• Greenhouse gas emissions could also be prevented by up to 70% per year.

Hot questions: How is it that various health organizations such as the D.G.E (German Society for Nutrition) advise against a vegan diet? Or when did you see a press article or a TV discussion where this topic was approached scientifically or where it was discussed at all?

You can find out more at www.cowspiracy.com.

"Health is not everything, but without health everything is nothing." Arthur Schopenhauer

Thoughts from “VEGAN - The Healthiest Diet - and its effects on the climate, the environment, animal and human rights” by Dr. med Henrich ProVegan Foundation - www.ProVegan.info

The Millennial Challenge - a Call for Help

Millennials, born after 1980, also called Generation Y, are interesting people. This blog would like to specifically address their characteristics and properties in relation to four important areas of life.

Perhaps you have already read the relevant blog about Generation Y. If not then you can use this link: Generation Y

Perhaps you've heard it already: some voices describe millennials in these words:

They are difficult to handle, often narcissistic (BLOG), lazy, self-interested, unfocused, love the question: “What do you want?”, The work has to make sense, it should have an effect and food should actually be free.

Although they often have access to dopamine, they are not happy.

Let's look at this group of people under the following aspects:

1. Education

2. Technology & Dopamine

3. Impatience

4. Environment
   

1. Education

Here are some characteristics of the parenting efforts of parents who received their children in 1980-2000:

• These children think they tend to be special

• They have learned that they can have (almost) anything they want.

• Parents help them everywhere, including at school

• They received medals (praise) even if they were last

• They notice when their performance is not good enough and they feel uncomfortable - it makes them unhappy

• When they finish school and get a job, they find they are not special because now their mothers cannot promote them anymore. That frustrates them.

• The world of work is often brutal for them. Only performance counts. It's about money, about survival. The entire self-image is thereby called into question.

• We have an entire generation growing up with lower self-esteem than previous generations

• Growing up in a Facebook-Instagram world is good at filtering things; they are good at showing people that life is amazing even though they are depressed.

• Many sound harsh and everyone sounds like they figured it all out.

• The reality is: there is very little toughness and willpower. You cannot assert yourself against yourself if it should be necessary.

• At best, they perceive instructions and advice from older generations as alternative opinions

In Summary

it can be said that these children have not learned some important things:

• Recognize and accept limits because they make sense

• Hierarchical structure - in other words, authorities - make it difficult for them because they grew up on an equal footing with their parents or grew up with them.

• thanks to pampering, they have not learned to overcome themselves for one thing.

• because they always got everything, they have to live with a deep tolerance of frustration.

• narcissistic tendencies and low self-esteem indicate attachment-inhibited upbringing.

How cute ! Simply unique, this kitten. You can only spoil it, right? And she likes to let it happen, because she doesn't have a life mission like our children. Those should learn not to always choose the path of least resistance!

2. Technology and Dopamine

We know phones and social media release a chemical called dopamine, which is why it feels good when we receive a text message. When we feel a little bad and a text arrives or we send a text to our friends, for example. Hi, Hi, Hi, it will feel good when we get a reply soon. That stimulates us. Dopamine has become the psychological basis of daily survival.

That is the reason why we count the 'likes'. So we go back ten times to see if something has arrived; when something rings, we cut off all communication to see who sent what and why. We need these lucky charm hormones.

Dopamine makes Life worth living

Dopamine also makes us happy when we smoke, drink, use drugs, play games and engage in sexuality. So it can be very addicting and there are restrictions on smoking, gambling and alcohol. However, there aren't any for social media and mobile phones. Unrestricted access is possible, which is what makes this medium so dangerous. Heard it was easier to set a cocaine addict free than a game addict. Because telephones are everywhere and cocaine is much harder to find. We are thus offering our young people a tool that can destroy them.

Dealing with Stress

In the adolescence phase they have stress and fears of a greater nature. Since they have not developed strategies for dealing with stress and challenges, they know nothing but the choice of the bottle or other pleasurable passions. Social, financial and professional stress always become more about alcoholics.

Superficiality

Since we give free access to this dopamine-producing social media, many of them are no longer able to develop deep and meaningful relationships. They say so themselves. Some of them see this dilemma. They will admit that many of their friendships are superficial, that they cannot rely on their "friends"; they don't rely on her when they have fun; they also know that her friends will scratch her should they have something better to choose from.

Develop Relationship Skills

As an adult, if you want to have deep, meaningful relationships, you have to practice and learn that somewhere. Since they have never practiced these skills, they are easily lost in terms of social skills; worse, they have not developed coping mechanisms to cope with everyday stress. When there is significant stress in their life, they turn to a device rather than a person for temporary relief from social media. Thanks to science, we know that people who spend more time on Facebook have a higher rate of depression than people with less time.

Looking for Balance

Alcohol is dangerous. Playing is fun, but too much is also dangerous. Social media and cell phones are needed these days, but if they use it across healthy boundaries, you are sure to become a victim of them. We have to look for balance.

• If you are having dinner with your friends and texting someone who is not around, it highlights a problem, which is that of potential addiction.

• If you are in a meeting with people you are supposed to listen to and then you put your phone on the table, it sends a subconscious message into the room: You are not that important to me right now. Why can't we put the phone down? Maybe the reason is because we've become addicted to it?

• If you wake up and usually check your phone before saying <Hello> to your spouse or family, you tend to have an addiction. Addictions have in common that it destroys relationships, costs a lot of time and money and worsens quality of life.

Summary:

We have a generation that grows up with low self-esteem without the stress management mechanism being sufficiently developed.

Those who only perceive their own world via social media are taking great risks. How can the truth be learned from lies in this way? It is so easy to fall victim to the system.

3. Impatience

These children grew up in a world of instant gratification.

• If you want to buy something, go to Amazon and it will arrive the next day.

• If you want to see a movie, log in and watch it.

• You don't have to check the movie times like you do when watching TV. So that you don't have to wait in a TV series, you only watch the show at the end.

No more waiting is necessary.

Do you want to go on a date? No problem on social media.

• You no longer have to learn how to be a good charming person.

• You don't have to be the one to say YES or NO when it's awkward to say. You can swipe right instead.

• This is how I can be a stallion! Social coping mechanisms seem to be less and less necessary.

Anything we want we can have immediately.

Immediate Satisfaction in Perfection!

• EXCEPTION: Job satisfaction and meaningful relationships, for which there is (yet) no app! These are slow, confusing, and inconvenient processes.

• More and more often there are these wonderful, fantastic, idealistic, hard-working and intelligent children who have just graduated from school, who want to earn money with work and who come to the conclusion: “I think I'll quit!” (Escapism). "Why ?" - "I have no influence!" "Why do you want to quit after only 8 months?"

  You are standing at the foot of a mountain and want to have the effect of the mountain top on the environment. Unfortunately, they don't see the effort it takes to get there.

  What our young generation has to learn is the principle that something really important like love, professional fulfillment, joy, happiness, self-confidence and various skills need time to develop.

• Sometimes we get parts of it in happy moments, but general life is challenging, stressful and takes our patience and perseverance.

• If they are unwilling or if they are not helped to learn these skills in childhood, then you will never get to the top of the mountain, you will fall off the mountain. Worst-case scenario shows an increase in suicide rates in this generation, an increase in accidental deaths from drug overdoses, school dropouts, and absenteeism due to depression.

• The direction is clear: we will have a whole population that will never find real joy. You will never find deep fulfillment in work or in life. They just go through life and are driven by industry and politics.

• "How is your job?" "It's as good as yesterday."

• "How is your relationship?" "Is good."

  Do you like this best case scenario? Something is missing, right?

Anyone who learns to wait as a child has a lifelong advantage. This is shown by various studies, above all the Marshmallow-Test.

4. Environment

Millennials are not to blame for this situation. They are wonderful, dear children of their time. We use them in a work environment where numbers are more important than people.

Short-term profits are more important than people's long-term profits for most industries.

We place more value on annual success than on lifetime values.

What are WE not doing?

• We're not helping them build their trust.

• We don't teach them the skills to work together.

• We do not help them to overcome the challenges of the digital world and to find more balance.

• We do not teach them to overcome the immediate need for gratification with joy and success by being able to hold on to values, work hard on a project, and wait for long-term success.

• We don't show them how to set goals and how to achieve them.

Where is the fault?

• The worst part is that these young people believe it is their fault.

  They blame themselves for believing that they will not be able to meet all of these challenges. That makes things worse. It's not you. It's the business environment, the families, the school system. It is the total lack of good leadership in our world today. What parents and schools didn't do, companies should do.

What can we do ?

Without good workers we are all lost in our economy; right, they need help with social skills. Cell phones are not allowed in the conference rooms. Instead of using the phone, we should ask our neighbor questions about life and work. Let's be social and build relationships and trust while we can. It is the slow, constant constancy. When we have social gatherings, the cell phones can be left at home.

People are more important than any app on the phone.

We don't have to take a picture of the meal do we? We have to learn to remove temptation. That makes it a lot easier. We go to the bathroom and what's the first thing we do? It's much easier to enjoy people and nature without a mobile phone, isn't it? Where are the innovations and ideas? They come when we don't have a cell phone. We should never charge our phones next to our beds. The living room is better. If you use your phone as an alarm clock, buy one so that you are independent from using the cell phone.

The fewer temptations, the better.

In order to have time to think, it helps to have innovations, ideas and creativity. But with social media allover we are destroying these moments more and more. In industry, we have a responsibility to make up the gap and help these young people build their confidence, learn patience, develop social skills, and find a balance between life and technology.

Listening to one another, responding to one another, playing with one another, supporting one another, bringing in one's talents, all of this will lead to success. The earlier you start, the greater the social gain.

Call

• Make sure you are happy in real life, not just social media.

• We need a strong generation of empathetic, emotionally intelligent, conscientious executives who did not grow up on a steady brain diet of digital media and devices.

• Many children today (Generation Z) are robbed of their childhood through social media. Please help prevent this from happening.

• We must take responsibility for the following foundations of a healthy childhood:

  • emotionally available (grand) parents

  • clearly defined boundaries and guidance

  • Developing a sense of responsibility

  • balanced nutrition

  • adequate sleep

  • Exercise and outdoor activities in nature

  • Opportunities for creativity and social interaction

Dear Reader. It seems SERIOUS. Parents and teachers have the chance to save our future as much as possible, or rather to improve it. It depends on our joint activity. Are you in?

Thank you very much.
Ernst (=Serious)

Quelle / Source: TV interview with Simon Sinek (English-Link)