Meals that Heal?
Want to prevent or help treat cancer, heart diseases, diabetes, obesity, mental diseases as well as ageing? A balanced vegetarian diet is the only answer. Dr. Agatha Thrash is quoted as saying, “There are no essential foods, only essential nutrients.” These nutrients may be obtained from various types of foods, and if one is open-minded and willing to develop a palate that appreciates healthier nutritional sources, we can...
By becoming vegetarian will I develop Vitamin deficiency?
It has been well established through numerous clinical trials that greater benefit and fewer health risks are associated with a vegan diet. In fact, with the possible exception of vitamin B-12, all nutrients are much more plentiful in a total vegetarian diet, especially the powerful phytochemicals (plant chemicals) that are simply not present in meat and animal...
49 Reasons why I am a vegetarian
Meat is Murder [Source: The Whole Earth Vegetarian Catalogue] The Environment 1. Conservation of Fossil fuel. It takes 78 calories of fossil fuel to produce 1 calorie of beef protein; 35 calories for 1 calorie of pork; 22 calories for 1 of poultry; but just 1 calorie of fossil fuel for 1 calorie of soybeans. By eating plant foods instead of animal foods, I help conserve our non-renewable sources of energy. 2. Water...
Origin of Onion & Garlic
The Malhotras are the owners of Weikfield Products food company, which was established twenty years ago. They have a very large modern house, Malhotra Bhavan, situated on several acres of well kept land at 116 Koregaon Park, which, unusual for India, even has a moderately sized swimming pool. At the house Srila Prabhupada was introduced to the wives of all three brothers, and some of their children. As I busied myself...
Hare Krishna Food
"Hare Krishna Food" "Hare Krishnas have the good food. I learned that right away." Mathura is helping shovel a load of mulch out of my truck. It's a beautiful Spring day, the new Pear trees are looking happy, the garden is coming in and a neighbor has dropped by to chat. "My sister used to go to the Dallas Temple on Sundays with her friend." Mathura continued," She told me about it....
Must we kill in order to live
Vegetarianism, known in Sanskrit as Shakahara, was for thousands of years a principle of health and environmental ethics throughout India. Though Muslim and Christian colonization radically undermined and eroded this ideal, it remains to this day a cardinal ethic of Hindu thought and practices. A subtle sense of guilt persists among Hindus who eat meat. Hinduism is the only religion which preaches vegetarianism, as a way to live with...