What effect does long-term vegetarian diet have on human health? Does it taste good？ Is it bad? Many citizens and vegetarians are very concerned about this problem. Especially in recent years, the problem of vascular sclerosis has seriously threatened human health and life. In many countries, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases caused by arteriosclerosis are listed as the leading cause of death every year. Among many factors leading to arteriosclerosis, such as hyperlipidemia, hypertension, obesity, lack of exercise, mental stress, smoking, endocrine and vitamin imbalance, eating more animal fat is the main factor. So, is vegetarianism effective in preventing and treating arteriosclerosis? What effect does the long-term vegetarian diet of Buddhist believers in China have on their health? Under the auspices of Professor Chen Rui, the doctors of laboratory diagnostics in the Medical College of National Taiwan University put forward research results with great academic value for more than ten years.
They used modern medical instruments and methods, such as automated hematology analyzer and protein electric swimming apparatus, isotope detector, electrocardiogram, X-ray, ophthalmoscope, etc., to analyze the influence of long-term vegetarian diet on human body from many angles. The investigation popularized dozens of temples in Taiwan Province Province and Taipei City, and it took more than two years to visit 49 temples in the whole province. There were 394 people in the survey, and their vegetarian time ranged from 1 year to 72 years. The average blood protein of non-vegetarians is 6.1-1g, while that of vegetarians is 6.6-8.8 g ... It is also confirmed that the blood protein of vegetarians is completely normal, which is more peaceful and stable than that of non-vegetarians.
First of all, is the vegetarian's daily food nutrition suitable for modern nutrition standards? The survey results show that the total calories, fat, sugar, phosphorus, vitamins A and C all exceed the standard amount. Protein, calcium, iron, vitamin B and nicotinic acid are below the standard, but even non-vegetarian people in China have a similar tendency. This is closely related to the food quality and hobbies of China people, and it is not unique to vegetarians. In the further analysis of blood and urine components of vegetarians and non-vegetarians, it is found that the total protein quality of vegetarians and non-vegetarians is very close to various protein qualities. In addition, the components such as urea nitrogen, creatine liver and uric acid of vegetarians are also within the normal range. These results show that, although vegetarians and non-vegetarians have different intake of protein, there is little difference in various protein in their blood, and the quality of serum protein of long-term vegetarians is not worse than that of non-vegetarians.
How to prevent and treat arteriosclerosis is actually a major topic in the medical field at present. Although the reason is not very clear, the change of the quality and quantity of human fat is considered to be of great significance, especially the amount of saturated fatty acids in food and blood is most closely related to the occurrence of diseases. The content of saturated fatty acids is higher in meat, milk, milk processed products and eggs, but lower in plant foods, while the content of fat and fatty acids in plant foods is higher. Since 1952, Dr. L.W.Kinsell and others in the United States proved that human consumption of oils with high unsaturated fatty acids (such as corn oil and other vegetable oils) can reduce cholesterol in blood, research reports from various countries have come out one after another, but most of the papers are about the number and time of eating vegetable oils.
For this, vegetarians in China can provide unique and valuable information in the world, because we can conduct in-depth investigation on this issue from more people and more long-term and strict vegetarians. Vegetarians in China often eat oils, mainly peanut oil, soybean oil, rapeseed oil, and a small amount of sesame oil, which are all oils with high unsaturated fatty acids content. Long-term consumption is obviously good for serum fat. At the same time, the analysis results also show that the serum cholesterol, triglycerides, phospholipids and total fat of vegetarians are much lower than those of non-vegetarians, and there are fewer types of abnormal lipid proteins in vegetarians.
Does the human body suffer from arteriosclerosis? If you have this disease, how serious is it? For these two problems, it is an important and feasible method to check the fundus blood vessels. So, with the help of ophthalmologists in National Taiwan University Hospital, they examined the fundus blood vessels of vegetarians with ophthalmoscope. The results clearly proved that the number of vegetarians suffering from arteriosclerosis was very small, and the degree was relatively mild. In the investigation, they also found a very special result, that is, not only few long-term vegetarians suffer from arteriosclerosis, but also many people's fundus vein dilation is a phenomenon of low blood pressure, which is not so common among ordinary non-vegetarians in China, which is another powerful proof that long-term vegetarians suffer from arteriosclerosis. In addition, they also investigated blood pressure by age and sex. Therefore, vegetarians seldom suffer from hypertension, and their average blood pressure is lower than that of non-vegetarians.
However, if you don't eat animal food for a long time, will it lead to anemia? Professor Chen also proved this problem in many ways. From the examination of the number of red blood cells and hemoglobin related to anemia in blood components, it is found that the average value of vegetarians is very close to that of non-vegetarians, and the anemia rate is generally not higher than that of non-vegetarians. People usually think that vegetarians have a slightly yellow skin color, but this is not caused by anemia.
Vitamin B is an indispensable component of hematopoiesis, and its supply is usually mainly animal food. From plant foods, humans rarely get the vitamin B they need. Therefore, in theory, if people don't eat animal food, vitamin B deficiency will occur, which may lead to megaloblastic anemia. However, in the survey, vegetarians were not found to have this symptom, although 70% of them had reduced vitamin B in their blood.
In a word, the survey results show that long-term vegetarianism is beneficial to adults, especially to middle-aged people and people with arteriosclerosis tendency.