Alternative foods
What is presented here should be used as a source of information only, and not for any other reason (medical and/or nutritional). If this is the case, you should seek the advice and approval of a licensed professional. During the last decade, more and more people have decided to follow vegetarian or vegan diets for ethical, environmental or health reasons. Already, several companies that make meat like foods appeared everywhere these days. This trend of replacing real meat with meat like substitute made from vegetables is great because not only it saves the lives of billions of land animals and fish but also because it minimizes the serious environmental problem the world is facing today, it is in many ways nutritionally healthier and according to some studies its more economic to the consumer.
Pros: In what follows, we present some information about diet programs with our comments:
- Dr. Dean Ornish’s diet program for heart diseasee:Dr. Ornish’s pioneering research on Heart Disease is going on for more than 40 years, and among other things his research includes diet. In his books he proposes a healthy, meatless, low-fat and gastronomically pleasing diet which he claims not only may prevent heart disease but reverse it as well. For a better understanding of his findings, FKW recommends the reading of the following books authored by Dean Ornish M.D.
- Stress, Diet, & Your Heart, New York: New American Library/Signet Books 1984.
- Dean Ornish’s Pogram For Reversing Heart Disease, Random House or other publishers 1990.
- Eat more, Weight Less, Harper Collins Publishers 1993
- The Mayo Clinic Diet, Second Edition (#1 New York Times Bestseller), By Donald D. Hensrud, M.D. 2017.
- Food-Your Miracle Medicine, Harper Collins Publishers, By Jean Carper 1993.
Cons
Most of the vegetable made meat foods sold in supermarkets or served by the fast food stores, and vegetarian/vegan restaurants are processed foods and contain too much sodium, sugar and other harmful preservatives, which are not the best solutions with respect to health problems. However, as it is discussed in …. You obtain almost all the minerals, and vitamins you need by cooking foods using are specific plants, with great taste made from garlic, lemon and other herbs and avoid sodium, sugar, etc.
- Summary: The Plant Paradox, The hidden Dangers in Healthy Foods that cause disease and weight gain, By Steven R. Gundry 2018, Swiftread.
