Happiness Begins with Veggies!

If there was an eating style that made you happy, would you do it?

What if that same eating style helped keep your weight in the healthy range? And reduced your risk of breast, bladder, and other cancers? Would you then?

Vegetarians have been studied extensively and recently, studies reveal that a vegetarian lifestyle is healthier overall. In Nutrition Journal, vegetarians had less depression, anxiety and stress and overall, better moods than meat-eaters in the U.S. The reason? Vegetarians eat less animal-based essential fatty acids and more omega-3 from plants.

People with diabetes have a higher incidence of colon, liver, pancreatic, and endometrial cancers. The American Diabetes Association and American Cancer Society suggest more whole grains, fruits and vegetables and less red and processed meats which reduces the risk.

In the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers say postmenopausal women can lower their risk of breast cancer with a diet of whole grains, fruits, vegetables, and flax and sesame seeds (great sources for lignans).

And, red meat and processed meat, because of their processing with nitrates and nitrites, and grilled meats because of the high temperature required in grilling, increase bladder cancer between nearly 20-30% (Cancer).

And another study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, meat consumption contributed ONE POUND per year weight gain. That doesn’t sound like a lot but multiply that times 10 years and you’ve got the beginnings of a chunky monkey.

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