Vitamins
For
being spiritual is good nourishment essential.
The vegetarian,
seeking his joy of life in the non-violent
respect for all living beings, must be more
careful with his diet than a meat-eater. He must
garner his vitamins, proteins and minerals more
than a meat-eater has to. For a piece of meat is
a kind of vitamin-pill. But a piece of meat also
gives toxic waste like ammonia when broken down
in one's digestion and that on its turn gives,
according some studies, cancer of the colon and
problems with e.g. one's vitamine D-household
which regulates the absorption of calcium and
other minerals. When a vegetarian consumes
different kinds of vegetables, cereal, beans,
milk and fruits with a proper alternation and
combined eventually with nuts and seeds as an
extra source of protein, will he suffer no lack
whatsoever (veganists must eat seaweed or
another B12-product, and lacto-vegetarians in
case of a lactose allergy must simply only eat
fermented dairy like cheese). A point of
attention are the fatty acids omega 3 & 6,
good for one's brain, ones immunity, ones
circulation and the growth of cartilage e.g. and
other tissues. They are essentially a kind of
vitamins because they cannot be produced by the
body itself. They are supplied by a cheese
sandwich each day or by one or two table spoons
of linseed oil (or having fatty fish as a meat
eater). Much of the hunger of meat-eaters is
purely a conditioned, fake kind of hunger which
only, with the consumption of sugar and
non-essentail fat, leads to
overweight
and such, and the accompanying welfare-diseases
(of diabetes, heart-troubles etc. ). If one
regularly eats vegetarian food though and even
so now and then for a day takes to a fast on
fruit juice and milk (e.g. once in the fifteen
days with the regularity of the sun and the
moon, see vko),
is one even able to increase one's life span
with five to ten years, so we may conclude from
scientific research data on the
life-expectancies of old-aged vegetarians. Do
not eat too much nor too little and thus be
hearty and hale; a good diet is the key to a
healthy life! For those who doubt the
correctness of these positions taken do we below
present a table offering an overview of all the
essential vitamins. The need for protein, which
for the vegetarian is covered by the consumption
of the complementary proteins of cereal and
beans, is in combination with these vitamins as
you can see also perfectly covered by a diet of
beans, cereal, milk vegetables and fruits, and
with the variegation of the foodstuffs presented
below will you suffer no lack of any kind of
mineral when you regularly eat figs, spinach en
broccoli for your iron. Pills are not needed
thus being a conscientious
vegetarian!
To
your health and happiness!
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Your
vitamins together
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Kind
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Functions
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Found
in
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Deficiency
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Excess
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A
(Retinol)
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Helps
the immune system; slows aging; gives a
good skin, hair, teeth, bones,and
eyesight
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Liver,
green leaf, butter, margarine, egg yoke,
cheese
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Blindness
at night, sores in the mouth, dandruff,
acne, frequent infections
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Headaches,
nausea, dizziness, fatigue and problems
with the eyes, the skin and the
skeleton
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B1
(Thiamin)
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Stimulates
growth; mental resilience; good brain
function, muscles, heart and nervous
system
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Green
leaf, dried yeast, carrots, milk,
whole-wheat bread, beans, meats,
nuts
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Beriberi,
fatigue
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Stomach
ache, headache, allergy
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B2
(Riboflavin)
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Stimulates
growth, good for one's hair, skin and
nails ; needed for reproduction
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Milk
and/or dairy products, eggs, meat, leafy
vegetables, yeast, whole wheat
products
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Sore
mouth, insomnia, burning eyes, flaky skin
at the sides of the nose.
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??
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B3
(Niacin)
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Needed
for the hormones of sexual reproduction;
improves circulation; gives a healthy
skin, nervous system, digestion
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Meat,
vegetables, whole-wheat products, peanuts,
eggs, fish
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Insomnia,
muscular weakness, skin problems, sore
mouth, psychic afflictions
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Vascular
dilation ('flushing'), damage to the liver
and eyes
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B5
(Pantotheen acid)
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Provides
anti-stress hormone; improves the nervous
system, helps with healing
wounds
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Meat,
whole-wheat products, liver, eggs, nuts,
yeast, vegetables
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Depression,
skin problems, fatigue, loss of
appetite
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Diarrhea
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B6
(Pyridoxine)
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Natural
means for urine secretion; lessens nausea,
maintains the immune system, involved with
the nervous system
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Meat,
whole-wheat products, fish, legume,
bananas, yeast, avocado
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Anemia,
dry skin, nervousness, PMS (premenstrual
syndrome)
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Damage
to the nerves in the limbs
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B8
(Biotin)
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Needed
for growth, good skin and hair, and to
supply energy to the body
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Meat,
milk and/or dairy products, eggs,
whole-wheat products, nuts,
rice
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Premature
gray hair, hair loss, depression, serious
eczema
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??
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B11
(Folium acid)
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Needed
for formation of body cells and red blood
cells; prevents spina
bifida
in the fetus.
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Green
leaf vegetables, carrots, liver,
eggs
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Nervousness,
birth defects, gasping, insomnia, bad
memory
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Stomach
and intestine trouble, allergy
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B12
(Cobalamin)
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Needed
for a healthy nervous system, formation of
red bloodcells; concentration, memory and
maintaining one's balance
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Beef,
cheese, milk and/or dairy products, eggs,
fish, meat
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Anemia,
fatigue, painful tongue,
hallucinations
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??
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C
Ascorbine acid)
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Antioxidant;
needed for the absorption of iron; helps
with the healing of wounds; needed for
healthy bones and tissues
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Potatoes,
vegetables, legume, fruit
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Bleeds,
blue spots, lessened immune
activity
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Diarrhea,
intestinal troubles, kidney
stones
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D
(Cholacalciferol)
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Needed
for healthy bones and teeth, the kidney
function, the absorption of important
minerals
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Sunlight,
milk en dairy products, fat fish,
cod-liver oil
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Affected
teeth, osteoporosis, rachitis with
children
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Calcification
throughout the body (not with 'authentic'
D)
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E
(Tocoferol)
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Antioxidant;
slows down aging, provides the body with
oxygen, cures the skin and prevents scar
tissue
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Green
leaf vegetables, vegetable oils halvarine,
margarine, whole-wheat products
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Cataract,
anemia, liver spots, prevents
miscarriage
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Troubled
blood clotting (only in combination with a
vit. K-deficiency)
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K
(Fylochinon)
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Influences
blood clotting; needed for the kidney
function for healthy bones and
teeth
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Yogurt,
alfalfa, egg yoke, sprouts, green leaf
vegetables
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Nose
bleeds or even intestinal bleeds with an
excess of antibiotics used
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??
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This table was also published in HP de Tijd
(a dutch magazine) of 11 Sept.
2005.
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Vitamin F is an obsolete term for the
essential fatty acids omega 3 en 6. A good
cheese sandwich or one or two table spoons of
linseed oil supplies for your daily
need.
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Selenium is an element common in animal
products and is good for one's immune system
and fights the symptoms of aging; it is found
in Brazil nuts (a lot, a few suffices), bread
(10% a slice) and pasta (50% each
meal).
- Beware
of artificial vitamins, they can unsettle
your biochemistry and immune system. The
artificial D in margarine e.g. is known to be
the cause of problems with the calcium
management of the body in case of an excess.
Eat for that reason always natural food
stuff; fresh butter e.g., but do so sparingly
because of the cholesterol in that
case.
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Definitions of different kinds of
vegetarians:
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Ovo-vegetaranism: a form of vegetarianism
eating eggs, but no dairy. For the
production of eggs many male chicken are
shredded.
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Lacto-ovo-vegetarianism: one consumes
dairy products and eggs. This is currently
the most common variety in the Western
world. .
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Lacto-vegetarianism: consume dairy
products but no eggs. One has to take care
of one's protein intake: cereal, beans,
nuts and cheese. Most vegetarians in India
and those in the classical Mediterranean
lands
-Fish-vegetarianism:
they eat like lacto-vegetarians, but also
without the fish; in fact these are no
real vegetarians for they eat cold blooded
animals.
-Veganist:
a form of vegetarianism not consuming
anything of the animal kingdom nor do they
use leather products. These folks have to
mind their vitamin B12 and wear plastic or
linen shoes. They have to consume linseed
oil for their essential fatty
acids.
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Only fruit: the most extreme form of
vegetarianism. People only eating fruit
not only respect animal life, but also
tree and plant life. Therefore they eat
(in the most extreme cases) only fruits
and nuts, which allows trees and plants to
live and because the fruits and nuts were
meant to serve as food. These people have
to consume food supplements in order not
to suffer deficiencies, for fruit only is
too one-sided as a food source, in nature
e.g. become chimpanzees, who only eat
fruits and leaves, after a few days
aggressive and do they kill another monkey
to consume it for their proteins and
vitamins. People have an almost identical
digestive system as monkeys. Gorillas
being purely plant feeders e.g. have to
eat all day through and lick stones to
gather their minerals and other
nutritional substances.
(zie
further the article: "vegetarianism")
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See
wikipedia for more about nutrients.
- Read
more about the
body
and the
spiritual
essence.
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Links:
of the
vegetarian
society,
vegetarisme.nl
and the Order
of Time Linking
Library.
- See
also Bhagavad
Gîtâ chapter
seventeen
about food
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Vegetarian
Recipes and
Resources:
Vegetarianism is especially recommended for
those who want to follow a truly spiritual
lifestyle.
Do
you have to slim down?*
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2006 The
Order of Time:. Noncommercial use
permitted.
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