Why do I feel less depressed when I eat vegetables and cut out meat?
Listen to your gut. The gut and the brain are connected. The gut produces more serotonin than the brain! The gut-brain connection - Harvard HealthIf you feel better when you don’t eat meat, spend some time learning about a healthy vegetarian or vegan diet. It takes A LOT of plant food to nourish the body — and it is harder to prepare than throwing a burger into a pan. Learn to love legumes and whole grains!If you don’t eat any animal products, you’ll need to supplement wisely. Things to consider:Vitamin B12 all year roundVitamin D Fall-Spring when you can’t produce it from the sun.The Omega-3 fatty acids EPA & DHA. They generally come from fish, but there are vegetarian supplements that derive them from algae.
If you eat only vegetables, will your poop not stink?
I'm just curious about this because i've noticed that animals who eat meat or protien products, such as dogs and cats and humans often have very foul smelling fecies; however, other animals like rabbits who only eat plant foods do not seem to have terrible smelling poo. I was curious if maybe humans who are vegetarian or who eat very little meat have less foul smelling poop.
If i eat nothing but meat,rice,and vegetables will i lose weight?
No. You can gain weight just eating the vegetables if you eat enough of them. While eating healthy is important, it really has a minimal impact on gaining or losing weight. It will have an impact on whether you loose muscle or fat though. Anyways, you can gain or loose weight on anything. It is all about caloies in vs. calories out. You have to be burning off more calories than you are taking in. While exercise does burn more calories, it also stimulates appetite and you can easily add a couple hundred calories to your diet without knowing unless you are tracking what you are eating. So basically - start tracking how many calories you are eating. It is as simple as that. And you are on the right track with eating protein...your body burns the most calories simply digesting it than carbs / fats. Brown rice would be a better option than white if you don't mind the taste.
Should Americans be eating less meat?
Health-wise, yes, the average American eats too much meat. Moreover the average American is not at all involved in the process of raising and gathering their food, so unscrupulous people have an incentive to sell them foods at the highest possible prices with the lowest possible quality. This applies equally to vegetables and to meats.If people would raise their own animals, most Americans would eat less meat. A typical back yard could support a few chickens, but not a thousand; and when you have to kill and clean a chicken yourself, you accept some of the real cost of putting meat on the table.Meat is an excellent source of nutrition, vegans be damned, it’s the truth. But it is no longer a good food when it is contaminated with toxins and artificially fattened. If the typical American would reduce their meat intake by giving up the hot dogs, pink slime, chicken nuggets, bologna, and other garbage meats and have only a quarter as much meat but of much higher quality, including for instance natural organic grass fed beef and other fine meats, they’d be healthier and their food would taste better, and it wouldn’t cost a cent more than what they’re paying for eating four times as much meat of crap quality.