Know The HEALTH FACTS ... Because WEALTH THRU PERSONAL HEALTH is a COMMITMENT... NOT A CHOICE!
The Total Number of Visitors to the site since August of 2006
We are always taught that vegetables are good for the body. But eating vegetables should be learned from the time we learn how to eat! The problem comes with parents who don’t like vegetables and therefore don’t teach kids to eat them.
With the rising trend of obesity, we try to resort to anything that will give us a quick fix to this problem BUT the truth is… there will never be a quick fix. With the theory behind the Vegetarian Diet…it is really a healthy option and one alternative I’ll recommend to everyone who wants to lose weight!
So what do we know of eating vegetables and weight loss?
A study conducted by Cancer Reasearch UK from the EPIC Project looked at dietary habits of around 22,000 subjects and studied them over a 5 year period.
The findings are interesting:
People who ate meat and continued doing so in the next 5 years gained more weight than those who switched to becoming vegetarians. The meat eaters gained around 2 kilos while the vegetarians gained only 0.5 kilos.
As I’ve mentioned in my previous post on High Protein Diet regarding protein sources, protein from vegetables definitely has lesser fat and calorie content than protein coming from a meat source. It is therefore understandable as to why a diet fully on vegetables will have its advantages!
- The high fiber content of vegetables make you feel fuller faster and therefore you eat lesser quantities of food and lose weight.
- The fat and calorie content is lesser and therefore you don’t gain weight and stay slim!
So there you go guys, eat all the greens you like and you’ll never go wrong!
Stay Slim…Go For Veggies!
That Health Rules 
August 31, 2006 at 3:27 pm
Everybody wants to be healthy but only a few are actually doing something to stay healthy. Veggies help us stay healthy. I don’t think we really have to go vegetarian all the way, but we should incorporate it in our diet. My mom makes sure to include veggies in our everyday menu. Being healthy includes taking time to plan meals, and avoiding those foods we know are bad for us. I’m not a vegetable lover myself, but I eat veggies because I know my body needs it. My body would love me for that.
August 31, 2006 at 8:06 pm
i dont want to eat vegetables since birth but i want to lose weight.. my loved ones always tell me to eat vegies… its good for the skin, health.. etc.. i dont know why my taste buds cant take it… i feel like eating a leaf.. thanks to your blog doc gerry and the help of my special someone, they help me eat vegetables… i dont like to be fat… and i want to be healthy.. i dont want to eat meat all the time…
August 5, 2007 at 12:11 am
very interesting
big brandy pizza sausage big candy pizza sausage
January 13, 2010 at 10:33 pm
It would be good if you plan to write a bit more about this. I enjoy your standpoint. I’m going to pass a bit of time looking around your site.Really good post.
February 18, 2010 at 4:24 am
Keep up the great work!.
March 3, 2010 at 5:09 am
Also eat raw stuff like celery, cucumbers, carrots etc. it is as simple as this.
November 27, 2011 at 1:04 pm
I was doing this vegetarian diet and I loss 5 kilos in less than a month=)