Section Two........... Vegetables

 Section Two

Vegetables

Nature is full of many kinds of vegetables, some of which enjoy people's interest and admiration, and some of them "live" inundated, hardly any attention to except the few, either because of the cheap price due to its abundance and abundance of production, or because people are ignorant, or ignore, the benefits it contains.

It is self-evident that we say that nature cannot exist without a reason, and that every creature in it, no matter how trivial it is, has its specific role in life, and if our understanding does not reach the knowledge of the role of all creatures in the world, then this is not nature’s fault, but rather it The role of "understanding" that wants - or cannot - know everything. This saying applies to food in general, for each of them has its own characteristics and characteristics, and each of them - accordingly - has a role in securing the causes of life, prevention and treatment for man. And if we want a more specificity - as long as we are talking about vegetables - then we say: that the vegetables constitute a whole an integrated unit of food sources, so each group of them concerns in its entirety an integrated unit of food sources, so each group of them is concerned with certain amounts of vitamins, salts, or other substances . It is necessary for us to know - even briefly - the characteristics of each, in order to make the most of it when we design our nutritional programs.

Vegetables are excellent sources of assimilable mineral salts, water that dissolves minerals and cellulose, vitamins, and these elements - in total 6 they are a means of life, growth and disease prevention.

It is true that among other foods, sources of the aforementioned elements are the same, but their availability in vegetables gives us a wider opportunity to directly satisfy our need of those elements, and are subject to assimilation, containing antacid substances that are very much needed. Therefore, we see that the opinions of (vegetarians) are on a large aspect of health, when they assert that plants, fruits and vegetables, contain all the necessary organic products of man, even if they are mistaken when they claim their mother as the only source.

 The importance of the elements that vegetables include, is that their benefit is more when they are taken as nature created them instead of taking them in the form of canned preparations prepared in laboratories, because natural elements perform their physiological work with the help of other elements that are still unknown, so the balance established by nature in all of its elements, It is not achieved when things that have been made - or acted upon - by human hands enter into these elements. For example, those who drink alcohol, or smoke, abuse their bodies in a way that leads to any benefit - if any, really - while we find this forbidden for natural foods.

It has been proven to science that the benefits of vegetables are much greater than what was estimated, as the cellulose fibers in which they are found are necessary to ensure the functioning of the digestive system, and those with constipation are those who do not eat sufficient quantities of vegetables, whether cooked or raw, and thus their intestines have lost their ability to function normally. I always lost the engine of that ability.

On the other hand, we find that nature has gone in achieving balance to the greatest extent, because the caloric value of vegetables is very small if it is measured with fruits or animal products: one hundred grams of spinach or cabbage gives only 35 calories (calories), and of beans 40 calories, while That this number is many times higher than in fruits or animal products, or if some vegetables are dried.

However, we must have some necessary information about the properties of each type of vegetable - to know - thus how to benefit from it, as there is a belief that cooking vegetables leads to their vitamins and destroys them, but to what extent? This is what we must know, as there are vegetables that bear a degree of Heat cannot be tolerated by another type, and there are vegetables that lose their vitamins once they are peeled, and there are enough vegetables to lose their vitamins to be stored in an inappropriate way.

It has been proven that the traditional method of peeling with a knife goes - without a doubt - with a large number of salts and vitamins found in some vegetables, especially if we tossed aside the water in which we cooked it. On the other hand, the Swiss scientist, "Demol", says that cooking vegetables benefits more consumers because it makes them more able to digest them, especially those whose equipment is unable to digest raw vegetables.

There is a nutritional and therapeutic method at the same time, which requires that cooked and raw vegetables be eaten respectively. It is a particularly useful method for those who complain of chronic diseases in the urinary tract. It reaches the first section of the large intestine, where the fermentation is complete. Eating "thin" vegetables such as parsley and onions irritates digestive juices, thus making it easier to digest other vegetables while raw.

The question now:

Can a person limit his food to plants alone?

Medicine actually advises this in some cases, those cases in which a person suffers from heart or kidney disease, provided that his stomach is able to withstand this color of food, as the doctor must decide that and see his opinion on the types of plants used, because Each of them has certain properties that are useful in specific diseases and conditions. In addition to skin diseases such as urticaria and endemic, chronic eczema, and in cases of gout and arthritis, and in the prescriptions of ancient doctors, we find that they advise plants in acute infections, and modern medicine has supported these prescriptions without reservation, and supported the use of phytotherapy in cases in which drug therapy, especially In diseases of goiter and in some mental disorders that are accompanied by irritation, it also benefits people with sand and stones in the urinary tract and diabetes, but what should always be alerted is that phytotherapy may not be done without the advice of a doctor and his supervision.

However, the confirmed truth in this matter is that the vegetarian diet is not at all suitable for those who engage in physical work, nor children and adolescents, because vegetables cannot provide the necessary nourishment for the growing body, as this body needs amino and fatty citrus fruits, meaty, sugary and nitrogenous substances. And vitamins that are available in vegetables in the necessary quantities. Also, people with pulmonary tuberculosis cannot be satisfied with vegetables alone in their nutrition because the infections they complain about are not calcified by eating vegetables alone, but rather they must have blood rich in vitamins and steroids.

 On the other hand, the increase in plant cellulose in the body increases the chronic irritation of the intestine caused by excessive fermentation, due to the excess of plant waste in the body, so that the excess of cellulose leads to the loss of salts from the body, and the same effect is caused by the large number of carbohydrates among those who spend To eat bread.

The application of a plant-based nutrition system should not be done arbitrarily. Rather, it requires great care in setting and implementing it, care based on knowledge of the body's true needs for food, and then knowledge of the materials that secure and fulfill that need. Moreover, plants are considered very fertile grounds for harmful germs and worm-bearing eggs, and attention must be paid to achieving complete cleanliness in what we eat of vegetables.

 All vegetables are rich in potash, this mineral anti-sodium. If we eat vegetables in abundance, it expels sodium from the urinary system, and this may not have a harmful effect if the food is varied and balanced, so that potash does not cover the sodium, but if this balance is disturbed, the occurrence of damage becomes When that is confirmed. During the last World War, many of the countries in which animal food was lacking was limited to the diet of its citizens when doctors found that the cause was an imbalance between potash and sodium, and that was the reason for many people suffering from debility caused by arterial pressure points, and organic deficit in the adrenal gland (which is What is known as Addison's disease) arising from excess potash and lack of sodium, and this disease may lead to amazing hypotension, and it is common among women who abandoned eating meat completely - in order to preserve their agility - so their hypotension was so strong that the doctors who examined them doubted the safety of measuring devices The pressure they use ..

Another problem caused by the imbalance between potash and sodium, is the problem of dirty skin with dark spots with an alienating look. If we support - in principle - the reduction of animal materials and the use of plant materials, but we are strict in warning that such a procedure must be conscious A warning about what may result in dangers. This awareness requires - always and forever - that we know how we choose our food and how we eat it. For example, eating fruit juice after a night in which a person consumed wine has no benefit because the alcohol in wine destroys all the vitamins in the juice, since it hurts the liver great harm, so what is the benefit of consuming tons of juice rich in vitamins if it is The liver is unable to use it?

So .. the important thing - always and never - is that we have the digestive systems that are able to represent food and benefit from it, before we choose for ourselves the plant or animal system. Then we can set the necessary program in light of the needs, requirements and capacity of our bodies.