From a very young time, we are fed non-vegetarian food, with education that it is good for health, it is nutritious, and a necessity etc etc. But is it true ? Are the promises of advertisers & so called modern scientist true. Do we really need a non-vegetarian diet? The answers to these questions are explained below to give an insight into the benefits of the vegetarian lifestyle. This is an initial piece of content, with more in depth analysis and explanations in the coming future.

Many people never even consider following a strict vegetarian diet but are usually unaware of the many health benefits that would follow if they stopped eating meat. Simply put a vegetarian is someone who don’t eat any meat, poultry, or fish products. A vegetarian diet consists mainly of fruits, vegetables, and legumes, while being supplemented with nuts, seeds, and grains. People become vegetarian for many reasons including health, personal beliefs, culture, or circumstance. Typically people who are vegetarians are healthier than their meat eating counterparts and enjoy a body that processes food much more efficiently.

One of the main benefits of being vegetarian and eating vegetarian food is the improvement on general health. Those eating vegetarian are at a lower risk of developing a variety of ailments and diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and high blood pressure. The average vegetarian diet is low in fat and high in fiber, which is really good for the body. However, vegetarians need to plan ahead in order to ensure they are consuming the proper amounts of vitamins, nutrients, fats, proteins, and carbs in order to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

The benefits of eating vegetarian food are especially important regarding those who are overweight or suffer from heart issues. Red meat and processed meats are high in saturated fat, which has a negative impact on cholesterol and can increase the risk of heart disease. Studies have shown that people who consumer high amounts of meat, especially non-lean red meats, have a much higher chance of experiencing health problems related to unhealthy heart function and are more likely to have a heart attack. Basically, eating a vegetarian is great for your heart and will ensure you live longer and healthier.

Other health risks, such as the risk of contracting certain cancers, are also increased through diets high in red and processed meats. High consumption of meat is directly correlated towards prostrate, breast, colon, and gastric cancer. The hormones in your body, which act as cancer promoting agents, are artificially boosted when a lot of red meat and fatty foods are consumed. Therefore those who decide to eat strictly vegetarian are less exposed to cancerous hormones in the body and have less of a chance of contracting hormone-related cancer. Everyone would benefit from a lower cancer risk and those who are already experiencing health issues should definitely consider following a vegetarian diet.

Another issue with the high consumption of red meat in our society is that raising cattle for beef is detrimental to the environment. There is so much cattle around the world being raised only for beef and milk that the amount of greenhouse gases they release, such as methane, into the atmosphere is more than that released by cars. There is also the issue of chemical run-off, from the hormones that are injected into the animals and then released in their blood and urine, entering freshwater drinking supplies. A large amount of resources are dedicated towards raising these animals where they could be used towards something that would benefit the environment or people. Just recently there are hundreds of thousands of residents in Ohio unable to drink tap water because of an algal bloom in Lake Erie. The cause of this bloom is directly related to the agricultural run-off from livestock farming. Another thing to consider is that millions of animals are being slaughtered daily in order to feed the hundreds of millions of people who eat meat. People are disconnected from this issue because they don’t see it occurring but the fact is that innocent animals are dying every second for a useless purpose. Eating vegetarian is not only a healthy choice but also promotes a healthier environment. If more people decided to pursue a vegetarian diet there would be less issues in the environment around us and more land could be freed up for beneficial, rather than detrimental, purposes.

Many studies have shown that people who eat vegetarian diets are thinner than people who eat meat on a daily basis. When you’re eating vegetarian foods it’s a lot harder to consume the same high amount of calories than if you were eating meat. One steak can have anywhere from 300-500 calories but it’s very difficult to eat that same amount of calories in vegetables and legumes. It’s also easier to prepare vegetarian foods and meals can be made with a lot less effort. Many vegetarian choices don’ even need to be cooked and that frees up a lot of time for people who already have busy lives.

The benefits of vegetarian food and following a vegetarian diet are countless. Your health and the environment around you will continue to improve as long as you make the correct vegetarian choices and avoid eating meat and processed foods. Those who are vegetarian enjoy less stress in their lives and will live longer and healthier than people who decide to eat unhealthy meat based diet. Start making some vegetarian choices and you will definitely be surprised at how easy it is and how good you feel. Here are some nice vegetarian dishes for you to try at home 

Benefits & Advantages of Vegan Food

1. Weight loss

Weight loss is amongst the most well-known advantages of the vegan diet. And with the restriction of dairy & meat products which are full of calories, this is hardly any surprise. Being a natural diet with least amount of calories, this diet is a perfect lifestyle option for people who want to lose some extra pounds.

2. Get rid of skin conditions

As dairy products like cheese, butter & cream are infamous for worsening eczema, psoriasis, & other skin issues – it’s no surprise that by restricting such foods, an individual’s skin will improve quite considerably. Most people who’ve undertaken the vegan diet have stated that they are able to clear-up of their skin issues & have seen a complete repair of their skin.

3. Zest for life

Most persons who ditch dairy products & meat discover that their low moods & depression have improved significantly. This is due to the fact that most times, a weakly nourished body results in sad, low spirit. In contrast, a well-nourished diet schedule results in a confident, happy state of mind.

4. Plentiful of energy

Tough-to-digest dairy products & cheese and heavy meats may a lot of times leave an individual feeling exhausted and lazy after being consumed. Which is why most people feel drowsy & tired after having their lunch. By dumping such foods & substituting them with fresh vegetables, fruits, legumes & tofu – you’ll be sure that your energy intensities remain continuous for the whole day. So instead of being cranky and tired after coming back to home from your work-place, you’ll find yourself eager to take your pet for a walk or go for an evening stroll instead!

5. Avoids, Treats, & Improves Health Conditions.

Dropping dairy products and meat and substituting them with vegetables, seeds, fruits, nuts, legumes, tofu, etc. is a best way to cure various health conditions. Veganism is best for the treatment of high blood pressure & high cholesterol & to prevent cardiovascular disease, certain cancers, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis in addition to alleviating variety of illnesses & pains like arthritis.

So, is vegan food good for your health? If veganism can avoid and cure chronic disease, help in weight loss, offer incredible energy levels, clear up skin conditions, & enable an individual to improve a zest for life – it is definitely a healthy choice. Won’t you agree? The above five health advantages prove that the vegan food is worth following.

Some delicious vegan recipes for you

As you can see above that vegetarian lifestyle has so many benefits and very easy to practice, we really don’t need non-vegetarian food to survive. The point to note here is that we have to think deeply and question as to what is being taught to us, so that we don’t fall into doing things which we really don’t have to do. There are lot of misconceptions being taught around in this world and people still follow it without really thinking about why they are doing it. Advertisers and Businesses have their own agenda and reasons for pushing certain behaviors or teachings to the masses. We should be careful in dealing with these information and teachings. We need to apply our own intelligence and discretion instead of blindly follow what advertisers and so called scientists are teaching.

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Nowadays, the world has become very fast paced, with people rushing to daily jobs, changing multiple roles and basically absorbed in busy lifestyle. There is hardly any peace inside, people even know it and state they are looking for real happiness but they can’t seem to find it.

The problem starts in misunderstanding that we are the material bodies and happiness can be achieved by satisfying the demands and the needs of the body. But is it really the case, if yes then why there is so much unhappiness, frustrations and quarrels in the world, where everybody is really trying to serve their bodies and extended bodies. The western world has loads of material comforts but still arguably the most unhappy people reside in these countries with plenty of social and individual problems.

So what is the issue here? Why are not everybody happy and satisfied within. What is the missing element? what are the answers to the modern problems in mankind. Have we missed some critical things in our quest for happiness?

If we look into ancient scriptures and bonafide texts of wisdom, we will find that there is sufficient evidence that we are actually not these material bodies. Real lasting happiness can only be achieved by focusing on our real identity and not trying to satisfy the endless demands of the body.

This video lecture by Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa explains the real nature and definition of life. He clearly explains the real nature of the life and how the material body is distinct from life itself and cannot be identified as living organism. Life is distinct from matter.

For complete understanding of our real nature and its real function, watch the full identity series.

Once we know our real nature and function, then we can easily know how to be really happy and satisfied. The path to happiness is very clear once we understand our essence. Going back to timeless wisdom from the scriptures, it is said that the meditation on the holy names can give one inner happiness and contentment. What we hear is very important and it influences our consciousness and the mind as well. When we focus on hearing transcendental sound then it has a purifying action on us and thus enabling us to gradually experience peace and get clarity on actual situation of life. the more we hear the sacred sounds, the more we begin to taste lasting peace, contentment, and experience our anxieties being washed away from us.

Here is a beautiful chant by Jagad Guru Chris Butler for you to hear and meditate upon. You will gradually feel the security and comfort in your heart by hearing this.

By regularly hearing these mantras, you will see that your life will be much calmer and pleasurable. You will experience a new impetus to live life with a purpose and clarity. These sacred sounds are not of this material world, but from the eternal dimension. All important scriptures in the world emphasize the hearing and repeating of the sacred names or sounds of the absolute truth.

So for our own benefit and benefit of others, we should take this advice to our heart and try to add hearing and repeating the holy names to our lives. There are so many examples how by even little time spent on hearing the sacred sounds attentively have helped people immensely and have made significant positive impact in their lives. All living entities can benefit from the sacred sounds, starting from the smallest living entities to the biggest, everyone will benefit from sacred sounds coming from authentic bonafide sources. Hear these sacred sounds and let us know your experiences.

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Almost everyone is trying to be beautiful. Some people are working very hard to try to make their body as beautiful as possible according to the standards of their culture or sub-culture. Some people are trying to become attractive through improving their mind, personality, behaviors, or talents – or through increasing their wealth, fame, or some other opulence. This desire to see ourselves as attractive is so prevalent, that it is difficult for us to imagine ever not wanting this.

Just look at the almost endless amounts of cosmetics, dress and looks enhancing product which directly harm the environment!! So taking care of earth is all connected with ourselves and how we live in the earth. Unless we are peaceful within we cannot have peace outside and hence the earth will remain in trouble.

We will often cause ourselves so much suffering and unhappiness over the course of our lives in the pursuit of beauty and in the fear of being unattractive – but rarely do we ask the question, why?

Why do we feel the need to be beautiful – either by our society’s standards or by anyone’s standards? Why do we seek perfection in beauty even at the cost of sacrificing the earth and its residents?

The answer is actually quite simple – because we believe that our happiness is somehow dependent upon this beauty. We buy into the idea that if we are not attractive, then we will not be able to obtain what we think we need to be happy – love, honor, respect, adoration, attention, etc. We are in a very precarious position when we place our happiness in an image of our self that we must maintain in our mind. For if we are unable to maintain it, and then we will feel our very life is in jeopardy because we believe the source of our happiness is in jeopardy.

The desire to be attractive actually becomes a prison of sorts for many people. We think if only we can be beautiful, we will be happy. So we try in so many different ways to achieve this. But we never actually reach a point where we consider that we have enough beauty because it never actually brings us the happiness we are longing for.

The problem is not that we need to become increasingly more beautiful or to change our mental standards of beauty to make it easier for us to appear beautiful to our self or others. What is needed is for us to recognize that our happiness is not dependent on us appearing beautiful. In fact, is not dependent on anything material. There is no material opulence – beauty, power, wealth, fame, knowledge, artificial renunciation – that can ever bring as the deeply satisfying and completely heartfelt happiness that will truly fulfill us because we are not made of material energy.

According to the ancient yoga scriptures and other bonafide scriptures of the world, we are not the material body or the mind – we are eternal spiritual beings temporarily wearing the material mind and body. The gross physical body can be compared to outer clothes and the mind or subtle energy body can be compared to under clothes. Just as we are not the clothes we are wearing, we are not the material bodies we are wearing either.

It is not even us that we are trying so hard to make beautiful – it is just our external coverings. Material beauty may stimulate temporary, superficial pleasure in the material mind and senses, but it never lasts for long and does not satisfy us because it never actually touches us – the spiritual self wearing these “clothes.” Because we are spiritual beings, we can only be truly happy and fulfilled through connecting with our spiritual Source.

In the ancient yoga system, the recommended method for consciously linking up with our spiritual Source and cultivating the spiritual love and happiness that will completely fulfill us is mantra meditation. A true mantra is not something anyone makes up. It is the Absolute Truth in sound vibration. This spiritual sound vibration descends from the spiritual platform to the material world without losing any of its potency. In mantra meditation, a person hears and chants or sings this spiritual sound and thus is directly linking up with the Supreme.

Through mantra meditation, we begin to taste the sweetness of spiritual happiness. And with ongoing, regular practice, our hearts and minds are gradually purified of material misconceptions. As the false ideas of self fall away, our true nature is revealed and our relationship with the Supreme blossoms.

The more we experience our true nature by hearing these transcendental sounds, the less we feel the need or desire to appear physically beautiful because we realize that our very being is situated in boundless beauty. This beauty – and the deep joy that is inseparable from it – emanates from our spiritual Source and radiates within the hearts of all living beings. Our awareness of it is awakened as we are awakened to our eternal loving relationship with the Supreme. Thus, our life becomes divinely beautiful and joyful not through artificial attempts to beautify it, but through uncovering the beauty and joy that is eternally present within us.

So let’s embrace a better and thoughtful lifestyle. In order to have a good healthy world and people, we need to start taking the little steps to be satisfied ourselves along with simultaneously making an positive impact on the planet. We have to start now or else it’s already too late for creating a better planet for us and the future generations to come. No point spending time on mindless activities which are causing havoc on the world. A wise step although done in small amount will have tremendous impact on the betterment of the world. So let’s take the journey together for an amazing world!