In recent years there has been phenomenal growthinterest in obtaining protein from a vegetable source, rather than from the products of animal origin. More and more people, both young and old, want to return to a simpler way of life, and seek to preserve health through a vegetarian diet. Next Yale University students prefer soy burgers, salads and pastries from unprocessed flour.

Recent scientific studies have shown that children,adolescents, adults and the elderly may well be content with a vegetarian diet, and make sure that it's actually healthier eating meat. Excessive consumption of meat is the main cause of the high mortality from cardiovascular disease and stroke, which claim the lives of so many people living today in North America. In the United States alone each year happens to one million heart attacks, which kills 600 thousand people. The Commission, whose purpose - to stop the spread of these diseases, believes that to maintain cholesterol at a safe level to health, one should get out of the saturated fat less than 10 percent of calories. The mean intake of fat close to 40-50 percent! The Commission recommends to eat cereals, fruits, vegetables and legumes, and especially advises to avoid egg yolk, bacon, pork fat and visceral fat.

However, some mothers continue to think,if their families must eat meat to be strong and physically strong. A number of tests and surveys clearly showed that vegetarians are stronger and fitter, have more vitality and more quickly restore power after a tiring work.

One such test, not so long ago widelypublicized health and nutrition magazines, was devoted to checking nine endurance athletes cyclists. Prior to this test, each held on a special diet for three days. One diet had a lot of meat protein and the other was a mixture of various conventional products, the third diet consisted mainly of vegetable and cereal products, as well as carbohydrates. In the experiment attended by athletes of the same class to the difference in the constitution could not be explained by any other factor other than nutrition. At first, the athletes were fed mainly meat diet, rich in protein, after which they pedaled non-stop for 57 minutes. After the usual mixed diet to which they were put after a few days of rest, they were able to pedal has 114 minutes. A diet high in vegetable and grain products, excluding meat and gave them nearly three times more energy than a diet high in meat and protein foods, they were able to pedal 167 minutes.

Other scientific studies have established a directthe link between food and cancer - the second disease in the United States carried away by the number of lives (including children). In a kilogram of meat roasted on coals, found a huge amount of benzopirina (carcinogen), the same amount contained in the smoke from 600 cigarettes. Mice fed benzopirinom, developed leukemia and gastric tumors.

Another is a carcinogenmetilholantrin. When the oil is very hot during cooking of meat, formed metilholantrin. In small animals, eating it in large doses, cancer develops. The researchers also gave the mice metilholantrin in small doses, insufficient to provoke their cancer. » But later, when to eat these animals to add a second carcinogen and also in very small doses, enough to form a cancerous tumor, and together they made their sinister business, and in these mice still developed cancer. In other words, a small dose metilholantrina makes animals more sensitive to other carcinogens, increasing the likelihood of their cancer.

Родителям, заинтересованным в сокращении расходов на питание, а также в том, чтобы члены их семьи получали все необходимые для здоровья питательные элементы, следует подумать, как сократить потребление мяса, заменив его блюдами, содержащими растительный белок, а также бобовыми (сушеная фасоль, горох, чечевица), которые следует подавать несколько раз в неделю. Бобовые, содержащие концентрированные источники белка, молено приготовить просто с приправами; из них получаются очень вкусные блюда, когда их сочетают с другими продуктами. Сочетание зерновых и бобовых в одном й том же блюде увеличивает их питательную ценность. В бифштексе, который весит примерно 180 грамм, содержится 700 калорий и только 30 грамм усвояемого протеина (белка). Однако полтора стакана сваренной фасоли содержат такое же количество калорий и в полтора раза больше усвояемого протеина! Кроме того, в фасоли низкое содержание жира и практически полностью отсутствует холестерин.

Of all the soya bean contains the largestthe amount of protein of the highest quality, and the market today offers a lot of soy products. Soy protein is used as a filler or a meat substitute.

All protein needs can be filled with the following products: milk, preferably skimmed, skimmed or soy supplemented with vitamin B₁₂ (2 cups for adults and 3-5 cups for children and teenagers), two or more servings of legumes, nuts, cheese or meat substitutes and four or more servings of whole-grain cereals.