I say it out loud and share the fact i might stay to it.
A vegetarian diet helps prevent cancer. Studies show death rates from cancer in vegetarians are 25 to 50 percent lower than the general population’s cancer-death rates. Breast cancer rates are dramatically lower in countries where typical diets are plant-based. When women from those countries adopt a Western, meat-based diet, their rates of breast cancer soar. Vegetarians also have significantly lower rates of colon cancer than meat eaters. Colon cancer is more closely linked to meat consumption than any other dietary factor.
Firstly, they are lower in fat and higher in fibre than meat-based diets. But other factors are also important. Plants contain other cancer-fighting substances called phytochemicals, such as betacarotene and lycopene, and vegetarians usually consume more of these plant pigments. This might help explain why they have less lung and prostate cancers. Other studies have suggested diets low in dairy produce may reduce the risk of prostate and ovarian cancers.
Some anticancer properties of a vegetarian diet have not yet been fully explained. For example, researchers are not quite sure why vegetarians have more NK cells, white blood cells called natural killer cells, which are able to seek out and destroy cancer cells.
http://nutrition.suite101.com/article.cfm/health_benefits_of_a_vegetarian_diet
I have also been to the health shop and got Vitamin C and Antioxidants Nutrients and Echinacea.
I tried to buy a vegge cook book but Waterstones only had one and another shop didnt have any.
So I have ordered the BBC Vegiterian cook book on-line from the BBC Shop.
Way loves his meat so this is going to be hard as the dog as well will be having meat--I will drowl as i cook it.
We had a good time in Canterbury shopping today which made a change as Im normally on hospital appointments and havent got the time to slowly walk around the shops.
We went to Tesco's on the way home and stocked up with vegetables and noodles etc.
For dinner Ray had Chicken Korma and I had noodles and mixed vegetables all with a stir fry sweet and sour sauce.
We shall see how I go.
