"Jonathan SURE you want to be a vegetarian? Kan he was only 6 months? "Asked Santi to Riana (32). Women who undergo a vegetarian diet since their teens nodded firmly. "What will your daughter be afraid ngagk vitamin or protein deficiency?" Cecar Santi else Riana rewarded with a smile to soothe his friend.
Hmm, is it safe baby who just knows solids (Complementary feeding) underwent a vegetarian diet? Let's further Kulik!
Kind of Vegetarian
Application of a vegetarian diet in force parents to their children could be due to the belief factor (parents hold certain religious teachings), the influence of other family or else because of health reasons.
Basically, there are three kinds of vegetarians, namely:
1. Lacto ovo vegetarian. That is a vegetarian who does not consume animal food sources (meat or fish) but still consume milk and eggs and derivatives products.
2. Lacto vegetarian. That is a vegetarian who apply vegetarian diet plus dairy products only. They do not consume a derivative of milk such as cheese, creamer, yogurt, butter, and eggs, meat or fish.
3. Pure vegetarian (total vegetarian). That is a vegetarian who does not eat animal protein or a side dish at all (not mengasup milk and milk derivatives, eggs, meat or fish).
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Vegetarian diet can actually be done by the baby early. Until the age of 6 months, your baby's nutritional needs are fulfilled by the ASI. Well, once they were introduced to solid foods (from age 6 months), a vegetarian diet can be applied, provided with the right combination.
When parents insist on adopting a vegetarian diet to their babies, should apply lacto ovo vegetarian, lacto vegetarian or not a pure vegetarian. What article? Infants or children are still in the stage of growth.
Compared to other types of vegetarians, lacto ovo still quite 'loose'. Because children can still eat eggs, milk and other dairy products - except for meat and fish - so they will not lack substance essential for the body, such as essential amino acids.
The Importance of Essential Amino Acids
Told by dr. H. Adi Tagor, SpA, DPH from Pondok Indah Hospital, Jakarta. Essential amino acids needed by humans as a constituent of protein or as a framework for important molecules.
Mengasup essential amino acids in a balanced manner beneficial to babies to help shape and integrate the membrane cells, make antibodies (immune system), align the enzymes and hormones, repairing damaged tissues, boost brain function, or spur muscle coordination.
Well, essential amino acids can not be produced by the body so must mengasup food from outside. Foods rich in many essential amino acids found in animal protein sources such as meat, fish and eggs. Of course, if the baby underwent lacto ovo vegetarian diet, he can get the complete amino acid requirement through the egg and milk, as well as other vegetable sources (beans, soybeans, avocados, cereal, rice (paddy), wheat and beans sun) .
Accompanied by ASI
Unfortunately, when the infant underwent pure lacto vegetarian or vegetarian, could be a baby will experience a shortage of these essential amino acids. WHO (World Health Organization) revealed that proteins of animal origin such as milk, meat, eggs, cheese, and poultry contain amino acids in sufficient concentration. While proteins that are in the content of vegetables have a limited degree.
Except, little remained of mother's milk until age two years and he shall not be deprived of essential amino acids in breast milk because abortion is complete.
Even so, when Moms want to adopt a vegetarian diet to children from infancy, bijaklah choose the right kinds of vegetarian since the baby still in the process of growth and development. Instead, children do not immediately introduced to a pure vegetarian.
Talk To the Doctor
The data also revealed that infants who underwent a pure vegetarian diet, susceptible to the risk of infection in childhood - was found particularly in areas that are still "dirty or rundown."
Because the antibody levels in the body of a baby or child who underwent pure vegetarian is still far behind compared to children who are non-vegetarians.
There is also concern that vegetarian children vulnerable to iron deficiency. For example for a difficult infant or child to eat vegetables.
Therefore, when Moms want the baby to become vegetarian, had to learn all about baby nutrition and regular inspection to the doctor to determine if the child has enough nutrients or not.
Vegetarian, Better After Age 6 Years
Many studies have confirmed that being a vegetarian since early will bring further gains in the adult (above 30 years). Threat risk of heart disease, stroke and kidney disease very rarely found in people who apply vegetarian.
However, please note, the golden child growth (golden age period) lasts until the age of 3 years. That's when the child develops the optimum growth which reached 80 percent of brain development. Furthermore, children up to age 6 years, he will experience a period of brain assembly (formation of the brain).
dr. Adi suggested, if there is no obstacle, the trust or a particular establishment, parents should apply the four healthy food and five perfect until your child is 6 years old because it deals with development of the child who really need the content of essential amino acids for the formation of his brain.
Well, after 6 years of age children, only then can direct the child's Moms if you want to be a lacto ovo vegetarian, lacto vegetarian or pure vegetarian.
Stay Healthy and Active While Vegetarian
There are only two prerequisites to make your baby a healthy vegetarian and active:
1. Undergoing lacto ovo vegetarian diet, not a pure vegetarian. Combine well with the food menu includes eggs, milk and derivative products, groups of grains, vegetables, fruits, and nuts.
2. Facilitate your child with the milk until the age of two years if adequate milk production Moms. If not, give him milk formula or soy milk formula because the content of infant formula has now been satisfied with the essential amino acids.
Source : http://lifestyle.okezone.com/read/2010/11/12/195/392819/kecil-kecil-sudah-vegetarian
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Nutritional science is developing very rapidly, making more and more methods of diet offered to the public. So, how effective these methods and how they affect the health aspects. For this reason Nutritional Science Student Association held a National Seminar Undip, located in Building Prof. Soedarto Tembalang (8 / 03) with the theme: "Healthy Diet for Healthy Life". National Seminar on this as a form of participation of Nutrition Science Program Faculty of Medicine, Diponegoro University to commemorate the national nutrition that falls on January 25.
Speakers at the seminar, lecturer Dra.Diana Rosmawati Psychology, psychologists, Setyaningrum Rahmawati, S. M. Kes ST from UMS, Professor of Nutrition Prof.dr.HM. Sulchan, MSc Nutr DA, SpGK. Third speaker was moderated by dr. Niken Puruhita MMedSc, SpGK.
In his presentation, Setyaningrum expose some popular dieting methods, namely: food combining, blood type diet, and vegetarian. "The most prominent of food combining is not advisable to eat rice, side dishes, vegetables, and fruit at once in an hour of eating. While the blood type diet may give clues on the type of disease susceptibility of certain body, so it can find a suitable diet to prevent disease. While vegetarianism is not the concept of losing weight, but more in terms of health "he explained.
Meanwhile, Prof. Sulchan describes the influence of individual genetic variation in response to food ingredients. "Diet is individualized, he said. Although humans are genetically have up to 99.9% of all humans still leaves 0.1% which is the distinguishing differences between individuals. In other words, what works for one may not be suitable for others. "Diet can not be mass, but personally," added Prof. Sulchan.
The seminar was quite successful, because the targeted number of participants was only 350 people who attended as many as 683 people. Visible when the sight of people exiting participant question and answer session, marked by many participants who ask questions to each speaker.
In the end, the seminar aimed to move people more careful in choosing an effective method ynag diet. The next expectation is, the community can respond and apply the diet to achieve and maintain desired weight with a true and correct.
Source : http://www.manunggal.undip.ac.id/index.php?pilih=news&mod=yes&aksi=lihat&id=7
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Global warming is nothing strange for us and is an issue that can open the eyes of all inhabitants of the earth for more attention where he lived, perhaps including us. In this case, the issue of global warming is not just struggling a scientific matter, he also played in terms of economics, sociology, geopolitics, to the lifestyle. Unfortunately, though has been detected since the beginning, this issue just got wide coverage in the 1990's. In Britain, The Times and the Guardian to discuss this issue only since 1989 - but still struggling a matter of scientific debate.
So what to do with global warming vegetarian? Before we know the connection with the prevention or vegetarian one way to minimize the damage that big, we should know what it is vegetarian. Vegetarian own term was created in 1847. Was first formally used on September 30 that year by Joseph Brotherton and others, at Northwood Villa, Kent, England. It was the inaugural meeting of the Vegetarian Society UK. This word comes from the Latin vegetus, which means the whole, healthy, fresh, live, (not connected with 'vegetable-Arian' - the myth of human life that is imagined entirely from vegetables but no nuts, fruits, grains, etc. .) Prior to 1847, those who do not eat meat are generally known as 'Pythagorean' or follow the 'Pythagorean System', according to Pythagoras 'vegetarian' of ancient Greece. The original definition of 'vegetarian' is with or without eggs or dairy products and this definition is still used by the Vegetarian Society today. However, most vegetarians in India exclude eggs into their diet, as well as those of the classical Mediterranean lands, as an example of Pythagoras. (Quoted from wikipedia)
Vegetarian and Global Warming
Apparently, the vegetarian can help us save the earth, even though no direct effect but at least we can slow the damage is greater. There are many reasons a person becomes a vegetarian, started from because he is an animal lover (Animal's Sake), Life is more colorful, such as vegetables and bauh fruits colorful, want to live / healthy for longer, weight stable, efficient and it is a benefit that can dirasaka immediately by Veg, but indirectly a vegetarian also help prevent global warming. Perhaps there are those among us who think why not, why vegetarians can prevent global warming? Would not like to eat vegetarian foods derived from plants, which also means that eventually damage the crop, causing global warming. Questions and questions that sound dilemma but apparently not, even from the statements and questions that we can affirm that vegetarians can prevent global warming.
Based on the facts revealed by FAO in 2006 explained that the meat is a commodity highest emitter of carbon dioxide (20%). It even exceeded the total combined emissions from all vehicles in the world. As it turns out livestock industry has resulted in 9% of toxic carbon dioxide, 65% nitrooksida, and 37% methane gas. In addition, the livestock industry also requires a lot of energy to turn livestock into meat ready for consumption. To produce 1 kg of meat just for example, produced 36.4 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions.
Also Vegetarians also can save energy, in which current or future energy becomes very expensive and the more energy is used it will also contribute to global warming (global warming). Currently, energy and food crisis spread to the entire face of the earth. One was to save energy by becoming vegetarian or at least reduce the sources of animal foods. As described above, raw animal foods require more energy consumption in the production and supply than plant foods. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, to make one handfuls of hamburger, for example, requires at least 1300 gallons of water. So, do not be surprised if the food products of animal and junk foods require more energy than by cultivating vegetables, fruit and beras.PP
You may wonder what part of the livestock sector which accounts for greenhouse gas emissions. The following outline according to FAO: a. Carbon emissions from the manufacture of animal feed: The use of fossil fuels in the manufacture of fertilizers contribute 41 million tonnes of CO2 each year, use of fossil fuels on the farm accounted for 90 million tonnes of CO2 per year (eg, diesel or LPG), transformation of land used for livestock contribute 2.4 billion tons of CO2 per year, including here the land is converted to grazing livestock, land that is converted to plant soybeans as animal feed, or the clearing of forests for farm land, carbon released from land cultivation for animal feed (eg maize , wheat, or soybeans) can reach 28 million of CO2 per year. You need to know, at least 80% of the soybean harvest and 50% of the world's corn crops used as animal feed, carbon released from grasslands into deserts because of eroded contributed 100 million tons of CO2 per year 2. Carbon emissions from animal digestive system b. Carbon emissions from livestock: Methane is released in the digestive process of animals to reach 86 million tons per year, Methane released from animal manure to reach 18 million tons per year.
From the above description, you can see the amount of the contribution of greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming resulting from each component of the livestock sector. Now is our turn to be able to take a stand to keep our earth remains good down to our descendants later or we just want our descendants will feel the results of what we have done previously. There is no harm in trying because besides our bodies can be healthy, we also remain healthy earth for us to live without feeling anxious.
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Salad is the easiest food is made and the many variations. Both in terms of texture, color, and flavor. In addition, there are pleasant sensation that we can feel when eating it. Cold, crisp, and fresh!
Another bonus, eating a salad every day also will give us four health benefits, such as:
Provide fiber intake. Eating foods high in fiber will help lower cholesterol and prevent constipation or indigestion. Barbara Rolls, PhD, author of The Volumetrics Eating Plan, add eating more fiber will help us feel more full so that we be eating less. And that means very good for weight loss programs.
Dredge the healthy benefits of fruits and vegetables. Many experts agree if we need to add daily servings of fruits and vegetables we. David Joacobs, PhD, professor of Public Health at the University of Minnesota declared a lot of evidence that fruits and vegetables have higher nutrient content so it can provide a great contribution in maintaining overall health.
If we include a green vegetable salad lovers, we will obtain a high intake of antioxidants, like vitamin C, E, folic acid, lycopene, and beta carotene, especially if raw. Antioxidants are substances that can help protect our bodies from damage due to exposure to free radicals. Studies from the National Cancer Institute found that if our diet rich in fruits and vegetables, it will reduce our risk of cancer in the head and neck.
Cut calories and increase satisfaction. If our goal is to lose weight, start eating rituals by eating 'green salad'. A study shows eating low-calorie menu, such as salad vegetables with 150 calories or less, able to increase the satisfaction or the feeling of satiety and cut the total number of calories you should consume during a meal. Motto 'bigger is better', but the meaning of this motto is the volume of salad rather than the number of calories. So, add the vegetables and reduce the number of dressings and knick-knacks that other fatty.
Getting a good intake of fat. Eating less fat properly, such as monounsaturated fats that exist in olive oil, avocado or nuts, along with vegetables will help your body absorb phytochemicals that can protect the body better, such as lycopene from tomatoes and lutein from dark green sayutan.
A recent study from Ohio State University to measure how well the phytochemicals are absorbed by the body when people eat a salad of lettuce, carrots, and spinach, together or not with 2 ½ tsp avocado. As a result, avocado eaters absorb 8 times more alpha-carotene and beta carotene many 13 times more, than the group who ate salad without avocado. And both of these nutrients believed to help us protected from the causes of cancer and heart disease.
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According to Dr. Henry Chang N.D. Ph.D., it is worth taking a look at the four food groups which will help us select the variety of foods we need for a proper diet. We must remember : a healthy diet is one that is high in nutrients and low in fat, cholesterol, sugar, and salt.
It should also be mostly unprocessed.
Four Food Groups :
1. Meat substitutes : as vegetarian, we can use gluten, tofu, tempe
2. Natural milk and milk products
3. Fruits and vegetables
4. Grains, nuts, cereals, and cereal products
Our meals must be carefully selected from the four food groups. They should be attractively prepared, following proper cooking times for different foods, and sanitations procedures, to avoid food poisoning. As much as possible, eat fresh fruit and vegetables.
There are many cooking tips we can keep in mind about preparing healthy meals. Here are some of them :
Avoid frying food. It is better to boil (in just a little liquid), broil, or bake.
Substitute salt with herbs and spices to enhance flavor. Try lemon juice in some dishes.
Avoid additives with artificial coloring, and food artificially sweetened with saccharin.
Avoid saturated fat and cholesterol from hard cheese, coconut and palm oils. They increase the risk of heart diseases. To play it safe with cholesterol, check its level in your blood periodically. It should be 160 fr young adults and 200 for middle-aged people. Remember : all kinds of fat may increase the risk of bowel and breast cancers.
When snacking, eat fruit instead of sweets which are full of “empty calories” that squeeze more nutritious foods out of diet. Avoid snacks close to meal time so they will not interfere with your appetite for meals.
Avoid or minimized processed foods such as biscuits, white breads, etc., because they are high in additives.
The secret of eating healthy is to eat a variety of foods in the right proportions, and to prepare them properly.
Adapted and Quoted from Longevity Through The Organic Lifestyle
You can create delicious vegetarian cakes, cookies, custards, and other desserts without the use of eggs. Use them as guides and vary flavorings to make your own specialty cakes. Often the texture of the cake will depend more on how you mix the various ingredients than on how you replace the eggs. If you have your own favorite recipes and don’t know how to replace the eggs, here are some suggestions:
Agar-Agar flakes or bars are particularly effective in cheesecakes and in some ice creams, cakes, and pies. Gives a jelled effect that can substitutes for gelatin and eggs.
Arrowroot or Cornstarch mixed with liquid is particularly good as thickener and excellent in puddings and custards that have to be firmed up in the refrigerator.
Baking Powder will often achieve the desired effect if more leavening is required. If baking powder is not called for in recipe, add 1-2 teaspoons (4 – 8 g) in place of eggs. If it is called for in the recipe, you can sometimes add an extra teaspoon if you have removed an egg.
Egg Replacer is available in most health food stores. Follow directions in package to replace eggs. It is quick and convenient, but not necessarily more effective (and often less so) than many of the other techniques for replacing eggs.
Evaporated or Condensed Milk : Use 1/4 cup (2 fl oz or 60 ml) for every egg, plus 1/4 teaspoon (1.1 g) baking soda or baking powder according to recipe directions. Beat well with an electric mixer. This tends to work well in butter cakes. It does not work as well in cakes containing syrup, honey, or oil. Both evaporated and condensed milk can also be used effectively to make ice cream.
Extra Liquid works well in some recipes, particularly cookies. Simply adding a little extra milk or water to the ingredients does the trick.
Flax Seed : Soak 5 tablespoons (2 1/2 oz or 75 g) of flax seed in 5 cups (1 1/4 qt or 1 1/4 L) of water for an hour, then simmer for 2 minutes. Strain and store in the refrigerator. Or grind 3 tablespoons (1 1/2 oz or 45 g) of flax seeds with 1/2 cup (4 fl oz or 125 ml) water in the blender and process about 30 seconds. Add to muffins or quick breads. Does not hold up well under heat but can be beaten and used the way egg whites are used in meringues.
THe microwave method or preparing flax seed is to combine 1 tablespoon (1/2 or or 15 g) of flax seed in a 2-cup (2-L) measuring cup. Microwave, uncovered, on full power until the seeds begin to dance and mixture boils. Continue to boil for 2 or 3 minutes until the mixture has been reduced to about 3/4 cup (6 fl oz or 180 ml). Scoop the mixture into a blender and grind for about 1 minute to break up the seeds. Strain. (It’s ok if some seeds get through the strainer.) You’ll have about 2/3 cup (5 fl oz or 160 ml) or the mixture. Refrigerate for at least 15 minutes before using, or cover and store refrigerated for up to two weeks. Use 1/4 cup (2 fl oz or 60 ml) of the mixture to replace 1 whole egg or 2 egg whites.
Lemon Juice or Vinegar : Adding 1 tablespoon (1/2 fl oz or 15 ml) lemon juice to 1 cup (8 fl oz or 250 ml) of milk called for in the recipe, in combination with baking powder or baking soda, will usually lighten the cake. Adjust your liquid accordingly. About 1 egg equals 1/4 cup (2 fl oz or 60 ml) liquid.
Liquid Lecithin combined with water can be used in some quick bread and muffin recipes.
Self-Rising Flour can be used in all kinds of baked goods, but be careful about overheating. It will sometimes collapse when cooled.
Tofu can be used to replace egg, particularly in sweet and savory pies, savory loafs, muffins, and quick breads.
Yogurt : About 2 tablespoons (1 oz or 30 g) yogurt in place of 1 egg works particularly well in muffins and some cakes, but does not hold up well to heat.
Yogurt Cheese can be use as a substitute for eggs in some custard pies and cheesecakes. It is good in savory custard pies.
Quote from The Green Way To Healthy Living
Vegetarianism is the practice of following a plant-based diet including fruits, vegetables, cereal grains, nuts, and seeds, mushrooms, with or without dairy products and eggs. A vegetarian does not eat meat, including red meat, game, poultry, fish, crustacea, and shellfish, and may also abstain from by-products of animal slaughter such as animal-derived rennet, found in some cheeses, and gelatin. Vegetarians may consume these or other unfamiliar animal ingredients unknowingly, however.
Vegetarianism may be adopted for ethical, health, environmental, religious, political, cultural, aesthetic, economic, or other reasons, and there are a number of vegetarian diets. A lacto-vegetarian diet includes dairy products but not eggs, an ovo-vegetarian diet includes eggs but not dairy products, and an ovo-lacto vegetarian diet includes both eggs and dairy products. A vegan diet excludes all animal products, such as dairy products, eggs, and usually honey.
Semi-vegetarian diets consist largely of vegetarian foods, but may include fish or poultry, or other meats on an infrequent basis. Those with diets containing fish or poultry may define "meat" only as mammalian flesh and may identify with vegetarianism. A pescetarian diet, for example, includes "fish but no meat". The common use association between such diets and vegetarianism has led vegetarian groups such as the Vegetarian Society to state diets containing these ingredients are not vegetarian, because fish and birds are animals.
Varieties of vegetarianism
There are a number of types of vegetarianism, which exclude or include various foods.
Ovo-lacto vegetarianism includes animal products such as eggs, milk, and honey.
Lacto vegetarianism includes milk but not eggs.
Ovo vegetarianism includes eggs but not milk.
Veganism excludes all animal flesh and animal products, including milk, honey, eggs.
Raw veganism includes only fresh and uncooked fruit, nuts, seeds, and vegetables.
Fruitarianism permits only fruit, nuts, seeds, and other plant matter that can be gathered without harming the plant.
Su vegetarianism (such as in Buddhism), excludes all animal products as well as vegetables in the allium family (which have the characteristic aroma of onion and garlic): onion, garlic, scallions, leeks, or shallots.
Macrobiotic diets consist mostly of whole grains and beans.
Strict vegetarians also avoid products that may use animal ingredients not included in their labels or which use animal products in their manufacturing e.g. cheeses that use animal rennet (enzymes from animal stomach lining), gelatin (from animal skin, bones, and connective tissue), some sugars that are whitened with bone char (e.g. cane sugar, but not beet sugar) and alcohol clarified with gelatin or crushed shellfish and sturgeon.
Individuals may describe themselves as "vegetarian" while practicing a semi-vegetarian diet. In other cases, they may simply describe themselves as "flexitarians". These diets may be followed by those who reduce animal flesh consumed as a way of transitioning to a vegetarian diet or for health, environmental, or other reasons. The term "semi-vegetarian" is contested by most vegetarian groups, which state that vegetarians must exclude all animal flesh. Semi-vegetarian diets include pescetarianism, which includes fish and sometimes other seafood; pollotarianism, which includes poultry; and macrobiotic diets consisting mostly of whole grains and beans, but at times may include fish.
