You’ve heard it once, and practice many people worldwide and has become even a ‘philosophy of life’ could be vegetarianism. His followers seek to guide their food to be in harmony with nature, avoiding whenever possible any food product adulterated. Foods classified into two categories: Yin and Yang, noting that there must be a balance between them. To achieve this, they use a numerical scale. But what is proposed by this diet?
- Remove food industry.
- Remove the meat from the diet and reducing consumption of fish.
- Use vegetable oil or water for cooking, always make vessels of clay or iron and season with sea salt foods, no refined or enriched.
- Do not consume or fruits and vegetables treated with chemical fertilizers.
- Avoid products of distant origin to the place of residence.
- Avoid vegetables such as potatoes, tomatoes and eggplants.
- No spicy food flavoring or chemical ingredients.
- Only drink tea, never coffee.
- Do not eat meals.
- Reduce intake of fluids.
– Chew each bite at least 50 times.
Over time this diet eventually leads to deficits of some nutrients such as protein, calcium, vitamins … thus causing serious health problems. Some of the most common diseases among those who practice this diet are: anemia, scurvy, hypoproteinemia and hypocalcemia.