A Vegetarian Cure for Diabetes?
Recently a college in the United States declared that Monday’s would be meatless day. Again this is an effort to fight the obesity problem in our country. These college students lived on campus and part of the tuition to live on campus, included paying for cafeteria food. The cost to eat on campus each semester is $1300.00 dollars.
The reporters interview two of the students at this college and were told that the school already offered a variety of foods to choose from, including Vegan and Vegetarian items. The two students they interviewed protested by bringing hamburgers to the school and selling them. They told reporters that other students sold chicken from a fast food restaurant and another group of students brought grills and grilled different foods for the other students who wanted their meat.
People can’t live without protein and many Vegan and Vegetarians don’t get enough protein. A friend of mine found out she was diabetic and was about two hundred pounds. She is also about six feet tall, so she didn’t look like she weighed this much. The doctor put her on the pill form of insulin and she took it upon herself to stop eating meat in an effort to control the diabetes, thinking that not eating meat would help repair this condition. It did not.
Two years after she stopped consuming meat, she gained close to two hundred pounds more. Rather than eating meat, she would try to replace that food with unhealthy choices, such as a bag of chips, two huge bowls of cereal and so on. Like many of us, she didn’t like Tofu, which contains high amounts of protein. So, she craved protein, but having made the decision that it was bad for her, she still continued to abstain from it and continued trying to replace the missing nutrient with junk food. Now, two years later, she is having to give herself insulin shots twice a day. Not eating meat did not help her. It made her condition worse. Protein is also the building blocks of muscles. We need it.
Meat and junk food is not our problem and keeping people from eating these things is not going to cure the obesity problem. If a person wants to overeat, they can over eat healthy foods, such as fruits and still become obese. The way to solve the obesity problem is to put home economics back in the classroom and teach our young people how to cook. I’ve discovered that many young people and adults either don’t know how to cook or don’t have time and therefore opt for eating fast food or pre-packaged, microwave ready foods which are high in fat, cholesterol, calories and sodium (for the most part). Another way to solve the obesity situation is to put gym back in schools as a requirement and a nutrition class. Most people do not know that a serving size of meat is 3 to 4 ounces and not one half to a pound of meat.
Educate people. Don’t take away their choices. Those who care will head the advice and look at labels and those who don’t – just don’t.
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