One Week Vegetarian for the Dolphins

I usually refrain from meat at breakfast and most dinners. Still a full vegetarian diets have lots of benefits:

-you can eat a lot of food! As long as it's not processed, fruits and veggies are low calorie and high in water. They make you feel full with less.

-their Multi-Vitamins with flavor. There are substrates in natural foods that science has no idea how they work or how they benefit us. Among these are phytochemicals and phytonutrients.

-you claim the high moral ground. Cows and chickens smile as you walk by. And every time you order a salad somewhere deep in the ocean a dolphin smiles.

-vegetables are cheap. This leaves more money for the new wardrobe you'll need.

So I like many of us I also need to increase my whole grains and vegetables. Really to change our numbers we need about a month of healthy eating. Going without meat for a while does help us become aware to the other options out there.

The take away is we need more than twice as many carbs as protein. And animals protein also carries with it lots of fat. Vegetable Proteins have fiber and very little fat. (caution: supplement with B12, Iron, Vitamin C and D to be safe)
There's a lot of sad unhealthy vegetarians also, their eating highly processed and generic chemical foods. Vegetarian doesn't equal healthy.

If your going to try this remember, you have to eat a lot. A 150lb person need to eat 200 cups of field greens daily to meet their minimum daily caloric requirement. That's about 20 baskets!