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Are You a Flexitarian?
We are all capable of rationalizing anything, including why we don't need to exercise today or why one more helping of food is perfectly fine.
Humans just do that sort of thing naturally. What was interesting was a recent article called Beyond Bean Sprouts by Janelle Waslaski and Jackie Boucher in Diabetes Forecast (10/05). They delineated the several kinds of vegetarianism that exists today.
They go through the kinds we've heard of before:
Vegans -- no animal nor animal byproducts consumed or used;
Lacto-ovos -- they'll eat products like dairy and eggs;
Lactos -- no animals or eggs, but will eat dairy products.
But now comes yet another group: Flexitarians -- they will occasionally eat meat, fish, or poultry but usually not more often than once a week.
The initial thought when reading this article was, "Oh, please. Give me a break. Just admit you can't do without meat and have done with it!"
And then the logic came through: It was not that this group had a problem eating animal flesh, it was that they recognized that their bodies performed better if they didnt eat animal protein. Maybe it was a genetic tendency toward high cholesterol; maybe it was because veggie diets provide a higher insoluble fiber content which is good for keeping diabetes and high blood pressure at bay; the reasons are multifold.
But just sometimes, some '-getarians' have a craving for something with an animal base. It may actually contain an ingredient our bodies need, so you can give in to it without mentally whipping yourself.
And, those of us who occasionally do let animal flesh or byproducts pass our lips now have our own designation: Flexitarians!
Humans just do that sort of thing naturally. What was interesting was a recent article called Beyond Bean Sprouts by Janelle Waslaski and Jackie Boucher in Diabetes Forecast (10/05). They delineated the several kinds of vegetarianism that exists today.
They go through the kinds we've heard of before:
Vegans -- no animal nor animal byproducts consumed or used;
Lacto-ovos -- they'll eat products like dairy and eggs;
Lactos -- no animals or eggs, but will eat dairy products.
But now comes yet another group: Flexitarians -- they will occasionally eat meat, fish, or poultry but usually not more often than once a week.
The initial thought when reading this article was, "Oh, please. Give me a break. Just admit you can't do without meat and have done with it!"
And then the logic came through: It was not that this group had a problem eating animal flesh, it was that they recognized that their bodies performed better if they didnt eat animal protein. Maybe it was a genetic tendency toward high cholesterol; maybe it was because veggie diets provide a higher insoluble fiber content which is good for keeping diabetes and high blood pressure at bay; the reasons are multifold.
But just sometimes, some '-getarians' have a craving for something with an animal base. It may actually contain an ingredient our bodies need, so you can give in to it without mentally whipping yourself.
And, those of us who occasionally do let animal flesh or byproducts pass our lips now have our own designation: Flexitarians!
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