It is no surprise that Asian people live longer. Asian people generally do more with their bodies and also eat leaner meals and more vegetables, fish, and less meat.
Before the portuguese arrived in Japan, Japanese people generally didn't even eat meat at all, only fish.
Asian people sit on the floor or do more with a natural type of living. They are not as spoiled as Western people with comfort and all that.
I believe a large part of the disease is comfort. Call it comfort hugging. People in Western societies are pampered too much for their own good and health. A vegetarian diet is generally a deviation from that, and hence it is inherently healthier:
- vegetables, beans, but mostly also lentils (a missing element of western diets) are not your typical "drinks coke and eats burgers" food, to put it like that. Lentils are extremely healthy. Soy products generally (can be) also, particularly tempeh. Soy isn't perfect in this world, but it is rather good at times. Rice is a product that yields less carbohydrates per gram than does potatoes or meal. Some people that have a disease that causes them to lose weight all the time can't eat rice, because they can't eat enough of it. You can't overeat on rice.
Sitting on the floor is healthy. How many people do you know that sit on the floor at times, even or especially as they get older (adult) ?. Sitting on the floor is good for your legs and back. It is like yoga, a bit. It exercises your back and leg joints and muscles to a greater extent than most sendentary western people do. Most people that I know in my society generally never go below "knee level". This means their knees are never fully used and they always sit in chairs which means their backs are not fully exercised. This is very very unhealthy. It is unhealthy to always be "above the ground" and in beds that are lifted from the ground. From deep experience I can say that.
I am currently wheelchaired and in a regular bed. I hate it. The floor is meant for sitting. We decided somewhere in the past that we would not be like animals and hence would not sit on the floor.
Most vegetables you get from the supermarket these days are of very poor quality. I generally, when I am free and on my own. I even use veggies from can or jar. They are better than the supermarket induced foods these days. Organic shops are sometimes, often, better. I mean fresh foods, of course. The pollution they get from the supermarket (electronical systems, chagrined people, treatment from personnel) make them lose their quality and vitamins (for some, vulnerable products at least).
Prepackaged canned food is better in that case because it is better protected and preserved and obviously canned as fresh as possible.
Then when you treat it (e.g. green beans) with balsamico vinegar and a good black pepper, they restore some of their quality again.
I don't eat vegetarian but I have done so for a long time. I have dropped the "principality" position and just look at what my body needs now.
I am sure don't need the vast amounts of (processed) meats I am presented with nowadays. I maybe digest 5% of their vitamin and nutrition content. So it is 95% bull****, because also I eat too much of it. But there's nothing else. The cheese is of poor quality also, always. But generally better than or different from the meat. I am really dying for some raw veggies but I can't get them.
I believe a lot of people have a lack of potassium.
Meat that is treated with respect is better than western-treated meats. I generally prefer to eat at e.g. an Iraqian food place nearby where I live because at least they love their food and what they do, from long experience and tradition. It is not the feeling of "buy as cheap as possible, produce as horrible as you can". They fry their meat on metal plates etc., it is good.
I never buy meat from the supermarket myself, I don't need so much of it that I can't get enough when I eat out.
Presently my body needs....
Well it doesn't need anything because it is trying to die.
I find it hard-fetched to think of what it needed if that wasn't so.
These foods that I used to want before, don't even produce a glimmer of attraction and hope in me anymore. Eggs, soy milk, tomatoes, raw mushrooms, raw carrots, raw bell pepper, that sort of thing. Bread. Potatoes. Lots of potatoes if I can eat them in a nice way. Contain a lot of potassium. Is good for you. Meat. Good red meat.
But I generally think vegetarianism is a statement that does not agree with what the body really needs. That is to say: it is a mental position, but not a direct experience.
If you follow the direct experience of your truth and your feelings and what your body indicates that it needs and likes, then much of the meat eating we see people do today is obviously much wrong and mistaken, but also the vegetarian or even vegan position is mostly a rational mindset and also not an intuitive thing.
. Greatness. I love it so much. These prospects of elderly age we have