What happened to those people who used this method to “starve” cancer cells to death?

"I will never dare to eat only vegetarian food again" This is what a relative who had just been discharged from the hospital said to us.

This relative has always been in good health, except for some mild hypertension. Hypertension is a chronic disease that requires a light diet. Some of the relatives' friends are vegetarians, and because of this and for their own health, they have also been vegetarians for 6 years.

In the first few years of becoming a vegetarian, I didn't feel any discomfort.

But unexpectedly, in the past two years, my relative has often felt weak and dizzy, and his spirits are not as good as before.

At first I thought it was due to uncontrolled high blood pressure, so I paid more attention to eating less oil and less salt.

Until the symptoms became more serious, I went to the hospital for treatment and found out that the cause was severe anemia, with hemoglobin only 60g/L (the normal value for women is 110-150g/L).

The reason is long-term vegetarian diet.

Not only these elderly people with chronic diseases are obsessed with "eating vegetarian food for health", but some cancer patients also attempt to "starve" cancer cells to death with extreme vegetarian food.

The China Study and the Chinese version of The Life-Saving Diet

In the United States, this book claiming that "a vegetarian diet can prevent cancer" has sold millions of copies. The core idea of ​​this book is that a vegetarian diet can eat away various modern diseases!

Of course, in addition to pursuing health, vegetarianism has also become popular among many young girls who love beauty in order to have a slimmer figure.

There are many reasons for being a vegetarian, but they all believe and advocate, just like my relatives did at the beginning, that eating vegetarian food will make the body lighter, keep away from diseases, and live a healthier and longer life.

But the reality is quite the opposite.

In response to the question "How are the long-term vegetarians around you doing now?" on Zhihu, there are more than 1,400 answers, and the most common descriptions are very consistent, "thin", "fat", "listless", "depressed", and "looking old".

This is because many vegetarians are really devout in their vegetarian diet, and a simple meal consists of a few cold/boiled dishes and some staple food.

With this amount of food, the variety is limited, and the calories are insufficient, it is probably only enough for us to lie in bed and do nothing. Once we consume more energy, walk a few more steps, or think about some complex problems, the energy will be used up.

Insufficient energy can be solved by eating, but a single diet structure will lead to deficiencies in multiple nutrients.

Such as lack of protein, calcium, iron, zinc, amino acids, vitamins. Take vitamin B12 as an example. It can promote the metabolism of carbohydrates, fats, proteins, etc., prevent pernicious anemia, and maintain the health of the nervous system. Most of it is obtained from animal foods. Once it is insufficiently consumed for a long time, corresponding diseases will occur.

Chewing vegetables every day means that your willpower has to constantly be torn between the two states of "what I want to eat" and "I can't eat", which makes you very emo. If you also lack vitamin B12, it will lead to brain damage and emotional out-of-control.

And if you are a vegetarian who suffers from appearance anxiety or depression, it will aggravate the anxiety and depression.

In many answers to related questions on Zhihu, in addition to the impact on mental state, there are also many diseases caused by vegetarianism, such as "fatty liver", "hypoglycemia", "hypotension", "anemia", "osteoporosis", "menstrual disorders", "gallbladder polyps", "stones"...

Just like the relative with severe anemia mentioned at the beginning of the article, if you open the search engine and search for related information, you will find all kinds of content.

Take the shocking fatty liver as an example. Many people think that eating meat will lead to fatty liver. However, compared with the overnutrition type, long-term malnutrition and lack of protein intake will lead to impaired liver fat transport, causing fat to accumulate in the liver, thus causing nutritional deficiency type fatty liver.

At the same time, compared to those who eat a lot of meat and fish at every meal, vegetarians tend to feel hungry more easily, so they will consume more staple foods, which will also lead to excess calories, which will be converted into fat stored in the liver.

The same is true for other diseases. In addition to the damage to organs and bones caused by nutritional deficiencies, the internal circulation of the human body is a whole, interconnected, so if you are a vegetarian for a long time, you will really be sick all over.

The pursuit of delicious food is human nature.

The restrained behavior of vegetarians can be said to be "against" nature. They always hope to control their health and beauty through an order and lifestyle of "eating".

But in the process of restraint, we lose our happy mood and healthy body, which goes against the original intention.

Therefore, unless you are suffering from a disease and strictly control the intake of certain types of food, you should eat them. Each type of food contains different nutrients. For example, fruits are rich in VC, which can whiten your skin, and unsaturated fatty acids in aquatic products can prevent Alzheimer's disease...

If it is really for health or to promote recovery, the most scientific and simplest way is to ensure the diversity of your diet to the best of your ability.

Only in this way can the body absorb richer nutrients, rather than excluding certain types of food in a black-and-white manner.

Here I would like to emphasize the girls who are vegetarians for the sake of beauty. Eating a little more will not make you fat to death.

This is not to tell you to give up, but to accept the facts and reconcile with yourself.

When you are extremely greedy, suppressing your appetite excessively will put you in a state of depression and anxiety. It is better to eat a bite to put on a good mood. Maybe you will be more motivated to go downstairs and walk 2 kilometers.

Isn't this having health and beauty at the same time?