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If you think a vegetarian diet is monotonous and tasteless you are wrong! The dishes and the recipes are so many possible and for those who want to lose weight this may be the right diet. Today I want to bring a salad very original, very good and that is excellent as a main dish, but also for those who want to combine it as a side dish. Fresh and tasty thanks to its ingredients will be perfect for a summer lunch or as an appetizer. Here’s how to prepare delicious baskets of lettuce.

Ingredients
One head lettuce
a queer
2 oranges
walnuts
peeled pistachios
extra virgin olive oil
salt
white pepper

Preparation
Slice the fennel very thin slices and keep reducing it to soak in ice water, at least for an hour, to make them curl.

Remove the peel and the white part of oranges and elaborateness the skins 3-4 times, always renewing the water. Keep water and 3 tablespoons of the last emulsification with 6 tablespoons of oil for the dressing also adding a handful of pistachios, salt and pepper.

4 Prepare baskets with lettuce leaves, garnish with slices of fennel, curled and peeled orange slices. Season with the emulsion prepared, then garnish with walnuts , blanched the peel cut into fillets and other slices of orange.

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Is not the first time you hear about the positive vegetarian diet. According to a study by Dr Naomi Allen, an epidemiologist at Oxford University, in collaboration with other researchers in New Zealand and English and published in the British Journal of Cancer, people who eat mostly vegetarian fall ill with cancer in much smaller percentage of those who Instead, she eats meat regularly.
The study, very large, examined 61mila British in a period of 12 years. The data that have emerged are: vegetarians have 12% less chance of getting some cancers, and if you look at the blood cancers (leukemia, lymphoma, honeyed …) can still be reduced by 45%, previous studies had already shown that the consumption of red meat had a positive impact on the development of stomach cancer, stomach cancer in vegetarians is rare, but compared to tumors of the intestine, where instead we see a slight increase. Read the rest of this entry »

Tell me, too, that are controversial but some things do not I hold their own, no, I woke up with the moon wrong and now you explain where it came from my disappointment: just last week we had spoken out in the British Journal of Cancer Research that a vegetarian diet was a very good protection to the majority of tumors; here was that after a few days out Australian research published in the pages of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that vegetarians have much more fragile bones of meat eaters and Their bones were on average 5% less dense.
Gets worse for vegans whose bones were 6% weaker. Read the rest of this entry »

Just yesterday, we talked about the health benefits obtained by observing a style like vegetarian food, but today we will take stock on any nutritional deficiencies that could be incurred by excluding from their diet of meat, fish and even, in the diet lacto-vegetarian and vegan their derivatives.
The most common deficiency in a vegetarian diet are those of iron, calcium and vitamins D and B12, but while iron deficiency affects all vegetarians, that calcium mainly concerns those who follow a vegan diet, which, as we have seen, provides exclusion from the diet including foods derived from animals such as milk and eggs.
However, as the fiber and other substances found in abundance in vegetables limit the intestinal absorption of calcium is also essential for those who follow a vegetarian diet far less sure that the daily intake of calcium is insufficient, while vegans will need to use supplements foods that contain this mineral. Always the exclusion of milk and dairy exhibits vegans at risk of vitamin D. Read the rest of this entry »

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