Bio: does a vegetarian diet really help you get through your life?

A friend shared this article/promotion with us, Sophie Monk went nude to promote vegetarianism. I really respect her move as taking off your clothes for good causes. She's a vegetarian.

In the article, the author mentioned that " Eating a diet of vegetarian foods will give you more energy, help you stay trim, and improve blood flow to all of your body's organs."
I guess the interesting part is the italic "all" there in the sentence. Just like what you read above. There was a hyperlink to another article to illustrate on what's so interesting about blood flow to ALL body's organs...

I was not sure what would you have on your mind the moment they emphasized on 'ALL'. As the matter of fact, they are talking about something universally discussed - impotence. Why that? It is because it claims that "a vegetarian diet can get you through your life".
Was that really true?

How does Viagra and other anti-impotence drugs help you to temporarily solve the problem? With some physiology background, such pills just help to complete a chain reaction taken place . The lack of an importance catalyze prevented the chain reaction such that the blood flow was not stimulated to do its job to the organ. With the help of external intake of such catalyze, it can really help complete the reaction, hence the action.

What's misleading about that statement to me was that a vegetarian diet might substitute the purpose of Viagra or any other anti-impotence drugs. I don't think a vegetarian diet can do that yet, at least not scientifically yet. Was there any publication on such topic? still need to find out.

What agreed on was the healthier and more energetic life style...

To me, I am definitely a carnivore. It seemed to me that meat makes me happy and provides me with more energy because of its high protein content. I do take vegetarian diet once in a while for a change to reorganize my body with more fibers and many nutritions from the vegetables. Still I do crave for meat.

In a traditional Chinese lifestyle, a lot of grains and wheats are the major intake of the meals. Dishes of vegetables, meat and seafood are all called "side dishes" in Chinese; whereas the grains and wheats are composed with primarily carbohydrates (which will be broken down to sugars eventually). The high intake of carbohydrates will call for more usage of insulin to counter-react to the high rise of blood sugar level. The conversion of glucose into glycogen (suppress the blood sugar level) will cause the drastic drop in blood sugar level. Thus, you will feel sleepy after a big meal with high content of carbohydrates.

Therefore, the advice to people as the new lifestyle ( lunch siesta has almost been removed from a typical working day) emerges in China, is that you can choose to reduce the intake of carbohydrates during lunch or even breakfast. The best practice is that take some protein-rich breakfast and non-carbohydrate lunch and then light dinner to end the day. If you really crave for carbohydrates, you might want to take them in the evening. Of course, the intake of too much carbohydrates seems not a wise move in the evening if you have reduced calorie burn-rate. Otherwise, all the sugar will be counted towards the next process - weight gaining.

alright... stay healthy...