Flexitarian diet, what is it?

The flexitarian diet, omnivera, is not vegetarian but flexible!

Now worldwide is widely believed that red meat and fat too, Salamis and cheeses are not just healthy, but from here to become vegetarians the leap is too great, so better choose a flexible diet that does not renounce the pleasures of the table, in a Word,better to choose the flexitarian diet.

Actually this is a definition of what is becoming an increasingly popular healthy habit, especially in the West, many follow follow a vegetarian diet, with a predominance of vegetables, but that occasionally eat meat or fish.

In fact you end up replacing red meat with chicken, rabbit or fish or even through the intake of tofu, tempeh or seitan, known as "vegetable protein."



So putting the flexibility to power the flexitarianism or flexitarian diet.

With these terms refers to a healthy diet, but without incurring any rigidity that make eating out complex or at a friends house omnivores. The prevalence of plant foods makes this kind of healthy diet and respectful of the line, but also a good way to prevent chronic-degenerative diseases.

Now many scientific studies have come to demonstrate how many benefits brings within the vegetarian diet, some for food that you eat and how many harmful foods are avoided. Reduce the number of calories consumed that animal proteins, both total and saturated fats and cholesterol, and excess sodium that refined sugars. All this, however, you add many benefits that make the intake of fiber, complex carbohydrates,unsaturated fats and antioxidants.

You think it's the American Dietetics Association (ADA) and Dietitians of Canada Association have expressed very favorable towards balanced vegetarian diets that bring significant benefits either under ilo nutritional profile and the prevention of chronic-degenerative diseases.

The flexitarian diet comes to American dietitian's intuition Dawn Jackson Blatner, who published a book called precisely "Flexitarian diet". To substantiate the idea was the European prospective study on diet and cancer research at the University of Oxford-EPIC, which have confirmed that the diet flexitarian brings benefits comparable to those of a vegetarian diet is in terms of weight and cardiovascular health.