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Introduction to Speaker:
- Speaker Name: Dr Jina Shah, M.D. M.P.H.
- Profession: Family Doctor trained in Medicine working near San Franscisco, USA. Also involved in medical research, especially Preventitave Medicine
- Other information: Dr Jina has been a vegan for more that 20 years
- Talk on:
- Why Veganism is important in promoting Ahimsa
- The Health Benefits of being a Jain Vegan and
- Nutrients required for a healthy Jain Vegan lifestyle & Q&As
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Introduction to Topic:
- What does the term "Vegan" mean? Vegan does not mean just vegetarian but also no consumption of dairy products. The practice of Jain veganism is an aspect of practicing Ahinsa
- Questions to Audience:
- Q1: How many people think our most important ethical practice is ahinsa in Jainism? (Almost everybody)
- Q2: How many people here practice vegetarianism? (Almost everybody)
- Q3: Among the people who you know are vegetarians for long time - how many people have high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes or cancer? (Most people)
- Q4: How many people know someone who is Vegan? (Lot of people)
- Q5: How many vegans do you know - long term vegans (at least few years) who have heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure or cancer? (No one)
- This exercise indicates that there may be benefits to becoming Vegan. More on that later.
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Health benefits of being a Jain Vegan
- Cutting out dairy products has the following health benefits
- It makes a difference in Heart disease
- It lowers Blood pressure
- It can prevent or reverse Diabetes
- Studies have shown that people with these diseases who have cut dairy products out they can:
- lower their cholesterol without medicines
- their blood pressure goes down
- and they can reverse their diabetes
- If you don't have the diseases then eating a (Jain) Vegan diet can prevent onset of these diseases
- Just being vegan is not enough to be healthy
- You need to eat sensibly to be a healthy vegan i.e. not too much fat, oil or sugar
Indians and Disease Risks
- Indians have a high risk of these diseases - a genetic susceptibility to deposit abdominal fat in our internal organs giving a higher risk of the metabolic syndrome which includes heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and can give premature strokes and heart attacks
- So it makes even more sense to become a Jain Vegan
Other Examples of Benefits
- An audience member has with diet changes including being a Jain vegan has cured themselves, completely of debilitating psoriatic arthritis and almost of psoriasis too without the use of any medicines
- A mother of 3 children in California has raised them vegan from birth and whilst the other children in their school have plenty of ear infections - her children have none. Ear infections are common in young children. The allergy that children develop to milk also causes infections, allergies and auto-immune diseases. These can also be reduced, reversed and cured by becoming a vegan
Summary
- The benefits list is large
- Of-course being vegan is not a cure for everything - we will all die one day, however the quality of our life will be much better by becoming a vegan
- We will also be saving ourselves from the sin of being responsible for the hinsa of 5-sensed beings
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