I am on a partly organic, vegetable diet for a while now. I eat little sugar except when I exercise. I don't know about depression, but I am feeling better than when on a meat diet and it is true, you do lose weight on a veggie diet.
I often wonder about those clerks in health food stores, as they look like pale death warmed over, the type that falls asleep at bustops. But maybe that is why they work there; they ain't so well to start with.
I figure you should eat what kinds of foods your teeth are suited for. That would be 65% grinding, (grains) and maybe 35% cutting and tearing (raw meat). Fruit should be a big part of the diet but there is scads of sugar in fruit. A good rule is eat what you can run after, catch and beat to death with an axe. No fair using bait.
I would eat meat, but it is an insecticide/pesticide collector and is full of antibiotics and hormones I don't need.
For protein, sans meat, you have to eat soy or red/white beans. It is the only veg with the right amount it is said. Adele Davis thought that vegetable protein was unfairly discriminated against and perhaps the substitution is not needed, but the jury is out in my mind. You definitely need greens. I used to notice a big difference in energy if I consumed greens the night before an athletic competition as opposed to not doing so.
I went on one of those Asian rice diets with brown whole grain rice about 25 years ago. After about a month or two this old lady at my house asked me what I was eating, and before I replied she asked if I would not mind having some veggies to supplement my diet as it looked like I needed them. That kind of blew me away. One look was all she needed and the dietary defiency was plain.
Whole grain wheat is not really whole grain. You have to add wheat germ and farina to make it so. It really has little more food value than ordinary flour. To be really good it should be an old stone ground cracked-wheat too and made with Spelt flour or Turkish wheat flour. If you eat that it is said that few other foods are needed for sustenance. One thing you know about people in the mid-east who eat Spelt and that ancient aramaic diet - Although they get more basic food value from grains, they are crazy about meat, It is an obsession and the root of many old sayings.
If you eat brown rice, be aware that it is basically polished and not whole grain. For it to be whole grain and not cause a dietary deficiency if depended on, it must contain the husk too, so it should be practically orange and the grain should look wrinkled and not smooth. Asians here eat polished rice, brown or white, which has no food value.
Uncle Ben's sells a variety of rice that is whole grain. They are the only ones who do so in NA I believe.
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