Why is it so much harder to be a Vegetarian in the winters?!
Only interested in scientific responses, not personal opinions.
Thank You
Answers: I work outside for all 4 seasons and am able to maintain a vegetarian diet for 8 or 9 months but as soon as the snow and sub zero temperatures hit, I find my body craves meat at least once a week.
Only interested in scientific responses, not personal opinions.
Thank You
The human body has certain rhythms . . .as most of the commentators mentioned, the body seeks to "stoke" it's furnace against the lower temperatures with the best "fuel" available for maintaining warmth.
I also think there is a social factor as well ... there is nothing more cheering during the winter than to be in the company of friends, a nice cozy fire blazing nearby, and the wonderful smells of a roasting goose, rack of lamb, brisket, etc., roasted vegetables, and robust red wine.
Because their is less vegetation and it's so call people want to eat lots of meat at winter like burger,hot dogs,steak ext.
Global warming
Winter instills sanity.
yep your body needs that protine and that fat that you get from meat.
Why anyone rejects meat is beyond me. Humans are able to do it?
All the evolution process led to the "gather in the plentifully months to use in the harsh ones" process.
Even though a vegetarian diet gives enough supplements to deceive the warm weather mentality, in the winter months your body automatically wants a surplus of proteins to keep for a possible worsening of the weather.
It`s both a chemical and a involuntary reaction
the reduction of daylight signals the body to store more energy. as the body loses heat during the winter seasons, the best way to acquire energy is to get it from the best source, protein, which has the greatest energy per mass. So that's why it may feel much better to eat meat during the wintertime.
Maybe because the fruits and vegatables are not in season. Therefore, not very tasty.
Veggies and fruits are in season in summer or winter so that is not the case. I believe it is because that is the holiday season of Thanksgiving and Christmas where huge meat meals are prevalent and readily available. If you get in the habit of eating meat during this time such as Turkey then it would be likely that your body will crave those things around the same time.
It has only recently been possible for people to be vegetarian in the winter in certain climates. Recent being 150 years or so. Going back 150 years, the only vegetables available were those that you were able to can and those that you could store in your root cellar. Without meat and dairy, people could not have survived in those years. Now with with the globalization of the food industry, it is possible.
Today is just a minor microcosm of those years past. You don't have any food from your gardens and local produce in many parts of the world is not available between October and April or May. Of course food from the southern hemisphere and the southern parts of the northern hemisphere dominates the produce section of markets this time of year.
It's you "needing" more calories.
Since you do not want opinions that is just about all I can say.
May I suggest you eat heartier, Stews, Chili's, Qunioa(high protien grain), etc..things that warm you more, stick to your ribs.
Slainté(to your health)
i dont have trouble with that, and i am a vegetarian.
i think it may just be your own personal dilemma, because i never crave meat. it is just something that is wrong to me to eat, and there are so many tasty foods and nutrition out there. did you know that not digesting meat decreases your risk of lung cancer? and especially, following a vegetarian diet (and eating foods without eggs) will definitely decrease your cholesterol. my cholesterol level is virtually non-existent.
i weigh 130 pounds, and i am 5'10
i wake up and eat a bowl of cereal and some fruit and occasionally an energy drink, and soy.
at lunch, i eat pizza or a boca burger (i am a lacto-vegetarian, but i still don't eat eggs, just milk) and fruit, something to drink alongside, most preferably green tea.
i eat many healthy snacks such as power bars or chips and popcorn throughout the day, and for supper i eat many vegetables, especially lima beans and starches such as noodles or spaghetti (you should try "soy crumbles" marketed under companies such as soy7 meal makers or similar products), and odd dishes here and there like a vegetarian soup with nutritional yeast or a fruit salad. i hardly ever eat desert.
i am an ectomorph, and i excersize occasionally and i dont expect most vegetarians to be as small as i am, but i encourage to stay vegetarian if you are one.
There is a school of thought that goes something like this: ancient humans did not eat meat and vegetables mixed together. They hunted and ate meat almost exclusively during late fall, winter and early spring when plants were scarce. However, during the spring, summer and early fall season, they would eat plant foods almost exclusively because they were plentiful during this time. They would continue to hunt, however, so that they will have meat during the colder months. When they learned how cultivate land and farm animals, their eating habits changed. Now food was available and following the herd and foraging were no longer necessary. This was when permanent settlements started appearing. But the thing is, meat was eaten almost exclusively during the colder months (where animal fat was also used in making fires)while plant foods were almost exclusively during the warmer months. Of course there are exceptions and whether this is true or not, I don't know
I would guess that it is because your body needs the animal fat and protein to help fuel itself for the cold. Also, take into consideration that a year round supply of fresh fruits and veggies during the cold season is fairly unnatural, your ancestors probably ate more meat during the cold seasons, so you could be genetically predisposed to wanting to eat more meat during these times. Sounds silly, but hey, you never know:P