Importantance of being vegetarian 成為素食者的重要性
Question:Could you tell us why it is important to be vegetarian?
問： 您能告訴我們吃素的重要性嗎？
Sri Sri: One reason I would say our system is made up for vegetarian food, is that we don't have the type of teeth which carnivorous animals have. We have the same type of teeth that herbivorous animals have.
古儒吉：我說其中一個理由是我們的系統（身體）是為了素的食物所組成的，這就是為何我們沒有肉食動物般的牙齒型態，我們有的是草食動物般的牙齒型態。
And our immediate ancestor, monkey, is a vegetarian. Elephant is a vegetarian. Horse is a vegetarian. Cow is a vegetarian. Sheep is a vegetarian. Animals with that habitat, they are all vegetarians. Horse. You know, we say horse power. So, looking at all this in our system, if you look at it, it is best suitable for vegetarian food. There is a substance called talon that's in the saliva, it's present only in the animals which are vegetarian. And it is present in our saliva also, human saliva. And second thing is the human intestine is so long, it takes a long intestine to digest the vegetarian food. So even in that angle, you see we have longest intestine. Six feet or more. So that also indicates our system is made for vegetarian.
而與我們最接近的祖先-猴子-是素食者，大象是素食者，馬是素食者，牛是素食者，羊是素食者，有棲息地的動物都是素食者。馬，你知道嗎？我們所謂的馬力～所以，看看我們系統（身體）中的一切，如果你端詳觀看，它是最適合素的食物。在唾液中有一種物質叫做「爪狀物」（talon），那只存在於草食動物，但它也存在我們人類的唾液中。而第二件事是人類的腸子是如此的長，分解（消化）素食需要長的腸子，所以即使以那個角度來看，你看我們有最長的腸子，比六英呎還長，所以那也顯示了我們的系統（身體）是為了素食而設計的。
Second thing, vegetarian food you can digest in two-three hours. Non-vegetarian food takes eight hours to digest. Sometimes even longer. So there are so many various such reasons. Also, combination of food is important. Even among vegetarian, certain foods can make you a little dull. Here, to have more clear experience, we recommend vegetarian food. Because if you have non-vegetarian food, you may fall asleep, you will feel dull. Because so much time and energy is consumed just to digest that food. So, in all these various angles, if you see vegetarian food is the best suitable for our system. Easily digestible and quickly you can digest the food and be ready for the next meal. Otherwise, you eat breakfast and till dinner it is still digesting. And then we stuff more. It's no good. Some combination of, even among vegetarian food, some combinations makes it hard to digest. The carbohydrate and milk products, sometimes can take a little longer to digest the food.
第二件事是：你可以在2-3小時內消化素食，但非素的食物則需要8小時來消化，有時甚至更久。所以有這麼多種諸如此類的理由（人類是素食者）。另外，食物的組合也是重要的，即使在素食當中，有些食物可能令你有些遲鈍。在此，為了有更清明的體驗，我們推薦素食。因為如果你吃了非素食，你可能會昏沉睡著、感覺遲鈍，由於如此多的能量和時間被消耗掉只為了消化那些食物。所以，由這些不同的角度，你知道素食最適合我們的系統（身體）。你能容易且快速地消化食物以便迎接下一餐，否則到了吃晚餐時你還在消化你吃的早餐，然後我們塞進更多食物，那是不好的。甚至素食當中，有些食物組合並不容易被消化，碳水化合物（醣類）和奶製品的食物，有時需要比較長的時間來消化。
(譯者:碧芳)
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