Happy Green Muscle
Grow Muscle Faster Than Your Meat-Eating Neighbor But Without Animal Products
Dedication
To all pioneers who paved the way for this book
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Sebastian Steinemann
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Contents
Foreword
A purely plant-based or vegan diet is becoming increasingly popular. I don't know where exactly you stand, but since you are holding this book in your hands, I suspect at least, curiosity and openness towards plant-based nutrition. People are beginning to see the reasons and evidence for its usefulness.
One reason why this transition progresses slowly is because of conditioning. If you grew up in a modern society like me, the food's central part was mostly of animal origin. Science shows that what you eat from an early age shapes your taste and perception, and this is one reason why many people find it difficult to change food items. In addition to intrinsic conditioning, there is also external conditioning. Advertising messages and any source of information spoke and still speak mostly for animal products. We live in an exciting time because that seems to be changing.
Nevertheless, this conditioning is still following all of us. Milk and cheese be indispensable for the bones. Meat symbolizes enjoyment, prosperity, health, naturalness, and masculinity.
What I've observed: if this conditioning is deeply embedded in the general population, it affects the part of the people interested in muscle building even more. This crowd of people equates animal products with the ability to build muscle. Many see meat as the epitome of masculinity or strength. A purely plant-based diet is considered a necessary evil to get a few vitamins on the side.
It's kind of ironic because people who actively want to build up muscles are usually more concerned with nutrition than the average person. This interest should clarify these dogmas. So far, however, these dogmas have persisted stubbornly. The rigid combination of conditioning, alternative facts, and so-called broscience is evident here. Plant-based nutrition offers opportunities that many people do not realize. To get you started, here is an example of a Nature study from 2020, showing that vegans may have better aerobic endurance than omnivores, and are just as strong.
Vegan is on the rise, and the muscle-loving crowd of people has a fondness for meat. That is an excellent reason to accelerate - this is inevitable in the future - the connection between both elements with this book. Besides, there are at least four more reasons for you and me to pay attention to muscle care - and thus, to this book.
Why is muscle building and care important at all?
Muscle building is an exciting field, not only for you but for more and more people. With its firming, vitalizing, and strength-increasing effect, muscle building is not only a purely aesthetic factor, it is increasingly gaining esteem as an essential health component. Four critical points speak for the appreciation of the musculature.
First, our lifestyle is very sedentary and lacks movement. Authors of a study published in the renowned journal The Lancet estimate that 5.3 million deaths worldwide were attributable to lack of exercise in 2008. Sedentariness is a significant cause of our diseases of civilization.
The second point is another essential health aspect. Our average energy balance is out of control. People with a modern dietary pattern consume too much energy in the form of calories. Compared to 1961, Europeans today consume 330 calories more, Americans, over 360 calories more. The muscles are an energy guzzler, counteracting this energetic imbalance.
The third reason is also related to our technical progress. The life expectancy of people is continuously increasing. While Japanese women have a life expectancy of 87 years today, Swedish women held the record of 46 years in 1840.
Muscle loss-associated diseases already play a key role in today's 70-year-olds. In that case, they will play an even more significant role in the future with increasing life expectancy for many 80-year-olds. The care of the musculature from a young age thus takes on a further, important dimension. Because in this way, you can slow down the biological decay of the body.
Science also provides the fourth point. Progress in technology and life expectancy is accompanied by increased knowledge of our physiology. The role of muscles in our general health and well-being is increasingly acknowledged. Muscles are changing from being superficial visual aids, which function purely mechanically, to hormonally active organs, which play a fundamental role in our body. As a result, the care of muscles is also responsible for the quality of life and health.
The diet of many people is becoming more and more plant-based for various reasons. The global demand for meat-free products grew ten times between 2012 and 2017. The proportion of people who want or even have to build up muscles actively will also increase. The hunt for muscles accompanies the rethinking in the often-conservative world of weight training and bodybuilding. People like you and me, interested in extraordinary muscle building, will find nutritional topics that lead to better health, refined regeneration, and an increase in performance, despite all eating conditioning.
In summary, vegan muscle building is becoming increasingly important for more and more people. Interested people like you are hobby sportsmen, health-conscious mothers, fathers who want to stay young, young students who like weight training, or older people who must care for their muscle apparatus actively.
Why Happy Green Muscle?
Ideas are much more practical for you to implement and remember, when there is this one fixed point - this method. Wildly swarming instructions, tips, tricks, and articles become a story with a red thread. There is a beginning and an end. The Happy Green Muscle Method (HGMM) identifies a problem, looks for solutions, presents the result to you, and finally culminates in the practical essences vital for your everyday life.
Happy . Happy is the result of the method for your muscles and you. The method provides your body with everything it needs to grow, be healthy, and be in full strength. Not only nutrition is responsible for happiness. Therefore, the method contains techniques that go beyond food and are essential for muscle building and happiness. You become more independent, and your feeling of having everything you need in your own hands automatically makes you happier.