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Welcome to Zentiva Sustainability podcast. At Zentiva, we believe that each and everyone of us can contribute to taking care of our planet and do what we can to protect it so that future generations can enjoy life as much as we do. We act today for sustainable tomorrow and as part of our environmental pathway. We find it important to educate and empower our associates, and we warmly invite you to join us and follow our new initiative, the Zentiva Sustainability. Podcast with a series of episodes where experts explain different areas of Environmental Protection. One of the most impactful ways we can all contribute to sustainability is through our food choices. Embracing a vegetarian diet, even partially, is a powerful step towards reducing our environmental footprint. By choosing plant based foods over meat, we can save valuable resources like water and land, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and help preserve our planet for future generations. In today's episode, we will explore the importance of. Vegetarian Food Discover fun and tasty vegetable substitutes for meat and celebrate the rich vegetarian traditions of Indian culture. We will also share how these choices can benefit not only our health, but also the health of our planet. So join us on this journey as we delve into the delicious world of vegetarian cuisine and learn how we can all make a difference by embracing more plant based meals. Let's get started and make a positive impact together. Today I have with me Doctor Vijay Thakur, who is. Renowned vascular and endovascular surgeon, a leading expert of sustainable living with over 25 years of experience on an enlightening journey through the world of comprehensive vascular care and environmental sustainability. Doctor Thakor is garnered by an impressive educational background with a multitude of a global fellowships and has made a significant contributions through more than 25 plus research and publications still counting. TuneIn to learn more from an expert who is underscoring the influential presence in the field and also serving as a secretary of Vascular Society of India and board member of Vicon and Adipura the Vijay Thakur. He is currently associated with Aditya Super Specialty hospital. Established with a noble purpose rooted in values such as honesty, empathy, teamwork and technical competence. Committed to deliver ethical, compassionate, cost effective and sustainable high quality patient care to bring forth a new era of health excellence marked by unwavering dedication to patient care through esteem. Team of healthcare practitioners at Adipura. As the name suggests, Adipura embodies the dedication to caring for all with meticulous attention and great. Here Namaste Dr. Thacker, Namaste. So let's deep dive in. Doctor Thakur, as an expert, can you tell us why is vegetarian food important for our health in the environment? Sure Jahal, vegetarian food is very, very important for our health and planet both. There are many reasons vegetarian food, it certainly benefits human being by many ways. To begin with, let's talk about immunity. Vegetarian food is very highly riched into nutrients. It contains a lot of amino acids. Maybe oxidants and middle and thereby it puts immunity. It helps immunity development and prevents manualism to vegetarian food is very low in calorie is low in saturated fats and thereby it reduces many cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes. Being low calorie diet, it also helps in weight method. Vegetarian diet is very high fiber diet which also reduces cancer specially like colon cancer in a very important fourth unlike non vegetarian diet. Vegetarian diet reduces many food borne diseases. I'll tell you a very interesting but the true story about it. A friend of mine neurosurgeon was a meat lover is to enjoy for beef and what more due to these habits. I wouldn't say due to habits but one day he had convulsions. He was a neurosurgeon. He had convulsions. He was found to have disease called cysticercosis in his brain and that was responsible for his convergence and headache he had. Oppression and they became he, he was alright. And then he also became vegetarian. So non-veg diet can also put you in trouble like this. That's great. So how does eating less meat and more vegetables benefit the climate and the planet? Yes, Joel, it helps. It helps significantly to reduce climatic change and help planet by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, conserving resources and promoting sustainable agricultural practices. As you know, livestocks or manimals, they emit greenhouse gases. Like within a nitrous oxide which are more potent and lethal in fact 20 to 34 times more potent than carbon dioxide to create global warming. So by eating less meat, less non veg food we can reduce this percentage of greenhouse emission. In fact it accounts for 14.5% of greenhouse chemists today in the world. Second meat production also requires lot of land and water then vegetable farming As for example. One kilogram of beef would require 15,000 of litres. When you compare this with vegetarian food, you don't need a lot of water like this. Water crisis is a very very important global issue. All of us should be careful and mindful about it. Luckily in India, non veg or meat consumption is much less than the global counterpart. It is nearly 4.4 KG per year as compared to 43 in the world. But still we should try to reduce whatever we can by shifting to plant based. Right. We can reduce greenhouse emissions, we can conserve valuable resources, we can use land wisely, or better cropping practices can reduce chemical input. Chinese toxicity. So I believe eating less meat, being vegetarian certainly helps in climate and planet growth. That's fascinating. In Indian culture, we have a concept of swadeshi, which emphasizes the importance of local food. India is one of the country with highest numbers of vegetarians, I guess approximately 29. .5% Can you share some personal anecdote? Yes I was very interesting story to share. As a young boy was when I was in school. I had gone to a friend's house for a dinner and at a dinner party there's a huge spread of a non vegetarian food. Being a vegetarian I have nothing much to it but I saw that many boys were relishing the food they were enjoying the most and I had some vegetarian food. When I came back home my grandmother asked me. That was a parking and I told her about the food which was sound. There lot of non vegetarian food. She didn't like the idea of non veg food. She became really wild. She told me that imagine if somebody kills you and what would be the reaction of the family. She told me that only carnivorous eat non vegetarian food. Are you carnivores? This statement really imbibed on my brain and heart so much so that I am a vegetarian yet and today this story. Goes on years later, many years later in fact few decades later during my fellowship programs overseas, somewhere in Europe again, I was invited for dinner party and as you must be aware the entire food was non vegetarian name and it was there and there were very few for the vegetarian like sandwich, lantis, lattice etcetera. But no this is not a complaint. I was happy though a friend of mine asked me that man look what you are missing, the delicious taste which is people are enjoying. I said look you do. I don't know what you're missing to try this, and when you try this, you'll realize this is not bad and you're helping environment planet in yourself by many ways. I did not eat because the idea of vegetarian food is still in my mind. Years later, I came to know that the same friend had become vegan infant, not only vegetarian, and he's a vegan person now. So vegetarian food certainly helps to sustain the environment and livelihood. In fact, there are countless delicious and satisfying vegetable substitutes. But we like mushrooms, jackfruit, tofu and Tempe lentils and beans which are which have a meaty texture, which are high in fibers and certainly they're also rich source of protein. So we have a very good alternatives. In fact, most of the hospitals in India, even at Adipura, we serve only vegetarian food to our patients and stuff. That's staggering. So what is your favorite dish and do you know how to prepare it being Gujarati? My favorite dish is classic Gujarati cuisine that is Dal rice. And rotis, unfortunately I do not know how, but I'm lucky to say my wife is an excellent cook and I really enjoy mujati food being cooked at home. Having said that, that I don't know how to cook. But those who really are interested in cooking these days, there are many rasso issues going on. A lot of information on the YouTube and videos to learn from. That's very cool. You can serve us someday. But doctor, what about food waste? How can we reduce food waste in our daily lives? Food waste is really a serious and critical issue. Actually in India, we have a tradition of using every part of the food. We prepare any leftovers, it's for example, we use vegetable peels to make our protein soup, We use our leftover rice to make this is like idli dosas, we use our rotis to make khakhras etcetera. So we are very, very cautious about not wasting food and I believe that we should have some kind of penalty made or taxes on those. People really waste food like especially in social gathering. Gradings etc. Before we wrap up, is there any final message you would like to share with our listeners? Yes, Jehovah, all of us must remember that sustainability is a journey, not a destination. To sustain anything, all of us need to put continuous mammoth efforts. For that we should be informed. We should make conscious decisions and motivate people around us to begin with to make sustainable living, to make healthier planet. I think we start with a single step today and that is plant based vegetarian diet. Yes, the difference and make a simple change which will impact in a big way with the society into the plan. Thank you, Doctor Tucker for sharing your valuable insights with us today. It's clear that sustainable living is not just a necessity, but a cultural imperative. Thank you Doctor Jalal, it's been a pleasure. That's all for today's episode of Sustainable living, a prescription for a healthier planet. Thank you for tuning in and we will see you next time. Until then, stay green with Zentiva Sustainability podcast.