Who is healthier: VEGETARIANS or NON VEGETARIANS?!
Answers: Since I stopped eating animal flesh few years ago I experienced straight away a better quality of life due to a much better health. My muscle strenght improved a great deal and my stamina doubled or tripled.
Actually vegetarians are healthier. There are so many vegetarian and vegan recipes that are both healthy AND tasty! Fruits and vegetables are light and easy to digest, so if you have gone vegetarian, great! Stay that way, it's a good thing to do.
Here are just a few of the many truths about meat:
?Heart disease starts in childhood, and a vegetarian diet REVERSES heart disease.
?In every package of chicken, there's a little poop
?Meat is filthy and bloody, and contains many germs.
?meat has to rot in your stomach before you can digest it.
?mad cow disease IS IN THE U.S.
?In slaughter houses, for kosher meat, they hang the cow upside down and slit their throat.
?the grain they feed to cows that are on their way to the slaughter house could feed so many children around the world.
?more than 50% of the water in the U.S is used for the animals we raise to KILL and EAT.
?In slaughter houses, chickens peck at their own droppings.
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You made a good choice, you're helping the animals, and from the way it sounds, you're helping yourself, too.
veggie's duh.
I'm vegetarian but i wouldn't say i'm healthy, i'm at a good weight but i hate vegetables, i live on starch.
Non-vegetarians can be as healthy as vegetarians, it all depends on how much exercise and vegetables they take in.
Vegetarians like myself are unhealthy, but..
Meat-eaters who eat loads of fatty foods are aswell.
Personly, i can't answer this question, because exercise and food both play a huge part in our health.
vegetarian would seems healthier but it's not. Some vegetarians don't get enough protein, amino acids, and minerals found in meat/meat products.
If you are a vegetarian and you are on a miss-educated lazy diet of carbs and pastas and average salad, what is your protein and calcium coming from? If you are a meat eater who pigs out on steaks and pork and 4 different kinds of meat a day and never touches a fruit or vegetable, well you are probably going to see an early death.
You have to eat healthy to be healthy!
In general, someone who avoids red meats is healthier than a person who is all meat and potatoes.
I think it depends on what you eat if you're a vegetarian or if you aren't, someone could have a well balanced diet and eat meat while a vegetarian could be missing out on several food groups. It just depends on the choices you make while following a type of diet.
it depends on the diet itself
if a vegetarian isn't getting enough nutrients they are not very healthy, but if there diet is balanced they will have great health
same goes for non vegetarians
If they eat too much meat and not enough vegetables they will have high cholesterol and may not get enough nutrients, but if they have a well balanced diet they will be healthy as well
Health is how you treat you get your nutrients, if you get them right both are good for you
My husband and I are not vegetarians. He is 81 years old and I am 71. The only thing we do "healthy" is not to eat fried foods. However, we do have KFC every once in awhile.
It's not a question of vegetarian or not, it's a question of what you eat. A balanced diet is better than junk food, meat or not.
There is no definitive answer to this, as there are infinate variables to consider.
Depends on the diet.
Some people eat nothing but alot of starches and no meat - which isn't good for you.
Others eat alot of meat and little if anything else - which isn't good for you.
A well balanced approach to diet is best with exercise to be healthy.
People have to learn not to live to eat a particular way - but eat to live so that one can live to continue on being productive and able to do particular things that need to be done.
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I know of someone that made the claim to be vegetarian since they were 8 years old - and yet they were well over 300 pounds and were up for a heart replacement because of being grossly overweight with massive problems with fat around the heart (they had a Blue Bell addiction - ice cream in Texas - as well).
So eating vegetarian isn't a guarantee of any sorts that you won't have medical problems. Genetics has more than a little to do with it as well.
Depends on the person. A meat eater who eats lots of fruits and vegetables and exercises regularly is likely to be healthier than a couch potato vegetarian who eats a lot of junk food.
That's kind of like asking if people with short hair are healthier than those with long hair.
The only thing worth mentioning is that a diet heavy in animal products usually leads to low quality of life and shorter life span, as is a vegetarian diet that is heavy in processed and junk foods.
Animal products are in fact an absolute luxury and serve to meet no special dietary requirements that are exclusive to them.
vegetarians!!!!!!!! being honest here
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go vegetarians! and vegans!1
You know omnis are going to say they're healthier and veg*ans are going to say they're healthier. lol
I just know that I've been vegetarian for 10 months and my health has not improved nor has it gotten worse.
Neither.
iAm---no, the insecure and uneducated will say that.
I liked what Jack LaLanne said "Exercise is the King, and diet is the Queen". He has been a veggie, but I think he now eats fish. I've been vegan( no fish, eggs, dairy,meat) for over 5 years. I became vegan, for animal reasons rather than health, but I want to take care of my health, too. I'm over 55 years old, went through a natural menopause,and finished a marathon Jan. 2007. Last year I had a body scan and my doctor said my leg bones were good, but I was showing some signs of bone thinning in my arms. He said my heart was like a 30 year olds. He said I should up my calcium to at least 1500 mgs. a day. So I did, I take other vegan supplements, and since my muscles have shown some signs of getting a little weaker, I've been taking vegan protein supplements. I feel good. My husband, who said he would never become vegetarian, much less vegan had a cholesterol level last year of 277. He was drinking only non fat milk, and eating only a little lean meat. He wasn't overweight. I told him he should either take medication or go on my crazy diet. He talked to the doc and went on my crazy diet. Two months later the doc tested his cholesterol, and it had dropped to 192. Vegan diet alone. I think some tests show that vegetarians are the healthiest (beating out both vegans and flesh eaters) but I don't know how many studies have actually been done. Since I'm not doing it for just health reasons, that's not enough for me to start drinking milk, or eating eggs again.
The veggies of course!! GO Vegitarians!!!
Vegans and vegetarians will say they are and meat eaters will say that they are but: vegan diets have been proven to lowering risks of colon cancer, heart attack, stroke, etc. but you do have to make sure that you eat appropiate foods and take vitamins.
both are healthy while non vegitarians have more heart problems....
it depends on if u eat right while being either
A vegetarian if you are doing it the right way and not sitting around eating candy and junk food all day. A non-vegetarian can possibly be as healthy as a vegetarian if their only eating grilled meat and not eating fast food.
HEALTH works on BODY-EMOTION-MIND balance.
It depends on environment, lifestyle the mind state of someone.
Diet choice is a PHYSICAL-SOUL-MIND state of someone. Diet influences the state of mind, and the state of mind influences the diet choice, there into Self Realization (Modus Operandi).
(1) PHYSICAL
Health, desire, taste, instincto, etc
(2) SOUL
Emotion, Delusion, Love, care, cruelty, cry, scream, blood, filthy, mother-baby relation, Non-violence, self control, realization & moderation (Modus Operandi), Spiritual, Religious, etc
(3)MIND
Intellectual, Conscience, Intuition, Resources, World issue, Hunger, Starvation, Famine, Poverty, Freedom, Animal Rights, Welfare, Dominion by power, Freakonomics, Meat-politics, etc
Therefore, vegetarianism never stop at eating habit alone. You need some knowledge, Wisdom and skill to influence.
VEGETARIANS!!! ALL THE WAY
vegetarians because all they eat is healthy and organic .
neither. no diet is automatically healthy. a person needs the proper nutrients ( and exercise if necessary) to have a healthy body. either diet that does not supply those nutrients is not healthy whatever proponents for each side says. anecdotal generalizations are not reliable sources either. many vegetarians here confessed to being overweight. many omnis survive on unbalanced high fat, high pretein diets. health lies on the individual not to a prescribed general diet.
Vegetarians! - a natural food for human beings. Besides good health, you become a better human being as well.
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Your health mostly depends on your digestion power.
I have been vegetarian a long time. About two years after i went vegan, i lost my sense of smell and began to feel depersonalised. My memory also suffered. Consequently, i increased my consumption of yeast extract, as it was clearly due to vitamin B12 deficiency. That was seventeen years ago and i am now OK, but my short term memory was quite poor until recently.
I think there are healthy and unhealthy vegan, veggie and omnivorous diets. If you're veggie but eat a lot of dairy, it's probably worse than eating meat healthwise. If you're vegan and eat whole foods, including a reliable source of B12 and the right fatty acids, you will definitely be healthy. The oldest man to die in the UK was said to be vegan, though i can't check the source on this. However, a diet including meat can be healthy if the meat is from a good source. This would mean organ meat from wild animals living in an unpolluted environment. Such a diet could be very healthy and would also be the kind of diet we evolved to eat. Analysis of human fossil bones and wear patterns on their teeth, by which i mean Homo species rather than Australopithecus, strongly suggests there was quite a lot of meat in the human diet, and although i am a committed vegan i think it's important for our credibility to admit that a vegan diet is absolutely not natural, though it can be very healthy. However, in an industrialised society and an urban setting it is often almost impossible to find healthy meat products, so ultimately a vegan diet is often healthier. The worst option health-wise between a healthy diet including meat (very difficult to achieve), a lacto-vegetarian diet and a rational vegan diet is probably the lacto-vegetarian option, because dairy products are very harmful. Having said that, a lacto-vegetarian diet is often better from the point of view of ecology and animal welfare, and also ethically defensible as a transtion to veganism.
Good. If you felt good becoming a vegetarian, it will be a quantum leap for you to experience the near-nirvana of being a true vegan. A true vegan is not only physically healthy ... but emotionally, intellectually and spiritually healthy as well.
Vegetarians.
It's been proven that (depending when you stop eating meat) that vegetarians/vegans live longer than someone who eats meat.
Our digestive systems are also a lot cleaner, I could go on and on..
meat eaters are healthier