Can a vegetarian diet be sufficent in nutriants ?!
Because vegetarians eliminate certain foods from their diets, they often need to work to add foods into their diet that will provide the nutrients found in meat products.
By eating a variety of foods including fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, you can get the vitamins and nutrients you need from non-meat sources.
By eating legumes, soy foods, and nuts, you can get the protein that you need to grow.
Other nutrients to be concerned with are the minerals iron & calcium & the vitamins D & B12, which are especially important for vegans.
Iron is found in beans, seeds, soy foods, fortified breakfast cereals, and dark green leafy vegetables, like spinach. Vitamin C helps your body to absorb iron so eating foods rich in vitamin C, like citrus fruits and certain vegetables (like tomatoes) is important, as well.
Calcium is found in dairy products like milk, yogurt, and cheese and dark green leafy vegetables like kale and spinach.
Vitamin B12 is the only nutrient that needs to be added to a vegan-vegetarian diet. Nutritional yeast flakes, fortified soy milk and cereals contain vitamin B12.
Answers: Vegetarian diets can be very healthy, but eating a balanced diet when you are vegetarian usually requires a little extra attention.
Because vegetarians eliminate certain foods from their diets, they often need to work to add foods into their diet that will provide the nutrients found in meat products.
By eating a variety of foods including fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, you can get the vitamins and nutrients you need from non-meat sources.
By eating legumes, soy foods, and nuts, you can get the protein that you need to grow.
Other nutrients to be concerned with are the minerals iron & calcium & the vitamins D & B12, which are especially important for vegans.
Iron is found in beans, seeds, soy foods, fortified breakfast cereals, and dark green leafy vegetables, like spinach. Vitamin C helps your body to absorb iron so eating foods rich in vitamin C, like citrus fruits and certain vegetables (like tomatoes) is important, as well.
Calcium is found in dairy products like milk, yogurt, and cheese and dark green leafy vegetables like kale and spinach.
Vitamin B12 is the only nutrient that needs to be added to a vegan-vegetarian diet. Nutritional yeast flakes, fortified soy milk and cereals contain vitamin B12.
Yes
if you look into natures most bulky and strongest animals, like gorillas, elephants, Buffalo's, bulls and so on, they're all 100% vegetarians. so, there must be enough nutritients in greens.
Yes, but if you're like me and are picky about certain foods then in order to get all the right nutrients you may have to take vitamin tablets..
If you eat a variety of foods and you eat healthy foods, yes! I've been a vegetarian for 10 years and I'm very healthy. I haven't had anything worse than a cold and a root canal since I was 8. But I take a multivitamin and try to not eat too much junk.
YES, most nutrients come from fruits and veggies...so you are safe there. The only downside to being a veggiterian is that it can be difficult to eat protein...as it is mostly found in meat. Beans, bean sprouts, alfalfa sprouts (which also contain Omegas primarily found in fish) and soy products are good alternatives to get some nutrients found in meat.
Abosolutely, The vegetarian tends to be healthier than the meat eating diet anyways.
Yes, but you have to be careful to eat all the essential amino acids: the part of the human body's protein that your body does not produce.
Animal products have, in a different proportion of human , all the amino acids your body needs to build protein.
To eat all the amino acids your body needs to build proteins from a veggie diet you need to combine leguminous and whole cereals. Both lack from some essential amino acids but not the same ones.
it's healthier than eating meat
to get protein i eat soy, avocado, and beans
I don't even take a vitamin because all can be gained from real food not a pill
there are plenty of books and websites on how to be a healthy vegetarian
because there is a way to make it unhealthy if all you eat is bread and cheese
Of course.
To everyone who mistakenly claims it----it's not healthier than eating meat. The best vegetarian diet is no better than the best diet including meat, health-wise. Vegetarians have access to the same junk food and processed food garbage that a meat eater does. It's whether or not they consume them that makes the difference.
Yes of course. All those who lived before the flood of Noah's day were strict vegetarians and they lived for hundreds of years. But the diet must be balanced with a good variety of fresh fruits and veggies.
Yes. The American Dietetic Association is one of the nation's leading nutrition experts. Their position paper on vegetarian diets states: "...appropriately planned vegetarian diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate and provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases."
http://www.eatright.org/cps/rde/xchg/ada...
Of course it can. There are no nutrients that are not available on a vegetarian diet and a vegan diet requires supplementation of only one, vitamin B12.
Yes. There is a vegetarian alternative to every nutrient derived from an animal. If it weren't true, then people who've been veggies for years wouldn't still be here.
Have a look at the Vegetarian Society's website for more info. http://www.vegsoc.org/info/foodfacts.htm...
absolutely.
Yes. All diets, if carefully planned, can be sufficient in nutriets.
Yes, easily.
yes take vitamin supplements eat a lot of tofu high in protein
Yes of course, mine isn't but neither are any of my omnivore friends' diets. Mineis probably healthier in a way because I make sure I take supplements when necessary and eat much more vegetables than I used to as a former omnivore.