Tips For Becoming Vegetarian?!

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The healthiest way to be a vegetarian is to eat a lot of fruits and vegetables (at least 9 servings a day combined), a cup of beans a day, 1-2 ounces nuts/seeds a day, and limit starchy foods like potatoes or bread to 1 serving a day. If you're not vegan, it's best to limit animal products to 10% or less. Your focus, whether vegan, vegetarian or omnivore should be becoming a "nutritarian"--someone with a micronutrient- and phytochemical rich diet. For more info on being a nutritarian: http://www.drfuhrman.com/ Note that one of Dr. Fuhrman's concerns is weight loss, but he also addresses weight gain. If you are borderline underweight, you increase your content of foods that are high in both fat and nutrients such as nuts and seeds, and healthy caloric beverages such as smoothies made with almond milk.

If you like the taste of meat, there are meat analogs (fake meats) you'll probably like. There's vegan: "chicken", hotdogs, burgers, "bacon", phony pepperoni, etc. But if you had an eating pattern where the focus of your meal was meat with a bit of vegetables around it, it's best to not repeat that with the meat analogs. Use them more as a condiment.

Also, a big mistake of some vegetarians is to fill up on dairy, which is not healthy, as casein (protein) and galatose (dairy sugar) are carcinogenic. (See "The China Study" by T. Colin Campbell.) http://www.thechinastudy.com/ Dairy has other problems as well, such as causing congestion in many people and even asthma in some.

M.S. in Nutrition, Vegan about 25 years

Being a vegetarian will make you healthier. The largest land animal is not underweight, but is a vegetarian...the elephant.

It is your choice to either be vegetarian or not. Once you make a decision, no one can stop you being one or the other, not even your tongue.

Here are two quotations to help you become a vegetarian - I go it from the Internet but I cannot remember the source. The quotations are from Master Hilarion:

"The rampant increase in cancer of the colon is directly the result of heavy meat-eating, particularly red meat. This connection is known to conventional medical science, and it is a stark comment on the refusal of Humanity to give up its self-indulgences that even this proven correlation has not significantly lowered the eating of animal cadavers."

"The Earth Plane is a mirror for one's own inner states. Now, if the world outside is programmed, so to speak, to reflect the inner states of Humanity, is it not clear that as long as Man continues to put death inside Him by eating the cadavers of animals, He will never be able to stop the death and killing that is going on around Him? This Universal Law of Reflection makes it inevitable that the slaughter of animals and the slaughter of human beings will continue together and that the one cannot be stopped unless the other is also stopped."

Hope that helps you make the decision you want.

You can find plenty of fake meat products in your grocery store that taste good.And if you find going cold turkey to hard, try weaning yourself of

fake meat products like boca
go to animal rights websites for a list

peta.org