Which is healthier: vegetarian or meat eater?!


Question: Which is healthier: vegetarian or meat eater?
Answers:

Both are fine as long as you eat nutritious,but for vegetarians it is a bit more difficult to get protein since they don't eat chicken and if they are vegans they don't eat eggs as well so that makes it harder



Either lifestyle can be just as healthy as the next. Its all about moderation.

You can be a vegetarian and eat a TON of carbs and sweets, weight 300 Lb's and be unhealthy

or you can be a meat eater, eat proper portions, work out and be totally healthy.

eating meat or not does not make a differnce. The only thing is, when you eat meat...you have more options that you can or cannot abuse! The choice is yours.

healthy meat eater.



It depends.

I've come across vegetarians with major vitamin deficiencies and meat eaters who are healthy and fit. I also know very fit veggies and obese unhealthy carnivores.

If you eat a healthy balanced diet, with little saturated fat and the right combinations of vitamins, minerals, protein, carbohydrates and the like, then both types of diet are healthy. One might be able to argue that meat eating is slightly better, as human beings are omnivores (i.e. meant to eat both meat and plant) and therefore it is slightly easier to get the nutrients you need, but at the end of the day, being careful about what you eat, and being sensible about it, there's little to choose between the two.



Both are lifestyles. You can't determine that on a general basis. All of us have a different level of fitness. If YOU feel healthy, then that's your lifestyle, so keep it up!



We are omnivores, both meat and vegetable eater, so for as long as you have a well balanced diet of protein (weather from an animal or from nuts etc), fruit, vegetables, fats etc etc you are healthy.

I don't think vegans are healthy though, I haven't yet met a healthy vegan. I knew somebody who was horribly thin, she was vegetarian, then i saw her again about a year later and you could see her bones and everything, she told me she'd become vegan, I knew 2 other people who were also vegan and they were both horribly thin as well.



Either one can be healthy or unhealthy, depending on what they eat. Most vegetarians consume eggs and dairy products and that helps.

It's certainly a lot easier to be a healthy meat eater, though. We need Vitamin B12 and it's not available in plant foods. We use the heme iron in meat easier than the non-heme iron in veggies. Protein is easier to get from meat than worrying if you're getting all the amino acids from various plants to make the complete protein your body needs.



as long as you are getting all the right vitimins it really doesn't matter whether you eat meat or not. although you will not be getting as much protein being a veggie.



Meat as just vegetables alone is unnatural



There kinda both the same in my opinion but i like meat so ima go with meat




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