What percentage of vegetarians are malnourished?!
What percentage of vegetarians are malnourished?
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i dont know about malnourished in general, but i'd say at least 2 out of 5 vegetarians that i know end up with some type of iron deficiency, or lack of protein or something. this isnt to say that meat eaters dont develop some kind of unhealthy eating habits too. but they tend to get MORE of something than they need (carbs, fats, etc). many of the vegetarians i know decided to be vegetarian without really reading about how to do it and stay healthy (again, most meat eaters dont bother learning what to eat right either.)
but i need meat to live. lol. i cant even imagine the amount of vegetables i'd need to eat in one meal to replace meat.
100%
Probably a good percentige, they all look like death warmed over. Too skinny, they've been buffaloed into thinking no beef or foul in their diet. Too Bad!
Well, I can't tell you a figure off hand .... but I can say I doubt the figure would be any more extreme than the percentage of meat-eaters who are malnourished. Most vegetarians eat a whole variety of different fruits, veges, legumes, soy products and heaps of other delicious foods. So, on balance - is is probably more likely that a meat-eater would be malnourished, simply because a lot don't feel the "need" to expand their diet so much ... that's just an opinion though, my only evidence is from looking at the vegetarians I know.
99%........unless they eat lots of tofu....and what about yogurt
I don't know, but it is difficult to be a vegetarian and get all of the required vitamins and minerals, especially B12 and iron. Unless a vegetarian is very careful about getting everything they need in their diet, they should be on a supplement.
101%
At one time I had many Christian Scientist patients, and they are vegetarians. They ate cheese, yogurt and eggs which supplied the lacking amino acids. The women were anemic with iron deficiency, since none of their food contained iron. A simple tablet of ferrous fumurate and ascorbic acid cured that. I do not recommend a veggie diet, but the Atkins, South Beach and other specialty diets are as bad of worse, and the medical community is discarding them.
Um...probably close to 0%.
I'm not a veggie so I'm not defending the cause but there's nothing you get from a meat-eating diet that you can't get from a vegetarian diet.
Vegans are a slightly different matter though.
all of them
I really couldn't tell you. All the vegetarians I know are very healthy in fact. Meat eaters tend to miss out on more then vegetarians because they often lack the required vegetable and whole grain intake.
ovisly i'm not! and i'm vegan not vegeterian
I dont know...To me some could be Healthy.
none that I have eaten or I would be malnourished wouldn't I
I am a vegetarian but i am not malnourished. I went to the doctors as I thought I might be but the doctor said I was very healthy due to the varied diet I eat of veg, fruit, pulses, seeds, nuts,etc. However, I know a number of malnourished vegetarians as they do not eat properly
Not many is my tip. I'm now more or less a veggie after marrying one, and the range of food available (as long as you get some spinach and beetroot inside you for vitamin A and iron) is fantastic. A high percentage of veggies are actually well nourished because they think about what they eat, and cook for themselves, unlike a lot of people who rely on fast food.
They are best nourished than any in the nation.
What's more they have the best IQ too.
Check this out or as they say "put that in your pipe and smoke it"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/testthenation/iq/re...
Very few. People who eat meat get too much protein and other nutrients. This is the cause for all of their problems.
veggies provide u with every nutrition...for example eating soy beans is same as u eat chicken..or shud i say itz better...so vegz are not malnourished!! and yea...i am veg :)
none of the ones I've met.
I was brought up vegetarian, and am now 33 years old 6'1" and weigh oover 15 stone, so I see nothing wrong with the vegetarian diet, and I just dont fancy eating dead animals.
Probably no more than the percentage of meat-eaters who are. There's absolutely no required nutrients that a vegetarian can't get and most vegetarians I know are more nutrition-conscious than the typical meat-eater.
Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger
One in twelve people worldwide is malnourished, including 160 million children under the age of 5. United Nations Food and Agriculture
It is estimated that some 800 million people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition, about 100 times as many as those who actually die from it each year.
Malnutrition is implicated in more than half of all child deaths worldwide - a proportion unmatched by any infectious disease since the Black Death.
Get my point?
People dying from malnutrition are generally not vegetarians. It's the overgrazing by livestock, of meat eaters who usually cause desertification and famine and go hungry and die.
Long live the vegetarian!
Less than the number of meat eaters that are obese. According to the USDA very few people (meat or not) get their calcium, selenium, or zinc needs met, thus most people are malnourished by that standard.
I guess you are really trying to hint that there is a connection between being veggie and being malnourished are you ?
Please be clearer about your insults or stereotypiing.
malnourishment has nothing to do with being veggie, or not. It has everything to do with a balanced diet.
Lees than the people eating meat. Any one who is Obese can be malnourished. That is the bodies way of trying to get it's nutriments. We are starving fat people.