Is becoming a vegetarian really good for you?!
Is becoming a vegetarian really good for you?
I tend to get sick very often, tired and have bad breakouts(acne) and i was wonder if i was to become a vegetarian would it really help me in some way...whats the benefits from not eating meat?
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I love how people answer questions that they don't know anything about. I'll try to do better than the people above.
You have a weak immune system and probably are taking in way too many toxins. Yes, becoming vegetarian might help you. I would recommend you begin cleaning up your diet first. Cut out as much sugar as you can. Cut out as much fried foods as you can. Both of those contribute to acne and low immune activity.
Get and take religiously a multi-vitamin, a b-complex, and a vitamin C. These will significantly help you with your energy level and also boost your immune system.
Get enough sleep. People undervalue how much work their bodies do during the night. Try to get to bed as close to 10 as possible. You will feel so much better.
If you want to start taking meat out of your diet, great. Start slow. Stop eating pork and red meat and then slowly reduce your chicken and fish while adding more fruits, vegetables, brown rice, beans, and meat substitutes. Try to eat as much natural unprocessed food as possible. Try not to eat out of boxes or cans if you can.
Eat a good amount of fiber. Try not to eat white foods in favor of brown foods: brown bread, brown rice, natural pasta, etc. White foods are very processed and unnatural. That means toxins that will show up on your face.
I recommend getting off dairy, too. That's what really helped me feel better (and lose about 20 pounds). I felt like milk was clogging me up with mucus. Silk Vanilla soymilk is really good and great on cereal. Soy delicious makes great ice cream. Tofutti makes sliced cheese, sour cream, and cream cheese.
I really like Whole Soy yogurt, Smart dogs, Tofurky sandwich slices, Smart Deli bologna, Veat chicken in stirfrys, Boca crumbles in tacos and spagetti....etc. There is plenty to eat and it's really good.
Good luck with your search for health and happiness! I'll be praying for you to feel better. Check out the websites below! :^)
Source(s):
http://www.veganoutreach.org/whyvegan/...
http://www.goveg.com
It depends. My daughter did it for 6 months and her resistance went way down, was constantly sick. She did it healthy too. Just be careful, and be willing to go back if you need to.
Generally vegetarians are more sick that non-vegetarians since they lack the protein a person would normally get through meat. If you do decide to become vegetarian, make sure you eat things with protein in it, such as peanut butter, nuts, or eggs.
well not eating alot of meat could make u skinny. and its all depends. you'll some what enrgy in ur day.
I have been a vegetarian my whole life. I'm pretty healthy, but I don't think being a vegetarian has much effect on immunity and acne. Not eating meat is usually healthier because you don't eat fast food and you're more aware of where you get your protein, vitamins, etc.
I personally don't know, but my brother became one and he was way overweight, but know he's back to his out weight I think he's a little smaller than he was when he was in high school If you continue to eat things that have protein like peanut butter and continue to eat your basic food groups and keep the right amount of vitamins you'll be fine just don't go over board
becoming a vegetarian is good for you if you eat enough of the necessary nutrients. if you become a vegetarian you decrease your Cancer of becoming obese, getting high blood pressure, heart disease, and cancer; and it increases your metabolism.. it also is economically friendly, and saves the lives of many animals. I'm not sure, though, if vegetarianism will help your acne. but you really have to be careful that you eat ALL the necessary nutrients in the necessary amounts or you could endanger your health.
I am vegetarian last 21 years,I have no problem in fact I am very healthy my children are born healthy with birth weight around 9 lbs. I can't tell u drawbacks of meat only thing is it take more time to digest than vegetarian food.
Humans have teeth for chewing and that is for chewing meat. We are carnivores and all people that are vegetarian look pale and pasty and have lots of ailments and zits.
Eat meat and get some iron and protein into you for gods sake. Perhaps you are alergic to vegtables after all ??
I think if you became vegetarian you would be sicker than what you are. It is not a matter of not eating something, it is a matter of eating things. I don't think you eat very many vegetables, especially from the green leafy variety. Your immune system (tired, breakouts, and sickness are immune system imbalance) biochemistry is not based on protein or anything you get from meat. It is based on the nutrients you get from vegetables. You need to start including some green superfoods for a fast boost for your immune system. At your local health food store, some supermarkets have it in their pharmacy next to the vitamin/mineral aisle, get a bottle of Greens (spirulina, chlorella, wheat grass, barley grass, and freeze dried brocolli/kale/spinach sprouts). Try it for a couple of weeks and see if helps.
Then see how it is without meat if you still want to go vegetarian!
As long as a vegetarian makes up for the vitamins and proteins they are lacking because of their choice, then it's okay.
Yes, just make sure you are getting your proteins. You can baked your chicken and fish. I didn't eat nothing but fruits, vegetables for a month, and I lost a lot of weight but I would baked my chicken and fish. I would drink protein shakes. Some vegetarian they do eat. Try some acne facewash from Wal-mart to help with your acne and just watch the foods that intake. Best Wishes!
in my opinion, it is a MUCH better diet. i have been a vegetarian pretty much all of my life, and i have NEVER had any health problems relating to not eating meat. i'm not sure of any exact statistics, but i have read that vegetarians and vegans have much lower cholesterol and saturated fat in their bodies than meat eaters do. i have also heard that eating meat makes you more likely to get cancer, but i am not sure of that one. i do know for a fact, however, that by eliminating meat you are also SIGNIFICANTLY decreasing the risk of contracting food-borne illnesses such as e. coli. i'm no expert, but changing your diet may help clear up your skin, and as long as you eat the right things, you will definitely feel better both health-wise and from knowing you are being a more compassionate person. check out www.goveg.com for more information about vegetarianism. hope i helped =)
The source of cholesterol in a diet is from animal products. Also, fat comes from eating animals. A vegetarian or vegan diet does not have any of these things in it.
Improving Personal Health
It's no secret that compared to average meat-eaters, vegetarians generally live longer, are less likely to be overweight, suffer far fewer incidences of cancer and heart disease, and have more energy. These facts have been consistently borne out by decades of scientific research. The largest epidemiological study ever conducted (the China-Oxford-Cornell study) concluded that those eating the amount of animal foods in a typical American diet have seventeen times the death rate from heart disease, and, for women, five times the rate of breast cancer, than those who get 5% or less of their protein from animal foods. (See the references at the end of this article.)
Meat contains 14 times the amount of pesticides as plant foods, since pesticides get concentrated as they move up through the food chain, and since they're more easily stored in fatty tissues. In 1980, six years after the pesticide dieldrin was banned, the USDA destroyed two million packages of frozen turkey products contaminated with dieldrin. (And such contamination can routinely occur without detection.) In 1974, the FDA found dieldrin in 85% of all dairy products and 99.5% of the American people. The EPA discovered that the breast milk of vegetarian women contained far lower levels of pesticides than that of average Americans. A study reported in the New England Journal of Medicine found that "The highest levels of contamination in the breast milk of the vegetarians was lower than the lowest level of contamination…(in) non-vegetarian women… The mean vegetarian levels were only 1-2% as high as the average levels in the U.S
it is a peacful lifestyle and you are not supporting killing. what gives humans the right to kill a living thing when there are so manty other things to eat. i mean deer dont hang us on rusty hooks by the tendons of our heals and skin us, so why do we have the authority to do it to them???
I DUNNO I'VE BEEN A VEGGIE SINCE MY WHOLE LIFE