Is it true that vegetarians are more healthy than ppl that eat meat??!


Question:

Is it true that vegetarians are more healthy than ppl that eat meat??

I was just wondering if its true that ppl that dont eat meat are healthier than meat eaters.


Answers:
usually, yes.

Not really. Some vegetarians eat terribly--junk food, soda, etc. How is that better?

You can be healthy regardless of whether you do or do not eat meat. If you eat well balanced meats and eat in moderation, you're going to be fine. There are just as many unhealthy vegetarians as there are meat eaters.

I think it's true. My immediate family is all vegetarian and we were consistently the only branch of the family not battling at least one of the following diabetes, obesity, or hypertension. This changed when other branches of the family became vegetarian and suddenly became healthier. Considering that we don't particularly pay attention to what's really healthy and what's not I think that's and interesting happenstance.

yes in a way cause u need protien in meat and if u dont have that protien to be strong and if u dont have met u could be really weak

Yes and no. How's that for a straight forward answer? If the vegetarians are knowledgeable vegetarians and eat proper vegetarian diets, medical studies have consistently found them to be healthier than non-vegetarians.

However, if the person is just a 'non-meat' eater, and eats a lousy diet (without meat), then they will be as unhealthy as the meat eater on a lousy diet.

In my professional training, one of my professors liked to say this: "The perfect diet is a vegetarian diet .......... plus meat".

Best wishes.

Yes, vegetarians are a lot healthier, because they take better care of their body and watch what they eat. Red meat has been linked to breast and colon cancer, not to mention heart disease.
Most vegetarians eat organic foods and foods that contain no trans fats, also foods low in saturated fats.
I don't think that if you are a vegetarian and all you do is eat fries and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and drink soft drinks all day is healthy though. I meant that vegetarians who are informed about nutrition are generally healthier than the general population.

Not necessarily. Proteins and Fats are necessary to live. Vegetarians who are not careful about getting enough fats and proteins can get sick. That being said, with the proper types of foods, vegetarians can POSSIBLY be more healthy than one who also eats meat.

well, it's complex. Yes in ways and no in others. You have to eat stuff like tofu and soybean to get other nutrients. But have you gone to the store to scope out the all veggie diet?

People say we are the fattest nation in the world.WTF? Go look at some hot dogs they are about 3 or four dollars or less. Tofu is way more costly than that and you don't get alot. Like price sodas, and go price juice. The juice is higher and not a huge amount. SO i have come up with this it's cheaper to be fat than skinny. so next time your at the store, check it for your self with your own 2 eyes. And if things go right for me you'll hear me talking about this crap on tv one day!

More often than not, yes. As far as I know this has at least as much to do with the fact that they make life choices based on an interest in health as it does because the fact that they don't eat meat. I have seen a lot of evidence to support both sides of the meat argument, and as far as I can tell, meat in moderation (a reasonable amount a few times a week) with a lot of fruits and vegetables is a good, healthy diet. Also, the average American eats way too much meat (and even worse stuff), and not nearly enough fruits and veggies. This is a big part of why so many Americans are suffering from such debilitating diseases as diabetes.

No, and this is why: sugar and carbohydrates are bad for you and vegetarians eat those just like others. Meat may contain cholesterol, but that is no way as evil as trans-fatty acids, which are most often found in products with hydrogenated oils, such as margarine. Butter, in fact, is healthier than margarine, and it is an animal product!
Eating more non-starchy vegetables would be good for someone, but that has nothing to do with eating or not eating meat. Vegetarians often replace the meat in meals with grains rice, and legumes, etc.

If all other variables are constant, the answer is Yes.

A person can be healthy no matter what they eat. I think that many vegetarians, opposed to many meat eaters, are more careful about what they eat. They try to eat better, so thus they are healthier. But many vegetarians also get sick if they do not make sure that they are getting all of their nutrients from another source other than meat. I am a vegan and I feel healthier now than when I ate meat. Perhaps its because I take more care in what I eat and the amount that I eat or perhaps its because I cut animals out of my diet. Either way, a person can be healthy whether or not they eat meat.

As long as you're careful to eat a balanced vegetarian diet then yes it is healthier than a meat eating diet. Meat is linked to a lot of diseases and it is not digested properly, leading to rotting in the gut. A plant based diet has the potential to give someone all the fat and protein they need, but as long as the person takes care to eat correctly. Living on a diet of chips and junk might be vegetarian but it won't make you healthy. A lot of vegetarians have no idea what foods contain protein and they fall sick because they're not getting enough nutrients. That fuels the meat eater's argument that vegetarian diets are unhealthy, but that isn't true. A BALANCED vegetarian diet is far healthier than eating stacks of meat.

If someone follows a healthy vegetarian diet and they exercise, than yes they would be more healthy than someone who consumes a diet high in fat and cholesterol, which would usually be a meat eaters diet.

If a vegan diet is very carefully planned, and that requires either fortified foods or supplements, it can be AS healthy as a good meat eating diet, but not, I think, any healthier.
I think there are a few benefits, but they come from eating a wide range of fruit and veg and being health conscious as vegans have to be, not omitting meat, and thus those benefits can be go without actually going veggie. Needless to say a uncarefully planned vegetarian, or especially vegan, diet can lack many essential nutrients and be very bad for your health.

There are many benefits to a diet containing meat. Many vegetarians claim that meat is unhealthy. This is a blatant fallacy.
It is well established that eating meat improves the quality of nutrition, strengthens the immune system, promotes normal growth and development, is beneficial for day-to-day health, energy and well-being, and helps ensure optimal learning and academic performance.
A long term study found that children who eat more meat are less likely to have deficiencies than those who eat little or no meat. Kids who don’t eat meat ― and especially if they restrict other foods, as many girls are doing ― are more likely to feel tired, apathetic, unable to concentrate, are sick more often, more frequently depressed, and are the most likely to be malnourished and have stunted growth. Meat and other animal-source foods are the building blocks of healthy growth that have made America’s and Europe's youngsters among the tallest, strongest and healthiest in the world.
Meat is an important source of quality nutrients, heme iron, protein, zinc and B-complex vitamins. It provides high-quality protein important for kids’ healthy growth and development.
The iron in meat (heme iron) is of high quality and well absorbed by the body, unlike nonheme iron from plants which is not well absorbed. More than 90 percent of iron consumed may be wasted when taken without some heme iron from animal sources. Substances found to inhibit nonheme iron absorption include phytates in cereals, nuts and legumes, and polyphenolics in vegetables. Symptoms of iron deficiency include fatigue, headache, irritability and decreased work performance. For young children, it can lead to impairment in general intelligence, language, motor performance and school readiness. Girls especially need iron after puberty due to blood losses, or if pregnant. Yet studies show 75 percent of teenage girls get less iron than recommended.
Meat, poultry and eggs are also good sources of absorbable zinc, a trace mineral vital for strengthening the immune system and normal growth. Deficiencies link to decreased attention, poorer problem solving and short-term memory, weakened immune system, and the inability to fight infection. While nuts and legumes contain zinc, plant fibre contains phytates that bind it into a nonabsorbable compound.
Found almost exclusively in animal products, Vitamin B12 is necessary for forming new cells. A deficiency can cause anaemia and permanent nerve damage and paralysis. The Vitimin B12 in plants isn't even bioavailable, meaning our body can't use it.
Why not buy food supplements to replace missing vitamins and minerals? Some people believe they can fill those gaps with pills, but they may be fooling themselves. Research consistently shows that real foods in a balanced diet are far superior to trying to make up deficiencies with supplements.

Some people claim that meat is unhealthy because it contains saturated fat. So does margarine and olive oil, and they're vegan suitable (in fact the hydrogenated fats in Marge can be very bad, but that's another story). Besides, any excess calories in your diet, any excess sugar, starch or carbohydrates are stored in your body for later use. This is done by turning them into saturated fats.
Cholesterol too. Your body on average creates four to five times more cholesterol than the average person consumes, and compensates by creating more when less is consumed. Cholesterol isn't evil, it is essential; it makes up the waterproof linings of all our cells and without it we would die. Too much can be bad, but as with saturated fats there are more healthy ways of disposing of it, like regular exercise. Anyway, it isn't so much how much cholesterol you eat, but how well yur body handles it. A person who eats loads of dietary cholesterol and leads an unhealthy lifestyle can still have low cholesterol, and vice versa. Most people's bodies are able to take a large amount of cholesterol without getting atherosclerosis. For this reason that eating meat gives you heart disease is very misleading, and for the most part untrue. Of course, if you do have a problem eating loads isn't a good idea, but for most people there is nothing at all to worry about.

Yes, there are things in meat that there is some evidence can cause cancer in some people, but there are as many in plants too. Soy especially has some very potent carcinogens. Processing of soy protein results in the formation of toxic lysinoalanine and highly carcinogenic nitrosamines.
Soy phytoestrogens disrupt endocrine function and have the potential to cause infertility and to promote breast cancer in adult women. Also they are potent antithyroid agents that cause hypothyroidism and may cause thyroid cancer. In infants, consumption of soy formula has been linked to autoimmune thyroid disease.
Soy is bad for numerous other reasons, but that isn't the point, I'm just using it as a quick example relating to cancer not being exclusive to some animal products. The evidence that claims meat does cause cancer is patchy anyway.

The fact is Humans are omnivores, with the ability to eat nearly everything. By preference, prehistoric people ate a high-protein, high-mineral diet based on meat and animal sources, whenever available. Their foods came mainly from three of the five food groups: meat, vegetables and fruits. As a result, big game mammoth hunters were tall and strong with massive bones. They grew six inches taller than their farming descendants in Europe, who ate mostly plant foods, and only in recent times regained most of this height upon again eating more meat, eggs and dairy foods. We are adapted to eat meat, and it is just as natural as eating plants.
Some also claim that the digestion of meat releases harmful byproducts into our system. This is true, however such are our adaptations to eating meat that our bodies are quite able to dispose of said products without any adverse effects.

So, in summary: it isn't healthier to avoid meat. You can be healthy without meat, but likely not as healthy as if you did, assuming you kept things like the wide range of fruit and veg that a veggie diet usually entails. Too much meat can be bad, but normal amounts are no problem at all. Any health benefits that come from a veggie diet come from a wide range of fruit and veg, and being health conscious, as veggies often are; that doesn't require you to not eat meat."

I don't think a vegan diet benefits anyone in any way better than a better meat eating diet could at all. If you have no ethical qualms, it's quite pointless. PETA will tell you otherwise, but they have very strong ethical opinions, and mould their 'evidence' around it. There is, for example, some evidence that vegans live longer and are at less risk from cancer and heart disease; however those studies show only a very marginal and insignificant difference and none of those studies have yet managed to identify meat as the only variable. Veggies are less likely to smoke, drink or eat junk food, and eat a wider range of fruit and veg, making the test results inaccurate and unreliable.




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