What are the advantages of vegeterian diet?!
What are the advantages of vegeterian diet?
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Several studies show that vegetarians have longer life-spans than their meat-eating counterparts. One 20-year study, conducted by Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, Calif., found that vegetarians live, on average, a full 10 to 15 years longer than meat eaters.
Eating a plant-based diet helps reduce your risk for:
a. Hypertension and heart disease
b. Cancers (especially of the lung and colon)
c. Type 2 diabetes
d. Kidney disease
e. All of the above
Vegetarians have lower rates of all these diseases. Researchers reason that plant-based diets tend to be lower in fat and higher in fiber and other key disease-fighting antioxidants (including vitamins C, E and beta-carotene) than typical meat eaters’ diets. Some major findings:
? Eating a diet high in saturated fat, which is abundant in animal products, increases the threat of heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
? Excess dietary protein―much more common among non-vegetarians―is linked to kidney stones (as well as osteoporosis).
http://www.vegetariantimes.com/section_d...
Seriously!! You get more veggies that you need, and fruits. It's like you're always clean (inside). You need food to energize your body! I don't like it
they are finding that meats cause cancer
None, none whatsoever! Nature did not intend for you to be a vegetarian. Proof of that is in the shape of your teeth and the ability to digest protein from meat. Most animals that live from a strictly vegetarian diet don't have the ability to digest protein from meat and actually suffer if this diet is imposed. But be aware that the problem is not in eating meat, or poultry or fish, but in the amounts we consume today. We are omnivores and 400,000 years of evolution is proof that we aren't doing anything wrong. If you eat a diversified and balanced diet, you'll be OK.
Im afraid cuttlekid is completely wrong, this is the myth that meat eaters like to spout.
We are not actually equipped to digest meat that well, it takes 3 days for us to digest meat, a carnivore digests it alot quicker. Meat is no good for us. A non animal product diet is best, as long as you are eating a varied diet with adequate calories, it is almost impossible to develop protein deficiency.
And you wont clog your arterys with cholesterol found in meat.
To seriously find the advantages of a vegetarian diet, is to go ahead and try it.(Even though it is really not a diet, but more of a lifestyle). Try the lifestyle for two months and see what the advantages are for you, at least health wise. See what eating only vegetables with all the nutritients and fiber can do for you. And then try eating vegan for awhile and see what the advantages of cutting dairy and eggs from your food eating vocabulary can do for your health.
Many vegetarians that found their health improved will tell you they felt wonderful, but there are many who tried and felt wonderful but couldn't keep it up because their environment wasn't conducive to it (in a while I think it will be easier to be vegetarian in our consumer pleasing society as more people find vegetarianism healthier for their body). Only by doing it yourself, can you find the answers for you specifically.
less cancer, less heart disease, less diabetes, lower weight, fewer colds, fewer allergies, lower rates of asthma, the list goes on and on.
Well a vegetarian diet is better for your health, better for the animals (obviously) and better for the environment. It's also less wasteful.
More info on the health aspects:
http://www.goveg.com/healthconcerns.asp...
http://www.unh-edu.org/unh/three_health_...
To sepolavi, it may well be true that vegans live healthier lives, but there is little evidence suggesting that it is the diet that makes that so. Very few vegans smoke, binge drink, overeat, but generally live well planned health conscious lives; in contrast most meateaters don't. No study to date has managed to control all the variables. Don't you think that might affect the results.
When those factors are taken into account, there is very little difference between the two for any disease or disorder (except for obesity, which a vegan diet is shown to be good for, but surprisingly not for cholesterol levels or heart disease), for some things vegans are shown to be worse off, for instance the all death rate for vegans is higher than meat eaters.
As for saturated fat, aka animal fat, the levels in your blood aren't directly influenced by the amount you eat. Your body creates saturated fats as a method of storing energy from any spare carbohydrates or sugars, so one who eats little dietary fat can still have a very high blood level, and vice versa.
In fact, the levels of saturated fats in vegans blood has been shown to be not very different at all to meat eaters, 3 or 4% maybe, and that includes the factors I mentioned above.
Similarly, your body creates cholesterol, normally 4 or 5 times more than the person eats, but compensating is less is consumed. The simple fact is that cholesterol is essential to living, and as with saturated fats dietary intake of cholesterol isn't directly linked to blood levels or build up of atheroma. Atherosclerosis is caused not by how much cholesterol you eat, but how your body handles it; and most peoples bodies are able to handle a large amount with no adverse effects. This is why people only tend to get coronary diseases when they get older - 90% of heart disease patients are over 60 - because as you get older your body becomes less adept at handling things, in the same way you get wrinkles.Thus not only can people who eat large amounts of dietary cholesterol have low blood levels, and vice versa, but the rates of heart disease for vegans aren't very much lower at all, as I mentioned above several times.
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. I think there are a couple of 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.
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To Nicky B, I'm afraid it is you who is completely wrong.
Simple research into human biology reveals how we are meant to eat meat. For one thing, our body produces hydrochloric acid and meat splitting enzymes that herbivores don't produce and are solely used for the digestion of meat. There are adaptations to our teeth (not incisors, rather the size of the jaw), stomach and intestines which have made a human being very adept at meat digestion. There is nothing wrong with the way our body digests meat, and we are so adept at eating it (albeit not as adept as carnivores, who are designed solely for meat consumption, in cantrast to our omnivorous digestive systems - go figure) no scientists are of any doubt we've evolved to eat it.
In contrast, there are many reasons we aren't naturally herbivores. We cannot naturally get all the nutrients we need without animal products naturally. Vitamin B12 cannot be got, even now, without animal products or supplements, and a lack of it can cause anaemia and impending death. 60% of vegans even now have some level of B12 deficiency, as opposed to no meat eaters, which says something about how well adapted we are to a vegan diet.
All other nutriets can be got natually. That owes to that vegtables can now be sold all year round, even out of season, and can be flown into the country from all over the world. In bygone times people could only eat the relatively small range of plants that grew in their ecosytem, and only when they were in season. Thus many more nutrients would have been unavailable and still more unavaillable for most of he year. Until very recently it would have been impossible for a vegan human to live naturally without dying very quickly.
Now, meat makes up for all these lost nutrients very nicely, and it really shows how we aren't naturally vegans, as until very recently it was impossible to live like that.
Advantage #1 is that you are much healthier since there is not so much fat in your body. Therefore, there is a slimmer chance of being everweight. I feel much better and get sick much less than my friends who are not vegetarians, NO LIE. I can make lunch much quicker, since I don't have to cook that long most of the time. Finally, you don't have a chance of getting mad cow disease.
Advantage #2 is that being a vegetarian is better for the environment and the economy. For example, let's say you buy a pound of beef, the cow that the beef came consumed 13 times it's weight in vegetation during it's life time, imagine, if you buy the same amount of vegetation that the cow ate, you could feed so many people. Livestock is eating a lot of the food that is needed for people, only so they can be killed. It is environmentally better because you are not eating any animals.
Advantage #3 is that vegetables and fruits are much less expensive than meat, so it is better for your budget too. That means that there is more money left for you.
There are many more, but I don't have enough time to write ALL of them down.
well its healthier for your heart and you don't feel the guilt of eating an animal that was kept in a small dirty crowded inhuman environment
2005 November ? issue of National geographic showed that longevity and vegetarianism are defiantly linked
http://www.amazingfacts.org/resources/vi...
The reasons studies show that vegetarians live longer than non vegetarians is because most meat eaters over do it with the amount of meat they eat. Many do not get enough fruits and vegetables in their diets and eat to many fatty foods. Vegetarians have to pay more attention to their diets because they cannot get some nutrients that are found in meats from other foods easily.