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I would like to know the health benefits of vegetarianism, aside from the obvious ‘more humane’ reasons.
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What are the benefits of vegetarianism, aside from more ‘humane’?
Posted by admin on September 23rd, 2009
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you’d be less likely to get disease and diabetes.
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It’s much healthier! It lowers your risk for certain cancers and diseases. I myself am Vegan, and since I started I have had less colds.
Plus the mental health-you feel so much better about yourself?
check this out http://www.vegsource.com/how_to_win.htm it has a bazillion good reasons.
other veg’s think you are hot…
HEALTH BENEFITS OF VEGETARIANISM:
# Vegetarians have a 20% lower rate of mortality from all causes (ie. they live longer & don’t get sick as often)
# Meat is full of traces of antibiotics, hormones, toxins produced by stress & pesticide residues that become concentrated from all the crops they have eaten
# Fish contain heavy metals & other pollutants -many of which originated on farms
# The world health organization recommends a diet low in saturated fat, sugar, salt & with plenty of fibre – exactly what you get on a vegan/vegetarian diet
# Farmed animals contain upto 50% saturated fat in their bodies
# Vegetarians have 24% reduced risk of getting heart disease & Vegans a 57% reduction (heart disease is the biggest killer in the UK accounting for 50% of deaths)
# Obesity is rare in vegetarians, obesity is related to many diseases
# Vegans & vegetarians have lower blood pressure & cholesterol levels – high levels are associated with heart disease, strokes & kidney failure
# Vegetarians have a 50% reduced risk of dying of diabetes
# Vegetarians have a 40% reduced level of cancer than the general population thought to be because they have a higher intake of vitamins A,C & E
# Vegetarians have a reduced risk of developing gall & kidney stones
# 80% of food poisoning is due to infected meat (faeces, bacteria etc.) after all meat is decomposing flesh – most of the rest is due to salmonella in eggs
# Osteoporosis due to calcium loss from bones is mainly due to the sulphur content in meat & casein protein in milk that cause calcium to be lost in the urine – the countries with the highest meat & dairy consumption are those with the highest levels of brittle bones
# 50% of people do not have the enzyme to digest milk properly & milk allergy is related to asthma & eczema
# Meat eaters have double the rate of Alzheimers disease as Vegans & Vegetarians – some people also think that Parkinsons disease is also linked to meat eating
# Egg yolk is a dense concentration of saturated fat & the white is high in albumin protein associated with leaching calcium into your urine. Butter is 80% saturated fat, cream is 40% saturated fat & cheese is 25-40% saturated fat
# Meat eaters are two and a half times more likely to get bowel cancer than Vegetarians
# The cling film used to wrap meat in supermarkets & butchers contains chemicals linked to falling sperm counts in men
# Chinese people (living mainly on a vegetarian diet) consume 20% more calories than Americans but Americans are 20% fatter
# Of 2,100,000 deaths in the USA in 1987, 1,500,000 were related to diet (ie. meat & dairy)
As I mentioned before, I think being a vegetarian makes me quite unique. Also, its sets me as a good example for so many other people to try healthier food, and help abolish animal slaughter. I like to advocate vegetarianism.
The American Dietetic Association states that vegetarians have “lower rates of death from ischemic heart disease; … lower blood cholesterol levels, lower blood pressure, and lower rates of hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and prostate and colon cancer” and that vegetarians are less likely than meat-eaters to be obese.
http://www.eatright.org/cps/rde/xchg/ada/hs.xsl/advocacy_933_ENU_HTML.htm
Heart Disease: A major study published in February 2005 found that a high intake of protein from vegetable sources like tofu, nuts, and beans lowers our risk of heart disease by 30 percent. It also concluded that among the 29,000 participants, those who ate the most meat were also at the greatest risk for heart disease. The study was published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
http://goveg.com/heartdisease.asp
Cancer: According to the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine: "Vegetarians are about 40 percent less likely to get cancer than nonvegetarians, regardless of other risks such as smoking, body size, and socioeconomic status." An 11-year-long German study involving more than 800 vegetarian men found their cancer rates were less than half those of the general public. Studies in Japan and Sweden also have shown vegetarians to have a lower risk of developing cancer.
http://goveg.com/cancer.asp
More benefits:
http://goveg.com/healthConcerns.asp
One of the very best reasons is that you are eating lower on the food chain which is eco-friendly. You actually have a smaller carbon foot-print because you don’t eat meat.
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