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What are the health benefits of becoming a vegetarian?
Posted by admin on August 1st, 2010
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Vegetarian Foods: Powerful for Health
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
http://www.pcrm.org/health/veginfo/vegetarian_foods.html
There’s more meat for me
Well you taste better to cannibals lol
less chance of certain cancers
You are more likely to do harm than good.
Especially if you are a woman intending to have babies.
Hypospadias is a serious deformity of baby boys, who may be born without a penis or with a deformed, short or twisted penis. Hypospadias occurs up to ten times as often as normal where the mother is vegetarian.
Well, actually there are more difference in your body’s performance than benefits.one takes a veggie diet due to lack of minerals from leafy veggies actually I would recommend a both meaty and veggie diet as they all are needed for our body omega3 can only be found in fish and eggs so think twice before going vegan. But I respect your decision coz veggie diet has main benefits on looks and exterior but not the muscles and organs. So good luck
There aren’t necessarily any health benefits. I’m just as unhealthy as a vegetarian as I was as a meat-eater. Sometimes, however, it does force you to make different (better) decisions about what you eat just because of what’s available for you to eat. At restaurants, it’s often salads or nothing at all. Friends are often clueless about what you will and won’t eat, so they offer you a plate of vegetables. You also may just get sick of the limitations of a diet that is both vegetarian AND unhealthy, so you make something vegetable-heavy.
And fish and eggs aren’t the only sources of Omega-3s. There’s also flax, walnuts, vegetable oils, and some fruits.
less cholesterol.
Less chance of getting certain cancers, you eat less fat overall (assuming you don’t just eat junk) and it’s healthier for the animals
http://www.goveg.com/healthConcerns.asp
There are a lot of benefits of becoming a vegetarian. In general, vegetarians:
– Have lower cholesterol levels.
– Are less likely to die of heart disease.
– Are less likely to get high blood pressure
– Are less likely to get prostate cancer.
– Are less likely to get colon cancer.
– Are less likely to get type 2 diabetes.
Hope I helped!
A vegetarian diet can be very healthy; so can a vegan diet and a diet that includes meat.
All can also be very unhealthy; it depends what’s eaten.
The health benefits of vegetarianism and veganism are often exaggerated; some of the answers here are examoles of this.
At this point I should say I’m a vegan; but I see no point in making unsubstantiate health claims for veg*nism. I think it makes us look silly and is potentially dangerous – someone may overlook symptoms because they believe their diet protects them from a particular disease.
Vegetarianism and veganism don’t protect against type 2 diabetes; type 2 diabetes is not caused by diet, except in as much as being significantly overweight is a major risk factor (though far from the only one). Moreover, T2 diabetes is hereditary; just having the appropriate genes is not enough to cause diabetes, but you can’t develop type 2 diabetes without them.
As far as cancers are concerned – There is no food that has been proven to cause cancer – or to cure, treat or prevent it, or to affect its progress in any way,
A diet HIGH in red meat and processed meat is a major risk factor for colorectal cancers.
A diet high in meat and fat is thought to be a possible risk factor for pancreatic cancer. A diet high in red and processed meats is thought to be a possible risk factor for stomach cancer.
That’s it for the recognised possible links between meat and the 200+ diseases that come under the umbrella title of ‘cancer’
And a risk factor is not a cause; ‘being male’ is a recognised risk factor for heart disease, but being male doesn’t cause heart disease.
There’s no suspected link between prostate cancer and meat consumption, although a diet high in dairy products is thought to be a possible risk factor.
The true about what we eat today, can actually be more scary than we think. It’s not something we think about everyday (it would be crazy if we could not stop thinking about everything that is wrong in the world today) but the fact is that you can make conscious choices that makes you not only a smarter person, but also a healthier one . I’m not an "expert" or know all the scientific facts, but I don’t need to dig very deep, to find out what’s in all the meat and fish people eat today; if you need antibiotics (and you’re alive) to keep your body healthy when your sick, just imagine what is needed for dead meat to be (minimally) fresh by the time it arrives to your plate. One could tell you about the levels of pollution on the oceans today, but I guess you already know that.
So, the question you have to make yourself is, "What are the benefits of not be a vegetarian?" Less, than to be a vegetarian?! I guess so… Not only you’re helping yourself improving your health, but also the health of the planet and the unnecessary suffering of so many species.
But for that to happen, it has to be an individual choice, it has to make sense in your head, it’s about what you believe, is the right thing to do. If you think starting a vegetarian diet, my advice is not to go cold turkey; start by cutting the red meat, replacing it for white meat, then cut this and replace for fish, then cut the fish and replace it for sea food (in the mean while you’re going to start to use new stuff, like tofu, soya and bean products, quorn, etc) till you finally stop eating all the sea food (or fish). Little by little, on your time, you’re not in a contest, or in a holly "mission"; if it takes one year, that’s fine, if it takes you 6 months, congratulations, also fine! The point is that you believe on what you’re doing and the awareness of those benefits. For that, just google a bit, try to know the facts behind the food process, the costs to the environment, the benefits for the health. Look up for new recipes, try new ingredients and flavors. The myth that vegetarian food is boring it’s idiot and false, some people just can avoid beeing boring, cooking with meat or without meat, they simply don’t know how to cook, but that is also just a choice (not a special skill), you can choose to learn how to cook better and if it will be without using meat or fish, I say you’re probably right!
homosapians are omnivorous! we need both meat and veggies. a lack of either is very unhealthy! and no amount of vitamins will make up for it. (besides most vitamins are beyond worthless anyway.) i mean if i had to kill my own meat i’d be a vegetarian too, but that’s only because i can’t stand to kill things. (i shew spiders outside:-) but being a vegetarian is as healthy as being a carnivore. our body’s were not meant for either!