I've been considering and sampling a vegetarian diet. I've tried the faux meat products out there and find them a delicious and close---in some cases perfect---match to their meaty counterparts. But during a conversation with some co-workers today, the subject came up of how healthy these meatless alternatives really were. They speculated that in order to get them to taste like meat, veggie dogs and the like must filled with countless preservatives and additives...thereby making them very UNhealthy. While I would love to incorporate these tasty treats into a vegetarian diet (if I so choose that route) I worry that their concerns might have a ring of truth to them. In the pursuit of a juicy soyburger, would I be exposing myself to a host of unhealthy chemicals?
Oh, a slightly off-topic p.s. When I brought up tofu as a good alternative, another co-worker claimed that it causes breast cancer because it's estrogen based or something like that. Feel free to clue me in on that too.
2007-12-14
13:55:55
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Vegetarian & Vegan