from survey food processing division
2006-09-25 19:25:09 · 16 answers · asked by vigneez 1 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
You can eat a vegetarian diet and get all the nutrients your body needs. The problem is that people often choose to go vegetarian by just not eating meat or animal based foods, without following a truly healthy vegetarian diet. The diet needs to include plenty of legumes (which are high in protein), soy, yellow and leafy greens in order to provide the proper protein requirements.
2006-09-25 19:32:13 · answer #1 · answered by IAINTELLEN 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, its easier depending on which level of vegetarian diet you accept. Some accept eggs and milk and even fish while others are strictly veggie. You can get all your requirements from veggies if you know where the nutrients you need are. I want to know what local, (within the continental U.S.) veggies are binders? I find that my stool is way too loose on strict veggie diet. Irritable Bowel Syndrome is a terrible thing for veggie diet.
Bananas are a great source of potassium, pinto beans are great for protein. These are the two nutrients most attributed to meat.
http://judgeright.blogspot.com
2006-09-26 03:07:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A balanced diet is one from which you can get all the amino acids, enzymes, minerals, vitamins, fiber and energy that you need to be healthy to the end of a normal lifespan.
Meat has higher concentrations of some of the necessary nutrients than plant matter does. But I think that you can get it all from plants, if you eat all the right plants. A combination of grain and legumes can give you all (or almost all) of the needed amino acids.
And plants can give you stuff that meat probably won't, such as vitamin C and carotene.
2006-09-26 02:47:48 · answer #3 · answered by David S 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Their are certain proteins and minerals that you need that can not get from vegetables. Eggs, steak, and meat have those nutrients. Vegetarians--from the ones that I've known--have to drink and eat a lot of mineral and protein supplements in order to keep their body balance up.
2006-09-26 02:27:59 · answer #4 · answered by Bachman-ette 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you mean, can a vegetarian diet completely serve your nutritional needs, the answer in YES!But keep in mind that nutrition is a very complex subject & before you try a vegetarian diet please do some reading regarding general needs and your particular needs for your activities. Much more than a general diet a vegetarian one must be designed for yourself. If your serious consult with a nutrionist too.
2006-09-26 02:45:54 · answer #5 · answered by theduke 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Vegetarian food contains little or no proteins at all. Proteins are amino acids which are the building blocks of life. In order to obtain proteins, one'll have to consume more soy beans because they contain proteins. Baked beans / brown rice / tofu / oat meals are good vegetarian sources of proteins.
2006-09-26 02:38:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A vegetarian diet usually lacks protein. BUt that can easily be solved by taking vitamin supplements.
2006-09-26 02:35:58 · answer #7 · answered by almond flakes 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Certainly not. You do not get good quality protein in any veg food. And thats why now the concept of eggetarainism is emerging.
2006-09-26 06:24:09 · answer #8 · answered by Viji 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have come to the earth to enjoy for a brief period of time. Why spend some of those precious time pondering what to eat and waht not. Just eat what you like. Not eating non-veg will not take you to heaven, but after death you will rue that you have missed that.
2006-09-26 02:55:50 · answer #9 · answered by rups 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well not exactly, u have to also have some nonveg, specifically for vitamin B12, which is rarely there in veg food, and also in less quantities than nonveg food..have lots of green lleafy things as well as nonveg at least twice a week
2006-09-26 02:35:30 · answer #10 · answered by friendsseason9 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋