recently i've been living and mixing with a lot of vegetarians and i realised that they tend to fall sick oftenly which is surprisingly i mean there can't be so many coincidences,can it?anyway im not vegetarian myself
2006-11-14 17:29:52 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Vegetarian & Vegan
Perhaps it is that the vegetarians that you know are not getting all of the proper nutrients they need to stay healthy. I am a vegan and have been for about 6 years and I get sick at the same rate, perhaps even less, as I did when I ate meat. I think that it isn't that all vegetarians get sick often, I think that it is the vegetarians that do not balance their diet well and get all of their nutrients that fall sick often.
2006-11-14 18:14:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The vegetarians you have been living and mixing with may not have a healthy lifestyle or have a healthy diet (being vegetarian doesn't necessarily mean a person is automatically healthy).
A person can smoke, drink, and eat pizza and bean & cheese burritos every day and still be considered vegetarian.
I have been vegetarian for almost 15 years. I think I have had the flu twice in that period of time. And, I rarely get a cold. If I do, the symptoms are really minor and I am sick for only a few days at the most.
2006-11-14 18:14:15 · answer #2 · answered by jodneko 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
if you're actually not getting the needed supplementations, proteins, and stuff like that it may. I have got here upon out that turning out to be a vegetarian and going again to a meat-filled nutrition routine can. I wasn't sick in any respect after I became one.
2016-10-16 09:00:34 · answer #3 · answered by konen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I first became vegetarian I use to become sick often because of not knowing where to get proper nutrion from, I do not become sick anymore, in fact I haven't in a long time. I now know where to get good food, and I also take vitamans which really help. The vegetarians, or vegans you are talking about are probaly not eating healthy.
2006-11-15 04:03:05 · answer #4 · answered by yunson 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its probably the people you are around, not vegetarianism per se. Since becoming vegetarian 18 months ago i haven't noticed any changes in my health either way. I don't take supplements or anything either. Some people just tend to be healthier than others.
2006-11-15 18:10:51 · answer #5 · answered by student_of_life 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
people can sick more often if they do not have a well balanced diet. This goes for omnivores as well. I'm vegetarian and hardly ever get sick however most omnivores I know get more colds and such then I do. Is that just a coincidence or maybe they just aren't eating their veggies?
2006-11-14 22:29:55 · answer #6 · answered by KathyS 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Often. Not oftenly(not a word).
And it's because many vegetarians do not get the iron they need to maintain a healthy white cell count, thus lowering their immune systems and making them more susceptible to disease.
2006-11-15 08:57:27 · answer #7 · answered by Barrett G 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't fall sick often. Your friends must be living on pastries and chips!! If they had a BALANCED vegetarian diet they wouldnot be so ill. I was ill a lot when I ate meat.
2006-11-14 20:01:19 · answer #8 · answered by Andielep 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Uhmm.. Do you have stats to back it up??
I'm a vegetarian and we don't fall sick often, and i know a lot of vegetarians.
2006-11-15 00:14:22 · answer #9 · answered by Aquamarine 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
well i don't know about your friends but i have been a vegetarian basically all my life and i hardly ever get sick. maybe it has to do with some other part of their lifestyle.
2006-11-15 10:32:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋