What are the advantages of vegeterian diet?

Answer 1

Several studies show that vegetarians have longer life-spans than their meat-eating counterparts. One 20-year study, conducted by Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, Calif., found that vegetarians live, on average, a full 10 to 15 years longer than meat eaters.

Eating a plant-based diet helps reduce your risk for:

a. Hypertension and heart disease

b. Cancers (especially of the lung and colon)

c. Type 2 diabetes

d. Kidney disease

e. All of the above

Vegetarians have lower rates of all these diseases. Researchers reason that plant-based diets tend to be lower in fat and higher in fiber and other key disease-fighting antioxidants (including vitamins C, E and beta-carotene) than typical meat eaters’ diets. Some major findings:

• Eating a diet high in saturated fat, which is abundant in animal products, increases the threat of heart disease, diabetes and cancer.

• Excess dietary protein—much more common among non-vegetarians—is linked to kidney stones (as well as osteoporosis).

http://www.vegetariantimes.com/section_d...

Answer 2

Advantage #1 is that you are much healthier since there is not so much fat in your body. Therefore, there is a slimmer chance of being everweight. I feel much better and get sick much less than my friends who are not vegetarians, NO LIE. I can make lunch much quicker, since I don't have to cook that long most of the time. Finally, you don't have a chance of getting mad cow disease.
Advantage #2 is that being a vegetarian is better for the environment and the economy. For example, let's say you buy a pound of beef, the cow that the beef came consumed 13 times it's weight in vegetation during it's life time, imagine, if you buy the same amount of vegetation that the cow ate, you could feed so many people. Livestock is eating a lot of the food that is needed for people, only so they can be killed. It is environmentally better because you are not eating any animals.
Advantage #3 is that vegetables and fruits are much less expensive than meat, so it is better for your budget too. That means that there is more money left for you.
There are many more, but I don't have enough time to write ALL of them down.

Answer 3

The reasons studies show that vegetarians live longer than non vegetarians is because most meat eaters over do it with the amount of meat they eat. Many do not get enough fruits and vegetables in their diets and eat to many fatty foods. Vegetarians have to pay more attention to their diets because they cannot get some nutrients that are found in meats from other foods easily.

Answer 4

Diabetes is usually treated through a combination of diet (low sugar), exercise and medications/insulin. Milder cases can be controlled with just diet an/or exercise while more severe cases require meds or insulin as well.
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Answer 5

Well a vegetarian diet is better for your health, better for the animals (obviously) and better for the environment. It's also less wasteful.

More info on the health aspects:

http://www.goveg.com/healthConcerns.asp
http://www.unh-edu.org/unh/three_health_advantages_of_a_vegetarian_diet.html

Answer 6

To seriously find the advantages of a vegetarian diet, is to go ahead and try it.(Even though it is really not a diet, but more of a lifestyle). Try the lifestyle for two months and see what the advantages are for you, at least health wise. See what eating only vegetables with all the nutritients and fiber can do for you. And then try eating vegan for awhile and see what the advantages of cutting dairy and eggs from your food eating vocabulary can do for your health.

Many vegetarians that found their health improved will tell you they felt wonderful, but there are many who tried and felt wonderful but couldn't keep it up because their environment wasn't conducive to it (in a while I think it will be easier to be vegetarian in our consumer pleasing society as more people find vegetarianism healthier for their body). Only by doing it yourself, can you find the answers for you specifically.

Answer 7

Im afraid cuttlekid is completely wrong, this is the myth that meat eaters like to spout.

We are not actually equipped to digest meat that well, it takes 3 days for us to digest meat, a carnivore digests it alot quicker. Meat is no good for us. A non animal product diet is best, as long as you are eating a varied diet with adequate calories, it is almost impossible to develop protein deficiency.
And you wont clog your arterys with cholesterol found in meat.

Answer 8

None, none whatsoever! Nature did not intend for you to be a vegetarian. Proof of that is in the shape of your teeth and the ability to digest protein from meat. Most animals that live from a strictly vegetarian diet don't have the ability to digest protein from meat and actually suffer if this diet is imposed. But be aware that the problem is not in eating meat, or poultry or fish, but in the amounts we consume today. We are omnivores and 400,000 years of evolution is proof that we aren't doing anything wrong. If you eat a diversified and balanced diet, you'll be OK.

Answer 9

well its healthier for your heart and you don't feel the guilt of eating an animal that was kept in a small dirty crowded inhuman environment

Answer 10

2005 November ? issue of National geographic showed that longevity and vegetarianism are defiantly linked
http://www.amazingfacts.org/Resources/Video/NRVideo/NR28.asx