As for optimal health. Eating meat is not bad, it is just that we eat so much of it?

Question

Would you agree with this? Can one achieve optimal nutritional health if they were to be mostly vegetarian? Eating vegetarian say 5 or 6 days a week?

Answer 1

Yep, there are cases of vegeterians who have high cholesterol & high blood pressure. Why? they're frying veggie products in oils & past dietary habits and genetics. Eating nut butters, that are made with high oils. Yep, I threw a question along this line about fish. I got great results that I did not think of: mercury in the fish, too much oils, polluted fish from polluted waters.

Answer 2

Was this question supposed to be funny ?

You can't be "mostly vegetarian". If you eat vegetarian food 5 or 6 days a week you are a meateater who eats just a small amount of meat.

A vegetarian is someone who abstains from meat or its derivatives.

I did once meet someone who said she was a veggie during the week. You don't happen to work in North Carolina, do you ? I can't believe there are 2 people in the world that think like that.

There is no need to eat any meat for a healthy diet. I've been veggie for 26 years, i'm never ill, i don't take suppliments.....

Answer 3

In a way I agree, BUT. If you have been a carnivor like the rest of us. Quitting meat and becomming a veggie takes a little remetabolizing. Protein feeds your body in many ways and there are ways to get it as a veggie, you will have to become a legume lover so to speak, and that can pose it's challenges both internal and external if you catch my drift (sorry for the pun). As long as you don't just do it on a whim and take it seriously and replace those proteins with high density carbs and watch yourself, eat all the sprouts you can.

Answer 4

People thrive as vegetarians and vegans. Do you mind me asking why you are asking us about eating meat? Some of us may get a tad upset.
We frequently get Trolls in here asking about eating meat.
I'm sure that you didn't intend for your question to come across like that, friend.

Answer 5

eating meat is bad, and not just because of nutritional health. You can get many diseases from eating animals, much more than you can from eating other things.

Answer 6

i do no longer think of anybody will persuade you or ought to even attempt to, on the grounds which you look to have already desperate for your self. some human beings do no longer consume meat by using fact they could fairly no longer have an animal killed in simple terms so as that they might consume, distinctly whilst it particularly is easily plausible to stay with out it. in actuality all animals desire to stay, in any different case they might not attempt to stay alive in the event that they are in possibility. So it particularly is compassionate to no longer kill in spite of if it particularly is mindless (people have a failing in this regard, something it relatively is validated in many situations in the information). additionally, the place do human beings draw the line whilst it includes this. some human beings say they are going to "consume something." Is that truly actual, by using fact at this 2d, somebody is having a horse steak, a cat burger, or dogs soup. So the question will become, the place do you draw the line. people who decide directly to no longer consume meat will in simple terms draw the line at no animals exhibiting compassion for all of them. in case you verify out the international (with all its wars and strife), you will see it relatively is a cost it relatively is lacking.

Answer 7

I agree though I would say it would be ok to eat meat once a day and try to stick with lean meat and not very much red meat.

Answer 8

I think you reach optimum health through the vegan diet,the only draw back is the lack of B-12.

At Yale, Professor Irving Fisher designed a series of tests to compare the stamina and strength of meat-eaters against that of vegetarians. He selected men from three groups: meat-eating athletes, vegetarian athletes, and vegetarian sedentary subjects. Fisher reported the results of his study in the Yale Medical Journal.25 His findings do not seem to lend a great deal of credibility to the popular prejudices that hold meat to be a builder of strength.

"Of the three groups compared, the...flesh-eaters showed far less endurance than the abstainers (vegetarians), even when the latter were leading a sedentary life."26
Overall, the average score of the vegetarians was over double the average score of the meat-eaters, even though half of the vegetarians were sedentary people, while all of the meat-eaters tested were athletes. After analyzing all the factors that might have been involved in the results, Fisher concluded that:

"...the difference in endurance between the flesh-eaters and the abstainers (was due) entirely to the difference in their diet.... There is strong evidence that a...non-flesh...diet is conducive to endurance."27
A comparable study was done by Dr. J. Ioteyko of the Academie de Medicine of Paris.28 Dr. Ioteyko compared the endurance of vegetarian and meat-eaters from all walks of life in a variety of tests. The vegetarians averaged two to three times more stamina than the meat-eaters. Even more remarkably, they took only one-fifth the time to recover from exhaustion compared to their meat-eating rivals.

In 1968, a Danish team of researchers tested a group of men on a variety of diets, using a stationary bicycle to measure their strength and endurance. The men were fed a mixed diet of meat and vegetables for a period of time, and then tested on the bicycle. The average time they could pedal before muscle failure was 114 minutes. These same men at a later date were fed a diet high in meat, milk and eggs for a similar period and then re-tested on the bicycles. On the high meat diet, their pedaling time before muscle failure dropped dramatically--to an average of only 57 minutes. Later, these same men were switched to a strictly vegetarian diet, composed of grains, vegetables and fruits, and then tested on the bicycles. The lack f animal products didn't seem to hurt their performance--they pedaled an average of 167 minutes.29

Wherever and whenever tests of this nature have been done, the results have been similar. This does not lend a lot of support to the supposed association of meat with strength and stamina.

Doctors in Belgium systematically compared the number of times vegetarians and meat-eaters could squeeze a grip-meter. The vegetarians won handily with an average of 69, whilst the meat-eaters averaged only 38. As in all other studies which have measured muscle recovery time, here, too, the vegetarians bounced back from fatigue far more rapidly than did the meat-eaters.30

I know of many other studies in the medical literature which report similar findings. But I know of not a single one that has arrived at different results. As a result, I confess, it has gotten rather difficult for me to listen seriously to the meat industry proudly proclaiming "meat gives strength" in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

Answer 9

meat isn't truly bad for you it's how we cook it baking is the best and we have a habit of eat ting to much moderation is what me and so many others lac.you do need protein and some healthy fat it does sound weird just ask a food expert.

Answer 10

I agree . meat is a good way to get the vitamins and minerals that are missing from vegetables
eating mostly vegetables will not give your body all the vitamins/nutrients it needs to be and stay healthy.
eat meat a few times a week
http://www.nutrients/vitamins/meat.com
http://www.nutrients/vitamins/vegetables.com