Is being a vegitarian expensive. I want to live long, will it help. I also want toloose wieght. Can you be.

Question

a strong athlete and be a vegitarian. I liek to work out and play sports.

Answer 1

No. It's much cheaper than eating meat, actually. My wife and I shop at Whole Foods and spend about $70.00 a week on groceries. We usually have some wine in there, too. Meat is costly, veggies are not - especially if you cook for yourself.

Answer 2

I'm very active and vegetarian, but you have to make sure you eat enough protein that's not loaded with fat, such as lentils and tofu. Cheese and peanut butter are good sources of protein but very high in fat; eat in moderation! The thing I've found being veggie is that I tend to 'graze', ie eat little and often. Veggie food doesnt have the calorific density that meat does as it has more water content, so you get bloated if you eat too much even though you're not consuming that many calories. I had to eat meat when I went travelling as there was little veggie food available and I piled on the pounds, having forgotten how many calories meat has! And no, it's not expensive.

Answer 3

You can be an athlete and still be a vegetarian but you need consistantly high amounts of protein. High amounts of protein can also help you lose weight. Look for vegetable protein for help such as beans, lentils,legumes, tofu products (some) or items made with TVP (textured Vegetable Protein) I believe I have been a lot healthier since I became a vegetarian. I still eat some seafood and once in awhile poultry but very little of either.

Answer 4

first vegetarian are not expensive. look at the menu in Subway.
vegie sandwich is only 2.80$ and look others.
here a tip to loss weight
Food that cause you loss weight base on
low fat vegetarian diet

20 Foods You Can Eat in Virtually Unlimited Portions

Corn Celery whole wheat breads
brownRice Peas
Potatoes Cauliflower
Lettuce (all varieties) Tomatoes
Broccoli Cabbage
Carrots Oranges
Black beans Apples
Kidney Beans Grapefruit
Spinach Bananas

Plant-based diets promote slimness,
while Animal products promote overweight.

Foods to avoid
All vegetable oil, (Avocado, Olive oil)
Animal products & Dairies (milk- butter- cheese)
Sugar(honey)

Exercise Moderate

believe me i try it and i lost 8 -9 pounds in less than 1 months. I tried atkins or southbeach diet or all fad diets, and i was always weak and hungry and all the lost came back after i stoped. but with this i am feel full all the time and losing weight. first you start to loss sizes and then you loss on the scale.
try it and you wont believe it. Source(s) http://www.amazon.com/foods-that-cause-l...
This book is my bible
just try it for one months and don't scare to eat carbs( i was so scared) but not anymore

Answer 5

Yes being a vegetarian can be expensive and it will help you loose weight if you're an "A" blood type if you're an "O" blood type though meat is actually better for you because it speeds up your metabolism. If you do go veg I suggest eating soy products such as Boca and Morningstar. Very good and packed with protein, Also peanut butter and make sure you're buying bread with enough protein in it. PROTEIN, PROTEIN< PROTEIN

Answer 6

Vegetarianism doesn't help you live longer. Statistical surveys do sometimes suggest that vegetarians, on average, live marginally longer, healthier lives. But we should bear in mind that research has yet to isolate the presence or absence of meat in the diet as the only variable under investigation. There are always extraneous factors which can explain equally well any health differences found between vegetarians and meat eaters. For example, many vegetarians choose their diet for health reasons simply because statement is accepted as common knowledge. But folk willing to cut out meat for health reasons, right or wrong, are likely to be making other lifestyle decisions for health reasons. Perhaps to smoke less, drink less or exercise more frequently. Statistics bear this out, and always show that vegetarians are much less likely to smoke or drink heavily, but also make other health related lifestyle coices. Alternately stated: people unwilling to make sacrifices for the good of their health will be more likely to eat meat than those who will make those sacrifices. Thus the healthy vegetarian diet becomes self-fulfilling prophecy.

A well-designed piece of research by using matched samples may, in theory, control for extraneous variables. But it would be virtually impossible, in the case of a large sample population studied over a lifetime, to determine whether differences found were genuine measurements of the meat/non-meat factor, or an effect of vegetarians opting for meals with higher nutritional value, irrespective of meat content.

Moreover, irrespective of parental diet, very few western vegetarians give up meat until their late teens or early adulthood. Some will make the switch later in life. For as long as the general trend in society is away from meat and towards vegetarianism, the average effect of people crossing the meat/non-meat barrier will be to reinforce this skew in the distribution, and create the illusion of a longer average life-span in vegetarians.

Vegetarianism may, of course, be healthier. But given that all vegetarian foods are also available to meat eaters, the inference would be that the eating of meat is, in itself, harmful. This is a dubious supposition given the evolutionary arguments, as well as meat's value as a primary source of the eight 'essential' amino acids, vital minerals and trace elements including iron, zinc and calcium. Either way, the meat-free way of life has yet to establish its case beyond reasonable doubt or with sufficient clarity to justify any sweeping health claims made on its behalf.

Answer 7

Being a vegitarian is expensive depending on what you can and can't eat.
Being a vegtarian may help you live longer and it may and maynot help you loose weight.

i'm not sure if you can be a strong athelte and be a vegtarian.
you need protein which is from meat to be a strong athelet.
i gues you can eat a lot of soybeans. but its not quite the same as eating meat.

Answer 8

Great, just make sure you like enough vegetarian proteins such as bean curd, cheese, quorn, textured vegetable protein, other soya products, nuts seeds etc to maintain adequate growth and development. It can be done but you've got to make sure you enjoy eating these kinds of foods.

Answer 9

A lot of people get scared about the "not enough protein" side of being vegetarian. But if you eat dried beans and whole grains together, you have a complete protein.

Answer 10

my brother just turned vegetarian and no its not more expensive, its more TASTY....and absolutely you can be a strong athlete and he already lost some noticeable weight in a matter of 8 days. being a vegetarian is much more healthy than not...youll notice the difference (more engery, clearer skin, less toxins from animal products)