would it affect me if i stop eating meat. For good or bad??

Answer 1

It should not affect you ......meat has a lot of things your body uses well. You can get protein from meats and protein is good for your muscles and gives you energy.
I think moderation is the key here......eat some meat...1-2 times a week and eat fish and poultry other nights. Nice round balanced choices.

Answer 2

It will probably affect you, good or bad depends on how you go about it... Your body does need the proteins that are in meat, but you can get them elsewhere (such as beans, nuts, eggs, tofu, etc.). You should probably do a little research about 'whole proteins' because a lot of these non-meat proteins are incomplete and your body needs whole ones (when you combine the right foods, like toast and refried beans, your body gets whole proteins). These non-meat proteins are much lower in fat than meat, so if you are making sure you are getting enough protein without eating meat, you will probably notice that you are losing some weight! Keep an eye on how many carbs you're eating too though, because a diet high in carbs puts you at risk for diabetes. I have many vegetarian cookbooks, and a few of them have ideas for whole protein combinations, and of course lots and lots of delicious vegetarian foods.

Answer 3

I've "gone vegetarian" four times in the past ten years. It never affected my health for the worse. I did feel livelier, I think.

Think of it this way - when you bury a seed in the ground, it grows into a plant. When you bury meat in the ground, it rots. And it's doing the same thing in your body.

I eat meat now, but it's mostly because I'm married to and do all the cooking for an avid meat-eater, and we have a baby who I do not want to raise to be picky. It'd be too much work to make two different meals. If my son decides to be a vegetarian in his preschool years, as kids often do, I'll allow it.

I think a meatless diet is very healthy, but you have to be careful about it. You have to plan meals so that you get enough protein. I got a great book once about going vegetarian, and it explained about combining amino acids in different veggies to make complete proteins. Sounds complicated, but it's really not.

Answer 4

I quit eating meat almost 2 years ago and I've never felt better. The only change I've had to make it taking a multivitamin once a day (which we're supposed to do anyway) since I was low in B vitamins.

The nice thing about going veggie (even if it's temporarily) is that is forces you to try new foods. Also, it forces you to skip fast food, which means fewer fries, less soda and overall a more healthy body.

As long as you keep eating dairy, you will almost certainly meet your protein requirements without any trouble.

Answer 5

It would have a positive effect on your health under the following assumptions:
1) You eat a large amount of meat now,
2) the meat does not come from an organic fed and raised animals,
3) your intake of vitamins and mineral supplements (especially antioxidants) is minimal to none,
4) you're concerned about your health and
5) are interested in both longevity and quality of life.

Eating small amounts of meat is not greatly harmful but consuming the quantities of meat that most people in the industrialized nations eat is a recipe for poor health.
1) Animal flesh contains concentrated poisons from the environment,
2) farm lot animals are fed large amounts of antibiotics (not because they are ill but to keep them from becoming ill) and those antibiotics enter your body contributing to the antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria causing so many health care problems (staph and strep), and
3) farm lot animals are fed food laden with significant amounts of insecticides, fungicides, and herbicides which are toxic to humans.

Human digestive systems are not designed to handle large volumes of meat. A true carnivore (a dog, for example) has a very short intestinal system compared to humans. They consume meat and excrete the remains in a very short period of time. That hamburger you just consumed may remain in your intestinal tract for 3-4 days. Imagine what happens to a dead animal on the side of the road that sits in 98-degree heat for 3-4 days. A very similar process is occurring in your gut; that hamburger is rotting. The putrefaction of meat creates a chemical brew that attacks the lining of your intestine eventually causing lesions that open the blood stream to proteins that are foreign substances. This kicks your immune system into high gear. After years of assaults and insults you're left with a ton of auto-immune diseases that we associate with old age.

This is all information that you can find documented in multiple scientific studies. So, eating meat boils down to a personal choice.

The protein arguement was promulgated by the beef industry back in the 1940s. It's spurious at best. The western diet is rich in protein even without any meat. It's lacking in other necessary nutrients needed for a healthy body which is why so many people supplement their diets.

I choose to eat meat in very small quantities and very rarely. I only do so to keep the enzymes in my body capable of digesting meat should I sometime need to eat larger amounts. I originally reduced my consumption out of health concerns and have added religious ones as well. I used to love the taste of a very rare beef steak. After years of not eating beef it no longer tastes at all good when I eat any now.

Your question is sure to provoke responses from all the people with emotional issues; either carnivores who feel threatened by vegetarians or from vegetarians who think meat eating is evil. And maybe that's the real reason for your question. Yes?

Edit: When I began composing this there were 0 answers. Look at all the responses your question generated. It's a subject around which, for some reason, people have very strong opinions.

Answer 6

Depends. If you can find another source of protein then no if not yes. You need your protein or you can't grow and stay strong plus your body won't work as well. You get weak very very quickly and easily. So before you quit you should try to look for a substitute thing that would give you protein that doesn't contain meat.

Answer 7

It might effect you in some ways, either beneficial or detrimental to health.
If you balance your diet properly there is no need for meat, in fact vegetarians tend to be longer lived than meat eaters. And I expect the meat eaters will tell you how it would turn you into a wimp.

Answer 8

Yeah it would affect you. You need the iron and protein in meat. If you replaced meat with other high iron and protein foods then its different. I dont know but everyone I know thats been vegetarian for years are skinny because meat is high fat and they eat all vegetables and eggs and fish.

Answer 9

Meat is a good source of protein. If you don't get protein from meat you need to get it from somewhere else, such as beans.

Protein is essential to bodily functions.

Answer 10

You would need to be mindful that you replace all the necessary nutritional value you get from meat in your diet, but it is not too difficult.

If anything, it would be more of an inconvenience to you, but vegetarian options are becoming more prominent in our society.