Is there any point to practicing Veganism or Vegetarianism (not eating meat) for purely health reasons?

Question

It seems to me that there are no great health benefits to these sorts of diet.

But don't get me wrong, I totally support these approached to life, but rather as humanitarian reasons. I am totally against eating any animal that has been made to suffer in any way. This leaves very few animals to eat.

But are there any real health benefits to not eating meat?

Answer 1

There are no health benefits just because meat isn't involved. There are healthy meats like chicken breast, pork loin, whitefish to name a few. A veger diet is certainly more healthy than eating fatty cuts of meat. But eating healthy meat in tandem with veges is equally as healthy as any completely veger diet.

BTW-there's more to it biologically than just the teeth. The digestive system is indicative as well.

Answer 2

I'm much healthier not eating meat . . . I made the change because of my health. I was having digestive problems/gall bladder problems and doctors didn't know what to do for me, so I had to make some decisions for myself, so I cut out meat and I was fine . . . it was almost like an immediate turn around. I feel like I'm totally satiated after meals and that I can eat a lot of food without feeling stuffed . . . I think the health benefits are as mental as they are physical . . . and though I haven't had my cholesterol checked, I'd imagine it's much better than it was. I think this is all contingent upon the deliberate balancing of the diet . . . I'm very sure to get enough servings of everything I need every day . . . and not just eat pasta or cheese, for example.

Answer 3

I'm a vegetarian myself. I have taken a Nutrition class in college and currently in nursing school, so from what I understand,

Vegetarians can actually be healthier than the 'regular' diet if done with care. Mostly because vegetarians do not eat nearly as much saturated fat and cholesterol that meat-eaters consume, which is much better for every part of your body. OF course, you have to watch what you eat and keep it balanced (but everybody has to keep balanced anyway).

Also, I've learned in Nutrition class, that Vegans cannot be healthy just becuase you never get the complete proteins that you can get from milk and eggs. The only way to get complete proteins is to combine other forms of proteins, but that adds tons of calories. When you don't get complete proteins, the incomplete proteins can be stored as fat. So apparently, practically every vegan is obese (meaning higher body fat in relation to lean body weight). I have a couple of vegan friends and some seem like they're doing okay, but I haven't done any lab tests or anything like that!

Hope this helps. From personal experience, I feel great, I hardly get sick, I have low blood pressure, cholesterol, not overweight. But of course, I watch my diet.

Answer 4

I personally cannot digest meat. I've missed so many days of school due to the pain that eating meat used to put me in. It would sit in my stomach and make me feel like my intestines were twisting. I ended up in the hospital and was suggest to try a vegetarian diet.

This was two years ago. Since then I have never had my stomach pains again, and feel much cleaner and lighter. I don't get sick as much and I've lost weight.

:3 That is how it has benefit me for health reasons.

Answer 5

It depends on your generic make up, if your prone to cancer and other illness in your family limiting meat or animal products may decrease your changes a little, but other than generic make up the next biggest (from newly published data his week) cause of cancer, heart disease is if you are overweight, a vegan diet that is overladen with calories is just as bad as a meat based one that is too.

The key is a well balance diet....

Answer 6

Like "me" says, it depends on what your whole diet is like.
Someone that eats turkey once a year for Thanksgiving is
NOT vegetarian and neither is someone that eats Big Macs three times a day.

Someone that eats a healthy, balanced and varied diet with no animal flesh or parts is vegetarian.
So is someone that eats cakes and candy all day everyday.

Your health isn't determined by what you NEVER eat, it is related to what you do eat and how much.

Answer 7

I was first attracted to vegetarianism because I had a dangerously high cholesterol level. When I knocked out the meat, my cholesterol level declined to within normal limits.

By the way, Omega fatty acids are available in flaxseed oi.

Answer 8

There are marked benefits to eating a reduced amount of meat, most of them dealing with the cardiovascular and digestive systems.

A vegetarian/vegan diet, provided it is a properly nutritious one, is excellent for anyone with heart problems, IBS, and many other maladies.

Etc.

Blah blah

Answer 9

Why might you enable some previous e book verify what you consume? It does not have something to do with what's organic for our bodies besides through fact the bible replaced into written way after people first regarded on earth. They have been already ingesting subtle meals like bread via the time the bible replaced into written. in case you prefer to consume what's organic for our bodies then consume common entire unprocessed meals in basic terms and not something.

Answer 10

There's less chance in getting sick from veggies
than there is from meat.. bacteria, salmonella, mad cows disease, mercury poisoning from fish.
but what diseases does one get from vegetables?
The vegetables have to be spoiled before one gets a disease from them. Vegetarian eating is better than meat eating! It's just common sense!