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Vegetarian Diet:
Enriching Future
Do you know there’s a simple thing to do and by following that each
day, it can make you feel more energized, live longer, feed the hungry,
end animal suffering, and save our planet from pan-destruction? It is
to become a vegetarian!
This change in daily routine diet would literally revolutionize the whole
world. The following pages elucidate this fact, simple yet stunning,
personal and global.
Let us take one point from above, our own health to be overhauled by diet change.
Imagine a person waking up on Monday morning, driving to McDonald’s to get a sausage egg McMuffin; he eats it
and heads quickly to work. For lunch, he grabs a Carl’s Jr. bacon cheeseburger and fries, and for dinner he decides
on a couple of meat. He thinks nothing of all this until he goes to his doctor for a regular follow-up appointment to
get the lab results of his cholesterol level. It is high: 270. His doctor informs him of the risk for clogged arteries in the
heart, brain, kidney, everywhere. Ouch!
The reason is simple. We humans are not created to tear apart living animals to eat their flesh. Cats were created
to eat meat; they have four sharp, pointy fangs, none for chewing as our molars do. Our incisor teeth are not fangs.
Our digestive system is not designed to eat meat, so earliest man must have observed carnivores such as the cat
eating meat and copied them.
Vegetarian statistics show that more and more people are shifting to this diet for ethical and health reasons. How-
ever, vegetarianism is more than the latest fashion tendency—societies have practiced it throughout history,
hoping to achieve longevity or for religious and moral reasons. Vegetarian statistics are rising worldwide, and
there’s more than one reason why. The diet is here to stay, change our wellbeing, and heal the planet.
Traditionally, research into vegetarianism focused mainly on potential nutritional deficiencies, but in recent years,
the pendulum has swung the other way, and studies are confirming the health benefits of meat-free eating. Now-
adays, plant-based eating is recognized as not only nutritionally sufficient but also as a way to reduce the risk for
many chronic illnesses.
What are some possible vegetarian health benefits? How about…
Improved Digestion
Your body is naturally detoxing and your digestive system have to work so hard to process heavy meats. Meat
can sometimes slow down your digestive tract if consumed with high-fibre plant foods or dairy products. It also
40 Vegetarian nutrition facts indicate that a diet abundant in healthy plant-based foods can be twice as effective
takes almost five hours to digest.
Twice as effective in weight loss (Science Daily)
in shedding body weight as a regular diet. For example, a study found that the average weight loss for partici-
pants following a vegetarian diet was 6.2 kg, compared to 3.2 kg lost when following a meat diet.
Nutritional Rich
Vegetarian food offers all key nutrients, including protein, fatty acids, iron, zinc, iodine, calcium and vitamins D
and B-12. Protein is essential for building muscle mass, amino function, fighting disease and healing.
But interestingly there is no complete or incomplete protein it’s just theory.