Should I ?!
Should I ?
I am thinking of becoming a Vegatarian should I ? And if I do give me some tips and facts about being a vegitarian. I already know they dont eat meat what so ever.
Answers:
Just eat a balanced diet and leave out the dead animals. Not hard in the least.
I think it's healthier to have some meat in your diet. You'll never have a lack of protein. Just go with leaner meats, such as turkey, or chicken.
No, cause meat will start callin your name
Check nutrition information from a registered dietitian or from the web. Nothing wrong with being a vegetarian, just watch what you eat to ge enough nutrition.
Learn about complete proteins. If you are going to stop eating meat, you have to learn to mix proteins and carbs for a healthy total protein---for instance pasta and beans.
man was made to kill what do you think you are, a rabbit
i am a veggie and have been for many years, it opened my tastebuds up to a whole new world of food which i previously ignored. You could try giving it up in stages, depending on how much you eat already. I gave up white meat/foul at age 16, red meat at age 18 then fish/seafood at age 24.
Good luck with it, it is a healthy lifestyle if you continue to eat sensibly and make sure you get what you need in fruit & veg. xx
why you have diside to be a vegetarian if you haven t firstly know what you should do?
I'm not a vegetarian, but I have many friends that are, check out this web page for more info: http://www.goneveg.com.
Hope it helps.
http://peta.com >will be helpful.
http://meat.org >why I dont eat meat.
Thx for not eating our animal friends.And I recommend a vitamin also like one-a-day brand for women.Women need extra iron anyhow.
Yes.
There are alot of great meat substitutes available at the grocery store if you think you might miss the texture or flavor of meat.
Try this website:
www.goveg.com
You have to really think about why you want to be a vegetarian. I do not eat meat, but I eat eggs, milk and fish (an ovo-lacto vegetarian). It is not tough once you get used to it, but there is usually a reason why a person goes meat-free.
No, keep eating cows, pigs & rabbits or they will breed & breed and one day take over the world, besides you dont want to end up as skinny as Victoria Beckham.
Why do you want to become a vegetarian----u should kno facts about vegetarianism, the types of, the benefiis, whatever. You just dont wake up 1 day & say--I want to be a vegetarian. Something had to take you to that place. & if your beliefs are strong enough, then you do. You need to read up on it. Go to local library get some books, reference online. BUT you must know why you are doing it, for health & wellness, for beliefs of not eating animals, or any anilmal products, wanting to be w/ nature, because others are doing it--whatever your reason, figure it out on your own 1st
There are several flavors of vegetarian. Some are extremely strict (no meats or animal products like milk and oils). Others are considerably more relaxed - now red meats but allow fish and poultry. In the end, you'll want to ensure that you're getting proper nutrition - vitamin supplements are helpful.
Be aware that there are some negative social outcomes from becoming vegetarian. If you go to eat at someone's house, they may get irrititated if they think they have to "make something special" for you. Be aware that you can be imposing and offer solutions in such situations.
don't adopt a "holier than thou" approach. Mankind has survived long and well on omnivorous eating.
I'm a believer of everything in moderation.
yeah i actually wonderd if i should become one too, it's much more healthier afterall. But u gotta make sure that u get ur source of protein by eggs, nuts and tofu. Check this site out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/vegetariani...
http://www.vegsoc.org/ {better, good site)
http://www.veg.ca/
http://www.goveg.com/
Good luck!
Becoming vegetarian should be a deeply personal choice. Not one made by others for you.
It often takes strength of conviction. You can see by the flippant responses you got that people LOVE to give veggies a bad time. If you're veggie only because a number of people told you to, and not because you deeply believe in it, it will be more difficult for you.
There is NO need to "mix" proteins. That is a myth. Meat is a lousy source of protein. We are not designed to eat it. So much mis-information out there.
It is very easy to be veg. I recommend books. Both "how to" and cook books.
I think it depends on why you are considering it. It is a very personal thing, not just something trendy. It's good for the environment, health, ethics, reducing animal cruelty and certainly it is not neccesary to eat meat with so many alternatives. In fact studies such as the china study (Ref http://www.thechinastudy.com/about.html)... conclude that no animals or animal products is the optimum for human health. So many resources for recpies and information on the internet, eg http://vegweb.com/ Do a web search and you will be sure to find more. Once you feel comfortable with what you have read then you can decide it if is right for you and work out how you can make the changes in your life to make it easier.
Being vegetarian is a decision that is completely up to you. I personally could not live without meat. But, if you choose to go completely vegan (no milk or eggs or animal meat whatsoever), you can still get protein from beans, nuts, and peanut butter. There are also lacto-ovo vegetarians, people who still consume milk and eggs. A friend of mine was this because she said it was wrong to let cows and chickens suffer in pain from not milking them or taking their eggs, which is a kind of pain that can actually kill a cow.
Do some research on the different levels of vegetarian before you go make your decision. Good luck to you no matter what!
Try this link: www.vegsoc.org/info/goingveg.h...
do what you feel is right, but personally, I love a good burger, steak, pork chop...most meats are delicious and healthy depending on how you cook them...
if you ask me i think you shouldn't become a vegeterian...
if you think that in that way you will save animals, i think you won't because some one else will eat that animal you are tyring to save
It's really up to you.
Some facts:
-They do eat dairy products.
-You have a bit more choices then a vegan would.
-You have to check labels to make sure there's nothing with meat or meat by product in it.
-MorningStar makes good products.
-It's hard at first because you're body is getting use to it but after a while it gets easier.
-Be ready for wise cracks and rude comments.
Good for you for knowing that vegetarians eat *no animals what so ever.* That already makes you a step ahead many of those who answered your question.
It amazes me how many people look into the eyes of fish and think *hmmm, you look more like a cucumber than an animal... I think I should be able to eat you while labeling myself as a person who doesn't eat animals."
Anyway, you should be a vegetarian if it is in your heart to be so. I felt guilty about eating animals for a couple years, and one day I woke up and didn't eat animals. I have followed that pattern for over 6 years now.
:)
Here are some great links for you:
http://www.vegsoc.org/newveg/fft/index.h...
and (I'm a bit biased about this one)
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-gxld3h0hc...
Among other topics, there is a link at the bottom called "How to Become a Vegetarian." It has links, books and info.
:)
The best advice that I have (that hasn't already been given here) is this:
Do not depend on fake meat products like Boca or Morningstar for your protein needs. Those can be a fun treat, but are usually VERY high in sodium...Processed foods like that, as a rule, are not healthy in large doses. Plus, they tend to get pretty expensive.
Consult a doctor or nutritionist if you have certain dietary needs. Otherwise, just keep a good balance of different foods within your caloric intake. Only about 10% of your calories need to come from protein. A 2,000 calorie diet should have about 50 grams of protein; at 4 cals/gram, that's 200 calories worth of protein. You don't need to overdo it!
Get a variety of protein sources in your diet. Beans, nuts, seeds, and whole grains are cheap and easily prepared, and will give you plenty of fiber and protein in the proper doses.
my favorite easy and high-protein recipes:
mix one can of vegetarian (no lard) refried beans, one can of black beans, and one cup of salsa; microwave or simmer in saucepan. add seasonings like cumin or chilli powder if desired. use as filling with wheat tortillas, and you've got delicious and easy burritos!
1 bag (16 oz) of dry soup beans or lentils, as prepared by instructions on the package. add vegetables and seasonings of your choice. so many varieties of soup can be made with beans and lentils, I never get tired of making this.
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ALSO:
Gelatin and Lard are not vegetarian friendly products. They sneak their way into a lot of foods that you might not suspect, like cereals with frosting or marshmallows, many kinds of candies, and pastries/donuts.
Read the ingredients of food packages when in doubt.
I was outraged and saddened when I discovered that marshmallows, frosted pop-tarts, and most gummy candies contain gelatin. But, knowing how unhealthy those things are, plus knowing that animals had to die to have their bones/cartilage matter ground up into gelatin...it wasn't difficult to swear off those things forever.
If a vegetarian diet is very carefully planned, and that may require either fortified foods or supplements, it can be AS healthy as a good meat eating diet. I think there are a couple of benefits, but they come from eating a wide range of fruit and veg and being health conscious as vegans have to be, not omitting meat, and thus those benefits can be go without actually going veggie. Needless to say a uncarefully planned vegetarian, or especially vegan, diet can lack many essential nutrients and be very bad for your health.
There are many benefits to a diet containing meat. Many vegetarians claim that meat is unhealthy. This is a blatant fallacy.
It is well established that eating meat improves the quality of nutrition, strengthens the immune system, promotes normal growth and development, is beneficial for day-to-day health, energy and well-being, and helps ensure optimal learning and academic performance.
A long term study found that children who eat more meat are less likely to have deficiencies than those who eat little or no meat. Kids who don’t eat meat ― and especially if they restrict other foods, as many girls are doing ― are more likely to feel tired, apathetic, unable to concentrate, are sick more often, more frequently depressed, and are the most likely to be malnourished and have stunted growth. Meat and other animal-source foods are the building blocks of healthy growth that have made America’s and Europe's youngsters the tallest, strongest and healthiest in the world.
Meat is an important source of quality nutrients, heme iron, protein, zinc and B-complex vitamins. It provides high-quality protein important for kids’ healthy growth and development.
The iron in meat (heme iron) is of high quality and well absorbed by the body, unlike nonheme iron from plants which is not well absorbed. More than 90 percent of iron consumed may be wasted when taken without some heme iron from animal sources. Substances found to inhibit nonheme iron absorption include phytates in cereals, nuts and legumes, and polyphenolics in vegetables. Symptoms of iron deficiency include fatigue, headache, irritability and decreased work performance. For young children, it can lead to impairment in general intelligence, language, motor performance and school readiness. Girls especially need iron after puberty due to blood losses, or if pregnant. Yet studies show 75 percent of teenage girls get less iron than recommended.
Meat, poultry and eggs are also good sources of absorbable zinc, a trace mineral vital for strengthening the immune system and normal growth. Deficiencies link to decreased attention, poorer problem solving and short-term memory, weakened immune system, and the inability to fight infection. While nuts and legumes contain zinc, plant fibre contains phytates that bind it into a nonabsorbable compound.
Found almost exclusively in animal products, Vitamin B12 is necessary for forming new cells. A deficiency can cause anaemia and permanent nerve damage and paralysis. The Vitimin B12 in plants isn't even bioavailable, meaning our body can't use it.
Why not buy food supplements to replace missing vitamins and minerals? Some people believe they can fill those gaps with pills, but they may be fooling themselves. Research consistently shows that real foods in a balanced diet are far superior to trying to make up deficiencies with supplements.
Lets not forget either that protein, while it is found in plants, is better quality in animal products.
Some people claim that meat is unhealthy because it contains saturated fat. So does margarine and olive oil, and they're vegan suitable (in fact the hydrogenated fats in Marge can be very bad, but that's another story). Besides, any excess calories in your diet, any excess sugar, starch or carbohydrates are stored in your body for later use. This is done by turning them into saturated fats.
Cholesterol too. Your body on average creates four to five times more cholesterol than the average person consumes, and compensates by creating more when less is consumed. Cholesterol isn't evil, it is essential; it makes up the waterproof linings of all our cells and without it we would die. Too much can be bad, but as with saturated fats there are more healthy ways of disposing of it, like regular exercise. Anyway, it isn't so much how much cholesterol you eat, but how well yur body handles it. A person who eats loads of dietary cholesterol and leads an unhealthy lifestyle can still have low cholesterol, and vice versa. Most people's bodies are able to take a large amount of cholesterol without getting atherosclerosis. For this reason that eating meat gives you heart disease is very misleading, and for the most part untrue. Of course, if you do have a problem eating loads isn't a good idea, but for most people there is nothing at all to worry about.
Yes, there are things in meat that there is some evidence can cause cancer in some people, but there are as many in plants too. Soy especially has some very potent carcinogens. Processing of soy protein results in the formation of toxic lysinoalanine and highly carcinogenic nitrosamines.
Soy phytoestrogens disrupt endocrine function and have the potential to cause infertility and to promote breast cancer in adult women. Also they are potent antithyroid agents that cause hypothyroidism and may cause thyroid cancer. In infants, consumption of soy formula has been linked to autoimmune thyroid disease.
Soy is bad for numerous other reasons, but that isn't the point, I'm just using it as a quick example relating to cancer not being exclusive to some animal products. The evidence that claims meat does cause cancer is patchy anyway.
Some people also claim that we aren't designed by evolution, to eat meat. They claim that our digestive system is quite long and that we produce amylase, a starch splitting catabolic enzyme, akin to herbivores and unlike carnivores. Apparently this clearly shows that we were designed to eat plants. Such people should go and look up 'omnivore' in a dictionary. They have also been known to cite other reasons we are like herbivores and unlike carnivores: that we suck water instead of lapping it, and that we perspire through our skin, such things have nothing at all to do with whether or not we were designed to eat meat, and nothing to do with how our body handles food. I might as well say that because we, like most carnivores and unlike most herbivores, have eyes that face forwards, we must be carnivorous. Of course, that's not true for precisely the same reason.
The fact is Humans are omnivores, with the ability to eat nearly everything. By preference, prehistoric people ate a high-protein, high-mineral diet based on meat and animal sources, whenever available. Their foods came mainly from three of the five food groups: meat, vegetables and fruits. As a result, big game mammoth hunters were tall and strong with massive bones. They grew six inches taller than their farming descendants in Europe, who ate mostly plant foods, and only in recent times regained most of this height upon again eating more meat, eggs and dairy foods. We are adapted to eat meat, and it is just as natural as eating plants.
Some also claim that the digestion of meat releases harmful byproducts into our system. This is true, however such are our adaptations to eating meat that our bodies are quite able to dispose of said products without any adverse effects.
So, in summary: it isn't healthier to avoid meat. You can be healthy without meat, but likely not as healthy as if you did, assuming you kept things like the wide range of fruit and veg that a veggie diet usually entails. Too much meat can be bad, but normal amounts are no problem at all. Any health benefits that come from a veggie diet come from a wide range of fruit and veg, and being health conscious, as veggies often are; that doesn't require you to not eat meat.
I don't think a vegeterian diet benefits anyone in any way better than a better meat eating diet could at all. If you have no ethical qualms, it's quite pointless. PETA will tell you otherwise, but they have very strong ethical opinions, and mould their 'evidence' around it. There is, for example, some evidence that vegans live longer and are at less risk from cancer and heart disease; however those studies show only a very marginal and insignificant difference and none of those studies have yet managed to identify meat as the only variable. Veggies are less likely to smoke, drink or eat junk food, and eat a wider range of fruit and veg, making the test results inaccurate and unreliable.