Could veggie burgers increase your lifespan? Many experts insist that switching to a vegetarian lifestyle can greatly increase overall health, leading some to ditch their pork rinds like an old smoking habit. Still others swear by an omnivorous diet, saying that occasional New York steak never hurt anyone. Is a fresh helping of tofu just what the doctor ordered, or only a lot of empty calories?
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Vegetarian Kids Grow up Slim & Healthy
- From PETA
By PETA - People for Ethical Treatment of Animals
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Vegetarianism Isn't Automatic Health Nirvana!
As much as vegetarianism helps our health, let's not assume that vegetarianism automatically makes you healthy, or that vegetarianism always keeps you slim. I became a vegetarian on my own (with two meat-eating parents no less!) around 5th grade, and besides one slide from vegetarianism early on, I've stayed that way. And I'm anything but slim and healthy! Am I slim and healthy? Certainly not. I'm a fast and furious eater, and have only just started excercising, and have maintained a chubby body size for years. Had I eaten meat since 5th grade, however, I would almost certainly be obese.
Even just eating less meat helps, when going fully vegetarian just won't happen. Americans eat far more meat than most countries: there's meat in everything, as any vegetarian knows well. It's hard to escape this, and all the extra fat in meat coupled with large portions and an inactive lifestyle common to we Americans makes meat-eating a bad idea, unless you're taking steps to be healthy anyways.
- Blue Linchpin
December 17, 2008 11:58AM
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Who'd live longer?
I wonder...if all a person ate was plants and fruit and was not able to take any supplementation of any kind, how long would they really live? There would be no B12 or iron available. Their levels of biotin would be next to nill. My guess - not very long and not very well.
However, on a diet of meat (including the organs), fish, eggs, poultry you could live very well forever. You'd be deficient in nothing - not even vitamin C.
Eating meat does not make one obese. This is absurd. Eating too much food makes you obese and specifically too many carbohydrates like pasta, rice, breads, etc.
- Fredrick Hahn
January 19, 2009 5:11PM
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Maybe
Maybe, just maybe, any parent that is responsible enough to control their children 's diet , at least to the extent that someone who is imposing a vegan diet, will have healthy kids . Someone who doesn't take their kids to a fast food place because they don't feel like making something. Someone who doesn't have a fridge full of snacks that the children become conditioned to go for whenever they don't feel full. If you eat enough of anything you'll probably end up over weight. I wouldn't go around blaming meat .
- keytud
August 3, 2009 9:08AM
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Why is children being "slim" such an important thing?!
No, we shouldn't be endorsing overeating and obesity , but for some reason it'sabadthing for children tobe overweight (a lot of people don't know there's a difference between being over weight and obesity...). What's next? Soon the United States is going to expect newborns to come out only 5 lbs. because then they'll grow up to be "slim, healthy adults".
- ekblosser
October 26, 2009 9:50PM
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Amen to the above
as you said we shouldnt endorse obesity but in some cases such as anexoria it is just as bad or in extreme cases worses. Also the loss of self esteem if one cant be a size 2..it is rediculous...and your comment about coming out at 5 lbs to be slim reminds me of the insurance that denied to cover the baby because it was considered "Fat"....
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October 30, 2009 7:18PM
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