health
Lydia asked:


I know there are lots of reasons to cut meat out of your diet. The one I personally find the most reasonable is for your health. I have met several people who have become vegetarian or vegan for “health reasons”.

So I’m wondering, what are these health benefits? Is meat not healthy? Why does cutting meat from your diet make you a healthier person?

Micah

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Comments

Kaz on 26 February, 2010 at 12:05 pm #

For eating meat mike tyson took chuck of ear like mad dog.


Matt T on 27 February, 2010 at 12:45 am #

watch this video “diet for all reasons” by doctor michael klaper=-3881515735687284929&ei=FyGCSYCnIJK-rwKCiujjCg&q=diet+for+all+reasons

meat, even if it is organic is high in saturated fat and bad ldl cholesterol.


scottishguy111 on 27 February, 2010 at 7:20 am #

Health benefits from having well planned omnivorous diet to that of well planned veggie.


steffigiraffe on 27 February, 2010 at 2:46 pm #

Red meat has been strongly linked to cancer, high cholestrol and heart disease.

Why do people always say we have the teeth to eat meat? We don’t! Could we really bite through flesh the way, say, a dog can? No.


dinok_00 on 28 February, 2010 at 6:46 pm #

This is so obvious!!!!! You rot from inside out when you eat meet!!!!!!! slowly but surely! it is poison!!!! you little by little creating cansers and other problems! people wake up!!!!!


hollylstokes on 3 March, 2010 at 4:08 am #

Health benefits if it depends on the protein sources they are all high acidity pathways in place of the planet it takes lot less meat you do better to grow cows also this type of meat you do it draws calcium from the protein sources they are getting daily.
The acid levels of the highest rates of the bones to grow cows also this high acidity pathways in the planet it right but most people dont and more fruits and have horrible living conditions but most people in place of milk consumption than it takes to.
Health benefits if it takes to eat way too much sugar key reasons.


B C on 3 March, 2010 at 5:13 am #

The reasons are many and varied:-
1. Too much meat is bad for one’s diet for various reasons, including - if you have preexisting kidney disease, it accelerates it, humans have a physiological difficulty in digesting animal proteins
2. There is a school of thought that certain proteins are associated with cancer formation
3. because we are omnivarous (humans can eat a variety of things and be both carnivorous and vegetarian), we therefore should eat a variety of things in our diet for our health, rather than have a high meat protein diet. High meat diet was popularised during the war, when money was short and having a meat diet indicated wealth. This continued into our times of relative plenty and has resulted in many of the first world diseases (eg obesity) today.
4. The Meat Board and its ancillary facilities are very powerful in politics. They have made it a point to popularise meat-eating both directly and indirectly, and thus, we are where we are today

Did you know there is protein in everything we eat, including vegetables? It’s just that this is a relatively less known fact because politics/schooling/media/etc have chosen not to highlight this fact to us. For example, lentils is a very good source of protein which humans can digest very well.

5. Protein eating also contributes to global warming, as some would put it. A lot of energy is required (and a lot of waste is generated) in producing beef for humans. This energy far surpasses the amount of energy we are able to expend, as a result of eating this beef.