is good idea be vegetarian?
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Yes.  If you know how to cook, you can eat very well for cheap.  Great vegetarian cookbooks are easy to find now, especially Chinese and Indian cooking.  And with a blender or juicer you can make some really incredible things that you could never buy in a store or restaurant.\n\nYou don't need "protein supplements", that's a scam, peanut butter and tofu and rice with beans have lots of protein.  If you eat eggs that's a whole protein too.  The human body can make all the protein it needs, and there are bodybuilders who are vegans, so, obviously, you don't need animal proteins even if you want to be muscle-bound.  The theory that your blood type matters is basically made up - it might affect your digestion but it doesn't affect much else.  You can find food combinations that work for you.\n\nAs for eating out, well, salads and tofu and soy are now everywhere, even at McDonald's you can find some things to eat.  Some chains have baked potatoes, all-you-can-eat salad bars, whatever.  You'll survive a road trip.  But bring lots of dried fruit and make your own grilled-vegetable sandwiches and falafel if you're going on long road trips.\n\nThe main thing is to learn to cook, and to use spices.  It is also possible to adapt many recipes.  A good cookbook like "The Calamari Cookbook" from the India Joze restaurant in Santa Clara CA, lists all the five types of tastes (rich, tart, sweet, salty, hot) and spices that fit under each.  In the actual restaurant they make their recipes with any of (squid, white chicken breast, red snapper fish, or tofu).  So you can substitute tofu for any of those ingredients!\n\nThe main reason to be vegetarian is that in the long run it is much much cheaper because it does less damage to the environment, and people will eventually have to pay much much more for meat for the water, pollution (manure), and extra land it takes to raise meat, and the labour to inspect it.  Mad Cow, Avian Flu, you name it, the most dangerous diseases often spread through meat animals.  Why should you vegetarians pay for that?  Eventually you'll force the meat eaters to pay for the harm they do, and they meat will cost $$$$.  So it's better for you to adapt now and join the future.  You can still eat meat raised or hunted or fished by someone you know, or that you raised/hunted/fished yourself, if this is your concern.  No shame in being an actual animal...\n\nMany people will tell you that meat and even eggs and honey are cruel.  That's something you have to make up your own mind about.  But the health risks are lower for vegetarians.  Reduced calorie diets definitely contribute to longer life.
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Vegetarians eat much more than salads.  A vegetarian person can be very healthy as they can get their protein without eating meat.  The issue of the protein is really only very significant for children and teenagers as they are still growing.\n\nSo I guess I vote for your mom.
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Neither.  Vegans and vegetarians like to claim that the non-vegetarian lifestyle is unhealthy.  However, there is plenty of evidence (most of it scientific) that the vegan and vegetarian lifestyles are just as unhealthy as non-vegetarian lifestyles.  You can't eat very much of anything these days offered in grocery stores that is not mass-produced, hormone injected, pesticide or chemically assisted, and this applies just as much to fruits and vegetables as it does to meat.  And organic foods are no better than regular foods http://preventdisease.com/home/tips61.shtml  Everything in moderation is the key.\n\nThe Naive Vegetarian\nhttp://www.mercola.com/2002/feb/2/vegetarian.htm\n\nThe Myths of Vegetarianism\nhttp://www.mercola.com/2000/apr/2/vegetarian_myths.htm
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Vegetarianism is very unhealthy.  Best to stay away from it.  Don't get me wrong, it's (slightly) better than an all Twinkee/Donut/Ice Cream diet.  But, most vegetarians are sick (and they look it).\n\nThe best diet is to get most of your calories from meat and most of your bulk from fresh fruits and vegetable.  Drink only water.  No processed foods, junk food, sugar, flour, vegetable oil etc.  Eat only whole grains and in strict moderation.
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Very Unhealthy.  A good diet is a well balance diet, which means a good variety.  Eating samething no matter how healthy the food is runs the risk of missing certain nutrients.  The new standard for eating includes eating a variety of fruits and vegetable of varying colors.  The second suggestion is better, but still isn't healthy.  Synthetic foods often contains undesirable chemicals and probably does not have all the micronutrients the body craves.  If you eat salads, remember that lettuce has very little vitamins.  Their only value is in fiber.
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Sure, I am already a vegetarian so it would just be bonus!
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Buddhists have been enjoying vegetarian dishes for centuries\n\n \n More of this Feature\n• Vegetarian FAQs\n \n From Other Guides\n• 5 Reasons for Being Vegetarian\n• Low Fat Vegetable/Vegetarian Recipes\n \nMention vegetarian cuisine and many people picture a group of aging hippies kneeling cross-legged around a communal dining table, helping themselves to carrot sticks dipped in yogurt or another plate of chickpea salad. While it's true that vegetarianism became trendy in the "psychedelic sixties," its origins date back much farther.  Pythagoras was a vegetarian (vegetarians were called Pythagoreans up until the 1800's) as was the poet Percy Shelley.  George Bernard Shaw, never one to shy from the spotlight, was a vocal proponent of a meat-free diet: \n\n"It is nearly fifty years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation." (Vegetariana: A Rich Harvest of Wit, Lore, and Recipes, by Nava Atlas)
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I have been a vegetarian my entire life.  I don't give arguments.  I think it is a very personal decision.  Personally I am vegetarian, because it would be hypocritical for me to eat meat.  I couldn't stomach killing anything to eat, so why have anyone else do the dirty work for me?  BTW- I eat incredible, gourmet restaurant vegetarian food.... definately not discusting.
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vegetarian food is the best food - both for you and for the sake of the animals :)\ni'm a vegetarian and i'm much healthier and stronger than many of the non-vegetarians i know.\nmoreover i have the satisfaction of not contributing to the pain of the animals :)\n\ni'm posting a link down here under source - visit the website and read all good about vegetarianism. ohh yea...if possible...do watch the videos they have there :)
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In general, yes.  In order to farm organically, the farmer needs to make sure that the soil remains healthy.  Intensive chemical farming (the alternative) does not need to worry so much about the soil itself, or about the environment.  Organic farming also releases less toxic chemicals into the environment.\n\n"Organic farming helps provide a safer, more healthy environment by: 1) not polluting our groundwater, rivers, lakes, and oceans with pesticides and chemical fertilizers; 2) reducing soil erosion; 3) improving soil quality; 4) increasing the diversity of wildlife on and near farms; and 5) providing safer working conditions for farm laborers (no exposure to pesticides)."  (Small Planet Foods)\n\nHowever, it can be argued that *just*  eating organic food, without also becoming vegetarian, is an exercise in futility.   \n\n"Organic crop farming cannot support conventional meat and dairy production, nor can it support the production of organic animal products. Substituting organic animal products for conventional ones, without a drastic reduction in consumption, clearly is not a reasonable large-scale plan."  (Vegetarian Site)\n\nPersonally, I would think that even a small step is a good step.\n\nEating organic fruits, vegetables and animal products (if you're not vegan) is also healthier *for* you, as it reduces your exposure to pesticides and other poisons.
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I think it is a good idea...\nYou should try it....as long as it is with me...ha ha
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I don't see any logic on that. \nMaybe it is ture,as you say, but it is not true. In certain diseases it is recommended to eat meat.\nLet me tell you also that your Q is very generic.\nFirst, we know that (almost)everything depends on quantity. Do you mean that eating big amounts of red meat will harm yourself?\nThis is true. Consider the pyramide of nutrition and you have prooved that.\nSecond, it depends on age, sex and nutritional requirements on the basis of our job. \nThird, we have to specify that meat quality depends on the quality of food that the animal eats.You can have low fat meat.\n\nFor further information, go to http://www.usda.gov click on the consumer's section and then click on food and nutrition.\nThere is a plan that can help you choose the foods and amounts that are right for you.\n\nI don't refer to any religious convinctions that prohibit meat consumption or the philosophy which states that life is unique so we can't eat similar species. \n\n\nKaterina
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no. i am a vegetarian.
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Allowing yourself to stess in times of finacial strife is far more damageing that the financial strife itself.  The only thing it can really do to harm you is cause you to eat badly - but I can go vegetarian for a few weeks and not do my body any harm while spending very little, its like a free detox.  \n\nThe problem is that fact that we are so attached to money and so worried about it, that is what is unhealthy.  I have been without money in many parts of the world and I have never allowed it to affect my health mentaly, physically I have eaten some pretty crap meals but nothing long term!
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Hi\nI tend to believe that being a TRUE vegetarian is not near as healthy as eating regular. We have a cousin that is a TRUE vegetarian and he just doesn't look healthy. He's pasty white and his eyes look like they are sunken in. I don't know, this is just my opinion and I have no clue aobut being a vegetarian because I'm a big healthy chubby girl who loves southern cooking. There are plenty of web sites and books that explain the pro's and con's of being a vegetarian. Speak to your Doctor and read up on it. Good Luck!
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I'm not too sure if you're looking for a specific kind of answer or just whatever comes out of the "question grinder" but I'll answer in 5ive parts:\n\n1. Diet. Most experts seem to agree that if you ate only meat (not the whole animal, just the muscle meat) or only vegetation (including beans), you'd be much, much better off eating the veggies. \n\n2. The environment. It's better for the environment to eat veggies. It's just a much more productive use of land and it allows animals to roam free for their lifetime until they die through disease, hunting, or predators.\n\n3. Air quality: If you have a lot of plants, they should increase the amount of oxygen you take in, and clean up the air a bit in some ways.\n\n4. Peace of Mind. I don't know about anyone else, but just being around trees gives me a sense of calm. I don't know why but I guess I don't have to.\n\n5. Easy "pets". If you want a pet but can't have one for any of various reasons, a plant is a nice alternative.
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Being a vegetarian has many health benefits. I found an article relating to this topic written by a vegetarian Mormon himself. \nhttp://www.vegsource.com/articles/cantano_review.htm