| hershel_layton said: Over the summer I've been working on my eating habits, and I've started to see more and more online articles about vegetarian and vegan diets.
Just curious, but for anyone who is a vegetarian/vegan(or tried to be one), do you think it's worth the sacrifices that are made(i.e no meat and whatnot)?
If being a vegetarian improves my life, I'll probably do over a course of one month. Won't be young forever, so it's smart for me to plan for the future. |
It really depends on your body. My mom was a vegetarian for years but had to stop because she was becoming very sick. My mother both have low iron and eating a lot of spinach alone wasn't enough. Her doctors made her stop before she got sick. However if you don't have that problem then there is no issues with it.
I've heard from people that being a Vegan is better than being a vegetarian. Vegans tend to have more energy than most people and part of that is because eating pure fruits and vegetables is easy for your body to break down. In addition to that, applying basic science her. The transfer of energy gets lowered from carnivore to carnivore. A Giraffe will directly eat a plant and have a lot of energy, a Lion may eat that Giraffe but it will receive less energy and their body needs to break it down. If we were to kill the Lion and eat it. We would receive significantly less energy than the Lion did and our bodies would need to work harder to break it down.
Here's the funny thing. Giraffe's need 30 minutes of sleep a day. A female Lion (who does most of the hunting) sleeps for around 18 hours a day. There's a real difference there. A lot of Vegan's claim that they function or much less sleep and they are filled with far more energy. Vegetarians don't quite level to that. While I find it hard to believe this is possible as per being human, and Giraffe's sleep less than any other mammal. The reports are there and the science adds up. Hell, even a deer sleeps 30 minutes at a time, but throughout the day. They are also always alert while sleeping. Whilst not being alert while sleeping, vegans claim to be more alert during their day.
While being a vegan is significantly harder, and far more effective than being a vegetarian. You will need to give up dairy and grains. As those two are harder for your body to process and stores both weight and causes energy loss by your bodies requirement to work harder to break it down. Pasta can also pack on some weight for you.
My suggestion is to try it out for yourself and see if it makes a different for your body.
