| invetedlotus123 said: Well, i didn't read anything posted but the OP but I'm talking from experience. If your goal is to eat healthier being a vegetarian isn't a requirement, since loads of stuff from animals can be healthier than their vegetal counterparts. Likr using pig fat to cook instead of vegetal oil. Vegetarians tends to think more about what they eat, but if you arent eatimg meat and indulge in french fries, fat cheese, candies and over processed food it isn't be any healthier than meat. You can be very healthy with both diets, and very unhealthy too. |
Do you have a citation for your claim that cooking (frying?) in pig fat is healthier than vegetable oil? Also, what vegetable oil (as they have different health and nutrition profiles)? I'd add, that I'm not sure cooking/frying with any kind of oil is especially healthy. I don't add oils to my food at all. I do eat at restaurants from time to time, and there are probably some oils added to that food, but that's one of the reasons why I rarely eat at restaurants. Here's a video on the topic (with a long list of citations in the comments for all of its claims): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbtwwZP4Yfs
I agree that a person can be unhealthy on any diet, and that it's possible to be healthy on several of them. Healthy varies by degrees, though. I don't think that it's true to say that all diets have the ability to offer an equal level of health in their respective best-case scenarios. Eating a whole food plant-based diet may offer greater health than any other single dietary option. There is a growing body of research that suggests as much, and it'll be interesting to see if the research continues to trend in that direction.
