| Fuchigole said: You don't have to go all vegetarian. I lost a lot of weight following a balanced diet wit meat, fruits, vegetables, grains and dairy products. I recommend to increase you consumption of fruits/vegetables, but don't miss all the goodies from the meat. |
What goodies from meat are you referring to? Meat, dairy, and eggs are associated with a raft of diseases. And the nutrients in them are all available from plant-based sources (yes, even B12). I agree that you don't have to go all veg to lose weight, but there are incredible benefits to doing so.
| d21lewis said: I've been doing it this week. Only ate apples, salad, and almonds since Monday. I feel great. Don't even miss it. It's just temporary, though. |
I wonder if you feeling weaker is part of your preconceptions of what to expect? A growing number of body builders are going vegan, and they're actually finding they gain muscle faster because the amount of recovery time required between workouts drops without meat, dairy, and eggs creating all kinds of inflammation in their bodies.
| Raistline said: Let's see here, you put up a link to a site whose articles are all anti-animal products and all lean pro-vegetarian and using it according to your context as proof that a vegetarian diet is better for you. This is akin to putting up a link to a Fox News article about what a great job Trump is doing as president and insinuating that it is coming from an unbiased source.
Not saying that there are not benefits and vegetarianism. Nor am I saying that eating processed meats are good for you either. I am merely commenting on your source of information as being incredibly biased and so should not be considered as 100 %credible. |
As opposed to all the citations others in this thread are offering (by which I mean, in most cases, absolutely none at all)? :) Nutritionfacts.org draws conclusions from studies. But you can look at the studies they're citing and draw your own conclusions, and the link is useful for that alone. Fox News is not nearly as well cited as Nutritionfacts.org, which is a key difference. And I suspect Nutritionfacts.org commands a lot more respect than Fox News. :)
And I've provided other citations than Nutritionfacts.org in recent posts, including one from the Baltimore Examiner (which is hardly a vegan mouthpiece, though I'd argue Nutritionfacts.org isn't either since they're simply evidence based).
