Study: Vegetarians Less Healthy Than Meat Eaters

[Rubystars]

if you're talking about lettuce, yes it does get digested......but to get "a lot of nutrients" you'd have to eat like a cow - you'd have to eat a lot. A lot meaning perhaps a head of lettuce every hour all day long.

I can't go on just vegetables. I have to murder some animal.

Iceberg lettuce doesn't have a lot of nutrition but other types of lettuce have more phytochemicals and minerals and vitamins.

I don't do well on a vegetarian diet either. I tried it three times and ended up going back to meat because I would do really well for a couple of months on it and then I'd start to feel bad and need meat again.

[Zelhar]

Allot of people become vegetarian or vegans AFTER they have already begun to suffer from health issues. The study disregards that fact. If you really want to compare different diets you should start with one age group (young adults) that belong to the same socio-economic status and same ethnic group, and follow the development in the course of years as they stick to their diet.

[Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks]

Allot of people become vegetarian or vegans AFTER they have already begun to suffer from health issues. The study disregards that fact. If you really want to compare different diets you should start with one age group (young adults) that belong to the same socio-economic status and same ethnic group, and follow the development in the course of years as they stick to their diet.

Veganism (so long as you are managing to get all the nutrients you need in your diet, which is tough but not impossible) is probably the very best diet for long-term health (especially cardiovascular), but very few people have the discipline for that and it's not the best diet for immune function. I don't think a diet with meat and dairy in it is necessarily bad.

[christians4jews]

Muman hit the nail on the head. Everything in moderation, some smaller does than others.

Ive cut down my red meat intake, but not completely. Why because red meat has a lot of Aminno acids, protein and iron in it. So in small doses, such as perhaps two portions a week should be ok.

If I only ate fruit and veg and no meat its surely difficult to get all your ammino acids and proteins. I also think DAIRY products in moderstion are healthy as they are a good form of Vitimin D.

What I think yu should eat the most of is fish and veg/fruit. As they pack most of the minerals we need.

But as Muman said. Everything in Moderation.

[Joe Gutfeld]

Too much of anything is no good.  Eating only meat is no good.  Eating an evgetarian diet too much is no good.  It's better if you just die now.  That way you won't have to worry about these stupid studies.

[Israel Chai]

Veganism (so long as you are managing to get all the nutrients you need in your diet, which is tough but not impossible) is probably the very best diet for long-term health (especially cardiovascular), but very few people have the discipline for that and it's not the best diet for immune function. I don't think a diet with meat and dairy in it is necessarily bad.

No, wrong, vegan diets are the very worst for long term health.

[angryChineseKahanist]

well if a person is not working and has nothing better to do than they can go and figure out which vegetables can give them the nutrients they need to be healthy. For the rest of us who don't have time, just eat a lot of dark green vegetables and whatever else you usually eat.

[Zelhar]

Veganism (so long as you are managing to get all the nutrients you need in your diet, which is tough but not impossible) is probably the very best diet for long-term health (especially cardiovascular), but very few people have the discipline for that and it's not the best diet for immune function. I don't think a diet with meat and dairy in it is necessarily bad.

It's not bad, some of the meat and fish foods are healthy in moderation. There are also vegan foods that are absolute garbage (ie salty deep fried potato chips).

[Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks]

No, wrong, vegan diets are the very worst for long term health.

Almost nobody has the intellect, finances, nutrition knowledge, and willpower to do it right.

[Israel Chai]

Almost nobody has the intellect, finances, nutrition knowledge, and willpower to do it right.

Because it's wrong. It's the stupidest concept on the planet as well. If you don't eat honey because bees make it, don't eat fruit because bees pollinate it, and it's their food too. The intellect required is clearly retardation, in the first place to see this as logical.

[Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks]

Because it's wrong. It's the stupidest concept on the planet as well. If you don't eat honey because bees make it, don't eat fruit because bees pollinate it, and it's their food too. The intellect required is clearly retardation, in the first place to see this as logical.

You haven't listened to Chaim much.

[Israel Chai]

You haven't listened to Chaim much.

I decide health science based on health science, not Chaim. And I seriously doubt your sincerity.

[Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks]

I decide health science based on health science, not Chaim. And I seriously doubt your sincerity.

Did you miss your meds today?

[Israel Chai]

Did you miss your meds today?

Like I said Stinks, never touch tynenol.

[Every Jew AK47]

They say there is more people living past 100 years old than ever before and that none of them are vegetarian.. Statistics speak for themselves.

[Dr. Dan]

The best natural diet are rocks, trees, and stars...

That, and a stuffed cabbage with cool mountain water.

 

[syyuge]

Unfortunately the vegan diets are also supposed to include the various types of Nuts, pulses, lentils, wheat, rice, dairy products etc. I am supposed to be a vegan, but to get the advantages of the non-veg, I generally eat one meat dish a week. I have eaten so much of eggs continuously for so many years that now either I am allergic to it or the medicated injections for the eggs have dastardly changed the medical characteristics of the eggs.       

[Israel Chai]

Unfortunately the vegan diets are also supposed to include the various types of Nuts, pulses, lentils, wheat, rice, dairy products etc. I am supposed to be a vegan, but to get the advantages of the non-veg, I generally eat one meat dish a week. I have eaten so much of eggs continuously for so many years that now either I am allergic to it or the medicated injections for the eggs have dastardly changed the medical characteristics of the eggs.       

Always buy it from a farmer you know, or have a couple chickens and feed them grains.