Even the Utah Beef council accepts,"Several Epidemiological studies indicate that vegetarians have lower morbidity than mortality from chronic degenerative diseases." Today, vegetarians only make up about two percent of the population, but everyday more and more people give up eating red meat and try their first bite of tofu. Besides ethics, what are the main reasons people are turning away from meat? Health and Ecology
Lower rates of disease among vegetarians
A hundred of different states showing that vegetarians who eat balanced diets have lower rates of coronary artery disease, hypertension and certain cancers. Registered dietician Winston Craig says that meat eating cost Americans between $30-$60 billion per year in medical expenses for hypertension, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, gallstones, obesity, and food-borne illnesses associated with meat. Craig says that a vegetarian diet is associated with lower cholesterol, lower blood pressure, less obesity.
In 1997 the world cancer research fund recommended a vegetarian diet for reducing the risk of cancer. Lifelong vegetarians have 245 less heart disease, while vegans have an astounding 57% less. A comprehensive study of vegetarian religious group the seventh day Adventists found that they have half the rate of high blood pressure and diabetes, half the rate of colon cancer, and two third the rate of arthritis and prostate cancer as other groups (2001). Furthermore, Cornell University reported that eating less meat helps to reduce osteoporosis than change your diet with calcium.
Do you have to be completely vegetarian to benefit
In 1999 a big analysis of several vegetarian and vegan morality studies was conducted. The results of these studies were compared together and reanalyzed. The researchers concluded that reducing meat in your diet have a significant effect on lowering your rate of disease. People who ate meat just once a week had a 20% lower rate of dying from heart disease, and their over all mortality was reduced by 10%
Those who ate only fish have 34% reduction in heart disease death, while their over all morality was lower by 18%
In the same sense, the more you reduce consumption of animal products, the more you appear to benefit. Only 7% of the vegans died of cancer. 19% of over all death in the US are from cancer.
Vegetarians diet are good for the planet
Every year, meat eater cater to the cattle farming industry. This industry use farm lands that could be producing human food to make grain for cows. Many people know cows produces large amounts of environmentally toxic methane gas. Raising cows also produces precious water resources.
Vegetarianism and the rain forest
You may not know that eating meat also contributes to the destruction of rain forest, In an effort to make a cheaper mac ad whooping metals are growing cattle in Central America, where labor and other costs are lowest. Central Americans are slashing and burning their rain forest to make room for the beef industry.
Vegetarianism and water reserves
The more disturbing is that a hamburger that originates from a rain forest where cows require the destruction of roughly 55 sq. feet of rain forest. Water reserves are important as it gives water to plants and animals. Water reserves are places where fluid collect, and water reserves are very essential because it is necessary by plants and animals because they drink water from ponds and river
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