Vegetarian Diets Need Adequate Nutrient Content
If you are a vegetarian, you are probably reaping the health benefits of a great diet. According to Susan Havala Hobbs (author of Being Vegetarian For Dummies), research has proven that vegetarians have lower rates of coronary artery disease, some forms of cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity. Vegetarians are also less likely to have kidney disease and intestinal problems like diverticulosis.
Some vegetarians (lacto-ovo) don’t eat meat but will eat animal products such as egg and dairy products. Vegans, on the other hand, eat no animal products of any kind. Food choices for vegetarians have expanded at grocery stores and restaurants. Vegetarian diets are no longer considered “bland”. Like any diet, you must make sure you are getting enough nutrients. Vegans, in particular, should be sure their diets include enough calcium, vitamin B12, iron and protein.
Multivitamins, calcium supplements, etc. can also provide some of these nutrients when diets are lacking.
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Just a quick note from a life long vegetarian who does eat milk and eggs if I can’t tell it’s an egg, watch out for lack of vitamin D as well. I made sure that my vitamin had it in it, drink at least 3 glasses of milk a day, spend some time in the sun without sunscreen to get vit. D and I was still deficient.
Thanks for the comment!
My husband is a vegetarian and he is very healthy. He does eat dairy and eggs. I try to make him eat salmon…
I need to do this more, thanks
Great info!
Have a great weekend Mark.
By the way, I am going a bit easier with the exercises, but it is all paying off. Thanks.
HOLD THAT THOUGHT! It depends on what v/v consumes. There are lots of v/v products out there that are no good. Fake cheese, fake hotdogs, cookies, and cakes, all constitute as vegetarian/vegan food but are really junk. And those who consume highly processed food do develop hypertension. I have to find the link, but a 20 year study came out in recent years on vegan/vegetarians. Done by a respectable vegan doctor, he learned that vegetarians/vegans do not necessary live any longer than meat eaters, can have high cholesterol, hypertension,diabetes, etc.