A Vegan Diet

1.  Weight loss

The first and most obvious benefit of quitting meat and dairy products is weight loss. Without doing anything else you will most likely lose a little weight and over time, you will get back to your natural weight. It is not very often you see an overweight vegetarian.

2.  More energy

When your meals consist of vegetables and fruit, your blood sugar will become much more stable. As a result, your energy level will be consistent and you will not get that fatigue feeling after meals.

3. Good conscience

You save many lives when you do not eat meat.  A cow weighs about 1000 pounds. A pig weighs about 250 pounds when it is going to slaughterhouse. How many pounds of meat do you eat each week? In a lifetime, that is a lot of animals saved.

4. More money

The average vegetarian spends less money on food than non-vegetarians do. How much you can save depends on how much you eat. The average family saves $10-$15 a day, just by being vegetarians.

5.  Helping the environment

Less farm animals mean less pollution. Circle 4 Farms in Utah, which raises 2.5 million pigs every year, creates more waste than the entire city of Los Angeles. This is worth thinking about.

6.  You will be healthier

More fruits and vegetables mean more vitamins for you. Less meat means fewer toxins and unwanted hormones in your body. Your immune system will greatly improve after replacing meat with more greens.

7.  Avoid heart disease

Cardiovascular disease is often connected with a diet full of saturated fats and cholesterol from meat and dairy products. The average person eating a meat-based diet has 50% chance of dying from a heart disease. If you go vegetarian this decreases to 15%, furthermore if you also cut out all dairy products this goes all the way down to 4%.

8.  Your body will be built of quality

You are what you eat and your body creates your cells of whatever you are putting into your mouth. Fruits and vegetables are life. Becoming vegetarian will “detox” your body naturally.

9.  Your bones will last longer

At age 65, the average woman has a bone loss of 35%. A vegetarian woman has an average loss of 18%, at the age of 65. This is because a non-vegetarian gets excessively more protein. On average, meat eaters get about 150% more protein each day than they need.

10. You will live longer

Now you know that living on a non-meat diet drastically decreases your chance of dying from heart failure and other obesity related diseases. However, did you know that it would reduce your risk of getting cancer? A recent study shows that red meat is associated with breast cancer. A vegetarian’s immune system is in much better shape than a meat eaters. Maybe this has something to do with it.

What we just learned, is that being vegetarian is a choice to be healthier. We now know that we do not need meat and that our bodies are not built to digest meat. The few disadvantages of being vegetarian are nothing compared with all the benefits.