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Submitted by shehnak on March 9, 2006
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PLANTS THEY'VE GOT IT ALL!
My goal in this paper is not to convince anyone to quit their non-vegetarian diet and start with a purely vegetarian one. My intention here is to prove that a vegetarian diet contains all essential nutrients, like proteins and iron, that are necessary for a healthy lifestyle and it is not required to supplement it with any meat products to fulfill our daily nutritional requirements. A well planned vegetarian diet has the right combinations as well as the right amounts of proteins and iron in it. My other concern is regarding the healthier side of a vegetarian diet; a vegetarian diet can be considered healthier than a non-vegetarian one because of the lower risk of food borne illnesses. Being a vegetarian myself, I have constantly been pressurized by my family and friends to start eating meat because I need the proteins and the vitamins that meat provides. This article is for all those who believe that plants are not capable of providing us with a complete healthy diet.
A vegetarian diet is considered to be mainly lacking proteins and iron. This deficiency of nutrients is then considered to make a vegetarian less resistant to diseases, but I have evidence to prove that a balanced vegetarian meal does not lack any of the essential nutrients. But before I do that, let's take a look at the different kinds of vegetarians that exist.
The Medical Encyclopedia, a service provided by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, describes a pure vegetarian as one who eats only foods of plant origin; a lacto-vegetarian eats plant foods plus some or all dairy products. A lacto-ovovegetarian consumes eggs in addition to plant foods and dairy products, while a partial vegetarian may eat chicken or fish with other plant foods but does not eat red meat (Vegetarianism). I believe that the partial vegetarians should not be included among the vegetarians because their diet does include meat...
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