What are the pros and cons of a vegetarian diet?
Reasons to become a vegetarian: 1. The consumption of animal products has been conclusively linked with heart disease, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, and osteoporosis. 2. A vegetarian diet can prevent 97 percent of coronary occlusions. The rate of colon cancer is highest in regions where meat consumption is high and lowest where meat-eating is uncommon. A similar pattern is evident for breast, cervical, uterine, ovarian, prostate, and lung cancers. 3. Medical studies prove that a vegetarian diet is easier to digest, provides a wider range of nutrients and imposes fewer burdens and impurities on the body. 4. Vegetarians are less susceptible to all the major diseases that afflict contemporary humanity, and thus live longer, healthier, more productive lives. 5. Vegetarians tend to have have fewer physical complaints, less frequent visits to the doctor, fewer dental problems and smaller medical bills. 6. Stronger immune system 7. By following a pure vegetarian diet (no animal products at all
