World Vegetarian Day Many celebrities eat vegetarian

World Vegetarian Day: Health Benefits of Meat Release

10/01/2012

There are many good reasons for abstaining from meat. Today's World Vegetarian Day is a good occasion to take a closer look at it and see if your own meat consumption can not possibly be reduced or eliminated.

Many celebrities lead by example and have been living as vegetarians for years. Sure, giving up meat is not always easy, but the stars show how it works. By Boris Becker, Dustin Hoffman, Richard Gere, Gwyneth Platrow and Avril Lavigne on the Tokyo hotel twins Bill and Tom Kaulitz, Alec Baldwin, Pamela Anderson and Brad Pitt, to prominent historical figures such as Albert Einstein, Franz Kafka, Wilhelm Busch or Leonardo da Vinci reaches the list of prominent vegetarians. Out of conviction, the stars forgo meat. Their health is doing a great deal of favor. Because vegetarians rarely get fat, have less problems with cardiovascular disease or high blood pressure and are at lower risk of cancer. Good reasons to use today's World Vegetarian Day (October 01) to switch to fruits and vegetables.

Health benefits of vegetarian diet
In most cases, the conversion to a vegetarian diet involves a reduction in the existing excess weight, which relieves the body as a whole. A renewed increase threatens only when the vegetarianism is abandoned. The well-known from diets yo-yo effect is therefore almost excluded with exclusive diet based on vegetarian diet. According to the Justus Liebig University Giessen "established medicine has also recognized that a vegetarian diet can significantly contribute to nutrition-related diseases such as overweight, type 2 diabetes mellitus, atherosclerosis, cardiovascular diseases, hypertension To prevent "gout and various cancers". The German Society for Nutrition (DGE) also recommends today a balanced lacto (ovo) vegetarian diet explicitly for health prophylactic reasons as a permanent food. Studies by the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg and the Federal Health Office Berlin have confirmed that vegetarians - despite their overall longer life expectancy - are less likely to suffer from cancer.

Ethical concerns about meat consumption
Although the health benefits of vegetarian diets are quite convincing, many vegetarians have decided not to sacrifice meat because of their own health, but ethically. The philosopher Pythagoras of Samos is regarded as the founder of this so-called ethical vegetarianism. Today, many people have significant ethical concerns about meat consumption, mainly because about 99 percent of meat products on the market are not from animal welfare. Mass livestock farming, with its scandals of recent decades, meets with a majority of the population on rejection. However, only a few have taken the last step to renounce meat. But the proportion of vegetarians is growing and more and more people are trying to at least reduce their meat consumption. This is also welcome given the growing global food shortage. Because for the production of every kilogram of meat a multiple of plant nutrients is consumed. In other words, a world full of vegetarians would be significantly easier to feed.

There are many recipe pages on the Internet that specialize in meatless cuisine. The motto of vegetarian gourmets: "No boring casseroles, instead high vegetarian cuisine". (Fp)

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