Vegetarian food is healthier than non-vegetarian food.
Vegetarian food is healthier than non-vegetarian food.
There are many friends who daily argue on a topic. Whenever they go for an outing in a restaurant the lover of non-vegetarian food starts teasing the other group by saying that you are simply wasting money by having vegetarian food. But the other group is no less and confidently states that Vegetarian food is healthier than non-vegetarian food. So do you support the argument?
Yes
• Vegetarian diets have higher fiber content and folate as compared to the non-vegetarian diets. Moreover the saturated fats and cholesterol is found at a lower side in vegetarian diets.
• Vegetarian diets reduce the risk of many diseases like obesity, diabetes, osteoporosis and especially cancer. Non-vegetarians are more prone to chronic diseases.
• Check out the statistics of western countries. It clearly shows that on average, vegetarians have a longer life than non-vegetarians.
• Vegetarian diet is not restricted to some limited food. The variety of vegetarian dishes that can be made is endless.
• Chicken and fish contains trans fatty acids and when consumed deep friend can become of the reasons of heart diseases.
No
• Vegetarian or non vegetarian, it doesn’t matter. What really matter are the factors like life style and the eating habits in maintaining good health.
• All the vegetarians are not healthy. They consume potato chips, high fat cheese, deep fried food, junk food and are equally prone to the diseases.
• Vegetarian or non vegetarian, the key word is exercise. No food is healthy if it is not supported by exercise.
• Vegetarians have to suffer from deficiencies of protein, iron, calcium and most importantly vitamin B12.
• Vegetarians have to make an extra expense on eating the supplements to fulfill their need of Vitamin B12 and other essential nutrients.
Conclusion
If the present generation's eating habits and lifestyles are studied then vegetarian or non-vegetarian, both the diets will fail. India had a culture of consuming vegetarian food from ancient past, and people during that time were healthy with a long life span. All types of foods have their pros and cons. Just select the right diet and stay fit and healthy.
Discussion
- RE: Vegetarian food is healthier than non-vegetarian food. -dattaswami (11/30/15)
- You must not kill any living being for the sake of your food.
The killing is the greatest sin
You must not kill any living being for the sake of your food. God has given enough vegetable food that contains all the ingredients present in the non-vegetarian food. After all, the source of ingredients of any flesh is only vegetable kingdom only. Eating the non-vegetarian food is not a sin because same ingredients exist in both vegetarian and non-vegetarian foods. But, you have to kill a living being for the sake of non-vegetarian food. The killing is the greatest sin.
You may argue that you have not killed the living being directly. Such argument cannot stand. Since you are eating the non-vegetarian food, the living being is killed. You are responsible for its killing. Therefore, you are the principle shareholder of the sin. There is nothing wrong if you eat a living being after its natural death. In Hinduism, there is a sect of people called ‘Kapalikas’, who eat the dead living beings. Therefore, they do not acquire sin. The tsunami is always due to anger of God since you are killing the living beings present in water for food. The earthquakes are due to killing of living beings that exist on the earth. God in the form of Buddha and Mahavir preached the non-violence and severely opposed the killing of living beings.
God in some other human forms might have followed the practice of non-vegetarian food in order to join with non-vegetarian people so that, certain other higher aspects to be preached might have been taken into consideration. That does not mean that God has encouraged the killing of living beings through non-vegetarian food. He might have kept silent on this issue in order to give importance to other serious issues. God follows the ignorance of the students in order to become friendly with them. To control a running bull, you have to run along with it for some distance before controlling it.
All these are the basic concepts of nivrutti, which are the core of pravrutti. By following the ethics of pravrutti, you will avoid God becoming furious with you. Then, through nivrutti, you can please God. On one hand, you are making God furious by not following the ethics of pravrutti and how can you please God through nivrutti simultaneously?
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- RE: Vegetarian food is healthier than non-vegetarian food. -Deepa Kaushik (05/02/14)
- Vegetarian food has a plenty of nutritious value which is overlooked by us. It is very important to know the art of cooking, as over-cooking often leads to depletion of the nutrition value. A food is meant to keep up a healthy body, rather than just taste to provide pleasure. Vegetables round the world carry different nutrition value.
Though non-vegetarian food is good source of protein and fat, still long term consumption of non-vegetarian food is not advisable. The vegetarian food can be given to people of all age group and also during the course of disease. We just need to choose the suitable vegetable content as per the health status. Non-vegetarian diet cannot be easily digested at older age, hence this form of food gets a negativity for this age group. Also small kids cannot digest the non-vegetarian food. The non-vegetarian diet is considered a complex diet and is difficult to digest which is again not a suitable one for the patients.
Again, non-vegetarian food is made of one or the other animal. This indirectly leads to killing another life form. Killing a living organism for food when we have a plenty other food materials available is not fair at humanitarian grounds. Also some specific diseases like worm diseases gain an easy entry via the non-vegetarian diet.
To be precise, even if the non-vegetarian diet carries a good amount of nutritious content, still the vegetarian food scores a lot more over the non-veg food in every aspect.
