First, the benefits
1, vegetarian ingredients less fat, basically no cholesterol, vegetarians eat a vegetarian diet can reduce the likelihood of cardiovascular disease and even cancer.
2, vegetarian ingredients contain more dietary fiber, can help promote intestinal peristalsis, help the body to take away the accumulation of toxins, is conducive to metabolism at the same time to reduce the body's burden. Eating a vegetarian diet can help reduce the intake of animal fats, reduce the body's intake of calories, and which contains fiber can also promote detoxification, speed up the metabolism, thus helping to reduce the weight of the body.
3, eating vegetarian can help you change the bad habits of overeating, many vegetarian dishes are rich in dietary fiber, can increase the sense of satiety, on the enhancement of appetite, to prevent gastric pain is very helpful.
5, 95% of the toxins in the human diet from a variety of meat, fish and dairy products, especially fish, most of which contain carcinogens PCBs and heavy metals, these substances can not be completely eliminated by steaming or freezing, and vegetarian food contains phytochemicals can help the body detoxification.
Second, the bad
1, the vegetarian diet is low in calories, protein and fat is seriously insufficient, long-term vegetarianism is easy to cause malnutrition.
2, long-term vegetarian diet is easy to cause the body lack of iron, zinc and other nutrients, the lack of these nutrients is easy to make people appear tired. In addition, the lack of zinc will also affect the normal development of children, the lack of iron is also easy to lead to the occurrence of anemia.
3, eat a vegetarian people appear social difficulties mainly because of eating habits and other people with different eating habits caused by distress.
Vegetarians, that is, people who eat only vegetarian dishes and do not eat meat. Vegetarianism is a food culture, and people who practice it are called vegans. Vegetarians do not eat the food of subjective conscious animals, including domestic animals, wild animals, birds, fish, seafood, etc., but generally can eat eggs, and milk, butter, cheese and other dairy products.
There are many kinds of vegetarians, such as freestyle (it's okay to break the rules once in a while) and ascetic (strict adherence, and never eat eggs, milk, butter, or cheese), etc. There are several reasons to become a vegetarian. There are several reasons to become a vegetarian: 1) religious beliefs or to express loyalty to the sect of faith with vegetarianism, asceticism is mostly in this category; 2) purely for bodybuilding, weight loss, exercise, etc., this kind of mostly freestyle; 3) because of the heart of compassion, do not tolerate the animals because of their own desire to eat and kill.