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Vegetarian

August 14th, 2007

Most of the population on the earth believes in having non-vegetarian foods. But gradually the literate segments of the societies in the developed countries have adopted vegetarian foods for various medical reasons. Even scientists and medical professionals strongly believe that vegetarian foods are far better as compared to non-vegetarian preparations due to its nutritious values and healthy properties.

The term vegetarian widely defines the food items that do not contain any meats, fish or poultry preparations. Vegetarian foods are exclusively based on the available plants, fruits and vegetables, however, many vegetarians do include dairy products and eggs in their diet. Such kind of diet is however, often termed as the lacto-ovo-vegetarian whereas the vegetarians who usually discard all the animal food preparations from their diet are called vegans.

Basically three major reasons have led more and more people towards the vegetarian diets. They are: hatred to the animal slaughter – though this logic is not well-matched with the consumption of dairy products or eggs as the productions of such foods certainly involves the slaughter of calves, cows and chicks. The other important reason of turning vegetarian is far more efficient land use as the hectare of good farmland can easily produce plenty of plant foods as compared to the animal foods. And finally, the health is the prime reason as most of the meat consumed in the Western societies is rich in saturated fat which in turn increases cholesterol levels in the blood leading to the developed risks of ischaemic heart diseases.

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