While the diet of the vegans in this study was not optimal, so was the diet of the meat eater, and there is no reason to assume that vegans consumed less «healthy» food or more «unhealthy processed»
food than the meat eaters.
Not exact matches
Luckily, plant - based
food is now bigger
than ever and companies are coming up with new, innovative products that will make even
meat -
eaters drool.
Financially, being a pescetarian is more expensive
than a
meat -
eater, and mussels and shrimp are among the most cost effective
foods for me (much cheaper in the UK
than actual fish), so after reading these kinds of studies it freaks me out even more.
This will be more readily accomplished by the millions of
meat eaters opting for grass - fed animal
foods than by the smaller numbers of vegetarians boycotting
meat.
Additionally, in the «correlation doesn't necessarily mean causation» department, those who follow a vegetarian diet are already more likely to be health conscious and consume whole
foods instead of processed
foods, so they would naturally exhibit better health as a group
than industrial
meat and processed
food eaters.
This suggests that there are other reasons why many vegetarians weigh less
than meat -
eaters that have nothing to do with avoidance of
meat (i.e. exercise habits or healthier
food choices).
Vegetarian diets, like all diets, can vary widely in quality, depending on
food choices, which is why it is very difficult to say whether vegetarians as a group are healthier
than meat -
eaters.
The majority of
meat eaters are also junk
food eaters, having plenty of refined wheat flour and sweets, a cause of excessive weight more
than meat itself.
Vegans are thinner
than meat eaters, because no whole plant
food is related to weight gain, including nuts (and high carb grains and legumes).
Luckily, plant - based
food is now bigger
than ever and companies are coming up with new, innovative products that will make even
meat -
eaters drool.
Cats may prefer a variety of flavors and studies have shown that canned
foods are more beneficial
than dry
foods for cats (cats are carnivores and as primarily
meat eaters, grain based dry
foods may be poorly digested and can lead to weight gain).
However, for this to happen faster, some social engineering needs to be done to bring those two groups together so that
meat -
eaters can appreciate that vegetable dishes can be just as or even better
than meat, and vegetarians can stop being so dogmatic about their views on
food politics.