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| Health Benefits |
| According to http://www.GoVeg.com going vegetarian is "the single best thing we can do for ourselves and our families". Fully vegetarian diets can provide a good health and can help protect against many diseases like heart disease,cancer, and strokes. Research that was held by GoVeg.com shows that "vegetarians are 50 percent less likely to develop heart disease and they have 40 percent of the cancer rate of meat eaters". Medical doctor Neal Bernard states that "[A] healthy vegan diet gives important advantages over a meaty diet, which is why many Olympic and professional athletes are vegetarians [...] A healthy vegan diet will give you the strength and stamina that you need to leave those sluggish meat-eaters in the dust.". Since meat is a great source of protein some would think that a Vegetarian diet would lack in protein that is provided by meat but the protein intake is easily balanced out if proper foods are eaten such as beans, lentils, tofu, nuts, seeds, tempeh, chickpeas, peas and many other varieties of food. |
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