Question

Answer the following questions related to Vegetarianism.

• In the United States, 32% of adults eat a vegetarian diet (Vegetarianism in America, n.d.). What does the term "vegetarian" mean?
• Do you think vegetarian diets are practical? That is, can someone easily be a vegetarian while living the typical American life of being rushed and busy?
• Vegetarian diets are associated with a lower risk of obesity and diabetes as well as other chronic conditions (Marsh, Zeuschner, & Saunders, 2012). Clearly a vegetarian diet can be a healthy one, but can a vegetarian diet lack nutrients? If so, which nutrients may be lacking? How could these nutrients be measured in the body to determine if someone is deficient in them? Are there vegetarian foods that provide these nutrients or would supplementation be necessary? Are there any interactions to be aware of with the supplements that a vegetarian may take?
• Do you think that a vegetarian diet would be costlier than a nonvegetarian diet?
• Look at the meals you ate in your 3-days diet record. Do any of your meals contain no meat? Choose one of your meals that contain meat and modify it to be vegetarian. Would you eat the modified meal?

Answer 1

Answer: Vegetarian diet includes healthy foods such as fruits, vegetables, fats as well as protein. This also includes avoiding it eliminating the non veg foods items such as meat, fish or chicken.

The vegetarian diet is considered to be healthy and is practical as it reduces risk of chronic disease development. If the diet is consisit of all the nutritional foods which could meet the daily requirements of our body, it can reduce the risk of various diseases. Vegetables contains low amount of fat which are healthy for our body.

Due to busy schedule, it could not be possible to have healthy lifestyle. But in case of vegetarian diet, many green salads could be used in the place of high fat content food. This will provide energy, nutrional values.

Vegetarian diets may lack some kind of proteins that are found in non veg foods such as meat, fish are rich in protein, omega fatty acids. This improves the eye sight, keeps heart healthy etc. Hence the vegetarian diet may lack some of the nutrients.