This article is the first part of series of articles about why you should switch to a vegetarian diet.
Other articles in this serie are:
I haven’t been a vegetarian for more than seven years. And I didn’t experience one of those immediate switches to become all vegetarian, to me, it was a process that developed over several years.
If you’ve eaten meat your whole life, switching to a vegetarian diet might be something that could be fairly difficult. I am not sure if you can relate it to trying to quit smoking, because I think that quitting to smoke might be even more difficult.
I think that the most important part when it comes to becoming all vegetarian is to consider the reason why you should stop eating meat. Most people have been eating meat their whole life, and the easiest part is to continue eating the way they have always been eating.
So, the question you should be asking yourself is…
Why switch now?
In fact, there are many reasons why you should decide to switch to a vegetarian diet. You might want to take a look at yourself in the mirror, even though I don’t know anything about you, I know this:
The majority of Americans are not at a healthy weight and this can be the number one reason for them to switch. It seems that more and more people, not only in the US, are becoming obese. Do you think vegetarians become obese? Well, they certainly can, but so far, I have never heard of or seen (even on TV) an obese vegetarian.
Now, aks yourself the following questions:
- Are you at a healthy weight?
- Do you feel good most of the time?
- Do you wake up energized? Or tired and sluggish?
- How is your overall health?
- Is your blood pressure in a healthy range?
- Are your cholesterol and blood sugar levels normal?
If you answer no to most of the questions, you should consider a switch (you don’t have to become a vegetarian in order to feel healthy). Many people actually feel worse after eating, that’s not how food is suppose to make you feel. Food should nourish and feed your body. It should leave you feeling refreshed and energized. The body is a machine and it needs good fuel.
As I just stated, most Americans (and a lot more people in other countries as well) are overweight and obese. This is because they eat too much meat and too much fat. Problems such as high blood sugar, Type II diabetes, high cholesterol and other health related problems are caused by their diet.
All of these problems can be prevented by changing your diet.
You can become a vegetarian because of health related issues, as I just described, but if you are like me, health got nothing to do with the switch. I will update you soon, with the reasons for why I became a vegetarian, and why I will continue to be one for the rest of my life… stay tuned.
As a vegetarian, I have been thinking about why humans started eating meat in the first place. This question is interesting, because originally, our ancestors were hunter-gatherers and not omnivores.
It’s said that necessity is the mother of invention, and prehistoric humans who lived in frozen areas ate anything that they could to survive. What I am saying is that, the prehistoric man had to eat meat in order to survive. This would be the first time that they had ever eaten meat. And because of this, it changed the way people would eat forever.
The first meat that was eaten would have been cooked by fire that was natural started by natural forest fires. Without fire, they could have possibly eaten raw meat as well. The digestive system most likely rebelled to eating the raw meat, but as they became adjusted meat became a part of their regular diets.
You may have heard of people who have lived vegetarian lives for a long period of time and then became violently ill after eating meat. This is similar to what prehistoric men would have gone through.
We are not really designed to digest meat, but we have adapted to it over time.
Americans are fat. It’s a fact. Could trying a vegetarian lifestyle increase our quality of life? Will an aging baby boomer population consider this to help ward off the effects of old age?
Here are many reasons to be vegetarian. Just listen to this guy…
An interesting video about why you should become vegan. A talking pig explains it.
