Monday, September 28, 2009
Eating strictly vegetarian has been shown to be good for you. There is excellent
research to show that when people don’t eat meat they eat fewer calories than people who do. The research is, however, often done under controlled circumstances where the
vegetarian diet is also a lower fat diet.
This doesn’t mean that if you don’t eat meat that your diet is automatically healthy. There are a tremendous number of vegetarian recipes that are very high in calories and fat.
The best plan is to look at recipes and the nutrition facts. How many calories are there? How much fat and saturated fat? Are there trans-fats? How much protein? Eating healthy is about choosing foods that are lower in calories and fat. Watching salt is a good idea, as well as trying to eat foods that have been processed as little as possible. This is true for both vegetarians as well as omnivores.
