The Vegetarian Diet
A vegetarian diet is one of the most popular diets out there. You might hear about them on the radio, commercials, or see them on magazines, advertisements signs, and many other places. Vegetarianism is an interesting subject, What caused it? Since when has it been around?, these are common question one has when not knowing anything about the subject. Lucky for you, help is on the way! Let’s talk about all the aspects of this diet.
What is a vegetarian?. In order to understand this topic, you have to be sure we know what a vegetarian is, “...a person that does not eat meat, poultry, and fish”, is the definition friends from Brown University give you on their health education website. kidshealth.org adds that, “... mostly …show more content…
Dummines.com describes the diet as, “ excludes meat, fish, and poultry but includes dairy products and eggs. By how this sounds, i would say that the diet is a little more strict than the last. In the same site it says that most vegetarians in the United States, Canada, West Europe fall into this diet. Dietitians.ca lets us know that in this diet you can eat grains, vegetables, friut, legumes, seeds, eggs, and dairy products. It also informs us that good protein sources are soy, tofu, tempeh, fortified soy beverages, veggie burgers, lentils, peas, black beans, grains, seeds, nuts, peanuts/peanut butter, cheese, milk, eggs, and yogurt. Sources for iron are soy, tofu, tempeh, veggie burgers, fortified soy beverages, dried beans, peas, lentils, pasta, bread, cereals, sesame seeds, almonds, pumpkin, cashews, black strap molasses, spinach, kale, potatoes, prune juice, and dried apricots. And for Omega-3, we all know fish is a good source for Omega-3 but what do you do when your diet restricts it? well you can go with soybeans, tofu, walnuts, oils like canola, flaxseed, walnut, and soybean. Another type of diet besides semi-vegetarian, lacto ovo vegetarian, is the lacto vegetarian diet. Lacto vegetarians are similar to lacto-ovo vegetarians except that they do not consume eggs or products containing eggs. But they include dairy products such as milk, cheese and yogurt. Everything else would be the same as …show more content…
As mentioned earlier it depends on how well planned out you are with your diet. Sportsci.org helped solve this mystery, one of their conclusions after analyzing data was that this can depend on which of the vegetarian diets you are on, and that lacto ovo vegetarians particularly can have all essential nutrients for muscle growth. Another one of their conclusions was the following after a study of resistance training,” omnivores had a bigger gain in muscle mass than vegetarians.” The benefit meat-eaters have over vegetarians in muscle growth they consider is the testosterone synthesis, because meat eaters have more. They make very clearly that being a vegetarian would not affect your muscles in a negative way and that it does not affect in sports
A vegetarian diet is one of the most popular diets out there. You might hear about them on the radio, commercials, or see them on magazines, advertisements signs, and many other places. Vegetarianism is an interesting subject, What caused it? Since when has it been around?, these are common question one has when not knowing anything about the subject. Lucky for you, help is on the way! Let’s talk about all the aspects of this diet.
What is a vegetarian?. In order to understand this topic, you have to be sure we know what a vegetarian is, “...a person that does not eat meat, poultry, and fish”, is the definition friends from Brown University give you on their health education website. kidshealth.org adds that, “... mostly …show more content…
Dummines.com describes the diet as, “ excludes meat, fish, and poultry but includes dairy products and eggs. By how this sounds, i would say that the diet is a little more strict than the last. In the same site it says that most vegetarians in the United States, Canada, West Europe fall into this diet. Dietitians.ca lets us know that in this diet you can eat grains, vegetables, friut, legumes, seeds, eggs, and dairy products. It also informs us that good protein sources are soy, tofu, tempeh, fortified soy beverages, veggie burgers, lentils, peas, black beans, grains, seeds, nuts, peanuts/peanut butter, cheese, milk, eggs, and yogurt. Sources for iron are soy, tofu, tempeh, veggie burgers, fortified soy beverages, dried beans, peas, lentils, pasta, bread, cereals, sesame seeds, almonds, pumpkin, cashews, black strap molasses, spinach, kale, potatoes, prune juice, and dried apricots. And for Omega-3, we all know fish is a good source for Omega-3 but what do you do when your diet restricts it? well you can go with soybeans, tofu, walnuts, oils like canola, flaxseed, walnut, and soybean. Another type of diet besides semi-vegetarian, lacto ovo vegetarian, is the lacto vegetarian diet. Lacto vegetarians are similar to lacto-ovo vegetarians except that they do not consume eggs or products containing eggs. But they include dairy products such as milk, cheese and yogurt. Everything else would be the same as …show more content…
As mentioned earlier it depends on how well planned out you are with your diet. Sportsci.org helped solve this mystery, one of their conclusions after analyzing data was that this can depend on which of the vegetarian diets you are on, and that lacto ovo vegetarians particularly can have all essential nutrients for muscle growth. Another one of their conclusions was the following after a study of resistance training,” omnivores had a bigger gain in muscle mass than vegetarians.” The benefit meat-eaters have over vegetarians in muscle growth they consider is the testosterone synthesis, because meat eaters have more. They make very clearly that being a vegetarian would not affect your muscles in a negative way and that it does not affect in sports