Plant Based Diet Pros And Cons

Consuming a plant-based diet is beneficial to people’s health and could make a significant impact on ending world hunger, animal cruelty, and animal exploitation. Having a plant-based diet will give countless benefits to our health and the planet, and has been proven to cure illnesses. One the assets is that you can acquire more vitamins and nutrients from vegetables than any animal product. The carbon footprint to grow and produce plant-based ingredients is more than three times less than the carbon footprint of meat. More food goes into the production of animal products than the amount of meat we receive when the animal dies; this is a large factor of world hunger. By not purchasing animal products or simply cutting down the amount you consume, …show more content…
Fruits and vegetables like oranges, broccoli, apricots, blackberries and more have high amounts of calcium, without the negative impact of hormone imbalance that comes with getting calcium from milk. (The Physicians Committee) According to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, people that eat a plant-based diet are less likely to develop heart disease, cancer, diabetes, or high blood pressure than meat-eaters are. (The Physicians Committee) From “Raw Food” by Matthew Kenney and Sarma Melngailis they tell of a study that was done with 24,000 people that found the rates of cardiovascular disease for people who eat a plant-based diet was one-tenth that of meat eater’s. (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition) “Humans have extremely long intestines; meat takes so long for us to digest that it often putrefies in our systems before we can expel the waste, thereby releasing toxins into our bloodstream,” quoted from “Raw Food” by Matthew Kenney and Sarma Melngailis. Furthermore, if your body does not need to spend energy and time to process your hamburger that you just ate, then it can make your immune system faster and give you more energy. (The Vegan Society) Eating a plant-based diet could increase the length and quality of your life, cure sicknesses, and support your body to work in its best …show more content…
Having a plant-based diet can make people feel full; they just need to eat more vegetables, grains and protein (legumes, oils and nuts) to obtain the “full” feeling. In addition, plants digest faster than animal products, so they need to eat a higher quantity of vegetables and fruits more frequently throughout the day than you would if they ate meat. The ‘issues’ with a plant-based diet are solved by either taking a vitamin or eating more of a specific plant