Friday, June 22, 2007

To be a vegetarian?
How can you obtain the protein that your body needs?
How can you be forgetful about the taste of these delicious foods?
Are you a vegetarian and you eat egg and drink milk?
These are the frequently asked questions about vegetarians.
Ordinary people who do not have sufficient information about vegetarians are constantly asking such questions.
At first let’s know what’s the definition of a vegetarian:
A vegetarian is a person who eats exclusively vegetable foods and abstains from some or any form of animal foods.
According to this definition , there are some vegetarians who consume some limited animal-derived foods but however they’re considered as a vegetarian. So, for knowing the dissimilarities, we should be familiar with different groups of vegetarian:
Vegan: eliminate all foods from animals, including meat, poultry, fish, milk, eggs and cheese. They eat only plant-based foods.
Lacto-vegetarian: consume milk and milk products along with plant-based foods. They omit eggs as well as meat, fish and poultry.
Lacto-ovo vegetarian: omit red meat, fish and poultry but eat eggs, milk and milk products, such as cheese and yogurt, in addition to plant-based foods.
By introducing these three groups, the answer to the third question is completely clarified. But answering to the other questions is not this much easy.
Studies have shown that every vegetable contains a certain amount of protein. If this amount is measured, it’s revealed that ,for example, soy beans content of protein is as much as meat. So vegetarians shouldn’t be worry about the protein.
About the taste of animal-derived foods; I think they shouldn’t be anxious about, because cookers have created such great tastes that some of them are even more delicious than other foods.
At the end, I should ask you that by considering this much of advantages don’t you think that It’s worthy for us to be vegetarian or not?

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