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This 5 page paper uses Rudolph Ballentine's book "Transition to Vegetarianism" as a basis for a question & answer session about the benefits of a vegetarian diet. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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of a series of questions and answers that might arise in connection with making the transition from meat, milk, poultry, etc., to a completely vegetarian diet. Discussion Vegetarians and vegetarian
diets have, until fairly recently, been considered "weird" or "strange," a sort of hold-over from the hippie era of the 1960s. But that is beginning to change as more people
educate themselves about vegetarianism and its benefits. Some of the most frequently asked questions about a vegetarian lifestyle include whether or not it really has any health benefits; if a
person can get all the nutrients and protein he needs by eating only veggies; if theres sufficient variety to make an all-vegetable diet palatable; how to get enough iron; and
how one can transition to a vegetarian diet. There are many other questions as well and well consider as many as we can in this limited space. Is a vegetarian
diet healthier than a "regular" one? Research is increasingly showing that this is in fact the case. Heart disease is the number one killer of Americans, and eating a vegetarian
diet may help to prevent it (Ballentine, 1999). A study of 25,000 Californians carried out over a period of 20 years "showed that meat consumption was associated with a higher
incidence of fatal heart attacks in both men and women" (Ballentine, 1999, p. 9). In-depth statistical analyses showed that these differences were not due to differences in such things as
exercise habits, smoking, obesity, "or the consumption of other foods besides meat and poultry" (Ballentine, 1999, p. 9). The results appear to have a direct "dose-response relationship"; that is, "the
more meat eaten, the more heart disease" (Ballentine, 1999, p. 9). Studies have also found that eating a vegetarian diet results in lower rates of some kinds of cancers,
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