My month as a vegetarian
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My month as a vegetarian
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#2When I was following Atkins (because I like to lift weights and we need lots of protein) I read that the Inuit are really healthy people and they only eat meat.
Maybe meat is understimate and it's our western life style that cause the illnesses.
Meat + bad carbs + no exercise = health problems
But for sure being a vegetarian or something in the middle is healthy. As long as you continue biking and avoid fast absorbing carbs
Good luck
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#3I've been a vegetarian for about 20 years now. I was a vegie from birth until about 2 years old, then ate meat until I was about four, then went back to being a vegie when I was force fed Liver and Onion at my parents hotel.
I don't think there is any real social pressure on me to eat meat. Once in a while I get a jerk who isn't one of my friends trying to explain to me the "error of my ways". But it's pretty easy to shrug that off, with an equally obscene response of something like "animals are my friends, and you don't eat your friends do you?". Ha.
But the real reason is I can get by fine without eating meat and would be viciously sick I'm sure if I ever attempted to eat meat now.
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#4When I was following Atkins (because I like to lift weights and we need lots of protein) I read that the Inuit are really healthy people and they only eat meat. Maybe meat is understimate and it's our western life style that cause the illnesses. Meat + bad carbs + no exercise = health problems But for sure being a vegetarian or something in the middle is healthy. As long as you continue biking and avoid fast absorbin…
The reason the Inuit can eat an diet consisting only of meat while remaining healthy is that it matches their lifestyle. A big problem for health in western society is the mismatch between those two, I don't think you can blame either one in isolation. We don't do a whole lot, but we eat a load of sugary stuff. This is a big part of Michael Pollan's critique on our diet, it is a very interesting read.
Besides, there are the obvious other health-related reasons to not eat factory-farmed meat, which most of our meat is. For that I can only recommend reading Eating Animals by Jonathan Saffran Foer. It was what pushed me over the line into becoming a vegetarian.
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#5I stopped eating my friends about eight years ago. I don't really consciously think about not eating meat now (it has become natural for me not to), but I really miss fish.
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#6I have been a veggie all my life - I just can't imagine eating the flesh of an animal; i have no desire to even try it.
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#7I'm 25 now and I'd never ate any meat in my life (first try to eat some was at 18 or something but it just didn't fit into my stomach D:) - feels pretty much fine actually :D
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#8Why is this on Hacker News?
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#9When I was following Atkins (because I like to lift weights and we need lots of protein) I read that the Inuit are really healthy people and they only eat meat. Maybe meat is understimate and it's our western life style that cause the illnesses. Meat + bad carbs + no exercise = health problems But for sure being a vegetarian or something in the middle is healthy. As long as you continue biking and avoid fast absorbin…
The reason the Inuit can eat an diet consisting only of meat while remaining healthy is that it matches their lifestyle. A big problem for health in western society is the mismatch between those two, I don't think you can blame either one in isolation. We don't do a whole lot, but we eat a load of sugary stuff. This is a big part of Michael Pollan's critique on our diet, it is a very interesting read. Besides, there…
Thanks I'll try to read those.
I'm now trying to eat a more equilibrated diet, lentils, beans but still meat in the diet.
Re: My month as a vegetarian
#10When I was following Atkins (because I like to lift weights and we need lots of protein) I read that the Inuit are really healthy people and they only eat meat. Maybe meat is understimate and it's our western life style that cause the illnesses. Meat + bad carbs + no exercise = health problems But for sure being a vegetarian or something in the middle is healthy. As long as you continue biking and avoid fast absorbin…
no exercise = health problems
--That's the real issue. Good carbs, bad carbs, gristle and fat; none of that is as important as not leading a sedentary life.