Going Meatless
More people are switching to a meatless diet for different reasons. Passion for preserving animal life, conserving resources and helping to save mother earth are among the few good reasons. If these reasons are not enough for you to jump on the bandwagon, perhaps improved overall health is tempting enough.
Find out how going meatless can improve the nutritional quality of your diet below.
How Diet Affects Your Health
It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out that what you eat can largely affect your health and there are studies to prove it.
In one recent study, researchers analyzed the data provided by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and came to the conclusion that poor diet and unhealthy eating habits were responsible for 45 percent of deaths in 700,000 Americans in 2012. Continue reading
Shifting to a meatless diet has a lot of perks. It helps conserve resources. It makes you less susceptible to chronic diseases. It helps you maintain your desired waistline. It makes you spend less cash too. How great is that?
If you want to reap all the benefits of a meatless diet and save few extra cash for something you fancy buying, read on.
How a Meatless Diet can Cut Your Weekly Budget
The Journal of Hunger and Nutrition recently published a study indicating that a plant-based diet could save a person about 750 dollars a year by replacing lean meat with olive oil as a source of fat. Continue reading