Vegetarianism - Good Or Bad?

By Nate Rifkin

To eat or not to eat meat, that is the question.

Well, here's the answer: We should eat what the human body was designed to eat. What's the easiest way to tell? Look at other animals.

Let's take a look at the characteristics of MEAT-eaters versus herbivore animals.

Meat-eaters:

1. Have forward-facing eyes for hunting.

2. Have sharp teeth for tearing into meat.

3. Have relatively small stomachs because meat is easy to digest.

Plant-eaters:

1. Have sideways-facing eyes to watch out for predators.

2. Have many more blunt molar teeth for chewing tough plants.

3. Have larger stomachs to extract the nutrients from plants.

So do you have eyes on the sides of your head or the front? Sharp teeth up front or a mouth full of molars? A stomach the size of a beach ball or a softball?

Humans are supposed to eat meat. If you wish not to because of personal reasons, more power to you. Just don't spread the gospel that abstaining from meat is healthy.

Are there studies showing vegetarianism as more healthy than eating meat? Yes. But that's almost certainly because restraining yourself from eating meat shows you have self-disclipline compared to the average person. And being more healthy than the average person is not exactly a big feat.

However, look at someone with the same self-discipline and allow them to eat meat, and that's another result altogether.

You must, however, stick to eating healthy meat that isn't stuffed with preservatives. Whole Foods makes great burgers which have ruined me for regular meat. If you go natural, the healthier stuff really does taste better. - 17268

About the Author:

Nate Rifkin is a bizzare author on nutrition. You can discover his book Your Marriage Is Making You Fat here.