Vegetarianism and health

Today, I read an article which is talking about vegetarianism and their health status. According the article, vegetarianism’s health are better than meat lovers, such as lower death rate, lower heart disease rate and obesity rate.

In the article, people were divided into five groups which were nonvegetarian( diet that includes poultry and red meat), semi-vegetarian ( poultry and red meat,but no more than once a week), pesco-vegetarian ( no poultry and red meat, but include seafood), lacto-ovo-vegetarian (no poultry, red meat or seafood, but include dairy products and eggs), and vegan ( no animal products at all). One of the reasons this article attracted me is this is my first time to know there are different standards to divide people’s diet. The article’s results showed that a vegetarian diet was associated with a twelve percent lower risk of death. Among lacto-ovo-vegetarians, the reduced risk of death was nine percent, which was just slightly better than that of the semi-vegetarians (eight percent). Vegetarian group has better confounding factors, such as body mass index, exercise habits and calorie intake.

An interesting finding in this article was the vegetarianism has healthier heart than meat lovers. Those in vegetarian group were nineteen percent less likely than their meat-eating groups to die from heart disease. In addition, the article revealed that men were much more likely than women to benefit from being vegetarianism. Men decreased death rate much lower than women in the vegetarian group.

In my opinion, no matter which groups people live with, the most important thing is balancing nutrition and calorie intake. Doing exercise and living in a healthy way is crucial for people’s health.