What are some benefits of a vegetarian diet?
Studies have shown that vegetarians (following a well-balanced low-fat high-fibre vegetarian diet) often have lower incidence of coronary artery disease, hypertension, obesity and some forms of cancer. A vegetarian diet can be a very healthy option but it is important to ensure it is well balanced. You could stuff your face with chips and chocolate at every meal and be vegetarian but you wouldn’t be doing your health much good.
1) If all Americans didn’t eat meat for just one day a week, this would save the same CO2 emissions as 90 million plane tickets from New York to LA or from LA to New York. 90 Million tickets, each year, just by eating no meat for just one day a week! 2) If all Americans cut out meat for two days a week, this would have the same positive effect on reducing greenhouse gasses as replacing all household appliances like fridges, freezers, microwave ovens, dishwashers, washing machines, tumble dryers and so on and so forth, by energy efficient ones. 3) If all Americans cut out meat for three days a week, they would save almost three hundred megatons of greenhouse gas emissions. This would have a greater impact on reducing global warming than if all cars in the US were replaced with Toyota Priuses. 4) If all Americans cut out meat for four days a week, this would have the same positive effect on reducing greenhouse gasses as halving the domestic use of all electricity, gas, oil, petroleum and
