Diets_and_Health

Diets and Health "You are what you eat", goes a famous saying. And if that is truly the case, then a lot of Americans would appear to be unhealthy, chemically treated, commercially raised slabs of animal flesh. And while that is not a particularly pleasant thought, it is nonetheless an description of the typical American omnivore who survives on the consumption of Big Macs and steak fajitas. But there are individuals who do not follow this American norm and have altered their diets so that they do not consume any meat. These people are vegetarians, and they are the new breed of healthy Americans who refuse to poison themselves with fats, cholesterol, and the other harmful additives that come from meat. And while once thought to be a movement that would never gain much momentum, it has nonetheless moved itself to the forefront of Americans' healthy diets. The word vegetarian, used to describe the diets of people who do not consume animal flesh, was not used until around the mid-1800s. The concept of vegetarianism, however, dates back much further. The Greek philosopher Pythagoras, considered by many to be the father of vegetarianism, encouraged a non-meat diet among his followers as a diet that was the diet, vegetarian, animal, vegetarians, meat, messina, animals, consume, cholesterol, people, consumption, time, food, vegans, risk, products, human, health, group, fat, eggs, disease, diets, cancer, americans, vegetarianism, robbins, milk, healthy, flesh, eat, average, while, vegetables, protein, new, men, less, includes, foods, fiber, byproducts, before, very, poultry, omnivores, muscle, lacto-ovo, include, however, heart