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Vince DelMonte Muscle Building Blog

Top 10 Comments On The Vegetarian Lifestyle

By Vince On July 30, 2009 Under Featured Post, Muscle Building Diets

In the list below you’ll DISCOVER some powerful reasons why the veggie meal plans are a wise decision to add to your nutrition library whether your a vegetarian or not:

Top 10 Comments On The Vegetarian
Lifestyle (from recent conversation with Dr. John Berardi)

1. Proper vegans find some very creative and interesting ways to consume all their fruits, veggies, nuts and seeds which are foods the are most easy to become deficient on.  Most omnivores, like myself, lack ideas on how to prepare them so I can take a lesson from checking out their delicious recipes.

2. Vegan cookbooks are some of the best books for showing you how to prepare and consume your vegetables in a tasty way.

3. There IS a relationship between eating meat and cancer risks.  It’s not just speculation. Over 100 published epidemiological studies show a link between eating meat and cancer.

4. The secret to eating meat is to consume the right kind of meat in the right amounts that fits into a overall healthy diet.  Eating meat DOES give you high protein, high B vitamins and important vitamins and minerals that you really can’t get in any other way unless you supplement. Health and muscle-building are severely compromised if any of these nutrients are missing. That’s my TOP argument for meat.

5. The solution isn’t to not eat meat. It’s to balance out the meat with other healthy foods. Many meat eaters tend to eat less of other healthy things. So their diets tend to be very high in calories, high in saturated fat, low in fiber, low in antioxidants, and low in vitamins and minerals.  Introducing even ONE veggie meal into your daily plan would make a difference.

6. There’s some pretty compelling evidence that potentially carcinogenic [cancer-causing] compounds are introduced into our bodies when we eat cooked meat. The most problematic seem to be processed meats – lunch meat, canned meats, jerkies – and heavily grilled or charred meat.  However, just like guns, meat is not the problem.  The person is the problem and with proper knowledge these risks can be managed.

7. I don’t believe that’s it’s fundamentally healthier to be a vegan.  Yes, a proper vegan diet is healthier than the typical North American diet. Most vegans believe it’s healthier because they got rid of all the fast food, all the sugar, and all the junk making you feel bad.  Well, you eliminate those foods not being vegan too!

8. You don’t have to be a vegetarian to experience better health.  Anybody can get rid of dietary chemicals, processed food, sugar, caffeine, hormones, all that stuff. Just eat more fiber, antioxidants, micronutrients and of course you’ll fee great. Better health is rarely a magical vegetarian thing, it’s an eating right thing.

9.  Vegetarians tend to eat fewer total calories when they first switch to veganism which leads to fast fat loss and more energy.

10. The bottom line is that there will always be athletes and weight lifters who eat meat like a religion and would tell you that you’re an idiot if you don’t eat meat.

And there will always be vegetarians and vegans who take the exact same approach, just from the other side.

Where does Vince stand?

I’d say that most vegans probably could use meat in their diets, and most heavy meat eaters could stand to eat a little less. We’d be a healthier society if we agreed to meet in the middle.

Vegan cookbooks and and meal plans are the BEST resource to get more ideas to prepare your fruits, veggies, nuts and seeds to ensure you’re creating a balanced environment for muscle growth and to cut off the fat.

That’s why you should add the Veggie Meal Plans to your nutrition library before the price DOUBLES at midnight TONIGHT.  Click on the link below to read more and grab your copy at a HUGE discount:

http://www.NoNonsenseVeggieMealPlans.com

Get those greens in ya!

Vince Del Monte

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6 comments - add yours
Adrian

July 30, 2009

Thanx for good compilation of posts! I should add more veggies to my diet.

Cheers

Matt Holmes

July 30, 2009

Nice Vince I think they both have pros and cons its about moderation finding the middle ground to get balance.

Kim

August 2, 2009

That was a good review, I think it fairly assessed both sides of the argument. I’d be interested to hear you’re take on dairy.

ps. nice site :)

Sean

August 3, 2009

Well thought out approach to this argument. Thanks Vince for setting some things straight that seem to be going around. We are eating all organic products as much as we can and I read labels to the point that I irritate my wife! LOL

Eating less has also helped us lose pounds and using that strategy with some vegan food really helps burn fat. I still love meat, but I try and eat organic meats and less often.

Nice post! ;-)

Waltm

August 10, 2009

I’ve always thought that “a little of everything in moderation” was the way to go. In the past I thought vegetarians would be skinny due to diet choices but seeing some trainers who live a vegetarian lifestyle who are VERY

Waltm

August 10, 2009

sorry, hit the wrong button….

…seeing some trainers who live a vegetarian lifestyle who are VERY fit and put many of us to shame (or at least myself) with the amount of lean muscle they have, I’ve learned there are many ways to look at a balanced diet as part of a healthy lifestyle.