What to eat and what not to should be a personal opinion of someone. But being a vegetarian I can assure you a vegetarian diet is worth following for so many reasons. Though it takes some commitment, a vegetarian diet is healthier, cheaper and above all good for animal welfare. Therefore if you’ve ever thought about becoming vegetarian, here are some of the excellent benefits of a vegetarian diet…

1 Animal Ethics

Maybe the greatest benefit of a vegetarian diet is its ethical stance. Many people give up meat because they are disturbed by the cruelty of the meat industry. Everyone is free to make their choice as to what to eat, but turning vegetarian for the sake of slaughtering and suffering of animals is a good beginning. Logically, if you become vegetarian for ethical reasons, you should give up all animal products, but giving up meat is still a positive start.

2 Better For Digestion Process

A vegetarian diet which includes green leafy vegetables, pulses and chapati are full of fibres, which is excellent for better immune system and digestion.

3 Better Metabolism

Vegetarian diet improves metabolism and doesn’t let sugar level to get high and deposited in your body.

4 Religious benefit

If you are Hindu you need not worry about Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday to have your favorite food on the plate.

5 Health Benefits

There are many benefits of being vegetarian. As, a vegetarian diet, can help lower cholesterol, obesity, prostate cancer, blood pressure, aiding in the prevention of heart disease. Additionally, vegetarian food is fibre-rich which helps regulate bowel movements, prevent constipation and reduce the risk of colon cancer.A fibre-rich diet also helps in weight loss as it keeps you full for longer. Fruits and vegetables, are an integral part of the vegetarian diet and hence provide the body all vital vitamins and minerals that promote general health, immunity and a glowing complexion.

6 Reduces Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

Researchers have found that there is an integral relationship between a vegetarian diet and decreasing risk of cardiovascular disease. Most vegetarian diets are full of antioxidant-rich foods. Antioxidants are the molecules that can reduce the damage caused by oxidative stress, including atherosclerosis.

7 Nutritional requirements

A well designed vegetarian diet can be nutritionally appropriate for all ages and stages of life, including kids, elders, and even sportsperson. A balanced vegetarian diet guarantees you a good health, proper sleep, which in result reduced the incidence of disease, and better management of existing health problems.

8 Vegetarian diet adds more Year

Veg is more beneficial to human body. Making a simple change in your diet can add few more years in your life. It has been proved by the Researches that people who eat meat have a short lifespan compared to the vegetarians. Meat also kills your energy and weaken your immune system. On the other, most of the farm animals are raised in a miserable condition which is unhygienic for people. Such conditions include a small overcrowded cage, misuse of antibiotics and rude handling by the workers.

9 Environmental factor

The effect of the meat industry on the environment is considerable. You don’t kill someone. You save the animal by not killing them. Humans cannot survive on vegetables alone, which is why we need grains and legumes to get all of the necessary amino acids on a vegetarian diet. These crops are soil depleting and water hoarding, and thus unsustainable. Keep in mind that when feeding your animals grain, this effect is exponentially multiplied. But these animals are not supposed to eat grain. The only animals that have evolved adaptations to grain diets are birds.

Lastly, it’s about people who give excuses like we were made to eat animals, stone age men survived on animals etc. We are humans who are considered as one of most intelligent species on earth. We were not born like that from the very beginning we evolved. So we can’t give those excuses forever that we were born to kill and eat animals. Being vegetarian teaches you compassion towards animals and birds.