Should We All Be Vegetarian?

According to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, an evidence-based review showed that a vegetarian diet is associated with a lower risk of death from ischemic heart disease. ... Vegetarians also tend to have a lower body mass index, lower overall cancer rates and lower risk of chronic disease.

Why you should not be a vegetarian?

Downsides to Eating Vegetarian/Vegan? Stroke risk: British researchers followed more than 48,000 men and women with no history of heart disease or stroke for about 18 years. Vegetarians had a 13% lower risk of heart disease than meat eaters. But they also had a 20% higher rate of stroke than meat eaters.

Should humans be vegetarians?

Vegan diet conferred a significant reduced risk (15 percent) of incidence from total cancer.” Vegetarian diets are also tied to a lower risk of metabolic syndrome, diabetes, cancer (again), and lower blood pressure , and they may fend off childhood obesity. On this matter, at least, the jury is well and truly in.