Vegan Diet

What’s Good For People To Eat?

Vegan diet is the way for helping balance ecosystem and makes our body system healthier. There are many reasons to be a vegan, but these are the three of the most important reasons, human health, less cost of eating vegetable than eating the other food products, and animal rights. Vegan diet is not a good way to eat, but also it is the right way to eat, because veganism helps us to have healthy bodies, affordable foods, and sustainable world.

First of all, vegan diet is one of the best diets for human health. Our bodies need, proteins, fibers, water, and many different kinds of vitamin, to function. By only eating vegetables, our bodies will get all of them without eating the other foods. At the same time, the other food products can not provide the same nutrition to our bodies. In fact, eating meat, dairy, and egg products will cause us sick, lethargic and fat. In the long term, it can cause heart disease, cancer, stroke, high blood pressure, and an array of other problems; as a result, it may cause the death to us.

“Dr. T. Colin Campbell is one of the world’s foremost epidemiological scientists and director of what The New York Times called ‘the most comprehensive large study ever undertaken of the relationship between diet and the risk of developing disease.’ Dr. Campbell’s studies have shown that, as he puts it, ‘the vast majority of all cancers, cardiovascular diseases, and other forms of degenerative illness can be prevented simply by adopting a plant-based diet.’”

It means we could prevented many diseases by just adopting a plant-based diet, in other word, being a vegan will have less chance getting the diseases.
Heart disease is the biggest killer in North America, but everybody can prevent it. The doctor found that we can prevent heart disease by lowering the patients’ cholesterol levels.

“Enter Dr. Dean Ornish, who has since proven that 100 percent of heart attacks from clogged arteries—and again, this is by far the developed world’s biggest killer—that 100 percent are preventable. Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn has replicated Dr. Ornish’s findings, taking patients who were suffering from clogged arteries and making them ‘heart attack proof’ (to quote Dr. Esselstyn in the August 1999 issue of the American Journal of Cardiology) by getting their cholesterol levels down below 150.”

In fact, the average cholesterol level of meat-eater is 210, which causes heart diseases easily. And the average cholesterol level of the vegetarian is 161. At the same time, the average cholesterol level of vegan is only 133. It proves that a vegan have less chance to get heart diseases than others.

Moreover, Vegan also has less chance to get cancer. Perhaps, there are many other factors will cause cancer, but diet is one of the most important factors.

“There is complete scientific unanimity: As much cancer is caused by diet as is caused by smoking, which is a lot! And it is also completely clear how we can prevent cancer.…According to Dr. William Castelli, chair of the Nutrition Department at Harvard Medical School and the researcher who has directed the longest-running clinical trial in history, ‘A low-fat, plant-based diet would … lower the cancer rate 60 percent.’”

In other words, diet is directly affects the health of our body, and being a vegan will be much healthier than other people who has different diet.

Second, it is accessible to be a vegan. Being a vegan is convenience to have food, because many vegetables can be grown in the city or somewhere around the city, like suburban. They are not necessary to be grown in some far countries. It means we could get vegetable everywhere, even we can plant them in our front yard or back yard. We can get vegetable easily in the supermarket, in the fairs, in the market, or at our back yard. At the same time, meats and other animal products are not necessary can be gotten as easy as vegetables. Most of the animals or meats are from the other states, even from the other country. We got to transport them to our city, then our house.

At this point, the other reason for being a vegan is coming up – less cost of eating vegetables than eating the other food products. We got to pay more than we have for the foods beside vegetables. First of all, we got to pay the cost of shipping since they are not local foods. And this amount of money could be the most expansive part of the total price of the food. It is like we are buying something that is uneatable when we are buying something to eat. It is just waste the energy and our money since oil is one of the most important energy resources in our country.

For vegan diet, vegetables can be grown in local, which will cost less for transports. Usually, vegetables are cheaper than meats. In addition, vegetables can be kept fresh easily, but meats can’t.

The final reason for being a vegan is ethical to the animals. The definition of animal is a living organism that is distinguished from plants by independent movement and responsive sense organs. By the understanding of the definition of the animal, we human being are animal, too. Why should we kill the animals, which have the same characteristics, the same movement, and the feeling as us?

“Dr. Andrew Linzey, who argues that animals were designed with certain needs, desires, species-specific behaviors and inclinations, and so forth and that animals have the capacity for pain and suffering, just as human beings. From Dr. Linzey’s perspective, denying animals the things they were designed to do and inflicting pain on them for reasons of convenience are categorically unethical. Linzey argues that causing pain to an animal is the moral equivalent of causing pain to a human being.”

As what Dr. Andrew Linzey said, we human beings have nothing different from an animal. So we are just living with the animals in the same planet. We are not the master of the world, we can’t just do whatever we want, and we got to care about the other creature as us. If we are not the one, who can design the death the other animals, instead, we are the animals, then what we will wish, to die, or to live.

One of the major arguments for not adopting vegan diet is vegan diet can not provide all the nutrition that we need. It is not right at all. In fact, vegetable has all nutrition that we need for our daily life, and they provide much healthier body for us, too.

Vegan diet is not only the better way to eat, but also it is the right way to eat. It is for our health, the animals, and the economy. To be a vegan, we can have a longer life, better life, and a healthier life. Why should not we do that?