Vegetarians Eating

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This paper presents an argument in favor of vegetarian eating versus more conventional red-meat diets and highlights the various health benefits to be gained from a vegetarian diest. The paper emphasizes, not simply why vegetarians are healthier than meat eaters, but also explains why some groups in society are healthier than other groups.

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"In an interesting online article, Julia Dombrowski and Jennifer Starkey report that people who consume salads in large quantities tend to have "above-average intakes" of vital nutrients such as vitamin C, E, lycopene, carotenoids and folic acid. The aforementioned twosome, summarizing the findings of a study published in the September 2006 edition of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, also notes that each serving of salad consumed represents among women a "165 percent higher likelihood of (meeting) the recommended daily allowance for vitamin C" and a 119 percent greater likelihood among male subjects (Dombrowski & Starkey 2006, para.). While the evidence is not compelling that high dosages of vitamin C can actually cure cancer, most medical experts are agreed that a healthy diet containing large sums of fruits and vegetables - fruits and vegetables containing vitamin C as well as the other valuable nutrients highlighted above - is an excellent means of preventing the onset of cancer in the first place ("Vitamin C 'helps to fight Cancer'", 2005)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Dombrowski, Julia, and Starkey, Jennifer. (2006). Highlights from the September 2006 Journal of the American Dietetic Association. American Dietetic Association: Your Link to Nutrition and Health. Retrieved September 12, 2006 from <http://www.eatright.org/cps/rde/xchg/ada/hs.xsl/media_9483_ENU_HTML.htm>
• Farley, Dixie. (1995). More people trying vegetarian diets. FDA Consumer Reprint - U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Retrieved September 12, 2006 from <http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/895_vegdiet.html>
• Singh, Pramil N., Sabate, Joan, and Fraser, Gary E. (2003). Does low meat consumption increase life expectancy in humans? American Society for Clinical Nutrition. Retrieved September 12, 2006, from <http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/78/3/526S#SEC4>
• Vitamin C 'helps to fight cancer'. (2005, September 13). BBC News: Health. Retrieved September 12, 2006 from <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4238250.stm>

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