As with any diet, if you don't eat a balanced diet, you could end up with vitamin or other nutrient deficiencies, leading to severe illnesses. Some vegetarians eat too much refined food, just like non-vegetarians. Vegetarians who continue to consume dairy and eggs may end up consuming just as much cholesterol and animal protein as those who eat meat.
Animals are affected by vegetarianism as well as the environment and the people who partake in vegetarianism.
Vegetarianism
Yes; there is much heated debate as to what constitutes vegetarianism and how healthy it is.
Bodhipaksa has written: 'Living as a river' -- subject(s): Impermanence (Buddhism), Meditation, Buddhism 'Vegetarianism' -- subject(s): Buddhism, Budismo, Health aspects, Health aspects of Vegetarianism, Religious aspects, Religious aspects of Vegetarianism, Vegetarianism, Vegetarianismo
* Weight problems (obesity epidemics) * Animal crelty * Corrupt Manufaturing Plants / Slaughter Houses (Business Monopolies) * Unhealthy Diets, lack of vitamins / minerals from plants (fruits, veggies)
Rafeeque Ahmed has written: 'Islam and vegetarianism' -- subject(s): Islam, Kindness, Religious aspects, Religious aspects of Kindness, Religious aspects of Vegetarianism, Vegetarianism
A choice; no one can force you to be one! Many never choose vegetarianism.
Henry Stephens Salt is the author of a 1988 essay entitled A Plea for Vegetarianism.
I'm guessing ovo-lacto vegetarianism--it has the least restrictions of vegetarian diets that I know of...
Some of the world's oldest religious traditions have advocated vegetarianism as a means to both physical and spiritual health.
Vegetarianism is a major dietary therapy in the alternative treatment of cancer. Other conditions treated with a dietary therapy of vegetarianism include obesity, osteoporosis, arthritis, allergies, asthma, environmental illness
Drinking animal blood is vegetarianism but drinking human blood would violate it for vampires.