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With each passing year, more people around the world suffer from obesity, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, stroke, and high blood pressure. Choosing vegetarian options over meat, eggs, and dairy products not only helps animals and the environment—it helps your health, too.
Rising rates of obesity occur even in developing nations where under-nutrition is also a concern. Globally, there are now more overweight people than malnourished people.
To confront this growing problem, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that people eat more fruits, vegetables, nuts, and whole grains, as well as transitioning away from saturated animal fats to unsaturated vegetable oil fats.
WHO is not alone. Leading nutrition authorities and experts from countries across the globe have similar dietary recommendations, including China, India, the European Union, the United States, Brazil, Mexico, and Taiwan.
Learn more about basic vegetarian nutrition
References include:
World Health Organization. Obesity and Overweight. http://www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity/publications/facts/obesity/en/. Accessed June 20, 2008.
Steinfeld H, Gerber P, Wassenaar T, Castel V, Rosales M, and De Haan C. 2006. Livestock’s long shadow: environmental issues and options (Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, p.10). virtualcentre.org/en/library/key_pub/longshad/A0701E00.pdf. Accessed June 20, 2008.
