Vegetarian Health Benefits for the Bowels and Stomach Digestion

Vegetarian health benefits have to do with creating a healthy environment in the bowels and stomach. Our digestive systems were designed to metabolize vegetable matter, more than animal products.

Fruits, vegetables, legumes and nuts provide the kind of dietary fiber our digestive systems need to function properly. The Western diet that is high in processed and refined flour and sugar, and in animal products that are laden with hormones and antibiotics, is harmful to our insides.

When the digestive system doesn’t function and work as it’s intended to, it leads to opportunistic diseases or changes in the DNA of cells in the stomach and colon.

Also, when we don’t get enough of the fiber we need, we incur a host of digestion and elimination problems, such as constipation and hemorrhoids that are a result of straining. These diseases and syndromes are much less evident in a vegetarian diet population than in a meat-eating population.

Other diseases of the bowel that occur less frequently in a vegetarian diet population include irritable bowel syndrome, and chronic ulcerative colitis. These vegetarian health benefits are most likely due to the increased fiber content in a vegetarian diet. And of course a diet that’s higher in dietary fiber that comes from a vegetarian diet will decrease the likelihood or risk of colon cancer.

When you consider the risks that come with a diet that includes meat and animal products, and compare the benefits of a vegetarian diet, does the prospect of a steak or burger or bacon really sound that good to you?

Doesn’t it at least make sense to reverse the portion sizes and eat less meat and more vegetables and raw food salads?

In other words, if you must continue to eat meat, then make meat your side dish, or just incidental to your meal, such as in a stir fry.

Increasing the proportion of fruits and vegetables in your diet can only be good for you.