is it healthier to eat no meat?

[Quill01]

Hi all, hope you are all doing good these days. I have had a few people in a cooking forum I am a part of tell me its healthier to eat no meat with healthy food having a plant based food regimen while most of them were saying you need meat with healthy foods witch is healthier then having no meat at all. I prefer to eat what is heathier either way so witch one is it if anyone here knows? Also a exersize site I am a member of said its healthier to eat no meat and that you can still acheive the gains you want with no meat so that makes me think there may be something to it. Also years ago on the aint no god forum(the owner was steve rider) that I was a member of, I think if i remember right I made a thread about this or something similar and someone told me about this man proffeshional body builder who apperently proved or showed that you don't need meat to be healthy or look muscular. He made a book about it and that made him famous. I dont recall his name.

[no one]

Got to die of something.

[The Grand Nudger]

@ The OPQ. In particular cases for priveleged individuals? Yeah, probably. In general? No, impossibly.

[Jackalope]

I would say an individual's food choices matter more than broad dietary classifaction. Put another way, hether you are omnivore, vegetarian, pescatarian, or vegan matters little if your food choices are of poor nutritional value.

[Gwaithmir]

Hi all, hope you are all doing good these days. I have had a few people in a cooking forum I am a part of tell me its healthier to eat no meat with healthy food having a plant based food regimen while most of them were saying you need meat with healthy foods witch is healthier then having no meat at all. I prefer to eat what is heathier either way so witch one is it if anyone here knows? Also a exersize site I am a member of said its healthier to eat no meat and that you can still acheive the gains you want with no meat so that makes me think there may be something to it. Also years ago on the aint no god forum(the owner was steve rider) that I was a member of, I think if i remember right I made a thread about this or something similar and someone told me about this man proffeshional body builder who apperently proved or showed that you don't need meat to be healthy or look muscular. He made a book about it and that made him famous. I dont recall his name.

Euell Gibbons. He died at the age of 64.

[no one]

Do you think they will ever have a good tasting plant based infants?

[Fake Messiah]

Is it healthier? Well, it does seem to be, especially if you are talking about industrial farming. You know, colon cancer, diabetes, heart problems. But also, people overindulge in eating meat: they eat it every day and for every meal.

When it comes to sports and not eating meat, I watched a documentary a few years ago about how it is better not to eat meat if you are in sports.

"The Game Changers" is a new film executive produced by James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Jackie Chan that documents the explosive rise of plant-based eating in professional sports, mixing real-time, groundbreaking science with cinematic stories of struggle and triumph.

[The Grand Nudger]

I suspect it's better, for sports, to be on a liquid diet of god knows what and pumped full of performance enhancing chemicals. If you were an astronaut, it's best to have as little fiber as possible, hence the nasa tradition of steak and eggs before takeoff. I honestly doubt that anyone will ever come up with a better description of what and how the regular person should eat than michael pollan did. Eat food, not too much, mostly vegetables.

[Aegon]

There is no one diet that works best for everyone, but from what I understand, the healthiest diet for most people is a "plant-based" diet. A plant-based diet is mostly vegetables and non-meat sources of protein, with maybe a couple of servings of meat per week (preferably fish instead of beef/chicken/pork, etc.) A plant-based diet also usually means very little to no processed food.

Honestly, I think any diet that stays away from heavily processed products will be good.

I'm personally a vegetarian but I don't know if it's healthier or not, that's not why I do it.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Eating meat is perfectly healthy, as long as you only eat healthy animals (all the cows I’ve eaten have had gym memberships).

Boru