More people are turning to meatless lifestyle as they are more aware of the benefits associated with eating vegetables, fruits, legumes, grains, seeds and nuts.

In the past, people are concerned with malnutrition if they switch to vegetarian but now we know nutritions from plants are safer and more easily absorbed by our bodies.

However, we will only reap the most benefits from a well-balanced, low-fat, high-fibre vegetarian diet.

Here's some of the benefits :

1) As animal products are the main source of saturated fats, cutting their intake means lowering your risk to heart and cancer related diseases.

2) Most weight-loss programs recommend less meat in the diets for the same reason that they contain saturated fats which are difficult to lose.

3) In order to keep up with the supply of meat, the methods used to rear livestock are shockingly cruel and inhumane. Some kind of chemicals are injected into their bodies to stimulate their growth and ensure good quality meat.

In most cases, the animals are in a state of shock and fear before their death which causes a abnormal hormone change in their bodies. These harmful substance remains in their carcass and are then consumed by humans.

4) According to a British physicist Alan Calverd, those animals emit 21% of all the carbon dioxide attributable to human activity. So by reducing the livestock numbers and in turn the man-made carbon dioxide emissions, we could therefore cut global warming. This is another way of helping our environment.

Is it easy to convert to vegetarian?

Not at all.

The choice is Yours.