A vegetarian diet is good for your health

Rebuttal to your rebuttal to my first argument: Red meat might be rich in nutrition, but so are, for example, kale, seaweed, garlic and potatoes. Everything in meat (including Vitamin B12) can be replaced by dairy products. The loss of those is what makes vegans unhealthy, but vegetarians do not do so. Forgoing meat does not have negative effects on a vegetarian's health. Rebuttal to your rebuttal to my second argument: You said that "they pull together processed and un processed meats in the same study." But that is no problem, because it does not matter which meat is causing it, vegetarians don't eat it either way. Then you went by claiming "You cannot get correct data if you are pulling things from different types of meat." Where is your proof for that? And even if what you claim is true these four studies did not just argue that it is red meat that induces cancer, they found out that any kind of mammalian meat does so: "Large studies in England and Germany showed that vegetarians were about 40 percent less likely to develop cancer compared to meat eaters." (Thorogood M, Mann J, Appleby P, McPherson K.: Risk of death from cancer and ischaemic heart disease in meat and non-meat eaters; Chang-Claude J, Frentzel-Beyme R, Eilber U.: Mortality patterns of German vegetarians after 11 years of follow-up; Chang-Claude J, Frentzel-Beyme R.: Dietary and lifestyle determinants of mortality among German vegetarians) "Overall, these studies showed significant reductions in cancer risk among those who avoided meat." (Barnard ND, Nicholson A, Howard JL. The medical costs attributable to meat consumption.)(1) It has been found out that meat does indeed have carcinogenic effects: It does not contain fibre and other nutritions that protect from cancer. It contains animal protein, saturated fat and carcinogenic compounds such as heterocyclic amines (HCA) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) unless you do not cook it. HCAs and PAH increase cancer risk. Because meat is also very fatty it increases hormone production and thereby causes breast and prostate cancer. (1,2) Rebuttal to your rebuttal to my third argument: No, in fact, meat is not needed. All of the minerals, vitamins, fats, proteins or carbohydrates (3) the human body need can be found in dairy products or plants. For example "Soy protein has been shown to be equal to proteins of animal origin."(4) Vegetarians even absorb more calcium than non-vegetarians. Calcium is important for the nerve system and blood clotting. Rebuttal to your rebuttal to my forth argument. It is true that there have been many conflicting results on this subject. Therefore Japanese researchers did a meta-analysis of 7 clinical trials and 32 studies (with over 21,600 participants) and found out that "vegetarian diets are associated with lower blood pressure, compared with omnivorous diets."(5) This decrease in blood pressure leads to a reduction of the risk of death from coronary heart disease by 9% and of heart stroke by 14%. The same meta-analysis showed that "vegetarians generally have lower BMIs and a lower risk of obesity than omnivores, probably because vegetarian diets have higher fiber and lower fat content than omnivorous diets." Rebuttal to your arguments: As I already mentioned does meat indeed contain many nutritions, but all of those can be found in vegetarian alternatives. The carcinogenic, cholesterol level raising effects of meat consumption, though, can not be denied. The mental health disorders found among vegetarians are due to a low consumption of vitamin B12. As long as a vegetarian, just like any other person pays head to his B12 absorption there are no problems with any mental health disorders. Even a non-vegetarian can have problems with that, though. The conclusion of the study you quote is that "there was no evidence for a causal role of vegetarian diet in the etiology of mental disorders." (6) Every person, may they be vegetarian or nor, should eat carefully. I have not yet found another study, besides the one you quoted that showed that vegetarians are more likely to have allergies. Even if that is indeed the case an increase in allergies, that are only very, very rarely terminal does not in any way outweigh a decrease in the risk of cancer, obesity coronary heart diseases, a high blood pressure and heart strokes. Arguments: "The epidemiological evidence that people on plant-based have a reduced risk of chronic disease."(7) According to a study with 96,000 participants from the US and Canada vegetarians are less likely to get chronic diseases. The same study showed that the risk of renal, cardiovascular and endocrine death is "significantly lower among vegetarians." Overall vegetarians have a significantly lower mortality rate than non-vegetarians. Another study has shown that vegetarians are happier and less stressed than non-vegetarians, because "consuming a diet high in meat, fish, and poultry may negatively impact mental state". Additionally meat and poultry "raises the risk of inflammation-based chronic diseases including depression", because they are rich in fatty acids. (8,9) (1)http://www.health.harvard.edu... (2)http://www.pcrm.org... (3)http://users.rcn.com... (4)http://www.heart.org... (5)http://www.medicalnewstoday.com... (6)http://www.ijbnpa.org... (7) http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com... (8) http://www.huffingtonpost.com... (9) http://www.nutritionj.com...