Harvard Medical School Vegetarianism has consistently proven to be the best diet plan for taking weight off and keeping it off. Studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and the British Medical Journal have found that, on average, vegetarians are significantly leaner than meat-eaters. Thirteen million Americans suffer from coronary artery disease, and heart attacks kill more than 500,000 people a year. A groundbreaking study by Dr. Dean Ornish found that low-fat vegetarian diets can actually reverse coronary artery disease.
Vegetarianism is an automatic cholesterol cutter.
Dietary cholesterol, which causes heart disease, is found only in animal products. No one has ever died of a heart attack with a cholesterol level below 150, and the average vegan has a cholesterol level of 128. Up to 90 percent of federally inspected poultry is infected with bacteria like salmonella and camylobacter, which cause sometimes-fatal vomiting and diarrhea.