The world's most nutrition-conscious doctors now advocate a vegetarian diet. Dr Dean Ornish of the University of California has demonstrated that artery blockages can be reversed with a low-fat vegetarian diet. Meat, eggs and dairy products are loaded with fat and cholesterol, which lead to obesity, heart attacks, cancer, strokes and other diseases. Fish are often highly contaminated with mercury and other cancer-causing toxins. Vegetarian foods are low in fat and have absolutely no cholesterol.
Vegetarianism is the diet of many popular celebrities.
Sir Paul McCartney, Kim Basinger, Martina Navratilova, Amitabh Bachchan, Bryan Adams, Anil Kumble, Pamela Anderson, Mahima, Woody Harrelson, Alicia Silverstone, Juhi Chawla, Natalie Portman and Jackie Shroff are just a few of the many vegetarian stars.