Complex systems offers an intuitive method for studying evidence about dietary choice from many fields, including public health, clinical sciences, economics, sociology, marketing, and genetics, and for combining individual choice with social interaction. Previous models have looked at only a few influences, and have had to focus on either individuals or social aggregates without being able to effectively combine them. My model suggests an explanation for the paradox and methods for intervention. In particular, it suggests how and why major changes might be easier than incremental ones. These results have important implications for how clinical nutritionists and public health policy makers can best encourage the consumption of healthy vegetarian diets.
Vegetarian eating exists for as long as a hundred generations.
Vegetarian food habits are also geographically oriented. Living in cities influences the nature of food intake. Rural Indian food is every part of the country is essentially vegetarian. Food items like cereals, pulses, wheat, rice, roots and tuber crops are noticeable components of such diets. Due to the prevalence of dietary fibre in Indian vegetarian menu, incidence of diseases of lower colon and constipation are less prevalent.