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. In the Aryan ethos, two kinds of foods like Kachha food and Pacca foods serve as the basis for sound nutritional practice. India also has a long tradition of using unsaturated vegetable oils in daily cooking.
Vegetarianism can be the ideal choice.
The reasons include the nutritional advantages and good sources of protein. It also offers a competitive advantage for land use. To preserve health and environment, the people of the world should prefer a vegetarian diet. This study estimates the potential Medicare and total health care savings that would be expected if all Americans were vegetarians. The prevalence of major illness among omnivores and vegetarians is compared in studies which have controlled for other lifestyle factors, and the corresponding attributable health care savings are calculated in 1994 dollars.