Obese Marijuana

When I first started my vegetarian project, I had defined reasons for starting it.  One of those reasons was to become a healthier person.  One of the purposes was not to lose weight like so many others who begin their vegetarian lifestyles although I definitely have lost a couple even though I could lose a few more.  However, I did not realize that being overweight was correlated with bad health.  Being overweight or obese can lead to coronary heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, osteoarthritis, and certain cancers.  In "Vegetarian Diets and Weight Status", Dr. Susan E. Berkow states in the Nutrition Reviews that vegetarians tend to have a lower body weight than non-vegetarians. Vegetarians are 3% to 20% less heavier than their non-vegetarian counterparts.  This information makes complete sense.  The more one cares about what he or she consumes, then he or she will care about his or her health.  You are what you eat, and I eat plant-based products.  I am "vegolving".

The information on weight can be attributed to another fact from her article.  Vegetarians are less likely to become smokers than non-vegetarians.  This is an excellent reason why vegetarians are healthier than omnivores.  Smoking is well-known to be unhealthy.  Also, this is just one more statistic that disproves the stereotypes of vegetarians, and in this case, it disproves that we are all hippies.  However, hippies, in my experience, seem to be pretty cool and chill, but that's for another post in the unforeseeable future.

I have never smoked before in my life.  Growing up around a mother who constantly smoked displayed to me the reality of the dangers of smoking physically, emotionally, and financially.  At an early age,  I told myself that I would never smoke, and I have kept that promise to this day.  Just like the smoking promise, I hopefully will keep the promise of the vegetarian project.