Here’s an incentive for all who might want to lose weight: http://www.meatfreemondays.com/lose-the-meat-lose-more-weight/
An excerpt:
Want to lose weight? Confused by the plethora of diets and dietary advice on offer? There is a simple way to eat yourself thinner: cut back on the meat.
Researchers in Taiwan have just established that losing weight is more effective for meat-free eaters than it is for those whose diets contain meat … 2 kg more effective, in fact.
According to a paper published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, people on vegetarian diets lose an average 2.02 kg more than those on non-vegetarian weight-loss plans. And vegan dieters, those who also cut out animal products such as dairy and eggs, lost an average 2.52 kg more than omnivorous slimmers.
Study lead Ru-Yi Huang of E-Da Hospital in Taiwan, is emphatic in concluding that “vegetarian diets are more effective than non-vegetarian diets for weight-loss in the short term”.
For you. For the animals. Let’s go meatless today!
For them.