Going VEG Once A Week Results In Overall Health Improvements

According to a new study released by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, enjoying a full day of vegetarian meals once a week reduces saturated fat intake by almost 15%. Becoming a Flexitarian (flexible-vegetarian), can reduce blood pressure, glucose, triglyceride, and cholesterol levels! From the article,

Eating Flexitarian will also reflect on your waistline, writes Dawn Blatner, author of The Flexitarian Diet: The Mostly Vegetarian Way to Lose Weight, Be Healthier, Prevent Disease, and Add Years to Your Life . Vegetarians on average weigh 15% less than non-vegetarians. Blatner’s clients have seen tremendous weight-loss results without having to follow all the vegetarian rules, but simply by adopting a flexibly vegetarian nutrition plan. On the Flexitarian Plan, six to twelve months of simply eating more plant-based, flexitarian meals could have you shed up to 30 pounds.

Obviously, this source is a plug for Blatner’s new book which teaches people to incorporate more vegetarian habits into their lifestyle for improved health and well-being. Hopefully, such realizations of the positives of moving away from meat will convince people that eating VEG all the time is even better! Check out the book here.