What's the best way to start a vegetarian diet?

What's a good way for me to start to introduce vegetarian food into my diet?What's the best way to start a vegetarian diet?
Unless you eat nothing but meat you already eat vegetarian foods. Get the Vegetarian Starter Kit from -

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

http://www.pcrm.org/health/veginfo/vsk/



A couple cookbooks you may find interesting -

Becoming Vegetarian: The Complete Guide to Adopting a Healthy Vegetarian Diet - Vesanto Melina %26amp; Brenda Davis

The Meat-Lover's Vegetarian Cookbook - Tanya Petrovna
Vegetarian food is no different than food for anyone else. You just eat way more veggies and beans and all.

You also can decide what kind of vegetarian you want to be. You can eat fish or cut out all meat completely. Some vegetarians only don't eat red meat (I forget what they're called), and others still eat just sea food (called a pescovegetarian). Just make sure you're eating enough foods with proteins.



You can cut meat out completely or start slow by cutting out red meat, then chicken and fish. Again, just make sure you get what you need to stay healthy.What's the best way to start a vegetarian diet?
Im not a vegetarian. But, i will be. The first thing you should do is to decide what kind of vegetarian you want to be.

http://vegetarian.about.com/od/vegetaria鈥?/a>



Track your diet using a vegetarian food pyramid. The pyramid outlines the different varieties of food groups, that if eaten in the right quantities, form the foundation of a healthy vegetarian diet.

The following link will help you out more.

http://www.3fatchicks.com/starting-a-veg鈥?/a>

good luck and stay healthy. ;)



vegetarian food pyramid.

http://www.vegsource.com/nutrition/pyram鈥?/a>



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The best way to introduce vegetarian food into your diet is to slowly eliminate meat and incorporate more fruits, vegetables, and grains.

Try a new fruit/vegetable everyday. Enjoy more salads, the possibilities are endless there.

And who said meals have to be bland and tasteless? And Walmart or Super Target or any grocery store, you can buy Veggie Burgers such as Amy's, Boca, or Morning-Star Farms. Also, be sure to include a multivitamin as well.



When I first became Vegetarian, I cut out red meat, then chicken %26amp; fish.



Hope This HelpsWhat's the best way to start a vegetarian diet?
First, Do a little research on vegetarian diets. You just don't want to jump into being a vegetarian. First you want to know suitable substitutes for meats, because you will no longer be getting nutrients from meat, and you want to make sure you are getting all the things you need from a vegetarian diet.

Things like protien and iron, you won't have to worry about, you can get those things from a vegetarian diet, and you will have less of the unwanted things like saturated fat, and cholesterol. But you will have to take vitamin B12 supplements, since it is really only found in meat.

You may want to ease into a vegetarian diet... but I jumped right in and it worked for me. So you will have to do whatever works for you.

Good Luck.
If you really like meat then you can gradually introduce more and more veggies into your diet (and gradually reduce the amount of meat you consume). If you don't eat a lot of meat to begin with, then the transition should be pretty easy.



Just make sure you get enough essential nutrients in your diet. Look for some great vegetarian cook books for meal ideas.



Hope that helps and best of luck!
I started being veg right away. I gave away all the meat products i had to someone who'd eat it and after a month of being veg i felt awesome, and still do. "Vegetarian food" is fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts, seeds, and if you really want it, eggs and dairy. Get some meal inspiration on recipe sites like vegweb.com, or check out your local library.
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1. Do some decent research, i.e not from vegetarian sources but from an unbiased ones.



2. Decide that becoming vegetarian is probably a pretty stupid idea.





Here is some information for you:



* The annual all-cause death rate of vegetarian men is SLIGHTLY MORE than that of non-vegetarian men (.93% vs .89%); the annual all-cause death rate of vegetarian women is SIGNIFICANTLY MORE than that of non-vegetarian women (.86% vs .54%) (Am J Clin Nutr 1982 36:873)



* The International Atherosclerosis Project found that vegetarians had just as much atherosclerosis as meat eaters. (Lab Invest 1968 18:498)



* The fatty acids found in artery clogs are mostly UNSATURATED (74%) of which 41% are POLYUNSATURATED [or the kind found in vegetable oils]. (Lancet 1994 344:1195)



* Saturated fatty acids in the blood are not an appropriate marker of dietary fat intake but are rather a marker of carbohydrate intake. Mary Enig, PhD



* "You do NOT need to eat large amounts of fruits and vegetables to get your daily supply of vitamins. While we do get some vitamins from fruits and vegetables, we can get most of them from animal foods. Even more importantly, there are many vitamins and cofactors that we ONLY get from animal foods. This means that if you don鈥檛 eat any animal foods you will probably develop a deficiency in some vitamin. . . and except for chromium, animal foods supply more of each mineral. . .The truth is, vitamins and minerals are abundantly available in animal foods, and generally animal foods supply more of them per individual serving than does any single serving of a fruit, vegetable, or grain." From Life Without Bread: How a Low Carbohydrate Diet Can Save Your Life by Christian B. Alan, PhD and Wolfgang Lutz, M.D.



* "You do not have to eat carbohydrates to have them available for energy. Your body can make carbohydrates as needed, if the protein supply is adequate. Reducing your daily intake of carbs to 72 grams or less . . . will result in more energy at your disposal, as long as you eat plenty of fat and protein. [Further] many organs prefer fat for energy. . .We have all been led to believe that low-fat diets are heart-healthy. But did you know that your heart primarily uses fat for energy? That鈥檚 right. Carbs contributes very little to the energy necessary to keep your heart beating, and the preferred fat is saturated fat." From Life Without Bread: How a Low Carbohydrate Diet Can Save Your Life by Christian B. Alan, PhD and Wolfgang Lutz, M.D., p 56



* "Evidence that carbohydrates contributed to poor health can be found from fossils obtained both before and after Paleolithic times. During the last forty thousand years, skeletal remains have provided important clues. At the beginning of this preagricultural period, the anthropologist Lawrence Angel found that adult males averaged 5 feet 11 inches in height and adult females about 5 feet 6 inches. Twenty thousand years later, after agriculture and carbohydrate consumption were abundant, the males averaged 5 feet, six inches and the females averaged 5 feet. . . Tooth loss at death shows a similar trend. In 30,000 B.C. adults died with 2.2 teeth missing; in 6,500 B.C. they averaged 3.5 missing; during Roman times there were 6.6 teeth missing. These trends suggest that health was compromised by the introduction of large amounts of carbs into the diet, and that the negative effects were experienced from the beginning. . . " From Life Without Bread: How a Low Carbohydrate Diet Can Save Your Life by Christian B. Alan, PhD and Wolfgang Lutz, M.D., p 190



* ". . .The truth is, more people are dying of heart disease by eating a low-fat diet, with or without exercising . . .You can see initial good results with a low fat diet. When you exercise and eat a low-fat, high carbohydate diet, excess carbohydrates will be turned into cholesterol and fats that are then used by the body as energy. During this stage, your cholesterol profile will significantly improve. But a low-fat, high carbohydrate diet burns muscle mass, especially if you are exercising. This causes your metabolism to slow down, which in turn lowers your requirement for energy. Now any excess carbohydrates you eat will be converted into cholesterol and not used. Over time, your cholesterol will rise." from The Schwarzbein Principle by Diane Scwarzbein, M.D. pp90-91



* "Archeological studies have shown that Cro-Magnon man ate bear, lion, hyenas, wild horse, and the wooly rhinoceros. In America the Paleolithic Homo sapiens ate the wolf, beaver, and the American camel. . . In China, Peking Man was found to have lunched on camel, deer, elephant and ostrich. . . [In fact] there is no society in the world that is entirely vegetarian. The Hindus of India come closest. Dr. Leon Abrams [in a 1967 article in Natural History Magazine] reports on India, 鈥? . . the greater percentage of the population, who subsist almost entirely on vegetable foods, suffer from kwa
I cut all meat out but fish. then in a month i cut the fish out too. just gradually take it all out. another thing is to find recipes of meals you will like, include mock meats if you wish. there are tons of really good veggie recipes.
being a vegetarian is easy, u can eat so many foods that dnt have meat in it like icecream, yogut, pizza, soda, rice...all you have to do is fit in the foods that u like which dnt include meat
Start by enjoying the wholesome goodness of some carrots. Carrots are a vegetarian's best friend.
Eat more Indian food and food that you eat everyday that just so happens to be vegetarian.
Have to tast a good vegetarian pizza.
start with vegetables, like carrots.
Well I'm not a doctor but I would stop eating meat %26amp; start eating more vegetables.
I would start with a nice juicy steak.
Step 1:Stop eating meat.

Step 2: refer to step 1.