Originally Posted by
mihlbach
You don't have to be a vegetarian or a vegan to be healthy. In fact, its easier to have a healthy balanced diet by not imposing dietary restrictions on yourself (as your worries about protein plainly indicate). Eat a good mix of everything and pay attention to where your food comes from and don't eat cheap factory farmed low-grad ultra-processed ****...plant or animal.
I know to an extent, you can be healthy eating meat the right way, but it seems that when people take meat, dairy, and processed foods out of the equation, they are completely eliminating the potential for cancer, heart disease, MS, diabetes, as well as a number of other illnesses that are largely found in the Westerners diet. I don't want to act like I'm an authority on any of this. I watched Forks Over Knives recently and it's really affected my thinking about what foods I'm putting into my system.