Veganism is considered the strictest type of vegetarianism - the rejection of all animal products, including milk and eggs.
Vegetarianism has been successfully practiced for thousands of years in those states where people professed Indian religions, including Buddhism and Hinduism.
Today in India, about 30% of the inhabitants are considered vegetarians.
October 1st is World Vegetarian Day.
The diet of vegetarian raw foodists includes only raw plant foods that have not been subjected to one or another type of processing (frying, pickling, etc.).
Today, Italy ranks first in Europe in terms of the number of vegetarians per capita. On average, every 10th Italian refuses lethal food.
It turns out that vegetarians were supporters of various philosophical schools, for example, the Pythagoreans.
Have you ever heard of fruitarians? So called those people who eat only fruits, nuts, seeds and other plant material that can be collected without harming the plants.
In modern India, the law requires the mandatory labeling of vegetarian products in green.
Recent studies show that a vegetarian diet can reduce the risk of atherosclerosis, cancer, many cardiovascular diseases, and certain gastrointestinal diseases.
Few people know the fact that there is a vegetarian hamburger - a veggie burger.
Curiously, the great Leonardo da Vinci was a strict vegan.
There are the following categories of vegetarianism: ovo-vegetarians eat eggs but refuse dairy products; lacto-vegetarians consume dairy products, but refuse eggs; lacto-ovo vegetarians consume both eggs and dairy products.
Strict vegetarians have lower blood pressure than meat eaters.
Vegetarians are practically not deficient in protein, as many believe, since they get it through various plant sources.
Vegetarians have a 31% lower risk of kidney stones compared to meat eaters.
It takes 200 liters of water to produce 1 kg of wheat, while it takes 20,000 liters to produce 1 kg of meat.
Vegetarians are almost half as likely to suffer from type 2 diabetes.
Those who have followed a vegetarian diet for over 20 years live an average of 3.6 years longer than meat eaters.
It turns out that there is such a type of vegetarianism as pescatarianism - the refusal to eat the meat of warm-blooded animals.