HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW about VEGETARIANISM?

 HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW about VEGETARIANISM?

  Answer the following questions as False (F) or True (T) and compare your answers at the end.

 1. Vegetarians are not as healthy as non-vegetarians.

2. Vegetarians do not need dietary fiber.

3. Vegetarian foods cannot provide complete protein.

4. Balanced vegetarian foods can provide proteins as good as meat.

5. Vegetarians always suffer from stomach gas.

6. Vegetarian foods are difficult to digest and it takes a while for the digestive system to adjust to extra dietary fiber.

7. Vegetarian diets are more effective than non-vegetarian for losing or controlling weight.

8. Fruits, whole grains and raw vegetables take more chewing than meat and white bread.

9. More chewing makes you eat more.

10. People become vegetarians due to religious and humanitarian reasons only.

11. Over 75 % of deaths in the U.S. that occur from heart ailments, stroke, and cancer can be reduced by adopting a vegetarian diet.

12. Vegetarian diets have to be completely meat-free for providing beneficial effects.

13. Vegetarians can smoke without ill effects.

14. Green and yellow vegetables are helpful against cancer related to smoking.

15. By-pass surgery is the only way to save heart patients, and diet-exercise treatments are normally ineffective.

16. Vegetarian diets can lower cholesterol.

17. Excessive calories from fruits and vegetables are not fattening.

18. Once you learn to live normally with food containing good amounts of fruits, vegetables and whole grains, you don't have to exercise for the sake of maintaining a normal weight.

19. Fat children normally grow up to be fat adults, because they possess a higher number of fat cells.

20. The vitamins from fruits and vegetables are chemically better than synthetic vitamins.

21. Living exclusively on vegetables and fruits may cause deficiency of vitamin B 12 and D.

22. Including milk in your diet can supply vitamin B 12 and D.

23. Saturated fats and cholesterol that cause heart problems and cancer are provided mainly by meat.

24. Vegetarian foods are almost lacking in fat and cholesterol.

25. Fruits, vegetables and whole grains can reduce the chances of constipation and intestinal ailments.

26. People in developed countries eat healthier foods due to advancements in food processing and preservation.

27. Vegetarians cannot compete in sports with meat eaters.

28. Meat eaters live longer than vegetarians.

29. The biological and evolutionary evidence supports us as meat eaters.

30. Vegetarian foods provide an economical source of protein.

31. Our digestive tract is more suitable for plant foods.

32. Our teeth are more suitable for eating meat than tubers and seeds.

33. Many researchers in the West are ignorant about eating attitudes of earlier societies.

34. Protein in milk and eggs is used more efficiently than that in meat.

35. You cannot get fat by eating excessive protein.

36. Good consumption of vegetarian foods can meet calcium requirements.

37. Meat is required at every meal to meet protein requirements.

38. It is always good to take as many vitamins as possible.

39. Vegetarian foods are healthy even when processed and deep fried.

40. Vegetarians are food faddists.

41. Vegetarian diets are low in saturated fat and calories.

42. Vegetarians eating fried vegetables can get fat.

43. Vegetarians can consume a lot of sugar in sweets or otherwise without getting fat.

44. High meat diets overdose on protein and ignore carbohydrates.

45. Fruits, vegetables and whole grains provide too much carbohydrate that fattens us.

46. You are too old to be a vegetarian now.

47. Fries are potatoes--a vegetable, so not fattening.

48. A large salad before dinner is a useful low-calorie method of filling yourself up.

49. Exercise increases your appetite.

50. Low-fat cooking methods (steaming, broiling etc.) can reduce calorie-intake.

 

ANSWERS: (1) F; (2) T; (3) F; (4) T; (5) F; (6) T; (7) T; (8) T; (9) F; (10)F; (11) T; (12) F; (13) F; (14) T; (15) F; (16) T; (17) F; (18) T; (19) T; (20) F; (21) T; (22) T; (23) T; (24) T; (25) T; (26) F; (27) F; (28) F; (29) F; (30) T; (31) T; (32) F; (33) T; (34) T; (35) F; (36) T; (37) F; (38) F; (39) F; (40) F; (41) T; (42) T; (43) F; (44) T; (45) F; (46) F; (47) F; (48) T; (49) F; (50) T.

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