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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