{"id":1700,"date":"2017-03-09T16:32:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T21:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/?p=1700"},"modified":"2017-03-09T16:32:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T21:32:56","slug":"veggie-yes-or-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/2017\/03\/09\/veggie-yes-or-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Veggie, Yes or No?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A vegetarian is someone who does not eat meat, and sometimes other animal products. It has become more common for people to become vegetarians and for restaurants to have an all vegetarian menu. Some argue that being a vegetarian is a good choice. Do you agree?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Vegetarian time study shows that 7.3 million Americans are vegetarians. 59% percent female; 41% male. I believe that being vegetarian is a great and healthy lifestyle. Being a vegetarian increases the body\u2019s metabolism and burns 16% more calories faster than a meat- based diet. Vegetarians are less likely to develop food allergies, which I think is good and better for the human body considering the amount of times I&#8217;ve gotten sick after eating something.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For this reason, I feel as if being a vegetarian is a much healthier choice. A vegetarian\u2019s diet build healthy bones because vegetarians consume more calcium than meat eater and a vegetarians diet also lowers the risk of heart disease. I once read an article on vegetarianism and the benefits of a vegetarian diet. I \u00a0read that a vegetarian diet makes a person live longer, lowers the risk of diseases, and lowers the likelihood of developing cancer by 40%. I thought this was a neat and health lifestyle and would seriously benefit many people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Even though Vegetarianism does have its benefits, being a meat eater does as well. Eating meat has been an essential part of human evolution for 2.3 million years. Meat is also the most convenient protein source available, even though there is the occasional, eggs, cheese, nuts and beans. As far as I can tell, I think meat is an important addition in an everyday diet because it contains essential nutrients such as, iron and vitamin B which is good for blood production.<\/p>\n<p>Weather you are a vegetarian or a meat eater you have to admit there are some pros and cons from what I read. Both diets are healthy and beneficial in many ways as I see it.<\/p>\n<p>Danya\u00a0Aljebory<\/p>\n<p>Middle School Journalist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vegetarian is someone who does not eat meat, and sometimes other animal products. It has become more common for people to become vegetarians and for restaurants to have an all vegetarian menu. Some argue that being a vegetarian is a good choice. Do you agree? Vegetarian time study shows that 7.3 million Americans are &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/2017\/03\/09\/veggie-yes-or-no\/\" class=\"more-link\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":749,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/749"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}