Vegetarian Diet Eating Disorder Triggers

Vegetarian diet will not harm health if balanced nutritional intake

Avoid eating meat and animal-based foods or vegetarian has been done to live a healthier lifestyle. With the emphasis on eating vegetables, fruits, and vegetable materials, the risk of various diseases are lower.

But according to some studies, a vegetarian diet is not without risk. Health experts said that a vegetarian diet can actually trigger eating disorders (eating disorder) in young women.

The study, published 1 April in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association revealed that eating disorders occur because they are vegetarian dieters take an instant to taking diet pills are diuretics. The pills help speed up the process of removing food.

In fact, said Dr. David L. Katz, director of the Prevention Research Center, Yale University School of Medicine, USA, it is not good for digestive health.

"Choice vegetarian diet tends to lead to eating disorders. Because they only take an instant way to lose weight, without knowing the core of a healthy vegetarian diet," says Katz.

Katz explained, before deciding to adapt a vegetarian diet, you should have to know the benefits and risks of this diet, whether in accordance with the physical condition. Vegetarian diet will not harm health if done with a balanced nutritional intake.

A healthy vegetarian diet is not just consume vegetables and fruit, but should be able to meet the needs of all the nutrients the body needs from carbohydrates, protein, vitamins, minerals, and so on.

Previously, another study revealed that a vegetarian diet can lead to deficiency of proteins derived primarily from meat, fish, eggs and milk. But it can be overcome with high protein intake from plant materials.