Fighting Fat with a Vegetarian Diet

For a low-fat diet, eat a vegetarian diet.

Another benefit of the vegetarian diet is the much lower intake of fat, if dairy products, seeds
and nuts are eaten sparingly. This accounts for lower serum cholesterol levels found in
vegetarians, which considerably reduces the risk of developing heart diseases and breast and
colon cancer.

A third nutritional advantage of the vegetarian diet is its high fibre content. Fibre, being
indigestible, increases the bulk of the faces, keeps them soft and makes them easy to expel.
One study has indicated that lacto-ovo vegetarians consume twice as much and vegans four
times as much fibre as non-vegetarians. High fibre intake has been associated with decreased
risks of diseases of the colon, appendicitis, cancer of the colon and rectum, hiatus hernia, piles
and varicose veins.

McCarrison, one of the greatest authorities on food, has outlined a perfect diet. According to
him, " a perfectly constituted diet is one in which the principal ingredients are milk, milk
products, any whole cereal grain or mixture of cereal grains, green leafy vegetables and fruits.
These are the protective foods. They make good the defects of other constituents of the diet,
protect the body against infection and disease of various kinds, and their use in sufficient
quantity ensures physical efficiency."