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This 5 page paper provides an overview of vegetarianism and lists the different types. The bulk of the paper concentrates on health benefits of not eating meat. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Cooper, 2002). Although most people believe they know what a vegetarian is, it is not a one size fits all proposition and there are more varieties of vegetarians than
people realize. For instance, there is sproutarianism where a diet is based on sprouts, seeds, or broccoli that is supplemented with other raw foods, and then there are fruitarians
who eat mostly fruits and berries along with grains, nuts, legumes and the like (2002). Raw foodism is another type and is a religiously oriented type of vegetarianism where practitioners
cannot eat any foot cooked past 118 degrees (2002, p.56). Obviously, they cannot eat meat not due to a conviction to save animals, but due to religious ideas. They believe
that Jesus consumed raw foods for the most part (2002). The types of vegetarianism noted are frankly rare in that most people have not even heard of these seemingly
extreme ideas about eating. However, the most common varieties of vegetarianism are veganism, ovo-vegetarianism, and lacto-vegetarianism. Veganism is when practitioners do not eat meat, dairy, eggs or other animal products,
and this includes honey (Corliss, August & Cooper, 2002). Many vegans do not use or wear leather products (2002). Ovo-vegetarianism is the same as the vegan except they
also eat eggs and lacto-vegetarians do not eat eggs but do consume other dairy products such as milk (2002). Interestingly, the most common practiced type is a combination of the
two latter groups and is called ovo-lacto vegetarianism and they eat eggs and dairy in addition to vegetables and fruits (2002). One benefit of this more popular type is that
they generally do consume the recommended amount of protein ("Should I," 2002). They also consume as much calcium as meat eaters (2002). Some of the other types also
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