This document discusses how adopting a vegetarian lifestyle can help prevent heart disease, which is a leading cause of death worldwide. It outlines several major risk factors for heart disease, including inactivity, obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, smoking, and diabetes. Going meat-free can help lower cholesterol, blood pressure, obesity risk, and diabetes risk all at once. The document argues that humans are not biologically designed to efficiently process meat, and that meat contains saturated fats and cholesterol that can accumulate in arteries and disrupt blood flow. It notes several nutrients more prevalent in vegetarian diets and additional reasons to consider going meat-free, such as weight loss, cost savings, and ethical concerns about the meat industry.

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How a Vegetarian Lifestyle
Will Prevent Heart Disease
By Natalie Baruch

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Heart Disease
 Biggest cause of premature death worldwide
 Heart disease was the cause of 25% of deaths in America in
2008.
 Major risk factors:
 Inactivity
 Obesity
 High blood pressure
 High Cholesterol
 Cigarette Smoking
 Diabetes
There is a way to eliminate four of these risk factors all at once...

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A Meat
Free Diet
• Lowers Cholesterol
Lowers Blood Pressure
• Lowers risk of obesity and as a
result lowers risk of diabetes

4. Our Body is Not
Designed to Process
Meat
Compared with a true carnivore’s
intestines, which are 6 feet in length,
our intestines are 20 feet.
It takes meat up to 72 hours to pass
through our whole body.
+ 6-8 of those hour are spent in our
stomach and small intestines alone.
That means the meat you consume
will be in your body for 3 days at a
temperature of 98.6 degrees.

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The main reason why meat is so
harmful to our bodies:
• Saturated Fats
• Cholesterol

6. What are their dangers?
Both cholesterol and saturated fats disrupt normal
+ blood flow by accumulating in the arteries as plague.
This makes it difficult for blood to travel to all areas of
your body, and as a result halting many major bodily
functions and causing blood clots.

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Processed Meats
Processed meats are particularly dangerous because they
contain a toxic substance called Sodium Nitrate.
Sodium Nitrate increases the amount of sodium in our
body leading to both diabetes and heart disease.
Sodium disrupts the way our body breaks down sugars and
raises blood pressure, which strains our heart.
Includes:
Hot dogs, bacon, sausage, ham, canned meat, and cold
cuts.

8. Nutrients that are more
prevalent in a vegetarian:
• Omega-6 fatty acids
• Fiber
• Folic Acid
• Vitamin C
• Vitamin E
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• Potassium
• Magnesium
• Isoflavones (lowers blood
cholesterol levels)
• Carotenoids
• Antioxidants

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Additional reasons for considering
a meat-free diet:
 Meat is Expensive
 When planned correctly, you will lose weight. I can tell you from
experience having lost 40 pounds since becoming a
vegetarian!
 Eliminating meat will open your eyes to many different plant-
based foods you might have never tried before.
 The meat industry is extremely corrupt in every aspect. Animals
are tortured from the second they’re born and force fed food
that their bodies are not meant to digest.

10. Thank You For Watching!!
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Natalie Baruch
English 1
Professor Cramer
March 27th, 2012