VegManiac

Nowadays, it's very common if we heard someone say he or she is a vegetarian. I am a newbie too! =) At first, i did search for the explaination for vegetarian. i got confused when my dictionary noted that vegetarian is a person who does not eat meat or fish. And the explanation for vegan is a person who does not eat meat or any other animal products at all. Hmm...are we miss used the word vegetarian if we are a totally no meat eater and consumer? After double checked via internet, i have got a better answer for it. I found out that there are three basic types of vegetarian which categorized into Lacto-ovo vegetarian, Lacto-vegetarian, and Vegan. Refer to wikipedia, Lacto-ovo vegetarian is a vegetarian who does not eat beef, pork, poultry, fish, shellfish or animal flesh of any kind, but is willing to consume cheese, butter, yogurt and eggs. Lacto-vegetarian is similar to the lacto-ovo group in that they eat milk and milk products, but they do not consume eggs, meat, poultry and fish. While Vegan does not eat any animal based foods including dairy products or eggs, while many also eliminate use of all other animal products such as leather, wool and silk from their lifestyle. I'm a vegetarian that will still eat eggs and use other animal product but i'm not consuming any food such as cheese or butter that are made of animal. Wondering which group i am in...?

Why i choose veggie?
There are lots of reason why people choose to be vegetarian. The usual reasons are for health, religious, and moral. In these times, even beauty centre started to encorage their customer to go for vegetarian. Many vegetarian diet plan have offered by those slimming centre for the purpose of losing weight. It is getting popular seems many other health benefits including lower cholesterol levels, less heart disease, a lower risk of cancer, low blood pressure, decreased weight and strong bones can be obtain by keeping this diet plan.
A vegetarian can also conserve the environment indirectly. I remember one of my friend did told me that the animal bones remaining at the end of the meal by a normal person for their whole life can gathered as high as a small mountain! It's unbelievable! Maybe someday our planet will full of animal bones. Sigh*
There are three main reasons that made me a vegetarian which are my mom, health and moral factor ^.^