For me, the worst thing about eating vegetables is banging my chin on the wheelchair LINK: http://www.inquisitr.com/1663004/84-per ... udy-finds/................... "Know any vegetarians? If so, you won’t for long.

According to a new study from the Humane Research Council (HRC), those who identify with the strict, no-meat diet usually don’t have the stomach to stay at it.

In fact, the HRC study finds that a staggering 84 percent of people who at one point identify as vegetarians find themselves “falling off the wagon,” so to speak, and eating meat once again.

Worse yet, few of them are able to make it past a few months, notes Tech Times, adding that “half of them within a year’s time and more than a third within three months” revert to their carnivorous habits.

More than 11,000 Americans responded to the survey and only two percent claimed to “not eat meat at all,” while 88 percent said they had “never tried the vegan or vegetarian lifestyle.”

That leaves just 12 percent, who at some point identify as vegans or vegetarians, but the regression rate is five out of every six, which is, as HRC Executive Director Che Green notes, “not good news for animals.”

Why so much failure? For Green it has to do with “a lack of social support from partners or family, and a dislike for being seen as ‘different’ by their friends and social peers based on their dietary preferences.”

New York nutritionist Lisa Young added that a “cold turkey” implementation of the vegetarian diet can set hopeful vegetarians up for failure due to the cravings that meat deprivation will produce in the early stages.

“They say, ‘I’m never going to eat that again,'” Young said, adding that if one starts “by eating smaller portions of pork or chicken, then cutting out all meat and dairy for a month, you can get a better feel for it.”

HRC, looking for some silver lining in the study, pointed out that “more people are trying” to become vegetarians and noted that “37 percent intend to go back to a non-meat diet” at some point in the future.

Still, the group found the results “disappointing.”

What about you, readers? Have you ever tried to implement a vegetarian diet? If so, what were some of the techniques that helped you throughout the process, and did you eventually fall off the wagon?

Also, do you have future plans to join the exclusive ranks of vegetarians in the future? Share your thoughts with us in the comments section, and best of luck."

wackyjacky wrote:Why so much failure? For Green it has to do with “a lack of social support from partners or family, and a dislike for being seen as ‘different’ by their friends and social peers based on their dietary preferences.”

So 84% of the 12% of the sample who tried vegetarian/vegan lifestyles don't last - that's a further 11% of the total sample (10.8%, one of you sad sacks will check my math). Add this to the original 88% and you now have 99% of the sample being carnivores.

And Green wants to put this normalization down to lack of social support for the poor lambs, err, petals?

I had a stunning, artist, college professor, as a gf for awhile. Best looking woman I ever dated & I've had more than a few. In fact she still looks good in her 50s. She was great in the sack, had a good sense of humor, made more money than me - perfect right ? - Nope, I dumped her because she was a vegan. Eating got so boring when she cooked or when we went to one of her restaurants that I nearly lost the will to live. I don't get the whole self denying 'food is for nutrients' lifestyle. Unfortunately Stroppy, she's still among your 1%, 25 years later..

She wouldn't let you eat meat or what?

wackyjacky wrote: Eating got so boring when she cooked or when we went to one of her restaurants that I nearly lost the will to live.

Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote:She wouldn't let you eat meat or what?

I ate meat, I just didn't eat enough meat. Like I nsaid her meals and the meals at her veg restaurants were boring beyond imagination.

I became a vegetarian 30 years ago; turned vegan about 20 years ago. Never regretted it. A few years ago, I was at a restaurant in Saudi Arabia with a group of coworkers. They ordered shish kebabs - goat, chicken, camel. When the waiters served it, the smell made me sick. Since then, the smell of most meat makes me nauseous. I've never had a desire to eat meat or fish, although bacon still does smell good. The number one benefit is that I still look like a 30 year old. Of course, I exercise and weight train, but being a vegan has kept me young looking and very healthy. Don't knock it if you haven't tried it. What do I eat? Muesli, soy yogurt, whole grain breads, soymilk, protein powder, lime juice, bananas, apples, raisins, chocolate, and, when I eat out, it's Indian.

@rgrowden
I think there is plenty of evidence from research, that there is no substitute for meat, and the human body needs it in fact.
perhaps, we just eat too much of it...

when you look not your age, it most likely (cant) have anything to do with your vegan diet.
perhaps you would look even younger if you had EATEN meat, acutally ?

if you really feel nausea, when you smell meat, then I think something is wrong with you.. health wise. but im just a "medical googler".

personally, I need cheese and eggs, I would never be a vegan.
since I feel better healthwise, I eat lots of meet at burger king. ways more than ever before.

burger king has 3 for 2 meals. you buy 2 and get 3 sets (beef only, I understood).
all February.
this may be the end of the KFC opposite. all they have on offer is some boring chicken burger meal for $3.60 or so.
and what you get at KFC here, is just a tiny bit of everything on it...

processed food is pretty much the best you can eat, btw.

raw is shit.

wackyjacky wrote:Unfortunately Stroppy, she's still among your 1%, 25 years later..

I've got a good mate in PP (riding buddy) in the one percent. One of the things I respect about the guy is that unless you ate with him (a lot) you wouldn't know, and if you eat at his house, he serves you a meat dish. I'm more than happy to cook him a vegetarian dish when he's at our place.