Comparison of a vegetable-based (soya) and an animal-based low-protein diet in predialysis chronic renal failure patients.

The food resources they have access to lack several vital nutrients, making malnutrition among these people more prevalent than among pastoral people and other people with more animal-based diets.

When "Elizabeth" (not her real name) started college, she ate a typical, animal-based diet.

Because of our animal-based diets, most Americans consume at least twice as much protein as they need.

They are commonly considered nest-associates and use their large mouths and short intestinal tracts to support an animal-based diet.

Similar to other fish species with animal-based diets, they have large mouths, short intestines, a reduced number of pharyngeal teeth, and a primitively shaped basiocciptial bone.

They assert that there is a connection between animal-based diets and world hunger, ecological damage, animal mistreatment and human disease.

Although those apparent contradictions can be confusing, the overall research shows that a plant-based diet is healthier than an animal-based diet.

A study from the United Nations' report on Livestock and the Environment found that "a vegan diet can feed many more people than an animal-based diet."

In addition to the health benefits of a vegetarian diet, it should give an environmentalist the added satisfaction of being less harmful to the earth than an animal-based diet.