I have been a vegetarian for a few months now, still learning about eating healthy.
Oh so you practice abstaining from eating meat or animal by products
Yes! It has been helping me loose weight and I feel better. My husband is lactose intolerant so cutting dairy helps him.
People adopt the practice of vegetarianism for many reasons so I am guessing your reasons are diet and health?
Yes, I'm not sure if I will keep doing this long term. It has been tough, especially eating out.
Other reasons people adopt the vegetarian lifestyle include political, environmental, cultural and economoic
Oh wow I didn't know some of those reasons, it has defenitly been a lifestyle change thats forsure.
aesthetic, economic, or personal preference. There are variations of the diet as well: an ovo-lacto vegetarian diet includes both eggs and dairy products, an ovo-vegetarian diet includes eggs but not dairy products, and a lacto-vegetarian diet includes dairy products but not eggs. A strict vegetarian diet – referred to as "vegan" – excludes all animal products, including eggs and dairy. Avoidance of animal products may require dietary supplements to prevent deficiencies such as vitamin B12 deficiency, which leads to pernicious anemia.
adjunct, for flavouring and to sweeten the beer. Though generally considered suitable for vegetarians, honey is an animal product, so is not suitable for vegans.
Non-vegetarian additives Lactose.
Some beers, particularly milk stouts, contain lactose, a sugar derived from milk, and are thus not suitable for people who abstain from eating dairy products.
Packaged beers.
Other than bottle conditioned, beers which are packaged in cans, bottles or kegs are filtered in some form, either pasteurised or cold-filtered.