Flexitarianism

Categories: Food | Food & Drink
    • Definition: At least 80% of calorie consumption comes from plants and grains
    • 2003: The American Dialect Society names "Flexitarian" the year's most useful word
    • Earliest Printed Use: October 17, 1992, in the Austin American-Statesman

  • A Flexitarian is someone who makes a dietary choice to eat mostly plant-based foods, but will occasionally eat meat.

  • Other Terms For Flexitarians

    1. Meat-eating vegetarian
    2. Part time vegetarian
    3. Semi-vegetarian
    4. Pescetarian: someone who eats fish, as well as non-meat products
    5. Pollotarian: someone who eats chicken, as well as non-meat products

  • Health Benefits

    A flexitarian diet has, in studies, been shown to be as effective as a vegetarian diet in lowering the rates of many diseases. Flexitarianism can lower rates of:

    1. Heart disease
    2. Stroke
    3. high blood pressure
    4. Diabetes
    5. Obesity
    6. Colon cancer
    7. Prostate cancer

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