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

• Fast Facts

  1. Definition: At least 80% of calorie consumption comes from plants and grains
  2. 2003: The American Dialect Society names "Flexitarian" the year's most useful word
  3. Earliest Printed Use: October 17, 1992, in the Austin American-Statesman

• 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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