Digestion: Meat eaters vs. Vegetarians
Biology, digestive
Digestion
Vegetarians vs. Meat-eaters
The purpose of this paper is to compare vegetarians and meat-eaters through the digestive system as to processing to examine how research can assist in the study of lengthening the human life span.
Due to time limitations the method of research in this study will be that of a literature review of information available concerning elements and factors in terms of digestion as compared between meat-eaters and vegetarians.
The objective of this study is to determine what differences, if any exist in the digestive processes exist between those who consume meat on a regular basis and those vegetarians who abstain from meat consumption.
Hypothesis:
The hypothesis may be stated as a belief that those who consume meat regularly have more digestive problems and in fact more overall health problems than do those who consume only vegetables, fruits and breads in their diet and than vegetarians can expect a longer life span than can those who consume meat on a regular basis.
Research Breakdown:
"Simply put the digestive system is a portal for nutrients from the environment to gain access to the circulatory system. Before such transfer can occur, foodstuffs first have to be reduced to very simple molecules by a combination of mechanical and enzymatic degradation. The resulting sugars, amino acids, fatty acids and the like are then transported across the epithelium lining the intestine into blood." (Jain. Unknown date) "Food components which are incompletely absorbed in the small intestine or not absorbed at all but delivered to the colon have been part of the diet through the course of human evolution.' ." (Jenkins et al. 1997) A separate study comparing the diet of vegetarian Adventists, non-vegetarian Adventists and non-Adventists on a conventional American diet the finds showed that: "the Adventists groups had significantly fewer septicum and C. tertium islolates than the non-Adventists." (Finegold et al. 1977) Adventists as compared with Japanese-Americans on Japanese or Western diets or Caucasian individuals on a conventional U.S. diet. There were "a number of significant differences in fecal flora when high risk groups were compared with low risk groups. (Finegold, et...
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