Is vegetarian food harmful to health?

A reader says: "I am a vegetarian lady since I was a child, I do not eat any animal products and Do not like them, and I am now 28 years old, but my husband always tells me that this food is unhealthy or pressures me to eat with him, is plant food unhealthy?

Dr. Osama Hafni, consultant of physiotherapy and obesity treatment, answers: "Vegetarians are people who do not eat any foods from animal sources, and diets that depend on plant foods are healthier, meaning that vegetarians are healthier than others, provided that the food Diverse, balanced and carefully selected, the plant system under the previous conditions ensures true growth and exemplary weight."

It has been recommended by the international cardiologist Dr. Dean Ornish to become the dietary pattern for those suffering from heart disease, but because the plant food contains large amounts of food at relatively low calories, you should sometimes eat more meals so that there is no shortage of any of the food ingredients, as you should Fat and vegetable stency, diversity is the key to health for vegetarians, as we know that protein from animal sources is the perfect protein, and there is no complete protein from plant sources, except in soy.

But with the diversity of plant food, it is the total protein that contains all the essential amino acids, in the quantities needed by the body. And full protein has great biological value, because it can be used in the body very efficiently with little waste, and if the protein lacks one or more basic proteins, it is called an incomplete protein, where it cannot be represented in the entire body, and thus has little biological value, so By mixing small amounts of high-value protein with large amounts of protein with low biological value, protein deficiencies can be corrected.