Nutrition - Lacto-ovo Vegetarian Food

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Lacto-ovo Vegetarian Food
Lacto-ovo vegetarian diet is a primarily a plant based vegetarian diet that does not
include any non-vegetarian product like fish, poultry and meat; however, this diet surely
includes dairy products and eggs. The word lacto in this elaborates intake of dairy products
while ovo refers to eggs. Therefore, lacto ovo food products involves the products that can be
consumed during lacto ovo vegetarian diet. It should be noted that people adopt this type of
diet in the environment because it reduces the intake of animal products for ethical, health
and environment reasons as well. Many people in the society believes that it is not ethical to
kill an innocent animal for personal consumption (Rzymski, & Ganz, 2018).
Therefore, it eliminates the use of non-vegetarian products. This type of diet and food
products were originated in the society through the western world. It is also highly prevalent
in Europe and metropolitan cities in North America. This diet is related to the culture of
Jainism that prohibits people from causing harm to any living being or potential life.
Traditionally this diet includes eggs, some animals and few vegetables as well but jains are
only lacto vegetarian and not ovo lacto vegetarian. Furthermore, lacto ovo vegetarian diet
involves grains, vegetables, legumes, nuts, lentils and fruits. This type of diet involves several
health benefits in the environment as it lowers obesity, manages blood pressure and settles
heart diseases as well. Along with this, this diet and food consumption helps in removing the
problem of diabetes and certain types of cancer as well (Dinu, et. al., 2019).
The vegetarian food sources involves protein, zinc, iron and omega 3 fat. For different
body type, this diet is managed differently, for instance, a person with age group of years
need more calcium, B12 and vitamin D so their diet should components that are rich in these
segment. This diet provides wide variety of vegetarian products like soy products, kiwi,
melon, tofu, broccoli etc. Considering the benefits of this type of diet, it should be noted that