There could be many reasons to switch. Start by looking in the mirror. Are you at a healthy weight? Do you look and feel good most of the time? Do you wake up energized? Or do you wake up tired and sluggish?

If you’ve eaten meat and animal products your whole life, you might think, why switch to a vegetarian diet? You’ve lived your whole life eating eggs, hamburgers, hot dogs, poultry, so why switch now?

How is your general health? Is your blood pressure within a healthy range? Are your cholesterol and blood sugar ranges normal? If they’re not, consider what you’re eating on a daily basis.

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If you’ve eaten meat and animal products your whole life, you might think, why switch to a vegetarian diet? You’ve lived your whole life eating eggs, hamburgers, hot dogs, poultry, so why switch now?

There could be many reasons to switch. Start by looking in the mirror. Are you at a healthy weight? Do you look and feel good most of the time? Do you wake up energized? Or do you wake up tired and sluggish?

How is your general health? Is your blood pressure within a healthy range? Are your cholesterol and blood sugar ranges normal? If they’re not, consider what you’re eating on a daily basis.

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When I reached the Minneapolis-St.Paul airport I had been traveling for hours and was really hungry. I went into a restaurant, scanned the menu, and asked the server, “How big is the hamburger?”

“It’s the standard half-pound size,” he answered, making a large circle with his hands.

Hamburgers are getting bigger and bigger. Janet Raloff writes about portion sizes in her article, “Dietary Inflation,” published on the Science News Web site. Raloff cites a University of North Carolina study of eating habits and portions. In the 1970s a typical hamburger was 5.7 ounces. In the 1990s this size had grown to seven ounces. Now, many restaurants are serving half-pound burgers and a few are serving one-pounders.

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