Show Hold the meat and grease please f Students go vegetarian for world ecology CPS CROWING ROWING numbers of college students students- some raised in traditional meat and potatoes homes homes are are banishing steak from their plates and joining the new vegetarian minority This shift within the pepperoni pizza generation generation generation genera genera- tion has caught parents professors and college cafeteria managers by surprise College vegetarians however insist that radical eating habits are a matter of compassion ecological awareness and just plain common commonsense sense Besides they are quick to point out they are in good company They're following vegetarians like Albert Einstein Socrates Gandhi Leonardo da Vinci Ralph Waldo 5 Emerson and Bob Dylan not to mention Candice Candice Candice Can- Can dice Bergen and Mick Jagger Other students in defense of their green lifestyle quote vegetarian-guru vegetarian Jeremy s new book Beyond Beef which charges that cattle are fed third one-third of the grain produced on the planet which if given to humans would feed one billion people I think vegetarianism is a sort of natural evol evolution tion to a healthier diet The Th American diet is not the diet for optimal health said Sally Clinton director of the Vegetarian Education Network and coordinator f for r a vegetarian newsletter for young adults Clinton notes that the average American eats less than 35 servings of fruits and vegetables daily while vegetarians to the delight of nutritionists can put away 10 or more servings at three meals The National Cancer Institute has raised the number of recommended daily portions of fruits and vegetables to five selections daily r- r J 0 t i O YV s 's tI You have to combine education with the introduction introduction introduction in in- of vegetarian meals to the cafeteria Ji said Clinton x xAn An estimated 8 million to 12 million Americans are vegetarians for reasons varying from health to religion Since the National Cancer Cancer Cancer Can Can- 2 Institute began its recent campaign touting 7 fruits and vegetables as weapons against cancer the number is expected to grow Clinton noted that since no one is certain how many college-age college vegetarians there are the ranks are growing growing- daily Most young people become become become be be- come vegetarians for ecological reasons she said Very few do it for reasons of health she said too young really to be overly t concerned with health According to researchers in a recent issue of 1 the Journal of Food Products Marketing The liThe most recognizable pattern in food consumption 1 behavior in the last 20 years has been the shift t away from animal products It is ve very y important that the college vegetarian eat a balanced diet says Virginia Messina Messina Mes Mes- 1 sina a nutritionist who writes a column for A How on Earth Eartha a a national newsletter for for J young young adult vegetarians Base your diet on whole grains Eat at least eight servings of these foods every day bread rice cereal said 5 pasta and other grains she Include five servings of dried beans peas lentils and any product made from soy plenty of nuts or nut butter and lots of fruits and vegetables said Messina College men generally 4 need a great deal more food than college women f Young vegetarians are encouraged to drink plenty of orange juice as vitamin vitamiC C will help k t. t their bodies absorb iron I j y t 4 S 5 Ss |