{"id":755151,"date":"2018-11-02T10:21:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T14:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=755151"},"modified":"2018-11-02T10:21:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T14:21:53","slug":"one-third-of-americans-consider-themselves-flexitarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=755151","title":{"rendered":"One third of Americans consider themselves \u2018flexitarian\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>Over half (52 percent) of Americans are currently trying to incorporate more plant-based meals into their daily lives. In fact, 18 percent have tried a vegetarian diet and five percent have tried a vegan diet.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ZOYA GERVIS:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;A new study into the diet choices of 2,000 Americans found 38 percent admit to following more than one type of dietary lifestyle. And a flexitarian diet \u2013 defined as someone who does not adhere to one specific eating style and may combine plant-based and meat-based diets \u2013 is now adopted by 31 percent of those studied. And another 13 percent now subscribe to a specific eating lifestyle such as veganism, vegetarianism or paleo. A study conducted by OnePoll, in conjunction with So Delicious Dairy Free, examined the eating habits of 2,000 Americans and found that nearly three in five (59 percent) eat plant-based meals at least once a day&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Over half (52 percent) of Americans are currently trying to incorporate more plant-based meals into their daily lives&#8230; But that\u2019s not all. Americans are open to the idea of eating more plant-based meals \u2013 in fact, 18 percent have tried a vegetarian diet and five percent have tried a vegan diet. On average, Americans reported that they will attempt a vegan or vegetarian lifestyle six times in their lifetime \u2013 with the average stretch being 37 days of strict plant-based meals.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Survey respondents, on average, consumed two vegan meals, two pescatarian meals, three vegetarian, three paleo, three gluten-free and three dairy-free meals in a typical week. So why are people choosing to flex their diets in this way? Seven in 10 Americans say that they believe a flexitarian lifestyle allows them the ability to eat healthier without feeling like they are depriving themselves of the foods that they love. Other reasons Americans admit to being a flexitarian is they believe it helps them feel better physically and mentally and sets a good example for their kids&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2018\/10\/26\/one-third-of-americans-consider-themselves-flexitarian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xhJ5Ti558zQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZOYA GERVIS: &#8216;A new study into the diet choices of 2,000 Americans found 38 percent admit to following more than one type of dietary lifestyle. And a flexitarian diet \u2013 defined as someone who does not adhere to one specific eating style and may combine plant-based and meat-based diets \u2013 is now adopted by 31 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":755152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,19],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-755151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-health","tag-veganism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=755151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755153,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755151\/revisions\/755153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/755152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=755151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=755151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=755151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}