Celebrities Who Choose a Vegetarian Diet
VEGETARIANISM is the practice of following a plant-based diet including fruits, vegetables, cereal grains, nuts, and seeds, with or without dairy products and eggs. A vegetarian does not eat meat, including: red meat, game, poultry, fish, shellfish, and products of animal slaughter such as animal-derived gelatin (from animal skin, bones). Vegetarianism may be adopted for ethical, health, environmental, religious, political, cultural, economic, or other reasons.
Some Celebrities who choose a vegetarian lifestyle 
Mary Tyler Moore–Diagnosed an insulin-dependent diabetic (Type 1 diabetes), she is a vegetarian and an activist. She is an active spokesperson for both diabetes issues and animal rights; she is quoted as saying she eats “nothing with a face”
Halle Berry–She was diagnosed at an early age with Type 2 diabetes and reportedly went through a dramatic diet change. She started to eat fresh vegetables, fish, pasta and no red meat. She announced a few years ago that she was no longer insulin dependent. Halle also became a regular yoga practitioner. She practices yoga daily which helps her to release stress and bring about a feeling of tranquility.
Pamela Anderson–Has been a vegetarian since her teens, completely abstaining from meat, but also from fish and seafood. For her becoming a vegetarian was not about eating healthily, but she simply didn’t want animals to suffer. She is a prominent spokesperson for the PETA organization.
Bob Marley–As genuine Rastas practice a diet excluding meat, which is known as Ital, the late Bob Marley was a vegetarian, he was quoted as saying “from the beginning, Rasta people 
have always lived a vegetarian lifestyle, meaning anything that moves is not supposed to be eaten”
Varieties of vegetarianism
Many people think that eating a vegetarian diet is boring, but being a vegetarian today no longer equals eating the same all the time. A daily meal could consist of fresh and organic foods such as fruit and oatmeal for breakfast, fresh smoothies and salads for lunch, vegetable pasta, veggie sushi, or veggie burgers for dinner (for more on organic foods see my blog post http://wp.me/pvU23-sr ).
Also, being a vegetarian doesn’t automatically make you slim – a wrong belief commonly held by society. Vegetarians also have to watch what they are eating and exercise on a regular basis. There are a number of vegetarian diets:
- Lacto-ovo vegetarianism is a vegetarian diet that permits consumption of animal products such eggs, milk, and honey.
- Lacto vegetarianism permits milk but abstains from eggs.
- Ovo vegetarianism permits eggs but abstains from milk.
- Veganism abstains from all animal flesh and animal products, including milk, honey, and eggs.
- Raw veganism is a diet of fresh and uncooked fruit, nuts, seeds, and vegetables.
- Fruitarianism is a diet of only fruit, nuts, seeds, and other plant matter that can be gathered without harming the plant.
- Semi vegetarianism is a vegetarian diet primarily consisting of vegetarian foods, though occasional exceptions are made for some non-vegetarian foods including fish and poultry as well as dairy products and eggs. These diets may be followed by those who choose to reduce the amount of animal flesh consumed as a way of transitioning to a vegetarian diet.
Many individuals (such as myself) describe themselves as “vegetarian” while practicing a semi-vegetarian diet. Semi-vegetarian diets include:
- Flexitarianism: A diet that consists primarily of vegetarian food, but includes occasional exceptions such as red meat.
- Pescetarianism: A diet that is mainly vegetarian but also includes fish and sometimes other seafood.
- Pollotarianism: A diet that is mainly vegetarian but also includes poultry.
- Macrobiotic diet: A diet of mostly whole grains and beans. Not all macrobiotics are vegetarians, as some consume fish.
The term “semi-vegetarian” is contested by most vegetarian groups, who believe that vegetarianism must exclude all animal flesh including animals such as fish and birds.
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