Well........
I am a vegetarian and in my opinion vegetarianism benefits my body in many ways, since you are not eating meat and all the chemicals in the product you are actually letting your body grow and do its own thing at its own pace instead of stimulating your growth. Meat acts as a steroid to your body ( obviously not a good thing ), vegetarianism also gives you more energy and you tend to crave more nutritious things because you yet again ont have that chemical in you , the chemical from meat is a hormone given to the animal to make them fat umm.... what do you think it is doing to us since we are also comsuming it , people wonder why America is becoming more and more well... FAT!!!! This is why plus all of the cruelty to the animals when they are being killed many farmers half kill there animlas and wtch them suffer which cuases them to get infecion cause the death occurs in sometimes more than 3 weeks. The meds. that the farmers give them to treat it go right in to the meat we eat talk about disgusting!
Go to this website and watch animal cruelty videos and you will see how vegetarianism benefits your body! ( these clips are how I became a Vegetarian)
www.peta.org