Having a vegetarian diet has always been a good way to stay fit and healthy, but now researches have found that eating vegetarian foods can help reduce your carbon footprint too.This gives you another reason to choose vegetarian, healthy and environmentally friendly too.

How much this diet cuts your carbon footprint depends on a number of factors. It will be reduce dramatically depending on how much you are willing to cut meat (and other animal products) from your diet and how strictly you stick to the all plant-based diet.

Based on a study in 2006 called “Diet, Energy and Global Warming”, the university of Chicago researchers found that 47 percent of the calories we obtain comes from animal sources, resulting in a carbon footprint of around 2.52 tonnes per year.

If you have a heavier diet of read meat, around 50 percent then the carbon will be about 3.57 tonnes per year. Your carbon footprint will be reduced again if you eat a diet that has 25 percent calories from fish, which will work out to be about 1 ton carbon.

Both red meat and fish both have a bearing on your foods carbon footprint, the vegetarian diet recommended best for the environment.

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