Does Vegetarian food make you lazy?

I do not think eating non-vegetarian food will make you fat and obese and bring all the disease that the doctors tell. In fact, I think, eating non-vegetarian food will make you active, attractive and also add to your personality.

Look at the carnivores animals, they are so active and energetic and sharp. If a human is very sharp, they are compared to with eagles, if a human is fast, he is compared to a tiger or lion or cheetah. Now, look at the herbivores, like Elephant, Cow etc… they are huge and lazy. They do not even move until they are in danger. When a human is lazy, they are often compared to buffaloes. None of the good qualities are ever attributed to Vegetarian animals.

According to the books, what we eat decides our physical well being as well as our mental makeup. So, my theory is that eating vegetarian food is detrimental to ones health. It may make you lazy. Where as eating non-vegetarian food will make you active, smart, respected etc.

On second thoughts, the Vegetarian animals are huge and lazy because, they do not have to hunt for their food; what they eat rarely moves. They just have to stand and eat. When they are full they sit in some corner digest it and when hungry get up again and do the same thing. But, for the Carnivores animals, they have to hunt and fight for their food, they have to be always looking…. that might be what makes them active, sharp etc….

So, does food really determine the nature of a person? Or is it the nature of work that you to do determine the nature of the person? Is it really necessary to divide food into Vegetarian and non-vegetarian since there is no purpose or effect on humans other than the source of it? It makes more sense to me (as per the Hindu books) where the food is divided into three types: (1) Sattvic (pure) food: one which increases longevity, purity, strength, health, happiness and taste and which is juicy, oily, and durable in nature. (2) Rajasic (hot) food: one which is bitter, sour, salty, hot and spicy, burning and which gives unhappiness, sorrow and disease and (3) Tamasic (intoxicating) food: one which is stored and devoid of any juices, dried, foul smelling, decomposed, left over and indigestible.