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thanksAre some people just not suited to a vegetarian diet?
Allergies may make it difficult for certain people to be vegetarian. Soy and eggs are common allergies, beans a little less so, and many people are lactose or gluten intolerant. With one or two of those allergies, it's still possible to cobble together a healthy vegetarian diet, but add a few more in and it might be impossible.
The low iron argument always bewildered me, since there are many vegetarian foods that are high in iron, not to mention supplement. I am a woman who gives blood just about every 8 weeks, and I even do the red-blood-cell donations which requires even greater levels of iron to qualify, and I've never once been told that my iron was too low (I do try to take a multivitamin supplement that contains iron, when I remember, but nothing exotic, just a supermarket brand - I don't extend vegetarianism to vitamins).
I have a bunch of vegetarian friends (although I still eat meat). The thing I have noticed is that when you give up meat and whatever else, you have to be careful to balance your diet. You have to make sure to get enough Vitamin C, B-12, and protein. So, for example, my friend eats a lot of nuts to make up for the protein she doesn't get from meat. Vitamin supplements aren't a bad idea either. basically, Balanced diet = happy vegetarian.Are some people just not suited to a vegetarian diet?
I'm not sure. I liked being on a vegeterian diet and Im considering going on one again. I recently discovered that I have a candida infection though, which means I have to watch what I eat, fruit makes my condition worse because they have a lot of sugar in them. There's a massive list of foods that I can't eat for a while, even many types of vegetables like potatoes and carrots. I live off nuts, eggs, burger patties, yoghurt and herbal teas, although i cheat every once in a while which means im back to square one of my infection.
Well I know a friend of mine who is vegetarian, but her doctor told her to eat meat because of her very low iron level.
Me, low iron runs in my family so I cannot go vegan/vegetarian
But I am working towards at least halving my meat intake for many reasons.Are some people just not suited to a vegetarian diet?
There are no medical reasons why not to go vegetarian or vegan
There are many health benefits on the vegetarian or vegan diet.
A wall chart showing the best sources of each vitamin and mineral needed will help.
There are no nutrients that can only be found in meat, nay, only in animal products of any kind.
Even people with digestive issues often become vegetarians because FIBER helps.
We are vegetarians in make up so no, there's no plausible reason why
that's possible.
I've been low in iron too but doing research shows how to get what my
body needs.
Yes, and I'm one of them.
You can raise a human on a vegetarian diet and he'd be healthy. A good diet, full nutrition from lant based proteins and fats. Full range of coloured vegetables and seeds, nuts- you know- the normal selection of nature's seasonal food. B Vitamins in full, real food, not adulterated by pesticides and wax.
He'd be healthy.
You could raise a human on meat eating and some veg- he wouldn't be technically as healthy. He'd have cholesterol in too high levels in his blood, he'd have a colon full of meat toxins.
Being suited to the diet is more a preference than technical fact. People like eating meat, and htose that do suffer when they don't eat it, because of their love of meat, and they miss it.
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