Posted by Simcha on June 20, 2003, at 1:57:47
In reply to Re: Lenient VegetarianDiets can still cause B12 De, posted by Emme on June 19, 2003, at 22:01:18
I've recently become a vegan. Mainly it was because I have been told by many sources that dairy is bad for Asthma. My asthma has been really bad lately.
I figured if I was going to stop dairy because of my asthma I might as well give up meat again. I used to be a lacto-ovo vegetarian. My weight was easier to control back then and I always took multi-vitamins to make up for any deficiency in my diet.
I have been a vegan for about a month now and I'm back on multi-vitamins. My asthma is a bit less, of course that might be due to the addition of an inhaled corticosteroid in my drug regimen.
Anyway, there are very easy ways to meet all of your dietary needs without consuming animal products. The multi-vitamin that I use is vegan and has B-12 as cyanocabalamin which is a vegan source. The supplements give me 100mcg which is 1667% of the RDA. I also use fortified soy milk and other fortified products that include B-12 in their fortification.
There are many reasons not to eat meat. To me there are many more reasons not to eat meat than they can come up with to convince me to eat it again. There are too many health issues with today's meat supply, let alone the cruelty of the meat industry... But I digress...
The fact is that you CAN be a very healthy Vegan.
The fact is that it IS healthier to be a vegetarian who eats a balanced diet than to be one of the many omnivores who does not have a balanced diet.The fact is that most people who eat meat in this country have vitamin deficiencies, cholesterol issues, artery blockage, colon cancer, antibiotic resistant bacterial infections, and a host of other health issues related to eating meat.
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