Re: Vegetarians Linked to Health Ills in Babies?

February 1, 2003

Steve: but how old was he when he died?? :-)))))

I'm in the moderate camp myself. I eat poulty and fish and try to get a

serving of red meat in every 4-6 weeks or so.

on 2/1/2003 11:44 AM, S Rudek at s_rudek@... wrote:

> Forgive the outburst, but the last time I saw headline

> news about how dangerous it was to be vegan it was a

> story about some guy in France who " died of B12

> deficiency " . It made international news. In a later

> autopsy, they discovered he didn't have any vitamin C

> in his system, either. So, not only did he apparently

> not eat meat, he didn't eat fruits, either. Consider

> it evolution in action.

February 1, 2003

Furthermore, most B12 deficiencies are not with vegetarians, but patients who

lack the ability to absorb it.

Regards.

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From: " S Rudek " <s_rudek@...>

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Subject: [ ] Vegetarians Linked to Health Ills in Babies?

> > From: " Hipp " <@...>

> > Subject: Breast-feeding by Vegetarians Linked to

> > Health Ills in Babies

> >

> > In case anyone needs evidence that humans were not

> > meant to be vegetarians ...

>

> No, strict vegetarians who are too ignorant to know

> that B-12 is a required nutrient and they will

> eventually have a problem if they don't eat

> nutritional yeast or any of numerous B12 supplemented

> vegan foods, shouldn't be strict vegetarians.

>

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