Vegan Diets Can Meet Children's Nutritional Needs

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Its about time that the mainstream medical associations realized this!

 

Vegan Diets Can Meet Children's Nutritional Needs

 

http://dailynews./h/nm/20010618/hl/vegan_1.html

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Bliss wrote:

>Its about time that the mainstream medical associations realized this!

>

>Vegan Diets Can Meet Children's Nutritional Needs

>

>http://dailynews./h/nm/20010618/hl/vegan_1.html

 

That's an interesting article. Is it true that animal products are the only

natural source of vitamin B12, as claimed in the article? I have seen

claims that B12 is also present in seaweed. Also, there is an interesting

article that states that our bodies can reabsorb B12 from the bile that we

excrete:

 

http://www.living-foods.com/articles/b12issue.html

 

I get my B12 from breakfast cereals (an artificial source of B12), but I'd

be interested to know if it would be possible to get it from natural

sources, mainly because I'm interested in whether my vegan diet would have

been possible in the past, before artificial sources were available.

 

Gerry

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At the risk of sounding stupid or silly, I've always been curious as to why

you can only get natural B12 from animal flesh. Cows don't eat meat so where

do they get THEIR B12? Humans are animals too, so why can't we get it in the

same non-flesh natural way that a cow can?

 

 

Rhonda

http://pages.village.com/veganrose/forevervegan/index.html

http://www.recipecircus.com/recipes/dakotahvegan

 

ForeverVegan-

 

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that I've crawled on occasion, and I'm glad that no one ate me. " -- Alex

Poulos

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Perhaps it comes down to a question of differing

physiologies. We cannot digest what a cow can. Therefore,

we can't expect to get the same types of nutrients from

food that a natural vegetarian (cow) is able to.

 

 

 

--- Rhonda <veganrose wrote:

> At the risk of sounding stupid or silly, I've always

> been curious as to why

> you can only get natural B12 from animal flesh. Cows

> don't eat meat so where

> do they get THEIR B12? Humans are animals too, so why

> can't we get it in the

> same non-flesh natural way that a cow can?

>

>

> Rhonda

>

http://pages.village.com/veganrose/forevervegan/index.html

> http://www.recipecircus.com/recipes/dakotahvegan

>

> ForeverVegan-

>

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> " I will not eat anything that walks, runs, skips, hops

> or crawls. God knows

> that I've crawled on occasion, and I'm glad that no one

> ate me. " -- Alex

> Poulos

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

As far as I know, B12 doesn't come from the cow itself, but is produced by

specific bacteria found in the animal's small intestine. I've heard experts

saying that your body's B12 level depends not only on consuming B12 but

consuming foods that stimulate B12 production by this bacteria.

 

I never thought of it this way, but what you said reminded me of the

argument that people NEED cow's milk because it's the only viable source of

calcium for humans, apparently calcium found in vegetables is really bad

(because you need vit. C to be able to digest it; go figure), but where do

cows get their calcium?

 

Anyway, there's still debate over how much B12 consumption is needed by

humans, different dietetic associations have different guidelines.

 

-Belle

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