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Default Daily Mail: How a strict vegan diet made my children ill

SystemX wrote:
> Dutch wrote:
>> SystemX wrote:
>>> Dragonblaze wrote:
>>>> How a strict vegan diet made my children ill
>>>>
>>> snip
>>>
>>> How about the millions of mothers that eat junk food. How many people
>>> now have bad health because of it?

>>
>> Plenty, likely.
>>
>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7481026.stm
>>>
>>> This would indicate a greater level of child abuse.

>>
>> Why greater?

>
> The OP was about *one* case of a poor (as I'm led to believe from
> subsequent posts, non vegan)diet. Whilst these single cases get the
> limelight, relatively little gets reported on the *millions* of cases of
> poor diet that affect children's health.
>
> Both meat inclusive and vegetarian / vegan diets can be healthy as well
> as unhealthy. - I wonder for every one unhealthy vegan diet follower,
> how many unhealthy meat inclusive diet followers there are? My guess
> would be a number *greater* than one.


Oh, a greater *number of cases*, in that case undoubtedly so. Whenever I
see fat families the term "child abuse" comes to mind.