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

Dragonblaze wrote:
> On 6 Jul, 10:55, SystemX > wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.

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> Let me remind you that the article criticised _other_ extreme diets as
> well, as it mentioned a high meat low carb diet (that would be the
> Atkins' Diet, I think), so it was not aimed at vegans alone.


An article entitled "How a strict vegan diet made my children ill" is
aimed at vegans.

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> There were actually 2 vegan cases mentioned, the other one being the
> kids of the Scottish vegans who developed rickets.


We are still talking about single cases, albeit reported together. -
(Rickets can be avoided with sunlight as well as diet.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickets

Do you have children? - Have / do you give them (the opportunity of) the
healthiest diet you can reasonably afford?

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