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> Most vegetarians are such for ethical reasons, knowing it's harder to get adequate nutrition, and planning accordingly. Getting adequate nutrition as a veget
by koolba 4y ago
> Most vegetarians are such for ethical reasons, knowing it's harder to get adequate nutrition, and planning accordingly.
Getting adequate nutrition as a vegetarian isn’t difficult at all. Pick a random grain, a random legume, and a random vegetable, maybe throw in a salad, and you’ll average out to everything you need nutritionally.
It’s only a problem when you try to transform vegetables into non-vegetables. There’s nothing natural about eating massive amounts of a single part of any fruit or vegetable.
The same logic applies to explain why most juice is bad for you. It’s simply not evolutionarily sound to consume just the liquid portion of an entire bag of oranges or apples.
It applies to meat as well. A diet of only pork rinds isn’t going to work too well.
- vorpalhex 4y agoMost vegetarians (as in, more do than don't) have some kind of meaningful nutritional deficiency. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6367879/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6367879/
- ratsmack 4y agoVegan avoids all animal products while vegetarians will eat milk products and sometimes fish. Since the vegan and vegetarian are often used interchangeably, I believe the article is really referring to the vegan lifestyle.
- alphazard 4y agoExactly. This is evidence that it is hard. I'm glad the person you are replying to is able to manage a vegetarian diet successfully. It's definitely possible to get adequate nutrition, but most people don't have the understanding or discipline required.
- kashunstva 4y agoThis paper is a meta-analysis of studies looking solely at iron stores among vegetarians vs omnivores. It doesn’t broadly address the claim about nutritional deficiencies among those who consume a meat-free diet more broadly. Moreover, among the studies they examined there was significant variability among cutoffs for serum ferritin as indicative of storage iron. About all I can conclude is that premenopausal vegetarian women should supplement with iron.
- colordrops 4y agoAs do most meat eaters. What's your point?
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