Discordo absolutamente... vejam a que exageros podem chegar os veganos...tigris Escreveu:Discordo por completo. Os veganos sabem tanto ou mais de nutrição quanto os vegetarianos.
Uma dieta radical tem riscos muito elevados, não é por acaso que todos os nutricionistas exigem aos veganos controlos periódicos muito mais frequentes que os de quem segue outras dietas...1.2.3.color=blue]Babies' Mental Delay
Tied to Moms' Vegan Diet
NEW YORK (Reuters Health)[/color] - The breast-fed infants of two mothers who did not eat any animal products, including milk and eggs, developed brain abnormalities as a result of a vitamin-B12 deficiency, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported Thursday.
SOURCE: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 20034.;52:61-64.
Neurologic Impairment in Children Associated with Maternal Dietary Deficiency of Cobalamin --- Georgia, 2001
During 2001, neurologic impairment resulting from cobalamin (vitamin B12) deficiency was diagnosed in two children in Georgia. The children were breastfed by mothers who followed vegetarian diets*.
Case 1
During August 2001, a girl aged 15 months was hospitalized for lethargy and failure to thrive. She was breastfed for 8 months, but the extent (exclusivity) of breast milk consumed relative to other food was unknown. Her mother reported following a vegan diet during the preceding 7 years and took nutritional and vitamin supplements. The pediatrician diagnosed failure to thrive, developmental delay, and severe macrocytic anemia. The child was hospitalized, and cobalamin deficiency was diagnosed.
Case 2
During March 2001, a boy aged 30 months with failure to thrive and mild global developmental delays was taken to a genetics clinic. He was born after a full-term pregnancy and breastfed exclusively until age 9 months. The mother reported following a vegetarian diet during the preceding 20 years, with negligible amounts of meat, fish, and dairy products.5."Vegan Diet Kills Baby"
Fed on ignorance
Stephen McGinty
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From The Scotsman - UK, http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/health.cfm?id=108668
The slogan was once Meat is Murder, yet since the tragic death of little Areni Manuelyan, it is the vegan diet that is now on trial. Lost among the tragedy of the attack on America was the case of a nine-month-old British child who resembled a famine victim in the days before her death, after a short lifetime of raw fruit, mashed nuts and tomato juice. Initially charged with manslaughter, her parents finally pleaded guilty to child cruelty and escaped jail sentence after a judge deemed their behaviour misguided rather than evil. In the court case, which ended last week, their solicitor insisted they had researched the diet carefully, but had read misleading studies and unsafe literature.6.By Harriet Ryan, Court TV
KEW GARDENS, N.Y. (Court TV) — As they began deliberations Wednesday, jurors in the case of a vegan couple accused of nearly starving their daughter to death,... The pair, both 32, raised Ice on a homemade soy-and-herb infant formula that prosecution doctors contend left her as severely malnourished as a Third World famine victim. At 15 months, she weighed just 10 pounds, had no teeth and could not walk or talk.Auckland
June 13 2002
A religious couple who refused to allow doctors to save their infant son's life have each been jailed in New Zealand for five years.
A High Court judge told Seventh Day Adventists Roby Jan Moorhead, 45, and his wife Deborah Anne Moorhead, 34, that their failure to provide medical treatment for their critically-ill son Caleb was inexcusable.
Caleb died in March last year from broncho-pneumonia associated with anaemia and brain damage caused by vitamin B12 deficiency.
já por outro lado, mesmo uma dieta lacto-ovo vegetariana não é isenta de riscos...
Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2003 Jul 5;147(27):1308-13
[Nutrition and health--potential health benefits and risks of vegetarianism and limited consumption of meat in the Netherlands]
Dagnelie PC.
Universiteit Maastricht, capaciteitsgroep Epidemiologie, Postbus 616, 6200 MD Maastricht. [email protected]
In the latest Dutch national food consumption survey (1998) just over 1% of subjects (about 150,000 persons) claimed to be vegetarians; however, a much larger group (6% or approximately 1 million persons) ate meat < or = once a week. Vegetarianism can be subdivided into lacto-vegetarianism (a diet without meat and fish) and veganism (a diet without any animal foods whatsoever, including dairy products and eggs). A recent meta-analysis showed that vegetarians had a lower mortality from ischaemic heart disease than omniovorous subjects; however, cancer mortality and total mortality did not differ. Although a high consumption of red meat, which is rich in haeme iron and saturated fat, may increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and some types of cancer, this does not apply to white meat and fish. In fact, the most important protective effect would seem to be derived from the consumption of unrefined vegetable products (whole-grain cereals, vegetables, fruits, nuts and legumes) and fish. In other words, a prudent, omnivorous diet with moderate amounts of animal products, in which red meat is partly replaced by white meat and fish (especially fatty fish), together with the consumption of ample amounts of unrefined vegetable products, is thought to be just as protective as a vegetarian diet. On the other hand, the omission of meat and fish from the diet increases the risk of nutritional deficiencies. A vegan diet, in particular, leads to a strongly increased risk of deficiencies of vitamin B12, vitamin B2 and several minerals, such as calcium, iron and zinc. However, even a lacto-vegetarian diet produces an increased risk of deficiencies of vitamin B12 and possibly certain minerals, such as iron. Data from the latest Dutch food consumption survey suggest that 5-10% of all inhabitants of the Netherlands (up to 1 million persons) actually have a vitamin B12 intake below recommended daily levels. In medical practice, the possibility of vitamin B12 deficiency in subjects consuming meat or fish < or = once a week deserves serious consideration. In case of doubt, evaluation is indicated using sensitive and specific deficiency markers such as the levels of methylmalonic acid in plasma or urine. Alternative dietary sources of vitamin B12 instead of meat are fish (especially fatty fish is a good source of vitamin B12), or a vitamin-B12-supplement.
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