Vegetarian Daily Diet - Did you know a vegetarian diet is deficient?

Did you know a vegetarian diet is deficient?

I was absolutely shocked when I read the documented information on this website. http://www.biblelife.org/vegetarian-deficiencies.htm This website is proof that a vegetarian/vegan diet is not healthy. I strongly encourage the readers of Yahoo! Answers to eat a well balanced diet that consists of meat and dairy. oldgit, your reply of " I strongly advise you to fcuk off you lowlife thick cnut." has been reported to Yahoo! Also, I have forwarded a copy of your reply to an online watchdog group. You may be contacted regarding some of your online activity. kathy m, it scares me that you are a mother

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Of course it is. We are Human and are made to eat meat
That's a load of crap.
Tell me more! I always prefer to take dietary advice from someone called 'Foxhunter'
I actually did know it wasn't healthy. Your body needs meat proteins that it just can't get from veggies.
forget butchers, go catch a cow, or piggy wiggy, kill it, cook it etc.... ....twat
It is healthy. You just need to do it RIGHT If you don't 1. take vitamins 2. Eat the right amounts of Greens/protiens/greens Then you're fine =] But if you don't eat right and all that stuffthen you're screwed
Total crap, only pure vegans need to be concerned about things like B12 that can be obtained through tempeh or supplements.
ive been vegetarian for a few years and doctors recommend flax seed or eyeque, to give the 'missing' vitamins. its not compulsary and we are not 'designed' to eat meat, we can be perfectly healthy on dairy and veg and pulses....meat is for protein and essential fats only i choose mine from a harmless source. im not veggy coz of 'cute' lambs or pigs....i just dont like the taste or texture of meat.
Yes, I know this. I was hospitalized at 17 yrs old because I was protein deficient due to a vegetarian diet and an eating disorder. I tell my teenage daughters all the time that there is a reason I cook breakfast and dinner every day, not that I can get them to eat a balanced diet all the time, but I try. Edit: I was pure vegan for 7 years and I took vitamin supplements and I still wound up protein deficient. If you don't like the taste of meat or t-bone is just too cute and lambkin too cuddly (personally I think too greasy), you should eat fish and shellfish. I also think that PETA is a bunch of hypocrits. 2nd Edit: Unless all these PETA supporters giving me the thumbs down wear 100% grass shoes and walk everywhere, then they are hypocrits. Sorry, but the facts speak for themselves. It's okay to molest people on the streets but they can't stomach the fact that I like to eat fish and cows and deer and moose and antelope and duck and chicken and so on.
HA! I hope I get thumbs down. We need meat. We need vegetables. We need the nutrients that comes from both. I love meat. All meat. From kitten to baby seal. J/K But I think that people who chose to be vegan should have the right. Just don't try to make the rest of us who enjoy a nice rare steak feel bad or switch. I had a friend who was a vegan and God killed him. J/K. No he said that he ate vegetables, not because he loved animals, but because he hated plants. Have fun getting your only protein from soy and tofu.
Usually a single quote is enough to DISprove something; seldom is it sufficient to PROVE it. And though I'm not a vegetarian, I am pretty certain that at least lacto-ovo vegetarians get enough protein of the right types. I suppose vegans might be challenged, but the food industry supports their needs, and the American Dietetic Association seem to be pretty satisfied with its own recommendations for vegetarian diets. I would not put too much credence in nutritional advice from a site called BibleLife.org. Believe what you want to, but as a fallback position I would recommend checking more than one source before arriving at a conclusion.
huh.... orange juice, bagels, peas, potato and a salad.... Ya know... that hardly sounds like what I eat in a day, or most Vegetarians I know... Of course the diet listed on that site is deficient... Most vegetarians eat far more, far better, and much more varied than that.... Edit: Oh my goodness.... have you people read the fanatical crap that follows that chart? Who comes up with this stuff!
Why you feel the burning need inflict your garbage and obvious ignorance on this sight time and again is beyond me.
Yet another attempt by a bible thumper to make everyone conform to his lifestyle. 'nuff said!
RUBBISH ! I've been a vegetarian for 56 years, and am still alive and healthy enough to write this !........lol Don`t believe everything you read !
How can that information on a website prove that vegetarian diets are insufficient? The website gives it's own insufficient diet as if it were a typical vegetarian diet. Not nearly enough fruit and vegetables in it. Don't believe everything you read without looking at the evidence.
Things in the bible and koran n that are not to be taken literally. They're full of parables and metaphors. Biblelife prob really meant to say that being a vegetarian is bad for mid-west american farmers who happen to be their strongest subscribers. Groan.
I've been vegetarian for 12 years, and I have to say my partner (meat eater) is ill far more than me, in fact he has more skin allergies, asthma, joint problems... Seems eating meat is unhealthy in my household.... My diet is not deficient in any way. Try not to make such sweeping statements next time...
a friend of mine was a strict vegetarian,she wound up with a bad case of anaemia , the doctor recommended that she eat red meat,she was cured,needless to say,she is not a veggie now.
Come on, biblelife.org as a source to knock vegetarianism!!! Why would the site owners care and go to this trouble? Methinks there is an ulterior motive.
Did you know that the broadness and scope of your mind is deficient? I was absolutely shocked when I read your opinion of proof that a vegetarian diet is not healthy. My diet is also deficient of toxins and unnatural animal hormones and my intestines are deficient of 3 month old carcass. I love being deficient. x
sorry but i have been a veggie for my whole life and i'm fine. no health problems. so obviously it is not unhealthy if it is done right.
Are you serious? I'm healthy and I've been a vegetarian for 1 year and some months and all of my vegan friends are healthy as well.
i've been vege for 25 years, i gave birth to two healthy babies my first 8lb 12 1/2 oz and my 2nd 10lb 4 1/2 oz so where's the deficiency. my kids will make their own choices and eat what the wish - does that make me a bad mother?????
Okay, we don't ignore your precious information. I checked out your website, and it is priceless: Did you put it up? Listen to that: Typical One Day Vegetarian Diet Orange juice, freshly squeezed Bagel, oat bran Bagel, whole wheat, 100% Apple juice Lentils, dry, cooked, NS as to fat added in cooking Green or yellow split peas, dry, cooked, NS as to fat added in cooking White potato, cooked, with sauce, NS as to sauce Caesar salad (with romaine) Do you really think THAT is what a vegetarian eats in one day? Foxhunter, you are a sad, sad person! :)
First of all, I am not a vegetarian, but I respect them. Why people have to create caos because of a difference in opinion? We should learn to respect everyone's choice. I come here because I like some of the recipe people post here, but I hate the intolerance. You should not post a question that offends or says things against the viewers of this section. Please people, respect.
F.H.G. you have been reported for repeat postings. to answer your question the vegetarian diet is not deficient.
With they're idea of a typical vegetarian diet, I would say yeah, I am deficient. Do you really think two bagels, and a few cups of fruit and vegetables is all a vegetarian eats? That chart looks like whoever wrote it thinks vegetarians are just people who follow a typical unhealthy American diet, and just cut out the meat. That whole chart might be about one meal for me, and seeing as a whole-grain bagel has about 10 grams of protein, I'm getting a very large part of my daily protein each day JUST FROM BAGELS. When I gave up eggs and dairy, I was pretty skinny. I lost weight, and then gained more than I lost, in the form of muscle. And another thing: I'M CHRISTIAN. Anyone who calls they're website biblelife and says a vegetarian diet is unhealthy needs to read the bible again. In the beginning God created the world vegan. Everyone, including animals were vegan. In Isaiah 66:3, it says "He who kills an ox is as if he killed a man," and it also says in Isaiah 7:15 "He (Jesus) shall eat butter and honey, so that he may know to refuse evil, and choose the good."
It would be deficient if that's what people really ate. Except of course it isn't-most of us eat healthy balanced plant based diets. Small tip:Don't trust a website call biblelife.org! I am 25,became vegetarian at 7 and vegan at 16 and I am totally healthy.Some deficient diet eh? Foxie get a life and leave vegetarians and vegans to their lives!
Oh Foxie babe. You have a lot to learn about t'internet haven't you. You can find anything you want to believe on the internet. If I looked hard enough I'm sure I could find an article that said wearing a pink tux and wearing disco skates would be good for me!!! stick to what you have heard of. Ive never heard of biblelife.org if it is the same preachy televangelists that sell religion and a place in heaven then it's not worth the pixels it's written on. For more acurate reading look at the Vegan society's website.They are an official organisation not shyster people misquoting my bible!! The founder of veganism lived to be 96. If you keep eating steak, offal, chopped and shaped chicken nuggets and pork ribs you will be lucky to see 60. Omnivores smell funny and have bad breath. They also experience a decline in erm well man's favourite bodily function. Go vegan, I dare you!!!! Your Mrs will be e mailing me to thank me everyday. You and your little fox_hunter guy will be faster and stronger and stay the distance!!!
I visited that web site. It also says to stop eating sugar before you stop smoking because sugar is worse for you than smoking. It also says not to eat soy, wheat, legumes, cows milk. So I guess it would be hard to be a healthy vegetarian following these rules - no tofu, no seitan, no beans. I strongly encourage the asker to get nutritional advice from maybe someone who knows something about nutrition. If you had a bad vegetarian experience that's too bad, but I prefer not to ingest all the chemicals and hormones and antibiotics that are pumped into meat animals these days to enable them to survive in the inhuman conditions in which they are being raised.
What you do not understand is that vegans do not need the same recomended allowence of nutrition as meat eaters. the system of the meateater is clogged and impacted with candida -overgrowth,parasites moulds and feaces there by needing much more than the vegan. A vegan diet creates a pure,cleaner system in which very tiny amounts of minerals are needed. overall health is better and sickness harder to come by.
If it's so unhealthy, how come I'm still sat here, after 23yrs of being vegan, having not had one single health problem?? Why is it, also, that the majority of people who are obese, have high cholesterol, heart attacks, eczema, asthma, constipation, and all other disgusting diseases/illnesses are meat/dairy eaters?? If you ate mostly meat and dairy for the rest of your life, you would die very quickly and very painfully. You're "absolutely shocked" by what one website contains? Well I'm "absolutely shocked" by your gullible stupidity
No, none deficient, but I have met a lot that were really FAT though. I took a look at the website link mentioned. Wow, some very ignorant stuff. Not to mention that it is written by some weirdo cult fanatics. They believe in some really silly things other than their beliefs of vegetarian diets.
It says a lot that you have to make reference to site that quotes the bible in order to back up your theories on meat eating. Take a look at the proper scientific evidence out there and then try telling people that veggie diets are unhealthy. The only people who will listen to you are those that are either ignorant or they don't know how to follow a veggie diet properly.
All I can say is when I cut out all animal products, my life-time (and painful) eczema dissapeared. All the ointments full of steroids failed to fix my problem, but following a vegan diet did. I don't have a problem with people eating meat, and I certainly don't go out of my way (like you...) to make people feel bad about doing something they believe is right. Don't you have something more important to exert your extra energy on?
if it's got the word "bible" in the URl I don't think I'll bother reading it....
Have you seen this? "Vegan Males Become Wussies The vegan diet wipes out the hormonal system in males. Their testosterone level plunges. The sperm count plunges, and they can't get it up, erectile dysfunction (ED). They become impotent sissies. This is the reason vegan males become submissive to females and become homosexual. They can be seen carrying peace signs in demonstrations and are ready to surrender. The fact that the vegan diet makes humans less fertile proves humans did not evolve as vegetarians. This can be quickly shown by a simple visit to Dr. Andrew Weil's message board for male health problems." I would laugh if they didn't seem so serious about it. OMG. "Bible Life Ministries' Nutritional Program Has Performed Healing Miracles The proper diet for healing and health preservation is argued fiercely because this is a spiritual battle" Ah, now we get to the root of this twaddle.
I wonder if you have serious psychological problems? You're obsessed with harassing vegetarians and vegans. If you want protein, try baked beans. Only trouble is, they'll make you more antisocial than you are now.
Foxhunter you're just wrong, there's really not much more to say on the matter. Contrary to what you say, a vegetarian diet is far more healthy than an diet full of animal products. I've been vegan for 17 years and am in excellent health, meanwhile my friends and relatives who eat animal products (think: butter, eggs, greasy burgers, fatty pork chops, steaks, sausages, bacon, cheese ...) are mostly overweight and have many various health problems from high blood pressure to cancer (note the overwhelming evidence that, for example, prostate cancer is for the most part a lifestyle disease caused by bad diet and fitness). If you want to damage your health by consuming these unhealthy products, go right ahead, but please don't promote lies in order to scare other people into making the same bad choices you are.
Dr Atkins' diet was full of meat - and look what happened to him - I don't think cavemen lived that long either - rather a re-occurring pattern, don't you think. As a vegetarian who can swim 20 lengths of a 25 metre pool in under 10 minutes, run a mile in approx 7 minutes, and easily walk 15 miles in an afternoon, I don't feel that my diet restricts my ablilities in any way. There is such a thing as statistics, and also lies damned lies - they are often one and the same..,
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I did not know that. Oh no! I'm a vegetarian...I've only been one for my whole life. And my whole family (of 8) are vegetarians. If we are so unhealthy, why are any of my family in any way ill? And they haven't suffered any major illnesses at all? Your theory about how unhealthy vegetarians are...is baffling.