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Originally Posted by y.winter
Well, the problem is with the parents, not with veganism. There are children to meat eaters that are badly nourished as well, yet no one blames it on their meat eating habit. I guess you wouldn't go and blame so quickly parents who let their kids go to mcdonalds every other day... The hospitals are full of heart-disease patients who eat meat, and yet it will still take only a single vegan to join them to throw that "UGH those unhealthy vegans!". It's populism at its best.
Also, that "forced their beliefs" is as valid as saying that meat eaters parents force their animal-abuse based eating habits on their "poor" naive children that don't know that they eat corpses of tortured animals (and I didn't even start talking about its health prospect).
Veganism is a wonderful and healthy diet for all ages (ask W.H.O) and when you're doing it right (like other diets, there's no exception, and a lot of non-vegans fail at it miserably) - there's nothing to question about it. No protein deficiencies, no iron deficiencies, well balanced level of cholesterol, great blood test results over and over again, non-compromising taste and quality of food - this is my personal experience for years and years (and others too).
People love to blindly bash veganism, but reality has more to offer other than superficial notions.
Who's afraid of veggies?
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An American friend of mine was having a party once when she noticed her small finger was swollen and painful. By the next day every finger, on one hand, looked like a sausage. Tests confirmed she had early onset rheumatoid arthritis and she was offered steroid injections (something she would have to have for the rest of her life). Fortunately for her, she comes from a wealthy family. She flew out to see a specialist in California and it was strongly suggested she went onto a vegan diet immediately. She gave it a try. Within weeks the swelling and pain subsided. Fifteen years later she's still a strict vegan who has never had another flare-up of rheumatoid arthritis.
For people who suffer inflammatory diseases of the joints, a vegetarian diet is good and a vegan diet is excellent.