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Most nutritionists recommend a vegetarian diet rather than the vegan diet.
Why is it so? This is because vegetarians still have a small intake of the most valuable nutrition substances that can only be found in animal food. The American Dietetic Association supports a well-planned vegan diet in all stages of life, but few nutritionists have expressed concerns about the potential dangers of the vegan diet. Vegans should be particularly concerned with an adequate intake of B-12 Vitamin. Vitamin B12, a bacterial product, cannot be reliably found in plant foods. They should also be worried about other minerals such as Iron, Calcium, iodine etc.
Pregnancy issue - It is proven that vegan mothers who do not obtain adequate vitamin B12 in their diet while breastfeeding can cause severe and permanent neurological damage to their infants.
Weight control issue: Several researches have proven that Vegetarians are at greater risk than others for involvement in unhealthy and extreme weight control behaviors.
Veganism requires a level of attention to the details of pre-manufactured packaged goods which many people view as impractical which can also be a great problem, especially for the kids and for the beginners. It is well known that many vegans question whether it is ethical to make use of products which result in the death of animals. They are even speaking against vegetarians because they use some of the animal products and consider them the “same as others”.
Organizations such as the Foundation for Animal Use Education dispute that a non-vegan diet also includes exploitation of or cruelty to animals, and support the concept of animal welfare while promoting the use of animals in food. Although some researches indicates that the adoption of a vegetarian diet does not lead to eating disorders, vegetarian diets may be selected to camouflage an existing eating disorder.