[Vision2020] body jewlery/Meat diet

[Ron Force]

You forgot to include the population to which she was referring: children in
developing countries (Kenya, in this case).

Here's some rebuttal comments from
http://www.livejournal.com/community/veganpeople/925177.html

"Professor Tom Sanders, research director of nutrition and dietetics at
King's College London, criticised her for extrapolating from a group in a
developing country that had a relatively deprived diet. "Taking people who
have limited food choices and adding animal products will provide elements
missing from their restricted diets. But where you have a good choice in
developed countries, you can select a balanced vegan diet even for
children," he said.

Professor Sanders made a study of vegan nutrition which followed children
from conception to the age of 26, to show that the development of vegans was
normal. "Their diet in developed countries contains plenty of wheat, soy,
pulse and salads, and provided they avoid Vitamin B12 deficiency by eating
fortified foods or supplements, they are not at any disadvantage," he said.
He admitted that a vegan diet for children under the age of five might pose
a risk of malnutrition if there was too much reliance on vegetables...

...Stephen Walsh, of the International Vegetarian Union, said that "to
conclude from this particular plant diet that all plant diets are poor, and
that the only way to correct the problem is through animal products, is
frankly ludicrous".

The study in Kenya involved 544 children with a typical age of seven. Some
were fed an extra two ounces of meat a day, while others were given a cup of
milk. After two years children fed meat had muscles up to 80 per cent bigger
than those with an unsupplemented diet and also showed the biggest
improvement in intelligence, activity and leadership skills, Dr Allen
reported."


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Ron Force         Moscow ID USA
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      Ms Nance may want to reconsider the wisdom of not eating meat

The following address is in Nature.  A quote from the article that
should bring smiles to our faces is "So clear are the benefits, in
fact, that denying children meat or dairy products in the first few
years of life is unethical, argues Lindsay Allen of the University of
California, Davis, who carried out the research."

Mark

http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050221/full/050221-5.html


Roger Falen