Are vegetarians (and vegans) a deficiency like annorexia?!


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Yes, the diets actually make them mentally deficient in many cases because of the lack of B-12 and Omega-3 and other nutrients. The permanent damage sometimes does not show up until later in life. Many prolapsed digestive systems are found in dead vegetarians and vegans.

what do you mean?

No they just lack proteins more unless they eat peanutbutter and drink lots of milk.

I'm not sure if all vegetarians/vegans do this, but a lot use dietary supplements to obtain the nutrients commonly found in meat. It comes in the form of vitamins, shakes, etc. So no, it's not a deficiency.

We are not deficient in any way. I usually try to downplay this but we are superior, having moved on to the next step which is to stop eating each other.

No. They just don't eat meat. Anarexians don't eat at all.

A vegetarian is a person. Anorexia is a disease. Neither are deficiencies (that's a noun). Anoretics can be deficient in certain things, as can vegetarians. But there the similarities end. Anoretics may be deficient (not be a deficiency) because they are starving themselves and intentionally depriving themselves of certain nutrients. Vegetarians may be UNintentionally deficient, especially when first becoming vegetarians, because they don't know how to substitute the nutrients they were previously getting from meat. If done right, the vegetarian diet would not leave you deficient.


EDIT: babygirl, anoretics do eat. they would die otherwise. they just limit their intake severely.

EDIT: Me Bad, duh. Of course they die. But if ALL of them NEVER ate ANYTHING there would be a lot more dying. And they don't usually die from starvation; they die from complications OF starvation (heart attacks, organ failure, etc).

There are some that get to tha tpoint because they have no idea how to manage the diet and they started it because they saw a sadlittle video that made them cry. They didn't reserch it, they just decided to give up half of their diertaty intake one day.

Fawnberry- anorexics die every day.

Sherrilynn- I am so glad that you superior. Have you met Ashley? You two are made for each other.

At what point can I start blaming the school systems?

eeerrrr, no.

Don't know what else to say really.

Nice to see you taking a couple of trolls out for exercise though - well done.





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