Are Vegetarian Diets Optimal For Children's Health?

When someone says I'm a vegan or vegetarian, what comes to mind first? Let me guess, the person who does not eat meat does not it? Well, part of it is true, but there are different types of vegetarians, such as lacto-ovo vegetarian, vegan, and macrobiotic dijeta.Lakto's vegan does not eat meat or fish, but eats dairy and jaja.Vegan excludes all meat, fish , dairy products, eggs, and no animal products, this is the type of vegetarian most of us are related. Macrobiotic diets are not necessarily vegetarian, but they are largely based on grains, legumes and vegetables. Although not a big fan of the vegan diet, I'm not one to say it can not raditi.Dobro balanced vegetarian diet should pay particular attention to the following sources: adequate intake of protein, essential fatty acids, iron, zinc, calcium and vitamins B and D.

Nose May be required in case of a strict vegetarian diets without eating animal products. If done right, then there are positive results from the vegan diet and at the end of the day, if you are vegan and live a healthy lifestyle, but more power to you. Now, the real question is, are vegetarian diets for optimal health of children? Before you start with this topic, in my biased opinion, I do not agree with parents raising their children on a vegan diet for a few razloga.Vrlo important reason is the fact that the lack of parents give their children a nutritious diet as it is, let alone a vegan diet which should be more stringent and may lead to better health and a lack of problems down the road if he had done wrong.

essential fatty acids and amino acids important for children's growth? Absolutely yes, our bodies do not naturally produce them and the child does not go and buy yourself some of their fish oil and BCAA on vitamin supplement store s. As a vegan diet excludes animal proteins and fish, where do the fatty acids and amino acids come from? This is the biggest problem. They do not come from anywhere, because most parents are unaware of how critical these nutrients for optimal growth and overall health. If parents are not aware of the importance of omega-3 and Omega-6 and amino acids, but that the child should know? The human brain needs a bit long-chain fatty acid known as "DHA" and "EPA", which are found in omega-3 for proper development. There are several studies to support that theory.

Have children use a vegan diet are vitamin and mineral deficiencies that can lead to a lack of growth? Energy costs, also known as "metabolism" may be in danger from the restrictive vegan diet, lack of vitamins, minerals and nutrients it provides. Many vegan diet become toxic copper and zinc deficient, not getting the right amounts of animal protein your body needs. These deficiencies can cause what is known as "brain fog" that fuzzy feeling you get in your brain from time to time. At the end of this potentially can lead to chemical imbalances in the human body and digestion problems. (1) In the study Roberts et al. and Campbell et al. states that severe malnutrition has been reported in infants and young children inappropriately fed vegetarian diets, as well as deficiencies of iron, vitamin B-12, and vitamin D. Thus, the greater the variety of ingredients that make up the diet, the better the chances that all the nutrients will be. (2) In another study found in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Hebbelinck et al. concluded that lacto-ovo vegetarian diet maintain adequate physical growth and maturation. Some vegetarian items, however, seems to have had difficulty meeting energy needs. Basically, if a vegan diet has done the right way, then the children can have an optimal growth and do not have any vitamin and mineral deficiencies, but they lack the energy May.

What other shortcomings could potentially occur if the child was fed a vegan diet? Nutrition for kids is more important than it is for adults, due to the fact that they grow and mature into adults at some point in time. When children grow up, they were in the contest phase of development of the brain, muscles and bones. Every bit the quality of nutrition is important for proper growth and parents must understand that the bottom line! He also studies that when the mother is pregnant, and the vegan diet, your baby may be born with an underdeveloped brain and central nervous system are starving because of not getting the proper vitamins, minerals and nutrients through proper nutrition during pregnancy term. Undeveloped brain can then lead to difficulties in learning. Some of the symptoms look after the children, if fed a vegan diet are: Short-term memory loss, cold hands and feet due to not getting adequate amounts of nutrients from animal fats to support the adrenalin and thyroid function and sleep disorders.

Can a vegan diet leads to obesity of children? Depending on what kind of vegan diet is provided, the child can put on fat in a vegan diet. If parents are just feeding their children a "high glycemic carbs", and not protein or fat, but it can cause a lot of insulin and probably go to fat cells, rather than your muscle cells, and then stored and can lead to fat gain. Everything really depends on how educated the parents, if they are having a good balance of macronutrients, particularly protein-rich high in Leucine content and fibrous carbohydrates than what a child should be fine. I would also hope that the child is doing some kind of physical activity, and not live a sedentary life, sitting and playing video games all day. Sugar consumption, and we can not leave that out of the equation we can now. Most vegetarians do not even know that they have pre-diabetes and constantly eating refined sugar and alternative sweeteners, without even knowing it. Well, we all should know by now that sugar is the devil, and not lead to fat gain, and if you have pre-diabetes, then you are only going to make things worse. What children like most? Nine times out of ten it's a good old sugar, a little more sugar. So, if the parents feed their children adequate amounts of sugar a day, even through a vegan diet, then the children will get fat and can lead to diabetes down the road.

With all this said, the vegetarian diet is optimal for health care? In my humble opinion does not agree with them, but if done properly, and the children were monitored for symptoms and live a healthy active lifestyle, but it should be fine. Someone once told me that a vegan diet will become more popular in the future, but I have to disagree, or do all the studies and research showing animal fats and animal proteins are the key to longevity and muscle growth. At the end of the day everyone will live your life the way you choose too, whether through the paleo diet, Zone diet, vegan diet or regular diet. Whatever makes a person happy is all that really matters, but because children have no control over what you eat is wrong. Parents should be educated, regardless of the circumstances, it does not matter if you're vegan or not, the bottom line is that you feed your kids the right nutrients their bodies need for proper brain development and overall growth.

References:

(1) Roberts IF, West RJ, Ogilvie D, Dillon MJ, malnutrition of children receiving cult diets: a form of child abuse. Br Med J 1979, 1: 296-8

M Campbell, WAS Lofters, Gibbs WN. Rastafarianism and the vegan syndrome. Br Med J 1982; 285: 1617-8

(2) Hebbelinck M. et al. Growth, development and physical fitness of Flemish vegetarian children, adolescents and young adults. American J of Clinical Nutrition.

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