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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our pediatrician advised against vegan diets for our tween daughter. Not necessarily because it's a bad diet, but that it is *practically* speaking, very hard for a busy kid with existing food allergies (allergic to nuts) to consume enough iron and certain B vitamins to eat well. I'm also concerned psychologically about associating stressful decisions with eating. When a girl is vegan, every meal out with friends, in the dining hall, at social functions becomes a potentially stressful eating situation where certain foods become "taboo" and DD might choose to go without a meal than to eat something with egg, butter, honey, etc. 
Those who are dismissive of vegan diets among girls and their correlation with eating disorders are either unaware or willfully ignorant of the research out there. [/quote]

Most colleges today have vegan food.  And, you take a B supplement.[/quote]

Vegan diets are not recommending for growing children. And any diet to relies on supplements to maintain adequate health for otherwise normal human beings should be met with skepticism.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0929693X19301368
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10408398.2018.1437024

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You should not need to take supplements to maintain adequate health.  That is why vegan diets are not typically healthy for growing kids.   It's difficult to get all the nutrients you need.   So do a modified vegetarian diet and figure out what else you need to add in to be healthy.  I'd have my kid meet with a registered dietician if they truly wanted to be vegan, and do monthly/bi monthly blood tests to ensure they are getting/absorbing the adequate nutrition. 
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