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[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]

Someone with nut allergies would definately have a difficult time on a vegan diet.  Vegetarian diets are obviously very healthy if you cook real food and not processed/packaged substitutes.  But you must ensure you are getting enough nutrients and iron and B vitamins are difficult to get on a normal vegan diet.  I'd encourage my kid to do vegetarian and if they really wanted to go vegan we would [b]meet with a nutritionist and do blood draws every 2 months to check on iron and B vitamin levels.  [/b]Basically have a discussion that they can only be vegan if they are healthy, which means tracking food choices and making sure you get enough iron and b vitamins, if not, then you need to add back in some items to keep your body healthy and growing
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Do you have any freaking idea how UNHEALTHY the Standard American Diet is?!  But I am willing to bet you don’t get blood draws to check vitamin levels for your chicken nugget, pizza, and french fry eating children.

Oh, but you give them goldfish and veggie straws so I’m sure they’re just the pinnacle of health.[/quote]

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