Okay, okay okay - I've been making light. But, come on people - you CAN be reasonably well-nourished and be vegan. You need to understand plant-based proteins, and you need to supplement. But, you can do it. (The pictures I've seen show 2 healthy-looking people. The parents were certainly not emaciated.)
You CAN'T feed a baby on soy milk and apple juice. First of all, there's just not enough fat - and fat is one of the key ingredients in breast milk and formula. Baby digestive systems are finely tuned to process one thing - breast milk. Formula is a passable substitute. But, even the manufacturers of formula will concede that breast milk is best. And, again, I'll say it - if a woman is pregnant, unless she's extremely malnourished, the fetus comes first. Same for breast feeding - the baby comes first. It's just the way nature works - it's why women are so much more prone to osteoporosis - babies leech our calcium. On 5/10/07, Jim Davis wrote: > I would assume that, like anorexics, undernourished vegans (I'm not saying > that they're ALL undernourished) would begin to lose or suppress many > secondary sexual characteristics: menstruation might stop, breasts would > recede, etc. > > My big surprise is that somebody supposedly on the same diet that killed > this child could even carry and deliver a healthy baby in the first place. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2 Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:234450 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
