Is it healthier being a vegetarian?

Answer 1

Vegetarian Diet for Children

Good on my fellow vegetarian!! I'm 13 i ate maet till i was 5 then gave up i am also alive! It sounds really hard but it's easy. It might be surgested that a baby was brought up on meat as it's healthy but as long as it's a varied meal!

Yes, a vegetarian diet can be safe for children. However, one must know how to be vegetarian to make sure they get the vitamins, minerals and protein needed.

Here are some of the nutrients of concern: Iron, calcium, zinc, vitamin B12, and folate. Adding foods to the diet that contain these nutrients will minimize low nutrient intake. Sometimes, a multi-vitamin/mineral may be added to the diet for the added assurance of getting the nutrients that are needed

Many people are concerned about protein but there are many foods that supply all of the essential amino acids that can be included in a vegetarian's diet -- soybeans, textured vegetable protein, peanut butter & bread, beans & corn, are just a few examples.

This type of diet can be very effective in maintaining a good quality of health.

I'm 11 and I'm a vegetarian am I alive? yes I am

Defintely, as long as you eat a range of foods you should be fine, whether child or adult. I have been vegetarian, by choice, since i was nine, and have never had any health issues.

Well, I'm 12, vegetarian, and proud! (and alive). children should be entitled to opinion about what they eat too!

Answer 2

In some ways yes it can be healthy do be a vegetarian but not usually because you cannot get the protein and iron required from meat. Vegetarians must take supplements to fix this.

Answer 3

Well if you ask me a vegatarian gives most of its healthy stuff to us, so yes it is healthy. You can get all the protein you need from beans, lagumes, nuts . . . And a lot of meat is waaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy unhealthy.

Answer 4

That's all down to how much effort you take in managing your diet.

Getting all your nutritional needs from a vegatarian diet takes a bit more knowledge, and often some supplements, so it's a bit harder than staying on a mixed diet.

A good vegetarian diet can certainly be healthy, and a poorly managed vegetarian diet can be unhealthy.

Just as a good mixed diet can also be healthy and a poor mixed diet can also be unhealthy.

Answer 5

yeahman! just be sure to get your iron, calcium protine and such. you can get them from tofu or get some vitamins =]

Answer 6

Sometimes it is. Just make sure you get enough protein and minimize refined carbohydrates.

Answer 7

Being a vegetarians is fine for anyone at any age as long as they make up for the the protein they lose from not eating meat protein can be found in beans and nuts.

Answer 8

Yes.