What is the youngest age in which a child can become vegetarian?

Answer 1

Unless you're really skilled at setting up your diet it would be good to wait until you're in your late teens and you've done most of your growing. It is possible to get all your nutrients from a vegetarian diet, but it's harder and you'll need to take supplements. By allowing some meat it'll be much easier keep your body supplied with everything it needs.

I'm a different person than wrote up there, and I disagree. I've been a vegetarian since I was 7, and my sister has her whole life, and we're both very healthy.

I don't understand what you're disagreeing with, it seems more like you're not reading the answer too well. One can do fine on a vegetarian diet, but it does take more planning and knowledge than getting by on a diet that allows for meat protein. If the one deciding the meals has this knowledge then it's not an issue. But if someone simply would scratch meat (or do a random substitution) from an otherwise regular diet they would run the risk of malnutrition. If you've grown up healthy and vegetarian, then obviously you already have a sufficiently balanced diet. And having grown up with it you're not realizing that you've acquired some special knowledge along the way.

Besides, you're not telling what kind of vegetarian you are. lacto-ovo, eating seafood make it much easier to meet the nutrients requirements.

i am different from people who wrote things above.My friend and her sister is a vegetarian and she is very healthy and normal sized person. Besides it's hard to stop eating meat if ate it for many years

Answer 2

You can become a vegan at any age. The American Dietetic Association’s 2009 position paper on vegetarian diets states:

"It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that appropriately planned vegetarian diets, including total vegetarian or vegan diets, are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. Well-planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for individuals during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes.…"

Answer 3

Birth.

a child can become vegetarianat any age

i was 7...

Answer 4

Anyone can be a vegetarian.

Answer 5

You can become a vegan at any age.

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Answer 6

any age actually some people were just born like that and some people choose it as a life style -chelsea (: