Vegetarian Diets and Birth Defects

re: Vegetarian Diets and Birth Defects

XtamaraX — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:55:40 GMT

wow! I cant believe how programmed you guys are except, for the vegan lady with two boys. She is the only one who makes sense. DO SOME RESEARCH before you comment on something you dont know anything about. Its the soy MONSANTO created GMO(ROUND UP READY SOY). Organic soy has no effect whatsoever on male hormones and the plant based phytoestrogens actually protect against the synthetic forms that cause breast cancer and prostate cancer etc. Look at people in japan they are not walking around with man boobs and they consume gmo free soy eveyday. Healthy eating starts with a gmo free diet. www.seedsofdeception.com/.../index.cfm www.cancerproject.org/.../soy.php

re: Vegetarian Diets and Birth Defects

Yung Red612 — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:47:09 GMT

My sisiter was a vegetarian from her pre teen years until she had her 1st son and he is mildly retarded along with low muscle tone (there is nothing anybody can do to reeverse that) She just dint like meat except for dairy. then she started eating a omnivore diet and her 3 younger kids turned out fin. also i think they are all vitamin d deficiant(they live in Chicago and are African Amercian)She ate a lot of soy when she was yonuger and did have real early puberty(8 Years old!)(of course i did too having to drink soy milk all the time b-cuz i cant have regular milk nd the myth you cant be helthy withoput dairy)

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Terpsichore — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:00:24 GMT

I think this is falling down in into the one size fits all trap... the exact same diet is not the best diet for everyone. There are people in the Himalayan areas of the world who can only get a couple pounds of grain for a whole family for a year and not many vegetables either, their diet is primarily meat, milk and cheese. They have no heart disease and no health problems normally associated with a diet high in meat and low in grain and vegies.... which maybe why Dr. Mercola's site here routinely recommends finding your metabolic type. I'm sure that many people are well suited a vegetarian diet and eventhe vegen diet and perfectly capable of metabolizing the higher levels of phytoestrogrens, just as there were others who could not. Maybe what this article is trying to point out that folks just need to be more aware of the phytoestrogens and the risk they may pose to some.

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jhalel — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:27:23 GMT

I believe the article should differentiate dietary habits from vegetarianism. When I saw "vegetarians" and "vegetarian diet" I really felt overgeneralized as if all vegetarians use soy. The truth of the matter is that soy is not a replacement food for anything. It's a complementary food like mustard or ketchup. I try to avoid soy as much as I am able because I don't want man-breasts. Seeing that soy contains natural chemicals that impersonate estrogen, it's not likely to be beneficial to someone like me (healthy male).

This article should be about avoiding soy in any greater amounts than you would use condiments, not about vegetarianism or veganism. Granted, if you do not have a thorough knowledge of how to correct some of the inherent dangers of vegetarianism/veganism, you should slow down in your transition so that you have plenty of time to educate yourself.

However, saying that humans require a meat-based diet (as one comment stated) is preposterous. Any nutrients humanity needs which is provided in meat or meat by-products is available in a large variety or vegetation. My CAT requires a nutrient in meat not easily found in other sources, not me. Even my dogs do not require a meat source for their nutritional needs; only my cat.

What is needed today? We need to have a strong desire to educate ourselves and to correct ourselves during our education.

If you are sick and weak on a vegetarian or vegan diet, you need to resolve what your nutritional deficiencies are. Meat is the easy way out, it's not the only way out.

re: Vegetarian Diets and Birth Defects

indenturedservitude — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:19:55 GMT

I am vegan and have been for 14 years. I have 2 healthy boys (9 and 11 years old) who both are both vegan and in accelerated learning programs and have never had common childhood illnesses such as ear infections. I am currently 8 months pregnant with another boy. I believe this article is VERY misleading. My husband is also vegan, both of us pay very close attention to what we put in our bodies, and consider ourselves to be a lot healthier than most, especially vegetarians. We eat only organic soy products, and we eat them on a daily basis, we have had no adverse effects what-so-ever. All of my babies have been 7+ pounds and born healthy and happy. A closely monitored vegan diet is SO much healthier than eating animals. I do not have to worry about my children developing childhood obesity or diabetes.

Most meats contain high levels of animal growth hormones, as does dairy. Those hormones are not even natural for the animals ingesting them, much less the children and people eating the "chemically infected" meat and dairy. Not to mention all of the toxins fed to the animals that concentrate in their muscle tissue that is then ingested by people. That contributes to why young girls now have breast at age 9, as do some BOYS. Fish is horrible for you because contains very high levels of mercury.

I wonder if this is sponsored by the dairy/cattle industry or something.

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Mahalo — Wed, 14 May 2008 02:06:08 GMT

I was vegan when I carried my baby...thank God he was born ok!! We did have to have an emergency C section...my bones wouldn't open, even though I dialated and labored normally. I now believe it was caused from vit D deficiency. When my baby was about 4 yrs I found the truth about how dangerous vegan diets are....that there are no surviving 3rd generation vegans, it is a modern fad diet! A dangerous experiment on ourselves, and our children ! (I felt after 13 yrs vegan, and my health was crumbling, that I had been in the grips of an eating disorder. I had craved chicken for 6 yrs, even during my pregnancy and could not eat it , we were sick alot and weak, irritable,etc) I immediately took us off of a vegan diet and we began a traditional whole foods diet. I owe alot to the Weston A Price Foundation (www.westonaprice.org) and their incredible teachings. Our health recovered, mental, physical and spiritual.