If you have all the information on what is needed to be healthy, with replacing proteins, and balancing everything else, then yes it will be healthy.
I believe she saw one of those horrid Peta videos, which they tend to get into everything.
There is various types of vegan, she might need to decide if she is cutting out all animal products, such as milk, eggs cheese fish ect. How severe does she wish to go.
Some drink milk, some won't, some will eat eggs, some won't.
So grab some books from the library, and she can make an informed decision.
Magpie
Do not worry.
Eat only when hungry and not more than thrice a day. Nothing other than water in between. Include plenty of uncooked vegetables and fruits in each meal, preferably 50%. Chew each morsel at least 32 times to activate ur body to generate signals of hunger/fullness. Obey these signals.
Take light exercises and brisk walks regularly preferably twice a day.
U will achieve what u have not even dreamt and that too in a reasonable time. Do not be in a hurry.Is it unhealthy for a 14year old girl to be vegetarian?
See if she will consider to eat fish once a week. We eat way to much red meats anyway. Walnuts, and beans give you a complete protein if eaten at the same time.
Vegan:Eats no animals products
Lacto-ovo vegetarian:Can eat eggs(ovo) and milk(lacto) if they choose to,but avoids all meat(fish included),gelatin,and lard.
“It is the position of the American Dietetic Association and Dietitians of Canada that appropriately planned vegetarian diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate and provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases.”
“Well-planned vegan and other types of vegetarian diets are appropriate for all stages of the life cycle, including during pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood and adolescence. Vegetarian diets offer a number of nutritional benefits, including lower levels of saturated fat, cholesterol, and animal protein as well as higher levels of carbohydrates, fiber, magnesium, potassium, folate, and antioxidants such as vitamins C and E and phytochemicals. Vegetarians have been reported to have lower body mass indices than nonvegetarians, as well as lower rates of death from ischemic heart disease; vegetarians also show lower blood cholesterol levels; lower blood pressure; and lower rates of hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and prostate and colon cancer.“
-ADA’s and Dietitians of Canada position on Vegetarian and Vegan diets
Eat a variety of "whole foods," with plenty of beans, nuts, whole grains, fruits, and vegetables. Avoid unhealthy foods like trans fats, which are usually listed as partially hydrogenated oils. Deep-fried foods often contain trans fats. Choose margarines that use nonhydrogenated oil, like Earth Balance or Smart Balance. Although a diet consisting of Coke and French fries is technically vegetarian, you can't be healthy if you eat nothing but junk food.
Vitamin B12: Vitamin B12 is produced by bacteria, and some experts believe that vegetarians used to get plenty of this vitamin from bacteria in drinking water. Since drinking water is now treated with chemicals that kill the bacteria, it's important to make sure that you get enough vitamin B12 from fortified foods (like most brands of soy or rice milks, some breakfast cereals, and many brands of nutritional yeast,vegetarian can consume eggs and milk for B12) on a daily basis or by taking a sublingual B12 tablet of 10 mcg per day
Iron-beans, dark green leafy vegetables (like spinach),whole grain breads, Also eat something with vitamin c when you eat something with iron, it increases absorption
Calcium-dark green leafy vegetables (spinach, broccoli, soymilk)
Protein-Isn't really hard to get,most of us in North America actually consume TOO MUCH protein, just eat a variety of foods, good sources are beans, brown rice, nuts, whole grain breads, soy foods,peanut butter
Omega-3 fatty acids-flax seeds/oil,walnuts,canola oil
Zinc-pumpkin seeds (best source), beans and lentils, yeast, nuts, seeds and whole grain cereals
Selenium-Brazil nuts are a particularly good source of selenium, so try to eat a couple every day. Eating a small bag of mixed unsalted nuts can be a convenient way to get your daily selenium intake, but make sure it contains Brazils. Bread and eggs also provide some selenium.
Vitamin D- Vitamin D, often called the sunshine vitamin, is another common deficiency in those not drinking vitamin D fortified milk. Synthetic vitamin D is added to both cow’s milk and most brands of soy milk today.
Vitamins A (beta carotene),C, K, E and Folate-variety of fruits and veggies
Iodine-Iodine is a trace mineral that's important for healthy thyroid function. Table salt is the most common and reliable source of iodine in Americans' diets. (However, sodium in processed foods usually does not contain iodine.) If you don't consume table salt, you can get iodine from a multivitamin or from kelp tablets.
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http://www.tryveg.com/request/...Is it unhealthy for a 14year old girl to be vegetarian?
It's absolutely healthy to be vegetarian. I bet her skin is flawless!
First, I think it's great that your daughter is making an adult decision and seems to have good thought/reasoning process. Second, I think it's great that you want to support her decision.
I'm not keen on PETA, it's like they're the fire and brimstone of animal rights groups. I agree that they have some good information, but they are too "out there" and too in-your-face for my tatstes. I'm more subtle. I have no problem with telling people that I'm vegan, and will tell them that it's more for environmental reasons than health (I believe that we are to care and sustain and preserve the earth with wich God blessed us), but unless they ask, I won't go into graphic details. (The same with my faith.)
Sarah S made some good points. I'm six months pregnant and my baby and myself are fairly happy, though I don't walk or exercise the way I should....
Ive been a vegearian for two and half years, vegan for one and a half. I'm very healthy. My baby (with whom I am six months pregnant) is very healthy. I don't walk or work out the way I should though, and it does make me feel bad.
Since I went vegetarian, eventually vegan, my immune system has been good. I had a cold last fall, but that might have just been in part to climate change, as my husband and I moved a couple of months prior. I also had a bug while pregnant, but it's common for immune systems to be down a bit as the body is focusing on the baby.
The Veg Source and Veg Family sites have good information on health and veg*n children. Also, a Yahoo! Search for "vegan iron sources" yeiled some good looking results. I've found some great information by doing searches like that: "vegan calcium sources", "vegan children", "vegan families", "vegan b12 sources", "vegan recipes", "vegan banana bread", etc.
I hope this has been of some help.
People can be a vegetarian all there life
As long as she keeps a balanced diet she will be fine.
As for supplements - i would ask a chemist. Maybe for Iron, as that is is red meat.
If you are really worried get a blood test done in afew weeks to see what she is low on. (eg iron)
I dont think it is unhealthy for a 14 yr. old grl to become a vegetarian. The best a advice to give you regarding it is to make sure she gets all her nutrients by eating plenty of fruits and vegetables and make sure her iron doesnt get to low because that can happen when you dont eat meat but you use other things to supplement for that lack and some vegetarins do eat fish and but make sure she takes vitamins. It really is a good healthy lifestyle to live probally better than the life of the meat eater i had tried once to do that but it wasnt my things so i let go. But Good Luck!
I would say it's not very healthy, but a lot of girls decide to be vegetarian at this age, so she won't be alone.
Vegetarians can get most vitamins from their diet. You could get an iron supplement and a B vitamin complex supplements, with lots of B Vitamins in.
Or better still, take her to see the doctor and see what he recommends.
It's Peta, lol...
%26amp; being vegetarian can be unhealthy if you only eat what you did before, just with the meat cut out. You have to include new things to substitute the meat.
Protein is especially important... but no one plant has all the protein you need so you have to eat a variety of whole grains (brown rice, whole wheat) legumes (peas and beans) nuts, seeds, vegetables and fruits, you should get what you need.
If you do it right, vegetarianism is *better* for you than eating meat, but doing it wrong makes you unhealthier, just in a less obvious way (an unhealthy vegetarian probably won't be fat, but undernourished, so it's less obvious than an obese meat eater)
Good luck =]
No.It's a very healthy way to eat!!!
*** As long as she eats the right foods--to make sure she gets protein and other essential nutrients. I've been vegetarian for 7-8 years now. There are great books in your library about what to eat--there's tofu-tempeh, blackbean burgers--tons to eat and health stores full of vegetarian recipe books. Being a vegan (no dairy products) is very dangerous because so many vegans are mal-nourished. Not because they don't try--but it's silly to not eat cheese or cream. I drink soy milk-yummy-and it's full of protein. Yogurts-and any complex carbohydrate combinations produce proteins. She should take a multi-vitamin daily and get educated about what to eat to meet all the needs of a meat eating diet. But honestly, she'll be healthier, thinner, live longer as a vegetarian than a meat eat eater. Also she will not eat all that animal fat and protein both hard on liver and kidneys-and cholesterol is almost zero.
Tell her --GOOD job!!
it shouldn't be unhealthy, but it is crutial for iron whilst your growing. make sure she eats extremely healthily and that she also takes iron and multi vitamine tablets.
It's unhealthy for ANYONE to be a vegetarian.
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