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Emma's avatar

To add to this very interesting article is the issue of nutrition: vegetarian and vegan diets are often lacking essential nutrients "vitamin B12, choline, glycine, preformed vitamin A (retinol), vitamin K2, DHA, iron and zinc." all of which are very important in pregnancy. See Lily Nichols "Real Food for Pregnancy". How many young women think that a vegetarian or vegan diet is the "right" thing to be following? I know several.

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Anon1's avatar

Amazing article! I totally would not have put those dots together but it makes so much sense! And really awful how women are blamed for so much today.

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