It is not only another survey that shows that vegetarianism is not a diet serving a man. More drasticly, the evidence of this was provided by a fresh incidental in a green mountain hospital. The intensive care unit was visited by a girl whose parents, for worldly reasons, prohibited eating meat.
On Monday, December 16, the media circulated information about a three-year-old girl who went to ICU in a infirmary in Zielona Góra due to utmost starvation. The infirmary spokeswoman confirmed that the parents, due to their beliefs, applied a “restrictive fruit diet” to the child.
Dr. Karol Makiel, a nutritionist from the Academy of Physical Education in Cracow, spoke to PAP about coercion of vegetarianism on children. He explained that "The parent and kid Institute does not urge the usage of vegan diets in children, especially until the age of three".
– Of course, vegetarian diets happen in any period of life naturally, erstwhile the baby is fed mother's milk and gradually begins to introduce food of plant origin, specified as carrots, broccoli, potato, etc. It is simply a natural process of dilating the diet in a baby. However, as the body grows, animal products should besides be started. At first eggs, fish, but besides meat. Only in this way can a kid be adequately supplied with iron and vitamin B12 and essential exogenous amino acids said the specialist.
The expert explained that the plant diet besides does not meet the developing body's request for protein, vitamin B12 calcium and omega-3 acids. The deficiency of these components leads to anaemia, decreased immunity, and over time growth disorders, abnormal improvement of the tense system, or even impaired vision.
– Animal products contain well absorbed iron, vitamin B12 (in plants it does not happen at all) and amino acids that the body must supply from the outside due to the fact that it is incapable to produce them. In addition, if the kid is not provided with adequate amounts of vegetable oils or fish that are rich in omega-3 acids, there is simply a hazard associated with improper improvement of the immune and tense system He stressed.
Dr. Makiel explained that the utmost case of vegetable diets is those focused on taking only 1 group of foods, specified as fruit. Their application always leads to immense shortages which are a threat to all individual and the top to children.
– Haematopoietic abnormalities happen on specified diets, primarily megaloblastic anaemia with vitamin B12 deficiency or iron deficiency. These are the first symptoms. In time, however, there is simply a deficiency of weight, a inhibition of growth and yet a malfunction of the full body – he noted.
As he added, in all people on a vegan diet, it is essential to supplement any nutrients – mainly vitamin B12, vitamin D, omega-3 and frequently besides iron, calcium and zinc. A meatless diet means a deficiency of these substances.
– And I'm talking about people who are already adults, who are conscious, who have been consulted with a nutritionist, and earlier with an internist. They should besides execute very regular blood tests, due to the fact that any of them, despite supplementation, will make anemia, resulting in the absorption of plant iron being about 4 times lower than the animal. In children, however, the situation is much more complicated and serious, as their request for different nutrients is much greater. That's why the parent and kid Institute doesn't urge a vegan diet at all. – noted PAP.
(PAP)/work. FA
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