Side effects of being a vegan?

The side effects of a vegan diet are generally better health, less chronic disease, and longer life. I don’t know what your daughter eats; she might have a lousy vegan diet. Soda and potato chips are vegan after all. Most vegans are health nuts so they usually eat a pretty good diet but some eat too much junk foods or get into health fads that might steer them in odd directions (extreme macrobiotics, etc.). There are a number of good books on nutrition on a pure vegetarian diet. Dr. Dean Ornish has some good books on diet and probably a good place to start.

ethmer: mankind is an omnivore. People live everywhere because we can live on almost anything. There are people who live on little else but seal meat and whale blubber while there are other people who live almost entirely on tubers, nuts, and berries. Our ability to eat meat has been essential for our survival and propagation but physiologically we are closer to herbivores than carnivores. When you look at the the health statistics of various populations the healthiest ones eat the least animal products. China is a large country that is very similar genetically but has different regional diets in different areas. The China Study looked at how different diets effected the health and found that the less animal products consumed the healtheir the population. I’ve read the theory that our brains grew because of our access to seafood. The idea being that we needed large amounts of DHA from seafood to grow big brains. I’d counter that our own bodies produce DHA from ALA and that lack of seafood hasn’t studented the intellectual growth of mankind who live far from shores and eat little seafood.

First, she needs to see a doctor. Her outward signs could be indications of things that are more serious with her.

in my opinion, I think that she is nutritionally depriving herself. Modern man was not made to be a vegan.

Man became human when he started eating meat. That is what caused our brains to become so large and allowed us to survive while other attempts of mankind were failing.

She really needs to get on a healthful diet.

being a Vegan is very unhealthy if you do not do it the right way. my friend was a vegitarian and passed out and got sick from it.. the doctor made her change her ways because of how unhealth it was for her.. let her see another doctor and hopefully they can help