Why does my mom think im sick cause im a new vegitarian?

My grandma belives that you will dies within days if you don’t have meat or eggs in every meal… breakfast, lunch and dinner! Around the world there are millions of people who are vegetarian and they havent all died yet and they are not all sick.

My mom was a vegetarian for a long time and we ate really well, I actually preferred to meat. But I know lots of people don’t know how to have a healthy vegetarian diet. You need to have lots of pulses (beans) and grains, fresh vegtables and salad will make sure yo get your vitamins. You proabably have to cook for youslef or go to some like indian shops to do your shopping. Don’t just sit there eating cereals and chips!

You can very well get sick from being a vegetarian. I’ve been one for five years, sometime after I first started I got sick in the way that I was always tired, so I fixed my eating, got on some vitamins and felt better. I’ve had friends who got sick and decided not to be one anymore. If you truly want to do this then I urge you to try and eat better and possibly get some vitamin pills, they help. If they don’’t help I don’t think you should stick with it. Is it really worth sacrificing your own health?

You being sick from being a vegetarian? No that makes no sense. There’s millions of people world wide who are vegetarian. Could you be sick because you have a bad diet, absolutely. Those millions of people who live their lives being vegetarian know what they’re doing. Most have grown up in cultures where it is the norm, or they spent a lot of time doing research on it. It isnt something you can simply do without really looking into it.

How long have you been on them for? It usually takes about three months for them to start helping, it’s not an instant effect. If you’re still not feeling better, maybe go to a doctor, it might not be your diet.