It’s more important to tell teens to eat healthy foods and to love their bodies than to encourage them to eat dead animals. Someone who has an eating disorder and camouflauges it with vegetarianism isn’t going to stop having an eating disorder just because you convince them to eat cow flesh.

It’s absolutely untrue that vegetarians have a higher rate of eating disorders; this is faulty logic. In addition, not all vegetarians are motivated by weight loss; a well-balanced vegetarian diet does make you healthier, and is kinder to the planet as well. Please do your research before writing these stories.

Oh, and check this out:

http://pcrm.org/news/release090402.html

“Vegetarian Diets Healthy Choice for Young People, Doctors Say”

The scientific information about the benefits of a vegan diet and the hazards of a meat and dairy diet are well known in the medical and scientific community.

The American Dietetic Association heartily endorses a vegan diet at their website:

“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...and 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.”

People with eating disorders are more likely to become vegetarians, not the other way around....

Smooth.

I lost 100 pounds on a vegetarian diet, took some time off from it, and plan to get back on it for the remaining 75 pounds. I weighed 300 at my max.

This article does not address what took place prior to becoming vegetarian. The person may have had an eating disorder prior to starting a vegetarian diet. Thus, the vegetarian diet is not to blame.

There are many people who follow a traditional diet and have eating disorders as well. Do we go around blaming those diets on those eating disorders? NO! In the same manner, we should not blame the vegetarian diet on the eating disorders.

Eating disorders are a result of a culture that places great emphasis on the appearance of individuals. When ‘skinny’ is always advertised, young people get it in their heads that they must be skinny, at no costs. They will sacrifice anything, including their lives, in order to be skinny. Seems to me that the ADA would do better beating on the doors of advertisers than picking on a diet which really is quite healthy and is not the reason for the eating disorders.

I’m a vegetarian, and I’m also a teenager. And I do not, and never will, have an eating disorder.

Maybe instead of trying to figure out how teens are hiding their eating disorders, you look and find out why they have them in the first place.

And like people said, I doubt a vegetarian would develop an eating disorder. It’d be the opposite, someone with an already existing disorder would choose to become vegetarian.

There is no source of EPA and DHA in vegetarian diets.  These are essential fatty acids that comprise up to 10% of your brain, and only come from animal sources. It’s not wonder vegetarians are stupid!

“In addition to the new findings, those who formerly were vegetarian showed an increase in using extra measures, including diet pills and laxatives, to control weight, the report stated.”

Well, yea, once you have a diet free of foods in high fats, and you go back to it, you’re going to gain a bunch of weight. Those I knew who were formerly vegetarian, the day the stopped they went to McDonalds and ate a big Mac.

This one if for ignorant Truth

Benefits of flax oil
Flax seed oil contains an omega-3 called alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), which is one of two fatty acids that the body needs and cannot make for itself. Several other sources of ALA do exist, most notably walnuts and hemp seed. Omega-3s are needed by every cell in the body. Among other things, an ample supply helps ensure that cell membranes stay flexible so that cells can get nutrients easily.

The body can use ALA to make all the other omega-3 fatty acids that it needs, including both EPA and DHA. Thus, if you get enough ALA, you don’t need to eat any other sources of omega-3s.

Another advantage of getting one’s omega-3s from the ALA in flax oil is that the body does not create more EPA and DHA than it needs. Therefore, ingesting too much EPA/DHA is not an issue.

The human body uses a variety of omega-3s, not just EPA and DHA. To make the full range of these omega-3s, the body needs ALA from flax oil (or walnuts or other sources) in addition to EPA and DHA. Thus, one needs to consume some ALA even if fish and/or fish oil are plentiful in one’s diet.

Is flax oil “better” than fish oil?
Since one needs ALA anyway, and the body can make all the other omega-3s it needs from ALA, does that mean flax seed oil is a better source than fish oil for one’s omega-3s? Not necessarily.

The body uses various enzymes to convert ALA to other omega-3s, and the process is not very efficient, especially as one gets older. Estimates of the rate of conversion range from 5% to 25%. In order to make sufficient amounts of EPA and DHA, one needs to consume 5 or 6 times more ALA than if one relies on fish oil alone. Also, women convert ALA to the other omega-3s more efficiently than men, largely so they can meet the nutritional demands of their infants during pregnancy and breastfeeding.

Another consideration is that ALA competes metabolically with the other essential fatty acid that the body cannot make for itself. Linoleic acid (LA) plays the same role for omega-6 fatty acids that ALA does for omega-3s: The body uses LA to make all the other omega-6s that it needs. (To understand the difference between an omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acid, see our article Chemical and Physical Structure of Fatty Acids.)

By competes, we mean that when LA is oversupplied in the diet, the body makes more of the LA-derived fatty acids than it needs, and not enough of the ALA-derived ones. The “LA side” of these substances help us react to dangers and stress and are therefore crucial to our health and survival, but when they are oversupplied, the result is chronic high blood pressure, cellular inflammation, and other conditions leading to today’s panoply of degenerative diseases.

Unfortunately, the recent emphasis on vegetable oils has led to a 10:1 ratio between LA and ALA in the American diet. While there is no consensus yet on what an optimal ratio would be, estimates range from 4:1 to 2:1. Consuming smaller amounts of the omega-6 LA helps the body maintain a healthy balance between the “stimulating” LA substances and the “calming” ALA substances. One excellent method of improving this ratio is switching to monounsaturated oils like olive oil. While canola oil does contain some ALA, it also contains a higher level of LA, so is not a recommended method of improving one’s LA-to-ALA ratio.

How much do we need?
For healthy adults, the recommendation is 300-500 mg per day of EPA and DHA combined, plus an additional 800 to 1100 mg of ALA.

The EPA/DHA recommendation can usually be met with one softgel capsule of fish oil (with 1 gram or 1000 mg of fish oil) which usually contains 180 mg of EPA and 120 mg of DHA, totalling 300 mg of the two omega-3s. However, amounts do vary (some products are stronger, some weaker), so look at the amounts of EPA and DHA provided, and add them together to see if the product supplies 300 mg in one serving.

Dr. Barry Sears further recommends that people with diabetes, osteoarthritis, and heart disease take twice that amount of fish oil. He also recommends that people with cancer take four times that amount. However, people with congestive heart failure should not be taking large quantities of fish oil, see toxicity discussion below.

While cod liver oil is a potent source of EPA/DHA, containing as much as 1000-1200 mg in one tablespoon, it is also a concentrated source of vitamins A and D. Both vitamins A and D are fat-soluble, and become toxic at high dosage levels. As noted earlier in this article, the body does not easily rid itself of fat-soluble substances, so prudence is called for.

For vegans and other health-conscious consumers, another option is vegetarian DHA supplements derived from algae oil. Fish get their DHA by feeding on algae.

Flax seed oil contains 8 grams (8000 mg) of ALA per tablespoon

http://www.supplementquality.com/efficacy/fishoil_flaxoil.html

While you at it you might want to read “The china Study” by campbell you might learn SOMETHING

meat is delicious.  you should try it.

Love meat but there has got to be an end to the mistreatment of the poor animals.

Melvin Durable
melvindurable@gmail.com

A 1999 metastudy compared five major studies from western countries. The study found that the mortality ratio was the lowest in fish eaters (0.82) followed by vegetarians (0.84) and occasional meat eaters (0.84), and was then followed by regular meat eaters (1.0) and vegan (1.0). When the study made its best estimate of mortality ratio with confounding factors considered, the mortality ratio for vegetarians was found to be (0.94).
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/70/3/516S
If you are not in the scientific area you can see this table
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/70/3/516S/T7
or this one
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/70/3/516S/T8

As you can see, fish eaters lives more. If you think, people in mediterranean diet and japanese diet tend to live more.

Okinawans eat low-fat, low-salt foods, such as fish, tofu, and seaweed. Okinawans are known for their longevity. Individuals live longer on this Japanese island than anywhere in the world. Five times as many Okinawans live to be 100 than the rest of Japan, and the Japanese are the longest lived nationality in the world. There are 34.7 centenarians for every 100,000 inhabitants, being the highest ratio in the world. The possible explanations to this fact is the diet, low-stress lifestyle, caring community, activity, and spirituality of the inhabitants of the island.

As you can see, vegetarian diet may be better than the US barbecue and fastfood diet but diets like japanese and mediterranean are much better than vegetarian diet.

The responsibility now falls on the parents and dietitians to engage in an open and honest conversation with a young adult opting to become a vegetarian. They should talk about the reasons why the teen has chosen to become a vegetarian, possible scenarios in food intake behavior and alternative food options to ensure that the teen is aware of substitute food for certain nutrition that only comes with meat.

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Yeah its true vegetable is very best for health. The hiv test london recommended the vegetables are very beneficial for health. It is great article. Thanks