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Can Vegan Diets Hurt Kids?

  • February 21, 2005

A new study by the U.S. Agricultural Research Service offers new evidence why placing children on a strict vegan diets hurts them far more than the so-called "experts" believe it does: The lack of animal food sources -- that contain nutrients found nowhere else -- may harm their development. Scientists believe enough research shows, when women avoid animal-based foods, their babies don't develop properly. They are born small, grow very slowly and could risk permanent developmental...