Diet and Fitness

Just yesterday, we talked about the health benefits obtained by observing a style like vegetarian food, but today we will take stock on any nutritional deficiencies that could be incurred by excluding from their diet of meat, fish and even, in the diet lacto-vegetarian and vegan their derivatives.
The most common deficiency in a vegetarian diet are those of iron, calcium and vitamins D and B12, but while iron deficiency affects all vegetarians, that calcium mainly concerns those who follow a vegan diet, which, as we have seen, provides exclusion from the diet including foods derived from animals such as milk and eggs.
However, as the fiber and other substances found in abundance in vegetables limit the intestinal absorption of calcium is also essential for those who follow a vegetarian diet far less sure that the daily intake of calcium is insufficient, while vegans will need to use supplements foods that contain this mineral. Always the exclusion of milk and dairy exhibits vegans at risk of vitamin D. (more…)

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