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You Can Raise a Healthy Vegan Child

Posted on June 15, 2008

Following the horrifying news of the Scottish vegan couple whose daughter has a degenerative bone condition said to have left her with the spine of an 80-year-old because of a vegan diet from birth a reader sensibly writes in to The Times Online to ask Is it possible to raise a healthy baby on a vegan diet?The answer of course is yes. All rational vegans understand the breastfeeding is proper and important, and vegan soy formulas are readily available for those who can't breastfeed.Or as Amanda Ursell wrote:[B]e aware that, as with any diet, there are good and bad versions of vegan...

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