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Is the vegan diet the most healthy diet in the world? or is it missing some vitamins?

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Dr. Jay Park answered

Not healthy diet: Vegan diet does not include any dairy product or egg. Vitamin d supplementation is therefore mandatory.

Answered 1/22/2013

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It's deadly: There is much bad information about vegetarianism / veganism and the claim that it's incredibly healthy simply isn't true. Vegetarians don't live longer than other folks when you control for other habits, and a vegan who doesn't know exactly how to supplement always becomes B12 deficient and often runs low on iodine, iron, vitamin d, and zinc. Governments even provide guidelines for vegans.

Answered 9/18/2019

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Dr. Michael Rothman answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Vegan is NG: The long term effect of a low fat, vegan diet is malnutrition. Used for a short time (4-6 weeks) a low fat diet can be employed for weight loss. However, the long lerm effects of low fat diets are miserable. A low fat - high carb diet will lead to high Insulin levels, high triglcyerides, low hdl, metabolic syndrome and finally high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease.

Answered 6/25/2014

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