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From: beth@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.veg
Subject: B-12 deficiency
Message-ID: <4943@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-Feb-84 12:35:55 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  1 12:35:55 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 7-Feb-84 10:11:05 EST
Organization: Univ. of Maryland, Computer Science Dept.
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Last night I was reading a book titled something like "Eating for the 80's"
in which the authors (I can't remember names or qualifications) discussed the
one real objection to a vegan (no animal product) diet -- lack of B-12. 
Apparently your body can store it for quite a while, and you can live on your
reserves.  They suggest taking a supplement made of non-animal products for
it if you could find it.  That is difficult, but they said that some health
food stores may have enriched yeast (Brewer's, I assume) that has B-12 added
to it somehow although the yeast does not produce it.  

I'm one of those people who has cut back on my meat eating to try a variety
of foods.  I still eat meat, but I'm fascinated by the variety of foods my
mother never fed me.  Experimenting with food is fun.  Besides, I seem to feel
fuller while eating fewer calories when I don't eat meat.  But I also take a
multi-vitamin with iron every day to fill in the gaps I may have missed.

-- 
Beth Katz, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, Computer Science Dept.
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