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- CommentAuthorTLA
- CommentTimeJun 24th 2008
12-YEAR-OLD girl in Scotland brought up by her parents on a strict vegan diet has been admitted to hospital with a degenerative bone condition said to have left her with the spine of an 80-year-old woman.
Doctors are under pressure to report the couple to police and social workers amid concerns that her health and welfare may have been neglected in pursuit of their dietary beliefs.
The girl, who has been fed on a strict meat and dairy-free diet from birth, is said to have a severe form of rickets and to have suffered a number of fractured bones.
The condition is caused by a lack of vitamin D, which is needed to absorb calcium and is found in liver, oily fish and dairy produce. Decalcification leads to the bones becoming brittle and can cause curvature of the spine.
Dr Faisal Ahmed, the consultant paediatrician treating the child at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow, declined to discuss the specific case. He said, however, that he believed the dangers of forcing children to follow a strict vegan diet needed to be highlighted.
One leading nutritionist, who asked not to be named, said: “In most instances, the parents who are imposing this very restrictive and potentially hazardous diet are not themselves brought up as vegans. They are imposing on their children something . . . which we do not know enough about to know it is safe.”
Jonathan Sher, head of policy at Children in Scotland, an umbrella group representing 400 organisations, said social workers should intervene where a vegan diet was putting children’s health at risk.
Last year, an American vegan couple were given a life sentence for starving their six-week-old baby to death. In 2001 two vegans from west London were sentenced to three years’ community rehabilitation after they admitted starving their baby to death.
Glasgow city council said the incident involving the 12-year-old girl had not been referred to its social work department. -
- CommentAuthoranababy
- CommentTimeJun 24th 2008
Fuck that, I'm a vegan and am healthier than I have ever been in my life. When I have kids, They are going to be raised as strict vegans and will be very healthy.
This story is probably going to cause a lot of ignorant people to go off and say that veganism is bad and that it should be illegal to raise your kids vegan.
It's not because the girl was vegan that she is ill, Its because her parents probably did not do their research and are unaware how to live a healthy vegan lifestyle and fed her foods lacking in the vitamins and minerals that her body needs. Milk is not the only food with vitamin D and calcium. Dark leafy greens have it, beans have it, etc.
The vegan lifestyle it the healthiest and most natural of them all after raw veganism.
Blah. Stupid uninformed vegans giving all vegans a bad name... -
- CommentAuthorTLA
- CommentTimeJun 24th 2008
Mushrooms provide over 2700 IU per serving (approx. 3 oz or 1/2 cup) of vitamin D2, if exposed to just 5 minutes of UV light after being harvested;[18] this is one of a few natural food-based sources of vitamin D for vegans. -
- CommentAuthoranababy
- CommentTimeJun 24th 2008 edited
Sunlight stimulates Vitamin D formation in your body. But if you tell an ignorant non-vegan that, they'll say "but that's bad!!! you'll give your kid skin cancer if you let him/her stay in the sun!!!!" haha.
But really, All you need as a vegan is a few minutes of sunlight per day. Not enough to burn you or anything. You don't even need to eat any vitamin D rich foods if you just get sun exposure.
And Mushrooms.... yum!! I eat mushrooms almost every day. Delicious! :) -
- CommentAuthorTLA
- CommentTimeJun 24th 2008
there is a line between some sunlight and frying your skin... lol
oh but science has found a way to combate skin cancer using your own cloned t-cells... -
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CommentAuthorAzkadellia
- CommentTimeJun 24th 2008
It's not because the girl was vegan that she is ill, Its because her parents probably did not do their research and are unaware how to live a healthy vegan lifestyle and fed her foods lacking in the vitamins and minerals that her body needs. Milk is not the only food with vitamin D and calcium. Dark leafy greens have it, beans have it, etc.
The vegan lifestyle it the healthiest and most natural of them all after raw veganism.
Quoted for Great Truth & Accuracy.
I'm also vegan. I've been vegan since the age of fourteen. I'm not vegan by choice, but I'm damn glad that my food allergies force me to be vegan.
(and yeah, i'm one of those "bad vegans" who wears leather)
My daugther is also a very strict vegetarian and her pediatrician says that she's one of the healthiest kids he's ever seen.
This isn't a case of poor diet killing a kid, this is clearly a case of fucking neglect. -
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CommentAuthorking biscuit
- CommentTimeJun 25th 2008
I'm not sure I'd totally blame the diet either. -
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- CommentAuthorTLA
- CommentTimeJun 25th 2008
I blame the diet her parents put her on... not the vegan diet itself.... just the version... -
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CommentAuthorAzkadellia
- CommentTimeJun 26th 2008
I also blame nargles for this girl's death. -
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- CommentAuthorTLA
- CommentTimeJun 26th 2008
LOL Az... classic... -
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CommentAuthorAzkadellia
- CommentTimeJun 26th 2008
The Ministry needs to do something about the fucking nargle problem. -
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- CommentAuthorTLA
- CommentTimeJun 26th 2008
They are to busy working on the global warming problem at the moment... -
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CommentAuthorAzkadellia
- CommentTimeJun 26th 2008
A likely excuse..... -
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