Diets

Apparently the effects of vegan diets on children haven't been studied much. My take-away: the vegan diet, especially for children, needs supplements. My thought: if your diet plan needs vitamin supplements, something's wrong. (Iodine: you need to eat seafood and dairy. Or maybe lots and lots of prunes.) Maybe you as an individual need supplements, but a generic diet plan should stand alone as much as possible.

People are complicated.. "While the low-fat, plant-based diet helps curb appetite, the animal-based, low-carb diet resulted in lower and more steady insulin and glucose levels,"

“Despite eating food with an abundance of high glycemic carbohydrates that resulted in pronounced swings in blood glucose and insulin, people eating the plant-based, low-fat diet showed a significant reduction in calorie intake and loss of body fat, which challenges the idea that high-carb diets per se lead people to overeat. On the other hand, the animal-based, low-carb diet did not result in weight gain despite being high in fat,” said Hall.