Are vegan females less fertile ?

[Phanerothyme]

Who knows? Most of them are probably too busy boiling lentils, reading the Guardian and joining Liberty and Greenpeace to ever get near a fella.

That bait stinks so bad I can whiff it from here. What were you hoping to catch?

[Plain Talker]

Where is this 'documented'? I've read up on this issue a fair bit in the past and the studies seemed to show that vegetarians were at least as healthy as meat eaters. If there have been developments since then I'd love to learn of them.

 

What all vegan women will with no exceptions? You have evidence of this do you?

 

Is this top secret evidence or are we allowed to see it?

 

My vegan friend had no such cravings when she was pregnant with her son, and ate a healthy and varied vegan diet.

 

She successfully breast-fed him whilst still adhering to her veganism, and when he was weaned, he was weaned onto a vegan diet.

 

This child is now ten. His parents are still vegan (and were vegan long-term prior to my friend conceiving her son), and he still eats a vegan diet. He is well, and he is thriving, both physically and intellectually. He is neither underweight nor overweight. his health seems not to suffer. If anything, this child does not seem to have anything like the amount of illnesses an omnivorous child has.

 

Any diet can be healthy, be it meat-eating, vegetarian, vegan... provided the right balance of carbohydrates, fats and proteins, etc., is reached, and the right amount of calories is eaten.

 

With regard to the actual topic of "are vegan women less fertile..?"

 

I would like to put forward my theory...

 

That it's maybe that vegan women (well, couples, I suppose) don't have as many children as other families because they are concerned about adding to the numbers of people populating the planet? maybe it's them, taking seriously their wish not to impact on the planet's resources?

[Halibut]

Have you any credible evidence for this or is it unsubstantiated assumption on your part?

 

I'm glad you asked Halibut, yes I have.

 

 

Lets see it then.

[HeadingNorth]

Any diet can be healthy, be it meat-eating, vegetarian, vegan... provided the right balance of carbohydrates, fats and proteins, etc., is reached

 

 

Which is an impossibility on a vegan diet. At least one essential amino acid will be completely missing from it.

[Phanerothyme]

Don't keep us in suspense, which one?

[Plain Talker]

Which is an impossibility on a vegan diet. At least one essential amino acid will be completely missing from it.

 

Which one?

 

My friend and her son are pictures of health.

[SHsheff]

Which is an impossibility on a vegan diet. At least one essential amino acid will be completely missing from it.

 

"Soya, quinoa and hemp seeds are the only vegetarian sources of the complete mix of essential amino acids" - from the Food Standards Agency's website. http://www.eatwell.gov.uk/healthydiet/vegaveg/

[Halibut]

A vegan woman with child will experience cravings for meat and dairy products,

 

Have you any credible evidence for this or is it unsubstantiated assumption on your part?

I'm glad you asked Halibut, yes I have.

 

 

Lets see it then.

 

 

Have you given up on this one then?

[AJ sheffield]

No but vegan women are more boring.

[SHsheff]

No but vegan women are more boring.

 

To quote Halibut, "Have you any credible evidence for this or is it unsubstantiated assumption on your part?"