Article Defending Vegan Kids

The online magazine, www.VegFamily.com has a great article in this month's edition.  I get it sent to my email inbox.  Anyhow, the article is entitled, "Supporting the Vegan Diet Choice for Kids" by Aubrey Smith (http://vegfamily.com/vegan-children/kids-diets.htm).  The entire article is very good, please look for it and read the whole thing, but I wanted to post the sidebar that she included because it has some very cool facts, some of which I didn't even know about.




Did You Know...

• "2%" milk is really 35% fat. It's 2 percent fat only by weight; 35 percent of the calories are derived from fat. Whole milk is 49% fat. 4
  
• 75 percent of the world's populationworld's population is lactose intolerant. 4
  
• The United States is the only country that still uses bovine growth hormones. The European Union banned them.
  
• Protein should be 10-15% of our daily calories, yet Americans typically eat far more 4
  
• Iron-deficiency anemia is the most common nutritional deficiencynutritional deficiency in children, regardless of diet. There are an abundance of plant sources to meet iron needs: dried beans, dark green leafy vegetables, fortified breakfast cereals, raisins, prune juice, spinach, figs, pumpkin seeds, broccoli, blackstrap molassesblackstrap molasses, whole grains, and nuts. To aid iron absorption, combine these foods with foods rich in vitamin C, such as orange juice, broccoli, or tomatoes. 1, 3, 4, 5, 6
  
• In recipes calling for 1-2 eggs, you can often leave them out and instead add a few extra teaspoons of water to make up for the moisture the eggs would have added.
  
• Only animal-derived "food" products contain cholesterol.