Miami Vegan Blog
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Vegan 12-year old has bone issues in UK
[Source]A girl of 12 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.
Doctors are under pressure to report the couple, from Glasgow, to police and social workers amid concerns her health and welfare may have been neglected in pursuit of their beliefs.
The youngster, fed on a strict meat- and dairy-free diet from birth, is being treated at the city’s Royal Hospital for Sick Children. She is said to have a severe form of rickets and to have suffered a number of fractured bones.
Here we go again... Here are articles about healthy vegan children. There are stupid vegan parents out there you know, or maybe the girl's bone disease is genetic. People jump the gun. Doctor's just look for "an" answer, they don't care if it's the right answer. As long as the insurance company thinks it makes sense to order such and such tests, they'll say anything is the cause. The first thing they came up with is that she has been raised vegan, "Uh oh. That must be it." Lazy. We need a rundown of her daily diet just like that couple who were sentenced for raising their newborn on soy milk and apple juice. That was about neglect not veganism. I hope Erik Marcus gets to the bottom of this before the New York Times allows another ignorant op-ed piece by a ding ding. ;-?
P.S. Why didn't the doctor's catch the girl's condition when she had a 30-year old's spine.
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Monday, November 26, 2007
Children bone mass study
Little milk, exercise hurts kids' bones
By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer 23 minutes ago
Too little milk, sunshine and exercise: It's an anti-bone trifecta. And for some kids, shockingly, it's leading to rickets, the soft-bone scourge of the 19th century.
But cases of full-blown rickets are just the red flag: Bone specialists say possibly millions of seemingly healthy children aren't building as much strong bone as they should — a gap that may leave them more vulnerable to bone-cracking osteoporosis later in life than their grandparents are.
"This potentially is a time-bomb," says Dr. Laura Tosi, bone health chief at Children's National Medical Center in Washington.
Now scientists are taking the first steps to track kids' bone quality and learn just how big a problem the anti-bone trio is causing, thanks to new research that finally shows just what "normal" bone density is for children of different ages.
Dr. Heidi Kalkwarf of the Cincinnati Children's Hospital led a national study that gave bone scans to 1,500 healthy children ages 6 to 17 to see how bone mass is accumulated. The result, published last summer: The first bone-growth guide, just like height-and-weight charts, for pediatricians treating children at high risk of bone problems.
Next, the government-funded study is tracking those 1,500 children for seven more years, to see how their bones turn out. Say a 7-year-old is in the 50th percentile for bone growth. Does she tend to stay at that level by age 14, or catch up to kids with denser bones? If not, if she more prone to fractures?
Ultimately, the question is what level is cause for concern.
"I don't know if we're raising a population that's going to be at risk" for osteoporosis, Kalkwarf cautions. "It's really hard to know what the cutoff is, how low is too low."
yahoonews
They should do a study with vegan children as well.
By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer 23 minutes ago
Too little milk, sunshine and exercise: It's an anti-bone trifecta. And for some kids, shockingly, it's leading to rickets, the soft-bone scourge of the 19th century.
But cases of full-blown rickets are just the red flag: Bone specialists say possibly millions of seemingly healthy children aren't building as much strong bone as they should — a gap that may leave them more vulnerable to bone-cracking osteoporosis later in life than their grandparents are.
"This potentially is a time-bomb," says Dr. Laura Tosi, bone health chief at Children's National Medical Center in Washington.
Now scientists are taking the first steps to track kids' bone quality and learn just how big a problem the anti-bone trio is causing, thanks to new research that finally shows just what "normal" bone density is for children of different ages.
Dr. Heidi Kalkwarf of the Cincinnati Children's Hospital led a national study that gave bone scans to 1,500 healthy children ages 6 to 17 to see how bone mass is accumulated. The result, published last summer: The first bone-growth guide, just like height-and-weight charts, for pediatricians treating children at high risk of bone problems.
Next, the government-funded study is tracking those 1,500 children for seven more years, to see how their bones turn out. Say a 7-year-old is in the 50th percentile for bone growth. Does she tend to stay at that level by age 14, or catch up to kids with denser bones? If not, if she more prone to fractures?
Ultimately, the question is what level is cause for concern.
"I don't know if we're raising a population that's going to be at risk" for osteoporosis, Kalkwarf cautions. "It's really hard to know what the cutoff is, how low is too low."
yahoonews
They should do a study with vegan children as well.
Labels: bones, children, health, milk, osteoporosis, study, vegan
Monday, May 28, 2007
Can love make you give up meat? - Video
I found this video with several different viewpoints on eating meat. It's pretty interesting to watch the little kids regurgitate what their parents told them.
When a vegetarian was asked, "Why do you think people still eat meat?" She said, "Because they don't care. Or they just don't know the truth."
I say, they do know, it's just easier to stay the way you are. Change takes work, and some people already know they don't have the strength to change. Too bad because that decision is costly, for them and the animals.
Check it out:
When a vegetarian was asked, "Why do you think people still eat meat?" She said, "Because they don't care. Or they just don't know the truth."
I say, they do know, it's just easier to stay the way you are. Change takes work, and some people already know they don't have the strength to change. Too bad because that decision is costly, for them and the animals.
Check it out:
Labels: children, eating meat, vegan, veganism, vegetarian, video
Friday, May 11, 2007
Vegan Diet Healthiest for Babies
MARCO ISLAND, Fla., May 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Recent news headlines have suggested that a vegan diet was in some way responsible for the death of 6- week-old Crown Shakur in Atlanta, whose parents were convicted of malice murder, felony murder and first degree cruelty to children.However, even according to the prosecution, baby Crown did not die from a vegan diet, rather from malnutrition. He weighed only 3.5 pounds at his death.
"Crown's death is a terrible tragedy, but why did the headlines emphasize that his parents were vegan? You never see a headline saying, 'Meat eater dies of massive heart attack or cancer,' yet meat is largely responsible for heart disease, cancer, diabetes and a whole host of other debilitating diseases," said author Jeff Popick, an expert on how diet affects health.
Although the lead prosecutor in the case, Chuck Boring, told the jury, "He just was not fed enough. They are not vegans. They are baby-killers," Popick fears these kinds of "scaremongering" headlines will frighten people away from adopting a vegan diet when, according to his latest book, "The Real Forbidden Fruit: How Meat Destroys Paradise And How Veganism Can Get It Back," it is by far the healthiest diet for both adults and children.
"Worried parents can easily research the topic if they wish to reassure themselves that a vegan diet is not only the safest, but healthiest diet for their children," added Popick.
Jeff Popick is a former Hollywood stunt man, radio host ("Vegetarian Lifestyles," KIEV 870 AM, Los Angeles), self-made millionaire and now passionate author and speaker on the subject of veganism. For more information visit JeffPopick.com.
JeffPopick.com
[Source]
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