I think it might unwittingly defeat being a vegetarian and same goes for the Spoiler Below .

Monty, you TOTALLY got to it befire i did!

Hey, my pleasure. :)

I don't think that supplements are really necessary, at least I've never had the need to be taking them. Pretty much every single cereal-product has been fortified with the stuff nowadays. Plus there's always my sticky black mate Marmite.


Along that chain of thought:

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Yeh Marmite is delicious and full of good stuff. I can eat tons of it.
I seem to remember:

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Charelton Heston is awesome!

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Hey Omega man was fun, There is nothing like a good zombie bashing movie, Without the gore. The gore im many modern movies makes them kind of gross, while the classics are a bit more fun, like the original Night of the living Dead, I cannot get enough of that film.

Back on topic,
Personally I like my bacon, I am not fond on vegitarian diets and I hope that no-one is putting themselves at risk. I respect people who make the choice of it, but I do not understand it. One of the children at my sons playgroup (2year old) is a vegitarian. His mom said one day that he likes being a vegitarian, and that she is proud that he has not had ANY vaxinations (she is a Holistic mom, they have a website). I cannot understand this. and I do not think I want to. but as for others I see no problem eating, salads, beans, ect... but I personally would prefer to eat meats as opposed to taking vitamin suppliments.

Monty :-/

I don't think I would need to take supplements. I don't think I ever got the right vitamins to begin with. And I don't know how I feel about Holistics.

Vitamin supplements are largely unnecessary. I've never bothered with them myself, and I would probably only recommend them to people who have extremely restrictive diets (in that they only ever eat the same one or two meals). It isn't particularly hard to get all the nutrients your body requires, provided you eat a varied enough diet. But then that's good advice for anyone, vegetarian or no.

As Vitamin B12 comes only from animal products, a strict vegan has a choice; he can either take a supplement, or he can eventually die from nerve degeneration. End of story. That being said, a vegetarian diet has a lot to offer; it is much lower in fat and calories than meat-based diets, it's cholesterol free, and aside from Vitamin B12 it is capable of supplying all of the body's required nutrients. Some nutrients, such as calcium and iron, can be problematic, but it is usually possible to work around such problems with a little research and planning.

Vitamin B12 is still very readily available to the lacto-ovo vegetarian diet, of course, with emphasis on the "lacto" and "ovo". And additionally, as I said above, there is a wide variety of plant-based foods which have been fortified with B12 nowadays which make up valuable sources of nutrients. Which is why I've never had the need personally to take vitamin supplements. For a strict vegan, it may well be a different story, but I've yet to enter into that particular camp.