my neice wants to become a vegetarian. she is only 11 (going on 12 in june). she is interested in becoming a vegetarian after meny conversations about it with me. I have been a vegetarian since I was 15, I am 29 now. I did because of a biology project in 10th grade. I want to make sure that I lead her in the right direction when helping her down this new path in life...:bobo:

Make sure she's eating plenty of fruits and veggies and not just junk/convinience food. Some veggie convinience food can be good though, especially if she's having trouble transitioning. Try and get her a good multivitamin, too, and a big congrats! :sunny:

Great to hear !

My daughter and I eat plenty of Quorn with our veggies as it's an easy meat substitute and very nutritious.
Good point about the multivitamins Michelle, I make sure we both take one EVERY day as they are so important anyway, not just to vegetarians.

debidoo

Someone I used to know was vegetarian from the age of 6. Her diet was:

breakfast - sugary cereal and pasteurised cow milk
lunch - 2 crackers, cow cheese, bag of crips
dinner - potato waffle, cow cheese, baked beans, sweetcorn, carrots, peas

It doesn't sound healthy, it's very junky. But she glowed with health!! She looked so clean and pure and radiated vitality.
Perhaps because she ate very little which is great for health/keeping the insides clean. And she didn't eat bread so there was no yeast.

Her diet was the same as all the other children in her class except they ate bread instead of crackers and meat instead of cheese and baked beans. But the difference between how healthy she looked and how healthy they looked was astonishing. Before she became vegetarian this wasn't so. She looked normal, and she wasn't at all pretty. After she became vegetarian her build became much thinner, and her face became pretty.

Daryl Hannah, who played the mermaid in the film Splash, has been vegetarian since the age of 11. She also ate a junky diet with "lots of candy and fries", but she grew up to look very healthy.

Someone I used to know was vegetarian from the age of 6. Her diet was:

breakfast - sugary cereal and pasteurised cow milk
lunch - 2 crackers, cow cheese, bag of crips
dinner - potato waffle, cow cheese, baked beans, sweetcorn, carrots, peas

It doesn't sound healthy, it's very junky. But she glowed with health!! She looked so clean and pure and radiated vitality.
Perhaps because she ate very little which is great for health/keeping the insides clean. And she didn't eat bread so there was no yeast.

Her diet was the same as all the other children in her class except they ate bread instead of crackers and meat instead of cheese and baked beans. But the difference between how healthy she looked and how healthy they looked was astonishing. Before she became vegetarian this wasn't so. She looked normal, and she wasn't at all pretty. After she became vegetarian her build became much thinner, and her face became pretty.

Daryl Hannah, who played the mermaid in the film Splash, has been vegetarian since the age of 11. She also ate a junky diet with "lots of candy and fries", but she grew up to look very healthy.


unfortunatelly, looking health is not = being healthy. also how does one become pretty just by being vegetarian? i am living proof that this is not true, and i'm SURE vegetarian foods can't alter your facial structure.

a lot of health is genetic, more than most people realize - a lot more important than diet, according to many cardiologists.

you shouldn't rely on two people that you can think of who ate junk food. some is OK for kids but that first girl's diet is not for everyone. also, what's wrong with yeast?

eta: i forgot about the OP. the advice given is very sound.

I wasn't suggesting people should eat a junky diet. I was just saying that a junky vegetarian diet is healther than the standard diet so you don't need to worry too much. Whatever vegetarian diet the neice eats will be healthier than what her classmates eat.

Obviously a healthy diet is better.

And people do look prettier if they adopt a healthy diet - hence models and filmstars try to eat a healthy diet. I certainly looked prettier after I stopped eating meat.

Obviously a healthy diet is better.

And people do look prettier if they adopt a healthy diet - hence models and filmstars try to eat a healthy diet. :surprised :think: