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It's really not that complicated...
I think that this article may have broken my brain. It's a discussion of how vegetarians supplement their diets to stay healthy. Admittedly, this is the UDK so a certain level of mediocrity is to be expected. However, this is insane:
Lindsey Cable, Eden Prairie, Minn., senior, hasn't gotten around to fully supplementing her diet yet. She has been a vegetarian since she was 11 years old and has taken daily vitamins at time, but has now stopped.
"I get sick every two or three weeks because I don't get enough iron or protein," Cable says. "I used to take a vitamin, but now I don't. I guess I really should but I haven't really looked into it."
Cable has seen a doctor about being vegetarian and tries to keep her diet evenly balanced. She says she tends to eat healthier than most of her friends but that it mostly stems from the natural diet of being a vegetarian.
I don't even know where to begin. I can't even imagine what she's eating that she has such an iron deficiency as to make her sick several times a month. She could eat pretty much any type of bean, spinach, tofu, tempeh, kale, green beans...even potatoes, tomato juice, almonds, and sesame seeds have fucking iron in them. Soy milk, if not regular milk? This is also ignoring the huge amount of processed foods in which calcium and iron fortification seems to be increasingly ubiquitous.
Even if she can't cook, it's not like this is Olathe. There is a huge, varied body of vegetarian-friendly restaurants in Lawrence.
If she is that iron and protein deficient, there is no way she has a balanced diet. I know that a lot of young girls use veganism and vegetarianism as a cover for eating disorders, so maybe that's what's going on here?
It pretty much blows my mind that an article devoted to maintaining a healthy veg diet makes no mention of healthy foods, just vitamin supplements. That's the hard-hitting reporting you can expect from the campus newspaper.
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