Vitamin B12 can be obtained from certain plant sources such as blue-green algae and soy products. Vitamin B12 is not absorbed from plant sources. Modern soy products increase the body s need for B12. Animal fats cause cancer and heart disease. Children benefit from a low-fat diet.
Margarine eaters have twice the rate of heart disease as butter eaters.
Americans do not consume enough essential fatty acids. A vegetarian diet will protect you against atherosclerosis. The International Atherosclerosis Project found that vegetarians had just as much atherosclerosis as meat eaters. Low-fat diets prevent breast cancer. Throughout the world, primitive peoples sought out and consumed fat from fish and shellfish, water fowl, sea mammals, land birds, insects, reptiles, rodents, bears, dogs, pigs, cattle, sheep, goats, game, eggs, nuts and milk products.