Original sentence: , Medical Journal of Australia, 1987;147(11-12):540-2).Also, self-reported teenage vegans and vegetarians are more likely to be dissatisfied with their bodies and to be involved in both healthy and unhealthy weight control practices.Anorexics, for example, often find the excuse of "veganism" an attractive cover for their pre-existing eating disorder.Criticisms have also focused on the prevalence of eating disorders within the vegan and vegetarian communities.However, though there appears to be correlation, there does not appear to be causation; eating disorders often predate the adoption of a vegan/vegetarian diet (O'Connor et al.Studies of college women show that a significantly higher proportion of women who do not consume animal protein than those who do are likely to display distorted eating attitudes and beliefs
Edited sentence: " Another states "The reliance of dietary surveys on self-reported dietary information presents a major limitation of this study and an opportunity for bias in the results.A study self-reported vegetarian college women may be more likely to display disordered eating attitudes and behaviors than nonvegetarians.Although there appears to be correlation, there does not appear to be causation; eating disorders often predate the adoption of a psuedovegetarian diet.However, the only direct reference to veganism in the following sources states "Because of the limited sample size, it was not possible to assess dietary patterns of vegans.It has often been noted that mainstream US and UK diets are too high in sugar, "bad" fats, and salt, and too low in omega-3 fatty acids, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts and seeds, and fruit.Maternal and infant nutrition is extremely important amongst the non-vegetarian population too, and it should be noted that malnourishment is a grave cause for concern in the global north as a whole, though for entirely different reasons than in the global south.Pseudovegetarianism was associated with a longer duration of anorexia nervosa, a lower weight during the course of their illness, and living away from the parental home.There has been noted concern in studies on eating disorders within the self-described vegetarian communities