page_title: Vegetarian nutrition
hierarchical_section_title: Vegetarian nutrition
caption_attribution_description: Español: Determinados alimentos son ricos en antioxidantes. English: These foods are typical of those eaten by the 12 volunteers during a study of how plant-rich diets affect blood lipids, antioxidant defenses, and colon function.
context_page_description: Vegetarian nutrition is the set of health-related challenges and advantages of vegetarian diets.
  If well-planned and fortified to balance possible deficiencies, vegetarian diets can become nutritionally adequate and can be appropriate for all stages of the human life cycle, including during pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence. However, in non-fortified vegetarian diets, or when not enough calories are consumed, these nutrients can be dangerously low and may compromise children's health and development.
  Evidence suggests that vegetarians generally have lower rates of coronary heart disease, obesity, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and osteoporosis. Vegetarian diets tend to be rich in carbohydrates, omega-6 fatty acids, dietary fibre, carotenoids, folic acid, vitamin C, vitamin E, potassium and magnesium. They are possibly low in saturated fat, cholesterol, and animal protein.
context_section_description: Vegetarian nutrition is the set of health-related challenges and advantages of vegetarian diets.
  If well-planned and fortified to balance possible deficiencies, vegetarian diets can become nutritionally adequate and can be appropriate for all stages of the human life cycle, including during pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence. However, in non-fortified vegetarian diets, or when not enough calories are consumed, these nutrients can be dangerously low and may compromise children's health and development.
  Evidence suggests that vegetarians generally have lower rates of coronary heart disease, obesity, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and osteoporosis. Vegetarian diets tend to be rich in carbohydrates, omega-6 fatty acids, dietary fibre, carotenoids, folic acid, vitamin C, vitamin E, potassium and magnesium.  They are possibly low in saturated fat, cholesterol, and animal protein.
caption: A variety of vegetarian, and more specifically vegan, foods
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