vegetarian children often do better - Times Online

vegetarian children often do better - Times Online

According to Rachel Cooke, an NHS community dietitian and spokeswoman for the BDA’s community nutrition group, vegetarian children often do better nutritionally than their meat-eating peers.

Dr Margaret Lawson, a senior lecturer in nutrition at Great Ormond Street Hospital Institute of Child Health, says that although it can be difficult to provide an adamant teenager with a special complete diet, variety is a parent’s best friend. “A varied diet that includes all four food groups (vegetables, wholegrains, fruit, beans) . . . will provide all the nutrients needed for a child,” she says.

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