TITLE

The bread eaters

AUTHOR(S)
Picker, Lauren
PUB. DATE
April 1994
SOURCE
Harper's Bazaar;Apr94, Issue 3389, p68
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Discusses the perils posed by vegetarianism to nutritional health. Gains from a vegetarian diet; Number of American vegetarians; Rationale for the shift to vegetarian diets; Differences among self styled vegetarians; Nutritional deficiencies of haphazard vegetarian diets.
ACCESSION #
9405200749

Tags: VEGETARIANISM;  HEALTH

 

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