TITLE

What Vegetarians Don't Get

AUTHOR(S)

Kummer, Corby

PUB. DATE

June 1991

SOURCE

Atlantic (02769077);Jun91, Vol. 267 Issue 6, p106

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Focuses on the effects of having a vegetarian diet on a person's health. Origin of vegetarianism; Motives of people for becoming a vegetarian; Classification of vegetarian diets; Occurrence of iron-deficiency in vegetarians.

ACCESSION #

9472095

Tags: VEGETARIANS;  VEGETARIANISM;  IRON deficiency anemia

 

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