Results During 12 months, a total of 4 cases of extreme diets were reported from a cohort of 41 patients. Two cases concerned sugar-free diets, one case of a vegan diet and one case of 100% raw food. Negative medical outcomes were nutritional deficiencies, stunting, concentration and developmental disorders, and social isolation. The raw food case involving a mother with orthorexia and her 14 y...

Gastric causes: gastrectomy, gastric resection, atrophic gastritis, H. pylori infection or congenital IF deficiency or abnormality. Inadequate dietary intake of vitamin B12 eg, a vegan diet. Intestinal causes eg, malabsorption, ileal resection, Crohn's disease affecting the ileum, chronic tropical sprue, HIV and any radiotherapy causing irradiation of the ileum. Drugs eg, colchicine, neomycin, ...

April 16, 2010 Type Package Title Measuring functional diversity (FD) from multiple traits, and other tools for functional ecology Version 1.0-9 Date 2010-04-16 Author Etienne Laliberté, Bill Shipley Maintainer Etienne Laliberté Description FD is a package to compute different multidimensional FD indices. It implements a distance-based framework to measure FD that a...

SUBACUTE combined degeneration of the spinal cord in nutritional vitamin B12 deficiency states, though a rare complication, has been reported several times (Badenoch, 1954; Wokes, 1956; Smith, 1962; Connor & Pirola, 1963; Riley, 1966; Verjaal & Timmermans, 1967), and its association with veganism (vegans are people who exclude all forms of animal products from their diet) has been duly stressed...

I have noticed lately that wounds such as cuts are healing much more slowly than before. I have also noticed that I am scarring more. For example, a tiny hole in my hand has developed a scar that is four times the size of the actual injury, and it is slightly raised. Am I missing something in my diet that is causing this? Or could it be an effect from on-going stress and anxiety? I am a vegetar...

In 2016, the book Animal (De)liberation: Should the Consumption of Animal Products Be Banned? was published. This article aims to engage with the critique that this book has received and to clarify and reinforce its importance for human health. It is argued that the ideas developed in the book withstand critical scrutiny. As qualified moral veganism avoids the pitfalls of other moral positions ...