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		kapp_in_life on June 17, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Today we’re eating the winners of the 1948 Chicken... Cherry picking one vitamin deficiency in vegans. Omnivores are deficient in other vitamins. The answer is supplementing, not changing foods you eat. > Omnivores had the lowest intake of Mg, vitamin C, vitamin E, niacin and folic acid. Vegans reported low intakes of Ca and a marginal consumption of the vitamins D and B12. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26502280/

_dax6 on June 17, 2021 [–]

I wasn't talking about those vitamins. I was talking about B12, which we largely get from meat...meat being the original topic.

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