Pregnant women, vegetarians, people with some health conditions such as Crohn's disease, IBS, H. Pylori infection, hypothyroidism and Hashimoto's thyroiditis are at a significantly higher risk for B12
deficiency than healthy people.
As a health promotion profession, we must acknowledge that in an Indigenous context, our practice can convey more
than healthy lifestyle messages; we also impart a message about colonial relationships of power and control, and colonial imaginings of the
deficiencies of Indigenous
people.