Sentences with phrase «into diabetic children»

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Vegetarians claim that the body's requirements for vitamin A can be met with carotenes from vegetable sources, but many people — particularly infants, children, diabetics and individuals with poor thyroid function — can not make this conversion.7 Furthermore, studies have shown that our bodies can not convert carotenes into vitamin A without the presence of fat in the diet.8 Dr. Price discovered that the diets of healthy isolated peoples contained at least ten times more vitamin A from animal sources than found in the American diet of his day.