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.
Turner then advised her on other parts of the job: where to find
healthy meals, identifying a
person who will remind her to eat, managing a «
healthy dose» of
presence with her children and the district
in the next seven weeks, and breaking from the Washington, D.C. culture of buying lunch for colleagues.