There are quite a few
variations of vegetarian diets so make sure you understand exactly what your child wants to eat and what they want to avoid.
Not exact matches
The existence
of the
vegetarian allele implies that, for people with this
variation, straying from that
diet — by eating a lot
of red meat, for example — may make them more susceptible to inflammation, because their bodies were optimized for a different mix
of inputs.
Cornell University researchers have found a fascinating genetic
variation that they said appears to have evolved in populations that favored
vegetarian diets over hundreds
of generations.
While animal products contain all the amino acids necessary for building the protein blocks, the
vegetarian protein sources rarely contain all
of these, and this is why it's better to have
variation in
diet, to rest assured that your body receives all the amino acids it needs.