veganism: IMPORTANT! If you are a vegan please look at this link. Your health is as stake. This information is of particular importance to expectant vegan mothers and children. This sight thoroughly explains why the vegan diet is not healthful for expectant mothers or their children. It also explains why long term veganism may not be healthy for everyone over the long term. This is really some good information for vegans, and ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT NEWS FOR THOSE CONSIDERING BECOMING VEGAN! You owe it to yourself to absorb this information. For your own good and that of your children, take a few minutes from your busy day and take this in. Unlike many who are less than truthful and tell you the diet is without consequences, I do not have an agenda and am simply compelled to make people aware of the inherent risks associated with the vegan diet. Good luck to you. http://www.mercola.com/article/diet/form鈥?/a>|||Much larger and more professional research than anything Dr. Mercola or his cronies have ever done has proven that he is wrong about so, so much. In my opinion, the advice he gives should be considered criminal, as encouraging people to eat flesh and consume other animal products is HURTING people on such a large scale. Firstly, not all vegans or even most vegans follow anything near the Hallelujah diet. To equate it with vegan diets in general is insulting. Dr. Mercola professes that you will probably be dehydrated if you're getting your water from juice and that he thinks the body probably treats juice different than water and we should drink 8 glasses of water. Okay, he's an idiot. If your diet is very high in fruits and vegetables you don't need that much water. And no, the body does not treat the water from a bottle or tap differently than the water from fruits and vegetables. Well, I guess maybe it does in that it doesn't have to filter out all the CRAP that comes in most water. And how can you recommend eight glasses of water for everyone, no matter what their size, fruit and veggie intake, physical exertion, climate...ugh! This guy is a quack! I guess Dr. Mercola is smarter than Nature. I mean, if we MUST have sea salt supplementing our diets then Mother Nature must have made a mistake not putting it on our natural food supply, huh? QUACK! Sure, b-12 can be lacking in some vegan diets. We don't eat as much bacteria (the source of b-12) as we did in our early years as a species. We're very concerned about cleanliness and so we wash away much of the b-12 from our foods. Animal feed DOESN'T get washed and so it is the source of the b-12 that animals eat and pass on to some of you through the parts of the animal you're eating. There are better ways to get b-12. For Dr. Mercola to say that a vegan diet is to blame for some health problems in children and mothers is despicable. It's a lack of education that is to blame. Most people who see the benefits of a plant-based diet have to go on their own to find out how to do it right. We are taught all kinds of lies about meat and dairy in school and through the media, but there is very little education promoted about how to eat the way nature intended us to and that is a STRICT VEGETARIAN diet!|||While I appreciate that it's important to have arguments on both sides, I strongly disagree with this article's statement that people who thrive on a vegan diet do so only because they 'cheat' and eat animal products from time to time. As a strict vegan I can tell you this is not true! I can also tell you that since being a vegan my health, weight, skin and general outlook on life have improved dramatically. I'm not going to bring up all the arguments here, but why should it seem natural for people to drink cows milk anyway? Cows make milk for calves, and humans are the only animals who drink milk beyond infancy. And as for eggs <shudder>! I know many people, including myself, who live happy, healthy, cruelty-free vegan lives. And that's proof enough for me.|||I am always suspicious of scare tactics- does he have the meat lobby in his back pocket? There is room for all of us and our idiosyncrasies. I am a vegan- and friends with many meat eaters. In fact I don't know any other vegans.|||this site is famous for scaring people. they also claim that using a microwave is dangerous.|||Dude, I have been vegan for 2 yaers and never been healthier. i have been more energetic and happy. :)|||Please notice that the article isn't about just generally eating a balanced vegan diet, it's about diets in which you eat vegan. If you know how to eat the right things that your body needs, then you should be fine! I know that I have been quite healthy as a vegan, and from the knowledge that I have gained from people who sound just as educated as this dude (you know, DOCTORS?) a whole bunch of your article is nothing but BS.|||Fear-based stuff is everywhere. Here's a vegan woman raising 3 healthy vegan children: http://www.vegsource.com/|||WHY DO YOU CARE? You should raise your family the way that you want to and let others live thier lives and raise their families how they want to. There are other "causes" you should use your compulsion to fight for. Instead of worrying about what people are feeding themselves, take your energy and worry about people who aren't being fed AT ALL! I hope you have a great day!|||NO I AM NOT ONE BUT CAN BE COME ONE|||Very Interesting....... I think a lot of people already knew this, maybe just don't want to admit it? Probably still won't admit it. Had to give you a Star for this one.|||lm not a vegan-thanks for info anyway.