veganism: someone on this forum said that being vegan for 13 years caused them not to be able to have children...??? they also say they were a healthy vegan...I dont understand how this could happen?|||No. There are lots of trolls in the forums. The American Dietetic Association, the largest organization of food and nutrition professionals in the world, reiterated this year, "It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that appropriately planned vegetarian diets, including total vegetarian or vegan diets, are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. Well-planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for individuals during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes." "An evidence-based review showed that vegetarian diets can be nutritionally adequate in pregnancy and result in positive maternal and infant health outcomes. The results of an evidence-based review showed that a vegetarian diet is associated with a lower risk of death from ischemic heart disease. Vegetarians also appear to have lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels, lower blood pressure, and lower rates of hypertension and type 2 diabetes than nonvegetarians. Furthermore, vegetarians tend to have a lower body mass index and lower overall cancer rates." http://www.eatright.org/ada/files/Vegeta鈥?/a>|||wikipedia has information on veganism at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veganism november is vegan awareness month which was created to educate the public on veganism.for more information go to http://www.worldveganday.org vegan world order has recipes,links to vegetarian restaurants plus additional information at http://www.veganworldorder.com hallelujah acres is a christian vegan website and organization with recipes,testimonies on the hallelujah acres diet plus additional information at http://www.hacres.com|||It is possible that (for a woman) poor diet (eating disorders especially) could cause amenorrhea if you really weren't careful with your diet...This would make her unable to have children... This person obviously wasn't a healthy vegan if they had serious health problems because of their diet...that makes almost zero sense.|||I don't know how a diet would cause one to be infertile. There could very well have been underlying medical issues that were not caught until now or what she thought was a "healthy diet" was in fact too restrictive, causing her to lose too much weight.|||@ rennee p: lol yes bunnies multiply like crazy :P And yes, must've not been healthy. Like annorexic or borderline annorexic. But if that were the case then they would've missed their period and stuff.|||They must of been anorexic, my parents were vegan when they had me. Don't believe every myth you hear. Bunny rabbits have not trouble conceiving.|||I don't think this actually could happen, not from just being vegan, anyway.|||I am looking and everything I find says the reverse|||I have been vegan 13 years, and my son is 4 months old. I am a man.