Meat Savers and Substitutes
It is possible to lead a healthy life by omitting flesh foods entirely from the diet, but in view of the amount of knowledge and experience needed to carry this through successfully, for the great majority of people, particularly the elderly or infirm, any radical or sudden change of diet is not advisable.
One particular snag inherent in vegetarianism is that over the long term a vitamin B12 deficiency is likely to build up and this can be very serious. To offset this it would be necessary to take regularly tablets of B12 obtainable from health stores.
However, replacing flesh foods with vegetarian meals several times weekly would be quite practicable if it is borne in mind that a fully balanced vegetarian meal should contain "complementary proteins", that is, two or more substances which when combined (and eaten together at the same time) will form a complete protein.
Anyone interested in becoming a vegetarian would be advised to obtain books dealing specifically with this subject of complementary proteins, and with vegetarianism in general.
08.01.2007. 19:34
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