Wow, truly surprising. Omnivores can survive on a plant based diet. Revolutionary. Just goes to show how bad plant based diets are demonised.
this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2026
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I honestly think it's pretty funny in a way. When i was younger, especially older people told me I needed to eat more, because i wasn't fat. Now people ask me why i look so young and skinny. But they don't want to know what you eat and why, they just hope for a pill that you take or something.
FWIW, the research comes from an Israeli university so this post breaks BDS standards. At the very least people can make an informed choice before clicking the link.
The article's title and tagline are biased compared to the results. "can grow at the same rate" implies the same rate is an upper bound, while "grow at the same rate" is what the research found.
It implies a carnist diet is the healthy stable variant, when many carnists don't feed their chilldren all necessary minerals and vitamins either.
But actually by this research there is no more reason to believe veganism correlates with less growth than that it correlates with faster growth.
I had to look that up, but thanks for teaching me something today!
My vegetarian-since-birth son has been one of the consistently tallest in his class and set his middle school all-time record for fastest 1600m run… so I reached the conclusion that his diet isn’t holding him back at all. Indeed, it may be an advantage.
Hasn't this always been the case? It's just so much more demanding and difficult to have your small kids on a vegan diet.