Does anyone know the answer?
2007-02-06 21:09:49 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Vegetarian & Vegan
After stuffing a sock in to my mouth for 3 hours it's no good I just have to answer him.................
no, B12 can be absorbed from bananas pulses and nuts. I missed you foxie, babe. I loved to give you the thumbs down !!
Go on post a photo, make my millenium!!
2007-02-07 07:50:43 · answer #1 · answered by Andielep 6 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Foxy, you're back! How we've missed you - not!
By the way, the number of vegans who suffer a B12 deficiency is so minuscule that it's still reported in the medical press. The source for this statement is a real, actual, printed book - Gerras, Charles. The Complete Book of Vitamins. Emmaus, PA: Rodale Press, 1977 - not one of your spurious "medical journals".
2007-02-10 10:07:24 · answer #2 · answered by Whoosher 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that vitamin stuff is a load of shite. I mean, tally up how much of each vitamin you get every day sometime, and see it's pretty weak. Yet, we're still kickin, working, playing, not falling down with scurvy and such.
I'm a vegan, and probably had next to 0 b12 intake for ages, yet am perfectly healthy.
Just do your best to eat a variety of good stuff and yer golden!
2007-02-07 12:09:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
After several years as a vegetarian (not vegan) I became unwell, I felt 'wooly', couldn't think straight and was tired and sometimes dizzy. My doctor immediately requested a blood test and it showed my B12 was low. It can be dangerous and can cause irreversible nerve damage. Some people can't absorb B12 from food. Vegans and some vegetarians don't get much from their diet. It can take several years to become depleted.
2007-02-07 05:22:08 · answer #4 · answered by Em 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I know the answer - the answer is no - it's not true!
I'm a vegan and my B12 levels are perfectly normal, in fact I have a funny feeling I'm much healthier than you in body and mind especially since I take no pleasure in bating other YA users!
2007-02-07 07:12:37 · answer #5 · answered by H 4 · 10⤊ 0⤋
I was actually just recently talking about this with my doctor. He has been a vegetarian his whole life and he was telling me that B12 is the only thing you really have to worry about. He said that it is the only thing that you can just get from other foods. I have decided to get my tested. Better safe than sorry!
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2007-02-07 07:38:26 · answer #6 · answered by fayra_elm 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Does anyone else get enough B12? You could take a supplement if you were worried.
2007-02-07 05:21:47 · answer #7 · answered by jaygirl 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
it's quite possible as B12 is found mostly in meat or animal-based products.
but vegans should be able to find a source of vitamin B12...
2007-02-07 09:35:23 · answer #8 · answered by coldfeet 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
One 8 oz. serving of Soy milk contains 50 percent RDA of Vit. B12. No deficiency here.
2007-02-07 22:06:26 · answer #9 · answered by Ava 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
If we have never had B12 then our bodies produce enough. Once we start eating foods with it in our bodies stop producing it. So I assume that once you stop eating it for a while the body will produce it itself.
2007-02-07 10:38:25 · answer #10 · answered by topsyandtimbooks 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋