How, then, do vegans/vegetarians survive in good health?
I often wonder if true vegans really do survive in optimum health, since humans are designed to eat a variety of things, including animals. However, all nutrients can be had on a vegan diet, altho I personally would suppliment if I were eating that way.
Vegans don't. They manage for a while, but eventually their bodies become severely depleted of some key nutrients (especially certain fatty acids). There have been some real horror stories about babies born to long-time vegan mothers. Some have already suffered permanent neurological damage before they're born. One was near death when it was finally admitted to a hospital, after gestation in a nutrient-deprived mother, followed by months of breast-feeding from a mother whose breast milk lacked essential nutrients because of her vegan diet. The only way to maintain good health on a vegan diet is to consume a large quantity of artificial supplements, and even then it's very difficult. Lacto-ovo vegetarian are a whole different ballgame. I've been a lacto-ovo vegetarian for 35 years, and am in excellent health. I do take supplements, including fatty acids, but also consume a large quantity of dairy products and eggs.
They do not!
Their children suffer cognitive impairment too.
Elderly veges skin is covered with 'liver' spots from lack of carnitine, and they all have weak joints.