Does a vegetarian/vegan diet require specialist knowledge?
The basic principles of healthy eating are not difficult to grasp and have nowadays become almost common knowledge. The same principles apply whether you be vegan, vegetarian or otherwise: eat more fresh fruit, vegetables, and wholefoods and cut down on saturated fats, sugar, salt and alcohol. There is nothing in animal products that has to be carefully compensated for (except, perhaps, vitamin B12. See 28). Many of them do us a lot more harm than good (see 4, 9, 15 and 20). Cutting out animal products only makes a ‘healthy’ diet healthier.
