TV & Film Carrie Underwood Quits Vegan for Pregnancy!

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Carrie Underwood Quits Vegan for Pregnancy! Hey Guys check out today's video, on the interesting topic of switching from vegan to vegetarian during pregnancy. Let me know what your thoughts are on this subject.

 

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Pointing to a few celebrities that were vegan during pregnancy doesn't exactly make the case that a vegan diet is the healthiest diet for pregnant women. After all, people eating junk food have babies all the time. For this, you'd actually have to conduct studies and there really aren't any studies that have tracked and compared vegan children born of vegan mothers with their standard counterparts. You'd want to compare growth, intellectual development, etc. Vegetarianism, on the other hand, is well studied and has been practiced for centuries.

I've known people that have switched because they were having trouble getting enough protein due to food aversions, protein requirements increase by ~30 grams when pregnant and lactating.