{"id":2174,"date":"2022-05-08T22:34:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T22:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2174"},"modified":"2022-05-08T22:34:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T22:34:09","slug":"vegetarian-and-meat-eating-children-have-similar-growth-and-nutrition-but-not-weight-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2174","title":{"rendered":"Vegetarian and meat-eating children have similar growth and nutrition but not weight, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you\u2019re wondering how your child might fare on a vegetarian diet, a new study offers some factors to consider. Children eating a vegetarian diet and children who ate meat were similar in terms of growth, height and nutritional measures, but vegetarian children had higher odds of being underweight, according to\u00a0a study published Monday\u00a0in the journal Pediatrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOver the last 20 years we have seen growing popularity of plant-based diets and a changing food environment with more access to plant-based alternatives, however we have not seen the research into the nutritional outcomes of children following vegetarian diets in Canada,\u201d said Dr. Jonathon Maguire, the study\u2019s lead author and a pediatrician at St. Michael\u2019s Hospital of Unity Health Toronto, in a\u00a0news release.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/05\/02\/health\/vegetarian-diet-child-development-effects-wellness\/index.html\">CNN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re wondering how your child might fare on a vegetarian diet, a new study offers some factors to consider.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2176,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174\/revisions\/2176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}