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Hi everyone,

 

My name is Paola, I am married and have a six year old little girl. I

was a vegetarian for 12 years before I had my daughter. After her

birth I was diagnosed with an underactive thyroid and I was anemic. I

was told by doctors here that this was probably caused by an unhealthy

eating pattern. I became a vegetarian when I was 12 and I didn't

concern myself with replacing protein, iron etc. in my diet.

 

When I had my child, my husband and I decided to start eating small

quantities of organic meat again because we feared she might develop

the health problems I had. I am much better informed today and I do

not think my health problems were attributable to being a vegetarian

at all but rather to making bad decisions regarding food. I very much

would like us all to be vegetarians again (my husband was also a

vegetarian, but started to eat meat as well). The problem is that I

am now well informed and have tried to explain all of this to him but

he is still adamant about eliminating meat again. Like I said, we

hardly eat meat but I want so much to be a vegetarian again.

 

What should I do to convince him that this is not a bad choice for all

of us?

 

Thanks,

 

Paola