Exposing the Lies of the Raw Vegan Diet and Hypocrisy. Dangers of the Raw Vegan Diet from a Vegan who's sick of the lying

http://www.shazzie.com/life/articles/raw_vegan_children.shtml

These are some excerpts from that page, you must visit it.

This is written by:

Shazzie is the UK's most prolific and popular raw food writer, speaker and chef. She's written four books, two ebooks, published around 500 raw food recipes and is the Managing Director of Detox Your World (Rawcreation Ltd). She is regularly interviewed and quoted in the media on raw food, natural parenting and holistic living. Shazzie lives in Cambridge with her four year old raw daughter Evie.

However, all the while I was researching this information, I saw huge amounts of misinformation being fed to the raw food community. I also saw children with very damaged teeth, stunted growth and developmental problems.

Worryingly, the children of some of those who actively promoted raw food had experienced the worst symptoms. If these children were put on a raw or cooked vegetarian (not vegan) diet, and were given supplements, they caught up. Those who are still raw vegan are still experiencing development and growth issues.

I was most concerned that these "raw food promoters" never, not once publicly stated what had happened to their children. In fact, when other raw parents were having issues with the development of their children, these very same raw food promoters and coaches told them to keep on doing what they were doing. This caused the raw food community to remain oblivious to the dangers of raising children raw.

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Take these examples:

One mother experienced severe growth defects in her children on the raw vegan unsupplemented diet and resorted to feeding them large quantities of dairy and meat. She has since stood shoulder to shoulder with the other raw vegan dogmatists and writes on raw food forums pretending to be someone else! She says that she has been successful in raising her children raw vegan, yet she clearly hasn't.

The raw vegan child who was severely behind his development schedule and had flourosis. His mother, a "raw food coach" altered his diet (to cooked vegetarian plus supplements, plus some fish in the early days) and he eventually he began to sit, crawl and catch up. Even after this harrowing experience, this coach continued to tell mothers of children that weren't thriving on the raw vegan diet that raw vegan is OK, and to eat more fruit. She has never made a public statement about this experience and continues to be vague about what makes a healthy raw food diet for adults and children.

The raw vegan family in the USA who have several children. The last child wasn't even sitting up by the age of two. All the children are extremely thin and "bird like".

The raw vegan fruit promoter who says all non-vegan children are too tall and so vegan children are supposed to be small.
The tiny raw girl on YouTube who has hardly any top teeth due to visible decay.