Eating a vegan diet could not only help you lose weight and eat more veggies — it could also reduce your biological age. Vegans can risk missing out on multiple essential nutrients, such as calcium, iron and vitamin B12 that are plentiful in an omnivorous diet, when you go all in on plant-based foods, the NHS warns. Vegans are limited …
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Compared with people who ate meat, vegans with lower calcium and protein intakes had a 43 per cent higher risk of fractures anywhere in the body, researchers have warned. "We found that vegans had a higher risk of total fractures which resulted in close to 20 more cases per 1000 people over a 10-year period compared to people who ate …