Vegetarians are people who live on food obtained from plants. They do not touch foods, such as meat etc, from animals. Some vegetarians include eggs and fish while others limit animal foods to dairy products only. However, all vegetarians take milk as part of their daily food.

Vegetarians make up for all the necessary minerals and vitamins through use of different plant parts. Some of them are briefed in the following sentences. For proteins, the vegetarians take pulses (seeds), nuts, eggs, milk, butter, and cheese. They get their carbs from vegetables, fruits, and grains. Similarly, vitamins too are obtained from cereals and dry fruits as well as green vegetables.

However, there are some problems with the vegetarian diets. Most of the vegetarians’ diets are more than 80 per cent of carbs. This may cause problems such as insulin resistance leading to diabetes. Similarly, some vitamins are absent from the vegetarian diets. There is a huge deficiency of vitamins A, D and K as well as vitamin B12. You may however, take supplements to include these vitamins into the vegetarian diet.

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