my random forays into the Hindustan Times newspaper...

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"If you are vegetarian and under 40 years of age, make sure you get the right intake of B-vitamins, especially vitamin B12 - or else you could be at the risk of suffering a stroke".

Indians aged 40 or below are up to 10 times more likely to be affected by strokes than their counterparts in the West;

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I guess I should start consuming nutrional yeast

Comments

[arunshanbhag]

interesting!
wouldn't a regular multivitamin tablet do, than consuming "yeast"? :-P

[profundamente]

but nutritional yeast is actually kind of tasty!

you are right though, i had totally forgotten about that multivitamin angle. i think i should take one whether i need B vitamins or not...

[exterra]

geez, me too.

[bobbipynn]

I'm vitamin B12 deficient, and i eat meat! So are my mother and grandmother, and she's a vegetarian. I had to get an injection last year because it was so low - apparently it causes brain damage in the long term. So maybe my feelings of intellectual inferiority weren't caused entirely by the graduate school experience after all...

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oh. i need brain fortification...what is this injection thing about ? i'm interested!

[bobbipynn]

it's a high dose of vitamin B12 injection - for people who lack the ability to process vitamin B12, or who have really low B12 levels. I had to buy it from the pharmacist and bring it back to the health clinic - then the nurse struggled to make sure she didn't hit some really important nerve while injecting it into a place where you really don't want sharp objects coming too close. Not fun. Go for the daily vitamins instead :)

[yanatonage]

Do they mean people in India, or all Indians in the west?

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exp was done in bangalore (i guess w/india-indian subjects?). true true, i was wondering that myself - perhaps those indians in the west have a different nutritional profile.

perhaps all those pesticides in indian coca cola are maybe leeching the B12 vitamins.

[reformedvesper]

jeez. interesting given what just happened to my mom..

[profundamente]

ohhh no! :(

i think i'm going to definitely have to start acting like the health police when i go back home for the holidays.

[reformedvesper]

are you fam veggies?

[profundamente]

the ladies are and the males aren't. so, i'll have to get some to take more B12 and the others to eat less processed meats!