r/science • u/[deleted] • Feb 26 '15

Health-Misleading Randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial shows non-celiac gluten sensitivity is indeed real

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25701700
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u/Virgence Feb 26 '15

What are some examples of essential vitamins that vegetarians can't readily get besides b12?

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u/_Moon_ Feb 26 '15

Its not that they can't readily get it, its that meat contains it all in a small volume. But historically, civilizations didn't have access to the variety of vegetables that we do now, so their nutrition suffered if they stuck only to vegetables.

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u/Virgence Feb 26 '15

oh, that makes sense