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vitamin b12 deficiency vegetarian
Vitamin B12 is essential to ensure healthy nerve and red blood cells. It is also used in the manufacture of DNA which is the genetic material found in all of our cells. You may also hear it referred to by the name of cobalamin because it contains the metal cobalt.
Vitamin B12 is essential to healthy nerve and red blood cells. It is also used in the production of DNA which is the genetic material found in all of our cells. It is also goes by the name of cobalamin because it contains the metal cobalt.
Vitamin B12 is bound to the proteins in the foods that we eat. It is found in foods derived from animals. Some common sources are meat, fish, poultry, eggs, milk and milk products. If you are a vegetarian fortified breakfast cereals can be an excellent source of B12. Hydrochloric acid releases vitamin B12 from proteins during the digestive process. It then combines with a substance called intrinsic factor (IF), it is this complex that is able to be absorbed by the intestinal tract.
B12 DEFICIENCY
The body stores several years supply of B12. It has been found that most children and adults in the United States consume the recommended daily requirement in the foods that they eat. A deficiency may develop due to an inability to absorb B12 from food or if you are a strict vegetarian that does not consume any animal products. For the most part individuals that have a B12 deficiency also have an underlining stomach or intestinal disorder that limits the absorption of the vitamin. Sometimes the symptoms of these disorders are very subtle and start with reduced cognitive function followed by anemia and dementia. These symptoms are very general in nature and can be caused by a variety of other medical conditions. You should always have a medical professional evaluate these symptoms and prescribe the appropriate medical care.
VITAMIN B12 AND PREGNANCY
During pregnancy nutrients are transferred from the mother to the fetus through the placenta. B12 is one of these nutrients that pass from mother to the fetus. Breast feed infants receive their nutrition, including vitamin B12, through breast milk. B12 deficiency is very rare condition in infants but can occur if the mother herself has deficient levels of the nutrient. An example of this would be a mother who is a strict vegetarian and has an inadequate reserve of B12 to pass on to the infant. In such cases a deficiency of vitamin B12 can develop in the infant in a matter of months after the child is born. This is something to be concerned about because if a deficiency in B12 is left undetected and untreated in infants it can lead to neurological damage. This damage can be both severe and irreversible. For this reason a mother who follows a strict vegetarian diet should consult with a pediatrician about B12 supplementation for their infants and children. They should also discuss with their own primary care professional about their own need for B12 supplements.
OTHERS THAT MAY BE AT RISK OF B12 DEFICIENCY
Individuals with pernicious anemia may be at increased risk. Anemia is a condition that occurs when there is insufficient hemoglobin in red blood cells to carry oxygen to the cells and tissues. Common symptoms are weakness and fatigue. Anemia can result in a variety of medical problems including a deficiency in vitamin B12, vitamin B6, folate and iron. Pernicious anemia is a name given more than a century ago to a then fatal B12 deficiency caused by gastric atrophy. This condition prevents the gastric cells from secreting intrinsic factor. B12 must bind with IF to be absorbed into the system. When an individual has this condition they are normally given an injection of B12 to get levels to where they need to be and then followed by supplementation to maintain them. A primary care professional must manage this treatment.
People with gastrointestinal disorders may be B12 deficient due to reduced ability for absorption. Some of these conditions may be celiac disease, Cohn’s disease, and those who have undergone surgical procedures in the gastrointestinal tract such as removal of all or part of the stomach. This can result in the loss of cells that are responsible for producing intrinsic factor.
Up to 30 percent of people over 50 years old may have atrophic gastritis, which is an increased growth of intestinal bacteria. This basically has two effects, it decreases the amount of gastric juices produced and the increased bacteria may actually compete for the available supply of vitamin B12. This causes them to be unable to absorb vitamin B12 normally. They are however able to absorb synthetic B12 such as that found in fortified foods and dietary supplements. These two sources may be the best sources of B12 for people over 50.
Strict vegetarians and vegans are at increased risk of developing B12 deficiencies. This is because B12 comes from animal products that they do not consume. Fortified cereals are a good source of B12 for this group of people.
About the Author
John Bradstreet is an experienced Biochemist with extensive knowledge in nutritional supplementation. He has more than 25 years of increasing responsibility in his field. To learn more about Vitamin B12 we have included additional links at the bottom of the page to help educate you on the subject. You are also invited to visit our Vitamin and Supplement Blog for information on this and other subjects.
Vegetarianism counter arguments help!?
hi i need one more counter argument.
i already hv if everyone becomes a vegetarian, the meat industry will collapse and people will lose their jobs.
and many vegetarians have vitamin B12 deficiency.
plz gimme another counter argument, and defend it for me as well.
thx
10 points will be given!!
Freedom of choice. People should be able to eat meat if they want to or if they need to. The human digestive system is designed to process plant and/or animal foods. Therefore, there is no reason to forbid the eating of meat as long as the animals are slaughtered in a humane way. [This does not imply that people should not be vegetarians, but only that eating meat is not morally wrong or contrary to nature.]
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Science will often, in an effort to simplify and provide a reference point, compare findings here on Earth with disparate examples elsewhere, either on the planet or off. A group of scientists looking to understand how storm tracks work here on Earth looked to the smooth surface of Jupiter to form a base of comparison.
Computer simulations that depicted Earth in several formations led scientists to find that there is a comparable effect on the storm tracks made by ocean dynamics and mountains. (more…)
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Expectant women who take vitamin A supplements before and during pregnancy have a greater chance of giving birth to a child with superior lung function, according to a new Johns Hopkins study.
For the research, a team of investigators analyzed the lung function of a group of children whose mothers had been assigned to receive vitamin A supplements, beta-carotene tablets or a placebo both before and during their pregnancy.
They discovered that women who took vitamin A supplements gave birth to children who had greater forced expiratory volume at one second (FEV1) and a greater forced vital capacity (FVC), two important measures of lung function. On average, the offspring of participants in the vitamin A group improved their lung function by 3 percent compared to the other respondents’ children.
"This benefit was limited to children whose mothers received vitamin A and not to those whose mothers received beta-carotene," said the authors of the study. "Early interventions with vitamin A in communities where undernutrition is highly prevalent may have long-lasting consequences in lung health."
As the Obama administration tries to stave off criticism over its dismissal of the investigation into the alleged New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case last year, a top Justice Department official testified on May 14 in front of the United States Civil Rights Commission.
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Thomas Perez spent 90 minutes defending the department’s actions, saying there were no alternative motivations behind the decision to drop the case by then-Acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Loretta King, according to Main Justice.
"This is a case about career people disagreeing with career people," he was quoted as saying by the news provider, seemingly implying that the dispute was primarily between lawyers.
However, Perez entered into a heated exchange with Commissioner Gail Heriot who pressed him to answer why a more expansive injunction was not sought against a member of the Black Panther party who had carried a nightstick, the news source further reported.
The ongoing inquiry stems from an incident on Election Day 2008 at a Philadelphia polling station where members of the New Black Panther Party allegedly tried to intimidate voters by standing in military-style garb outside.
Late last year, the Department of Justice (DOJ) dismissed most of the case, causing anger among many conservatives.
Main Justice reports that the commission’s report is scheduled to be released before the mid-term elections. 
In an effort to connect with conservative activists and help curb Federal spending, House Republicans announced last week the creation of a new project designed to allow citizens to vote on what they think should be cut from the Federal budget.
The new initiative, called YouCut, will enable voters to choose from one of five possible cuts each week. The winning suggestion will be brought to the floor the following week and will be voted on by members of the House.
"What we’re saying here is we’re going to listen," House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) told Fox News. "Vote on your priority, and we’ll take it to an up-or-down vote on the floor."
Meanwhile, Democrats are calling the program a simple public relations gimmick that has no realistic chance of trimming the Federal budget.
"It’s not surprising that they are resorting to another gimmick for a round of press rather than a substantive idea for lasting solutions," said Hari Sevugan, the Democratic National Committee’s press secretary. "But if they actually listened to the American people, Republicans would know that knee-jerk opposition, obstruction, delay and gimmicks are not a substitute for leadership."
In response to the program, the Democrats created their own project called GOPSpent, where Americans can vote on the most irresponsible Republican initiatives that favor special interest groups.
History can be a funny thing. Sometimes the sands of time obscure facts from those with only a passing knowledge of the truth.
So it is with some of the Founding Fathers. As a group they are revered by many for their knowledge, wisdom and forethought. They are seen as selfless defenders of liberty.
But that view is not completely accurate. Take the case of Alexander Hamilton, described by Thomas J. DiLorenzo in Hamilton’s Curse as essentially the anti-Thomas Jefferson—a man who would be pleased with America’s economic system today.
Hamilton’s Curse is not a biography of Hamilton. Rather it describes “his core political and economic ideas; the intellectual, legal, and political battles over those ideas; and the consequences America has suffered since his ideas were implemented,” DiLorenzo writes.
Although he was a principal author of The Federalist Papers and championed the adoption of the United States Constitution to replace the Articles of Confederation, he began to work immediately to undermine its tenants as President George Washington’s first Treasury Secretary.
What Hamilton really favored was a strong central government. In fact, as DiLorenzo writes, Hamilton opposed the Articles of Confederation because it did not empower a centralized government. He wanted America to be ruled by a king that would have supreme power over all the people. He favored making the states provinces with governors appointed by—and therefore loyal to—the king.
Under such a regime, all political power in the nation would be exercised by the king and his circle of advisors, which undoubtedly would include Hamilton. Essentially, Hamilton wanted to turn the United States into Britain.
But what Hamilton wrote in The Federalist Papers sounded quite Jeffersonian, leading many to believe later that he was being less than sincere in the writings, DiLorenzo writes.
“More likely, his writings were intended to goad the public into acquiescing in the adoption of a document that he hoped would become a ‘living constitution,’” according to DiLorenzo. Hamilton later described the Constitution as “a frail and worthless fabric.”
Among the legacies of Hamilton and his acolytes is the idea that the Constitution granted the Federal government “implied powers”—powers that were not actually in the Constitution but that statists like Hamilton wish were there.
He favored a central bank, activist judges and mercantilist system modeled after the British system.
DiLorenzo writes that Hamilton was likely the first to twist the meaning of the Commerce Clause of the Constitution, claiming the clause was an all-inclusive term for all commercial activities in society, and therefore that the government had a “right” to regulate and control all commerce—not just trade but intrastate commerce as well.
Hamilton believed “public” debt was a blessing, and he favored high taxes and paying subsidies (corporate welfare) to certain businesses.
While small government advocates in the Jeffersonian tradition won out over the Hamiltonians in the beginning, the Hamiltonians—or nationalists, as DiLorenzo calls them—never relented in their efforts.
Finally, in 1913 with the establishment of the Federal Reserve and the passage of the 16th Amendment (granting the power to lay and collect taxes) and 17th Amendment (changing the way Senators are selected), the Hamiltonian philosophy prevailed.
Hamilton’s economic philosophy is in play today, and is the source of our country’s economic ills. DiLorenzo lays this all out in excellent fashion and peels back the layers of historical revisionism that have lionized Hamilton and others who believed as he did.
DiLorenzo makes an excellent case that if we are to return to the republic the Founding Fathers like Jefferson and James Madison envisioned we must end the Federal Reserve and repeal the 16th and 17th Amendments.
Freedom-loving Americans who are interested in devolving themselves of the glossed-over public school history they learned—and the false history being perpetuated today—must read this book.
Even as the S&P 500 rose a respectable 7.8 percent through the first four months of 2010, before giving it back in the first week of May amid concerns about Greece’s debt woes, the all-stars of the hedge fund world were having a rough start to 2010.
Moore Capital Management, whose founder, Louis Bacon, has his London digs (okay… more like a palace) right around the corner from me, had only posted gains of 1.58 percent this year—despite climbing to the top of the United Kingdom’s “hedge fund rich list” with a personal fortune of 1.1 billion British pounds.
Last year’s shooting star of the London hedge fund scene, emerging market manager Greg Coffey, who famously left a $250 million bonus on the table at European hedge fund group GLG Partners back in 2008, was down 5.88 percent into mid-March. And having recently sat next to the senior macro trader at Tudor Investments during a dinner at the swanky Carlton Club, I know that the mood at this iconic hedge fund is scarcely better than GLG. It turns out that the Tudor BVI Global fund was down 0.55 percent through mid-March.
No wonder this subpar performance has left investors scratching their heads. These hedge funds aren’t the industry’s one-hit wonders, either. They are, in fact, the “Babe Ruths” of the hedge fund world. After all, with the S&P 500 hitting 18-month highs in April 2010, you probably would think that a monkey throwing darts at a copy of The Wall Street Journal could be making money.
Hedge Fund All-Stars: The State Of Play In Global Markets
Well, if that monkey is an American one throwing darts at American stocks, the approach may succeed. But it’s been tougher for the monkey’s more cosmopolitan cousin.
The reality is that outside of the United States stock market, global stock markets haven’t done much in the last six months.
While the U.S. stock market rose a solid 15 percent during the last six months through April 2010, the MSCI EAFE Index—a stock market index that reflects market performance of developed markets in Europe, Australasia and the Far East—was clearly in the red for 2010. The formerly high-octane BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China) are struggling this year. And the weak performance of global markets masks a now seemingly distant but stomach-churning 15 percent sell-off in global stocks within the span of two weeks in January and February.
Hedge Funds Struggling: Here’s Why
Unlike U.S. retail investors, global macro hedge funds—or “multi-strategy funds”—aren’t necessarily focused solely on the U.S. stock market. And opportunities to make money outside of the U.S. stock market have been limited.
Yes, the dollar is up, and the euro and the British pound are down. Sugar soared for a while, but then collapsed. But gains on those trades have hardly made up for the cost of being whipsawed in and out of the market by sharp sell-offs in January and again in early May this year.
For retail investors, “buy and hold” remains the dominant investment mantra. And it’s also the strategy that has worked best over the past 14 months. But after a paradigm-shifting 2008, hedge funds are understandably skittish. They are (rightly) focused on the downside risks—whether financial contagion from Greece or another “Black Swan” event which they cannot predict.
Top hedge funds are also struggling because they look at risk in a fundamentally different way than investors schooled in the ways of "buy and hold." They are focused on the downside to a degree that is hard for most investors to imagine. At SAC Capital, if a portfolio manager is down 5 percent, he loses half of his money under management. If he loses 10 percent, he is shown the door. Apply that same standard to your favorite broker and see how long he’d last.
The experience of 2008 is also why many top hedge funds went on the defensive after the sharp sell-off in January. And they have been scrambling to recover ever since. Recent volatility in global financial markets notwithstanding, after an eight-week rally in the U.S. markets through the end of April, the sharpness and suddenness of the January sell-off seemed to fade into distant memory. As John Kenneth Galbraith observed, “the financial memory is very short.” For U.S. investors glued to the non-stop video game that is CNBC, “fear” rapidly transformed into “greed.” Of course, the big sell-off in the first week of May should serve as a reminder that risk management is as relevant to individual investors as it is to big institutions.
The bottom line? Yes, staying "dumb and long" in the U.S. stock market while ignoring the dips has been the single-best investment strategy over the past year. And any monkey, throwing darts at The Wall Street Journal would have outperformed the world’s top Market Wizards over the course of the last 14 months.
But as any old trader on Wall Street will tell you, “never confuse brains with a bull market.” And as any hedge fund manager will add: “If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.”
Sincerely,
Nicholas A. Vardy
Editor, The Global Guru
P.S. If you want to keep up with my latest insights on developments in fast-paced global markets, you can now follow me on Twitter on @NickVardy or on my new blog, NickVardy.com.
In the days since Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) introduced their energy and climate bill proposal, unions, industry groups and other stakeholders have continued to express their views that span an entire spectrum of opinions.
Among powerful unions, the United Steelworkers has praised the bill for its provisions to limit carbon "leakage," i.e. reduce incentives for production of goods to move to countries that fail to address global climate change.
Public Service Enterprise Group, a publicly traded energy company, has expressed a similar opinion, with its representatives stating that the proposal has the potential to protect consumers and provide the regulatory and legislative certainty needed "to unleash investment and create jobs."
They added that the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico underscores the importance of a comprehensive energy policy that achieves fuel diversity and "puts a price on carbon."
However, the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association appeared to be alarmed by the proposed carbon mandates. Its Executive Vice President and general counsel Gregory M. Scott stressed that carbon reduction mandates won’t have any impact on climate change because they apply only to vehicles, power plants, refineries and manufacturing facilities in the United States and ignore the soaring carbon dioxide emissions from rapidly industrializing countries.
"The draconian carbon reduction targets and timetables in this bill would trigger destructive change in America’s economic climate," Scott said, adding that "this would add billions of dollars in energy costs for American families and businesses, destroy the jobs of millions of American workers and make our nation more dependent on foreign energy sources."
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“Hi all – it’s Osama Bedier here, PayPal’s VP of platform, mobile and new ventures, with good news for our Android developers.
We know you want a quick and easy way to integrate payments into the Android apps you’re building, and we’re pleased to announce that our Mobile Payments Library is now available for the Android.”
Hopefully those words are music to your ears if you are an Android Dev! One of the things that we have heard time and time again from software developers is that it is not easy to get paid or make money with their apps on the Market, but also with micro transactions WITHIN applications, which can be a major source of revenue.
The article from the Paypal blog talks about the different solutions that Paypal is giving developers through the PayPal X Toolkit for Google App Engine (GAE).
Anything that will allow devs to create more revenue, and with more ease at that, is a good thing in my book. It may spurn some growth in the Market, giving incentive for the bigger, better apps to be created there.
Devs can download the Tookit through the Paypal Developer Portal, and those of you lucky enough to be at Google I/O can see a demo at PayPal’s booth.
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Copycense kicked off an interesting thought exercise, in questioning if, instead of trying to carefully define what qualifies as “fair use,” we might be better off trying to define what constitutes “unfair use.” Of course, some copyright system supporters might note that copyright itself defines what unfair use is — and it’s pretty much any unauthorized reproduction, distribution, performance etc. of a covered work. In that world, “fair use” are the narrow exceptions.
But there’s a strong argument to be made that that’s wrong. The purpose of copyright — as we remind folks every so often — was set about to “promote the progress” with the main focus being on better encouraging education through knowledge transfer. So, perhaps the case can be made that rather than focusing on narrow exceptions to copyright law, we should go back to realizing that copyright is the exception and the public domain is the rule. From there, the thinking is exactly right. If the goal of copyright is to promote the progress of science and the useful arts, then let’s focus on what should be considered “unfair” and build from there, rather than starting with a wall that says “everything is unfair” and here are a tiny few exceptions.
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