Someone told me I should be taking these to get proper nutrition, which admittedly I probably don't. I do eat fish but not frequently enough to rely on it for nutrition (a couple of times a month) and I eat eggs maybe once a week so I probably don't get enough B vitamins, and I know I don't get enough iron (unless somehow the added vitamins in my cereal and luna and balance bars are enough to compensate). I tried to find vegetarian vitamins at the grocery store and couldn't. Do they even exist or was he confusing them with vegan vitamins that don't have animal products? And if they do exist are they worth buying or should I just start taking normal women's multivitamins?

Vegetarian vitamins do exist, i find them everywhere these days from health shops to supermarkets. But vegan tablets wouldnt be a problem either if thats all you can find. Also i know zinc can be something which lacks in the vegetarian diet, especially the vegan.

B12 (i think, its one of the B's) is the vitamin that you can't find anywhere except in meat products.

I'd look at a mega b or b group vitamin suppliments. Iron is also very important and sometimes the tiredness/lethargy may not be low iron but low in B.

Make sure you have a variety of pulses, grains and nuts as well as green leafy vegetables and vegetables of other colours. Absorbic acid (aka vitamin c) is really good for your body to help absorb iron from green veggies so have some oj or squeeze lemon on your greens.

A good multivitamin is also good, too as an all rounder.

B12 can be found in animal products like meat and dairy,so as a vegetarian it is highly unlikly that you would be deficient in it.
vegans can run low levels of B12. but soya milks etc are fortified with it, and marmite also has B12 in it.

What the hell? Sorry, this makes fuck all sense. Vegetarians DON'T EAT MEAT and most of them have very little in the way of dairy. It's actually fairly LIKELY vegetarians will be B12 deficient. I was when I was a vego and I used to drink about 3 pints of milk a day.

I think you should just get a multi vitamin and some B12s on the side. You can't overdose on vitamins and minerals, you just pass it out in your urine if it's not used by the body.

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