A vegetarian diet is the one that eliminates of the diet all or most of the animal products, especially and particularly it excludes any food derived from dead animals.

For it changes exist between different diets of this type:

The persons can continue a vegetarian diet for different reasons, beliefs, religion, economy, or health, but in any case it must be well informed and knowledge that it offers advantages and disadvantages.

The vegetarian diet must be well raised and to be balanced in components and nutrients. Especially in children and adolescents who are necessary certain essential elements for the growth.

The elements that can be missing in a vegetarian diet are certain proteins, the vitamin B12, the vitamin D, the riboflavin, the calcium, the iron and other minerals.

Between the proteins there is missing usually the called "compline" that are usually in the meats, fish and the eggs and that it has all the necessary amino acids to live.

In the vegetables there are usually "incomplete" proteins, which it has lacking in some amino acids in quantities adapted for the development, for example in the cereals and the vegetables.

It is not also necessary to eat animal products to obtain these "finished" proteins since, on having mixed two vegetable incomplete proteins or it is not possible to obtain the necessary amino acid. For example on having mixed the milk with cereals, lentils with rice, or cereals / pasta with cheese.

That's why a strict vegetarian must do certain authorizations to take a more balanced diet. The vegetarian diets with animal products are more healthy (lactovegetariana and I suckle - ovovegetariana).

• During the first year of life the maternal milk or maternizada it is necessary and it is the principal food.
• The children must not lack a substitute that it includes calcium, proteins, vitamin D, riboflavin.
• If animal food does not eat up it is necessary to give a supplement of vitamin B12.
• Before 2 years of age lean diets must not be done.
• To have a suitable iron ingestion it is necessary to eat plums, fortified cereals, you happen and spinach.