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Re:Brains of the Animal Kingdom: Research shows we've undere... by cameronh90 on Saturday March 23, 2013 @11:30PM (#5430963)
Getting sufficient nutrients on a vegetarian diet is not difficult. It requires no particular thought unless you're doing a lot of exercise and need a huge amount of protein, but even then, it's pretty easy to get unless you want to avoid eggs, milk, soya, tempeh, nuts, mycoprotein, beans, lentils, protein supplements, etc.

Iron is more difficult in theory, but no other vegetarians I know have actually had a problem with it.

Re:Brains of the Animal Kingdom: Research shows we've undere... by bwood on Sunday March 24, 2013 @10:53AM (#5432203)
As a vegetarian, iron is something I haven't had a problem with (I know this from the blood iron levels they measure when you give blood). I cook with cast iron, which apparently increases the amount of iron in cooked foods [1].

[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2621.2002....