Curious Cook: Vegetarianism and other dietary tales, Part 2

Many vegetables are excellent sources of insoluble fibre. These include most leafy green vegetables, such as spinach, kale, collards and many other vegetables, including carrots, cauliflower, broccoli, and cabbage. -Bloomberg

Although most are comfortable with their vegetarian diets, there are some facts which are not always commonly known – and most vegetarian media do not even mention them, especially the “raw” or “paleo” diet media.

And it is not the usual stuff about how vegetarian diets are deficient in nutrients which can only be found in meat and fish – many people simply may not know that several highly popular components of a vegetarian diet can actually result in a significant loss of nutrition, primarily by a chemical process called chelation (pronounced “key-lay-shun”).