A carefully planned vegan diet can be healthy with long-term benefits, recommending supplementation with B12, iron, zinc, and calcium, and ensuring adequate protein intake.

“uh stephen lauer saying that vegan diets a carefully planned vegan diet can be healthy with long-term benefits okay so that's that's the mainstream saying that and then the cleveland clinic says is a vegan diet safe for growing children what you need to know about protein and vitamins it's basically the same perspective uh we've got a pediatric dietitian not an md here you may want to make a few modifications vitamins and nutrients so there's i guess they say the same things b12 iron zinc and calcium are the the main things to supplement and to make sure you get enough protein”