>I wonder how many become vegetarians in their hyper-sensitive teen years?
Well, I became a vegetarian in undergrad from necessity. I simply
could
not afford meat, but I could afford spaghetti, day old bread and
(stupidly)
generic cigarettes. :-( I kept it up for a couple of years after
school
out of habit. I had been diagnosed with a spastic colon and told to
follow
a high fiber diet with lots of whole grains. I ended up becomming
anemic.
I then killed a deer, stocked the freezer and have been an omnivore
since.
It was about a year and a half ago that I learned that gluten was the
problem. Meat - good, wheat - bad, internists - questionable.
James at Penn State