{"id":12054,"date":"2007-01-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/01\/27\/meat-eating-parents-learn-to-cope-with-their-vegetarian-children\/"},"modified":"2007-01-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-27T12:00:00","slug":"meat-eating-parents-learn-to-cope-with-their-vegetarian-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/01\/27\/meat-eating-parents-learn-to-cope-with-their-vegetarian-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Meat-Eating Parents Learn to Cope with Their Vegetarian Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/cbs13.com\/seenon\/local_story_026182201.html\">cbs13.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">USA, January 26, 2006: Cathie and Harold Winters like a good steak. &#8220;We&#8217;re a meat eating family,&#8221; Cathie said. But their 12-year-old son Dean is not interested. When mom and dad eat steak, he has a protein substitute. Dean has been a vegetarian since he was in first grade. &#8220;I love animals a whole lot, and I really don&#8217;t care for meat that much,&#8221; said the then 6-year-old Dean. The Winters, like many parents of vegetarian kids, worried at first that their son wouldn&#8217;t get enough nutrients without that piece of meat on his plate. &#8220;At first, I kind of fought it and tried to get him to eat meat. But he was pretty solid about his convictions,&#8221; said Dean&#8217;s father Harold. According to the American Dietetic Association, vegetarian kids can be just as healthy as other children. &#8220;There is no need for concern. People can be very healthy eating a vegetarian lifestyle,&#8221; said registered dietitian Dawn Jackson Blatner, Having a vegetarian kid can be an adjustment, but Cathie says with all the protein substitutes out there, it&#8217;s not that hard. As for Dean, &#8220;I really don&#8217;t feel like I&#8217;m missing out on anything,&#8221; admitted Dean. The ADA says the number of kids who are choosing vegetarianism is growing and many children may experiment with a partial vegetarian diet.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cbs13.com USA, January 26, 2006: Cathie and Harold Winters like a good steak. &#8220;We&#8217;re a meat eating family,&#8221; Cathie said.,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}