Originally Posted by ThePhanastasio

Untrue. I know a lot of fellow vegetarians, and we feel completely fine. We don't get sick anymore than average people. I could see where "bad vegetarians" would get sick from eating nothing but snack food because it doesn't have meat or something, but I'm fine.

Even when I ate meat, I had iron deficiency anemia - and all I do now is watch what I'm eating to get the appropriate vitamins, take an iron pill, and my iron levels are actually better now than they were when I ate meat.