Portugal "Linhas de orientação para uma alimentação vegetariana saudável" is just citing a book that is not available anymore and was released by Sociedade Vegetariana Brasileira
British Dietetic Association, have you forgot to cite what you wrote in the 3 page "Plant-Based Diet Food Fact Sheet" ...
In a 2005 paper they write "Careful dietary planning is needed for infants who are weaned onto vegan diets to ensure that adequate energy, essential fatty acids, protein, calcium and foods fortified with vitamin B12 (or supplements), are included" and "A well-balanced vegetarian diet can easily provide all of the nutrients required by elderly people. Nevertheless, extra care should be taken to ensure that the diet contains adequate amounts of some key nutrients."
They write "and that excessive protein intakes may be associated with potential health risks" (citing a 1999 study) which is bullshit ... except some disease. Plus it depends which type of protein too.
Then " In general, protein intakes of vegetarians tend to be slightly lower than those of omnivores but are still adequate to support nitrogen balance in healthy adults (Sanders 1999a -a-) ... but protein intakes still meet requirements and, even in vegan diets, rarely fall below 10% of energy intake (Herens et al. 1992 -b-; Sanders & Manning 1992-c-).
-a- is just citing Reddy & Sanders, 1992 = about human milk from vegans; Sanders & Roshanai = paper not available, still kids, 1992; Draper et al. 1993 = 6-13J; Sanders, 1995 = children; Nathan et al. 1996 = 7-11J
-b- is about Nutrition and mental development of 4–5 year-old children on macrobiotic diets —> no sense citation
-c-: 53 g in 6-13 years (18x). Especially in such case is important to make better distinction between ages, because protein requirement and weights are totally different! Data availability is bad. Plus they still don't consider 0-6J and 13-18J for examples.
Conclusion British Nutrition Foundation: just old bad papers about kids
Italy? Topic protein just ignored on their website ...
British Dietetic Association, have you forgot to cite what you wrote in the 3 page "Plant-Based Diet Food Fact Sheet" ...
In a 2005 paper they write "Careful dietary planning is needed for infants who are weaned onto vegan diets to ensure that adequate energy, essential fatty acids, protein, calcium and foods fortified with vitamin B12 (or supplements), are included" and "A well-balanced vegetarian diet can easily provide all of the nutrients required by elderly people. Nevertheless, extra care should be taken to ensure that the diet contains adequate amounts of some key nutrients."
They write "and that excessive protein intakes may be associated with potential health risks" (citing a 1999 study) which is bullshit ... except some disease. Plus it depends which type of protein too.
Then " In general, protein intakes of vegetarians tend to be slightly lower than those of omnivores but are still adequate to support nitrogen balance in healthy adults (Sanders 1999a -a-) ... but protein intakes still meet requirements and, even in vegan diets, rarely fall below 10% of energy intake (Herens et al. 1992 -b-; Sanders & Manning 1992-c-).
-a- is just citing Reddy & Sanders, 1992 = about human milk from vegans; Sanders & Roshanai = paper not available, still kids, 1992; Draper et al. 1993 = 6-13J; Sanders, 1995 = children; Nathan et al. 1996 = 7-11J
-b- is about Nutrition and mental development of 4–5 year-old children on macrobiotic diets —> no sense citation
-c-: 53 g in 6-13 years (18x). Especially in such case is important to make better distinction between ages, because protein requirement and weights are totally different! Data availability is bad. Plus they still don't consider 0-6J and 13-18J for examples.
Conclusion British Nutrition Foundation: just old bad papers about kids
Italy? Topic protein just ignored on their website ...