My son and his wife, also my other son and his wife are, and their children are vegetarians, and one of my sons and his wife are total vegans, they are all normal weight and very, very healthy. They all follow a healthy diet, though.

My daughter is a vegetarian/vegan and is very overweight.

My husband and myself are grossly overweight also. I developed diabetes due to genetics, obesity, and poor eating habits, and am low carbing it ala Berstein plan to help control it. My husband is LC also.

When I was in my 40s, I lost a lot of weight, over 80 pounds, had excellent cholesterol and other blood tests, blood pressure, etc., by eating a whole grain/vegan diet, and walking an hour a day. Now I am diabetic and can't eat grains anymore.

I think one person's medicine is another person's poison.