BellaOnline Forums Food and Wine Vegetarian Vegetarian teens healthier than peers

It seems that rather than viewing adolescent vegetarianism as a difficult phase or fad, the dietary pattern could be viewed as a healthy alternative to the traditional American meat-based diet, epidemiologist Cheryl Perry and colleagues wrote in Sunday's issue of the journal Archives of Pediatric Adolescent Medicine.

http://www.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/diet.fitness/05/13/teen.vegetarians.reut/index.html

I imagine any teen that thinks about what they eat is better than the typical fast-food chip eating teen.