Last week I talked about Vitamin D. Now on to iron, calcium and zinc. These three nutrients are, contrary to popular belief, easy to get in a healthy vegan diet. While it is easy, it's not automatic and you should be conscious of eating a wide a variety of foods to make sure you're getting a wide variety of the nutrients we need.

That's good advice for vegans, but it's equally good advice for vegetarians and omnivores as well. Just because there's a lot of calcium in milk doesn't mean it's getting used since, among other limitations, milk has barely any magnesium to balance it out.