[throwaway5752]

My understanding is absorption of heme iron is only twice non-heme sources. I think that is why, on the balance, vegans have adequate iron levels. Hemochromatosis seems separate from this subject, but perhaps you can help me here - I don't know if hemochromatis leads to differential heme/non-heme absorption or if it's linear. Point taken on menses, however.

I think I will go back to a prior comment and just say this submission is bad and didn't teach anybody any useful new information. Vegans can be healthy, and kids raised on a vegan diet can be healthy. Non vegans can be healthy.

Bad parents are going to be bad parents and that is the real problem here. It would be nice to treat the root causes of that (poor access to medical care, poor education, poorly curated information online, poor social support networks) that worry about 2ary manifestations of that (people given infants almond milk because they are ignorant of nutrition, people not vaccinating their children).