Plant-Based Pitfalls: When Can the Vegan Diet Go Wrong?

People who follow a vegan diet are at risk for vitamin deficiencies, because some nutrients come mainly from animal sources.

While institutions from the American Medical Association to Harvard Medicine agree that a plant-forward diet can improve cardiovascular, physical and overall health, there are certainly ways to be unhealthy while following a vegan diet. Dreamstime/TNS

By Hanna Webster From Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

PITTSBURGH—The vegan diet, over the past 20 years, has received plenty of flack about its extreme and at-times in-your-face style, made famous by the animal activism group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA.