(CNN) -- Niki Gianni was 11 or 12 when she found a video on YouTube called "Meet Your Meat." Saddened and disgusted by the footage from a slaughterhouse, the Chicago girl announced she was no longer going to eat meat. Her parents were less than thrilled. 

"When she first said she wanted to be a vegetarian, we were just looking at each other and we said, 'We can't be switching meals for you. You are not going to get your protein.' We were not educated in the health benefits," said Gianni's mother, Julie Gianni. 

While many parents worry whether their vegetarian or vegan children will receive adequate nutrition for their growing bodies, the American Dietetic Association says such diets, as long as they are well-planned, are appropriate for all phases of life, including childhood and adolescence. "Appropriately planned" vegetarian or vegan diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases, the dietetic association says. 

"You can really feel the difference when you are eating something from the ground and something from a factory," said Niki Gianni, an animal activist who became a vegan shortly after embracing the vegetarian lifestyle. 

10-year-old: Why I became vegetarian in first grade 

Now an 18-year-old college freshman, Niki Gianni said her eating habits expanded her palate and turned her away from processed foods. Her food choices also influenced her family: Her mother is now a vegan and her father and sister are vegetarians. 

The number of vegetarians in the United States is expected to increase over the next decade, according to the dietetic association. A vegetarian diet is associated with a lower risk of death from ischemic heart disease, and vegetarians also appear to have lower overall cancer rates, lower blood pressure and lower rates of hypertension than nonvegetarians.  What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What video turned Niki against meat?
2. Is the number of vegetarians expected to go up or down in the next ten years?
3. According to who?
4. How many health issues have lower risk of death for vegetarians?
5. Name one.
6. Were Niki's parents educated on the healthy aspects of being vegetarian?
7. Is eating all vegetables okay for any age group?
8. Including childhood, if planned carefully?
9. Does Niki support animal rights?
10. How old is she now?
11. Is she in school?
12. Does she eat at McDonald's?
Answer: 1. "Meet Your Meat."
2. up
3. according to the dietetic association
4. four
5. ischemic heart disease
6. no
7. yes
8. yes
9. yes
10. 18
11. yes
12. unknown

Problem: Brownie and Spotty were neighbor dogs. They loved each other and played together so often that they had worn a path through the grass of the field between their houses. One evening, Brownie's family noticed that their dog hadn't returned home. They went looking for him, but with no success. Brownie didn't show up the next day, and by the next week he was still missing. Curiously, Spotty showed up at Brownie's house alone. He barked loudly. But busy with their own lives, Brownie's family just ignored their neighbor's nervous little dog. Finally, one morning Spotty refused to take "no" for an answer. He followed Ted, Brownie's owner, everywhere he went. He barked, then rushed towards a nearby empty lot and back, as if to say, " Follow me!" Finally, Ted followed the dog across the empty lot. The dog led the man to a tree a half-mile from the house. There Ted found Brownie alive. One of his legs was crushed in a trap. Ted wished he had taken Spotty's earlier appeals seriously. Then Ted noticed something amazing. In a circle around the injured dog, he saw a lot of dog food. They were the remains of lots of meals. Spotty had been visiting Brownie every day. He had stayed with Brownie to protect him, snuggling with him at night to keep him warm and nuzzling him to .
1. Who caused the path in the grass?
2. Who are they?
3. How do they know each other?
4. Where did they make the path?
5. Who was missing?
6. How long was he gone?
7. Who looked for him?
8. Where was he?
9. What had happened to him?
10. Who showed Ted where he was?
11. How did Spotty try to tell them?
12. What did the family do?
13. How did he get them to listen?
14. What else?
15. Did Ted listen?
16. What did he do?
17. Was Brownie living?
18. was he hurt?
19. Who had been watching Brownie?
20. What did Scotty take him?
Answer: 1. Brownie and Spotty
2. dogs
3. they're neighbors
4. between their houses
5. Brownie
6. at least a week
7. his family
8. a half-mile from home
9. he was caught in a trap
10. The dog
11. barking
12. ignored him
13. followed Ted everywhere
14. barked and rushed back and forth to a lot
15. yes
16. followed him
17. yes
18. yes
19. Spotty
20. meals

question: Outside of the Low Countries, it is the native language of the majority of the population of Suriname, and also holds official status in the Caribbean island nations of Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten. Historical minorities on the verge of extinction remain in parts of France and Germany, and in Indonesia,[n 1] while up to half a million native speakers may reside in the United States, Canada and Australia combined.[n 2] The Cape Dutch dialects of Southern Africa have evolved into Afrikaans, a mutually intelligible daughter language[n 3] which is spoken to some degree by at least 16 million people, mainly in South Africa and Namibia.[n 4] 

Dutch is one of the closest relatives of both German and English[n 5] and is said to be roughly in between them.[n 6] Dutch, like English, has not undergone the High German consonant shift, does not use Germanic umlaut as a grammatical marker, has largely abandoned the use of the subjunctive, and has levelled much of its morphology, including the case system.[n 7] Features shared with German include the survival of three grammatical genders—albeit with few grammatical consequences[n 8]—as well as the use of modal particles, final-obstruent devoicing, and a similar word order.[n 9] Dutch vocabulary is mostly Germanic and incorporates more Romance loans than German but fewer than English.[n 10]
1. What is Dutch a close relative of?
2. Where is it the majority native language?
3. Where else is it spoken?
4. Anywhere else?
5. Has Dutch underhgone the German shift?
6. What other languages haven't?
7. How many characteristics are shared with German?
8. What are they?
9. Does it include Romance loans?
10. Where does Afrikaans come frome?
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answer:
1. German and English
2. Suriname
3. Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten
4. France and Germany, Indonesia United States, Canada and Australia combined.
5. No
6. English
7. three
8. gramatical genders
9. yes
10. Southern Africa