Alicia Silverstone says vegan son so healthy 'he's never had to take medicine'

Alicia Silverstone claims her seven-year-old son is so healthy he's never had to take medicine in his life, something she puts down to his vegan diet.

The 42-year-old Clueless actress has been vegan herself since she was 21. She told Page 6 her son's stellar health comes from the fact that he too doesn't consume animal products.

"He's never had to take medicine in his life," she said. "He can get sniffles and a runny nose but he's not down, he still goes to school. Two times in his life has he been like 'Mommy I don't feel good,' and it was only for a few hours and he was back running around."

Silverstone also said she was glad veganism was becoming more popular, telling the magazine that when she was in her 20s, a plant-based lifestyle was nowhere near as popular or talked about as it is now.

"I remember when I would go on David Letterman and go on Jay Leno and they'd be like 'Vegan?! What's a vegan?' And they would just make a whole fun riff on it because it was like I was an alien, no one was talking about being vegan on television," she recalled.

Silverstone even has her own vegan cookbook, The Kind Diet.

Vegan parenting has garnered much media attention over the past couple of years. A Sydney couple's strict vegan diet left their toddler medically malnourished earlier this year, leading to the child suffering a seizure. 

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