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• The protein myth
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The protein myth The number one question most vegetarians are asked is "How do you get enough protein?", Nothing in our modern human diet has been as and the first question from people misunderstood, and as misrepresented, as considering a vegetarian diet is "How will I protein. It's considered by most people as get  enough  protein?" the foundation of nutrition --- and essential to life. The importance of eating enough The Myth of Protein is so widely accepted as protein, primarily from animal sources, is fact that even vegetarians believe it! It drilled  into  us  daily  from  childhood. goes  like  this: It's been estimated that the average person Protein is the most important nutrient in our in this country eats two - six times more diet, and protein from meat, fish, poultry, protein, usually from animals, than is needed milk and eggs is superior to the incomplete for good nutrition. At it's most extreme, our protein  from  plant  sources. protein fixation has led to the popularity of high-protein low-carb weight loss diets, Meat is the best protein source, and grains condemned by doctors and nutritionists from have  little  or  no  protein. coast  to  coast. A vegetarian diet doesn't have enough The development of factory farms and modern protein,  and  is  therefore  unhealthy. meat processing plants, aided by refrigeration, along with economic rail and Vegetarian  Protein  Reality truck shipping, made meat and dairy products widely available and affordable. The results, Over the last few decades, wide spread for our health, the environment, and world practical experience of vegetarian diet, hunger, have been disastrous. Before the late knowledge of traditional cultures, and 1800's most of the world didn't eat a lot of hundreds of health/diet studies, all tell a meat, or dairy, as there just wasn't that different  story. much  available  for  ordinary  people. Too much protein is as harmful as too little, Except in myths of the Wild West, the average and is linked with shorter life expectancy, person didn't have a horse and gun to run increased cancer and heart disease risk, around shooting things to eat, or a herd of widespread obesity and diabetes, cows to kill. Mostly they worked pretty hard, osteoporosis, kidney stress, and bad for not much money, and didn't have that much digestion time. High protein-diets bring about temporary Since the early 20th century, a meat and weight-loss, at the expense of overall dairy centered diet has been heavily promoted health, and people quickly regain weight once as the answer to dietary deficiencies, the they  return  to  a  normal  diet flawed logic being that since we're mammals, and our bodies are made with protein, then we A varied vegetarian diet with a balance of need to eat mammals in order to get enough protein, fats & carbohydrates, and adequate protein and maintain our bodies. That calorie intake provides more than enough cannibalistic logic doesn't hold up under the protein most  casual  examination. Complete animal protein is not superior to Unfortunately most of recent human history is complete protein from more than one plant based on flawed logic. And we tend to rewrite source – they give the same result in history about every fifty years to harmonize different  ways with  the  current  world  view. Protein from plant sources doesn't include The world would be a much kinder, healthier excess calories from fat, toxic residues, or place today if people had gone with greens, an overabundance of protein, which stresses grains and beans instead of milk and meat as the  kidneys the solution to dietary deficiencies. A few people did – they adopted a vegetarian The Gospel According to Industrial diet, and their dietary protein comes mainly Agriculture from plants. 1 A B C D E F 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135