What about Protein & Calcium on Raw food plan?

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Hi Everybody, Here's a question from a book called " Living on Live

Food " . This is quoted from the book on page 157 & 158.

WHAT ABOUT PROTEIN (AND CALCIUM)?

Answer: This is by far the question I'm asked most frequently.

Protein does not create protein in your body. Amino acids create

protein in your body. And the best source of amino acids are leafy

green vegetables.

When you eat meat, fish, or chicken, you're not getting as much

protein as you think you are. Take chicken, for example. Say there

are 20 grams of protein in a chicken breast. Once you cook it, you

destroy half the protein. Now your body has to digest and

assimilate this heavy, dense source of 10 grams of protein, that

will take up to 100 hours. How much do you think is getting stuck

in your body as toxic waste by the times it reaches your colon? How

much protein from a cooked chicken breast will you actually get?

Maybe a few grams, if you're lucky.

When I speak to bodybuilders and athletes about this, they often

insist that animal protein is the best protein available. If it's

such a good source, why do they need so much of it? Some of my

bodybuilding friends feel it necessary to eat large portons of meat

with each of their six daily meals!

Many green vegetables are excellent sources of high quality

protein. A bowl of uncooked greens or sprouts may only contain a

few grams of protein, but you can digest and assimilate all of it

beause they still have all of their vitamins, minerals, and enzymes

intact. This make this protein far more useful to your body.

YOU COME OUT AHEAD IN 2 WAYS:

First, you're getting high quality protein WITHOUT the other harsh

and dangerous substances, like hormones, antibiotics, chemicals,

drugs, and other unknown substances forced upon farm animals to make

them as fat as possible in the cheapest possible way. Second,

you're getting a lot more protein while eating a lot less food.

IN CONSCIOUS EATING, Cousens writes " According to the

American Dietetic Association, pure vegetarian diets in America

usually contain twice the required protein for one's daily need.

Harvard researchers have found that it is difficult to have a

vegetarian diet that will produce a protein deficiency unless there

is an excess of vegetarian junk foods and sweets. In fact, if

vegetarian protein is consumed in its live state, even less protein

is needed because research shows that one half of the assimilable

protein is destroyed by cooking. "

Robbins, in DIET FOR AMERICA reports: " If we ate nothing but

wheat (which is 17% protein) or oatmeal (15% protein) or pumpkin

(15% protein), we would easily have more than enough protein. If we

ate nothing but cabbage (22% protein) we'd have over double the

maximum we might need. In fact, if we ate nothing but the lowly

potato (11% protein) we would still be getting enough protein. This

fact does not mean potatoes are a particularly high protein source.

They are not. Almost all plant foods provide more. What it does

show, however, is just how low our protein needs really are. There

have been occasions in which people have been forces to satisfy

their entire nutritional needs with potatoes and water alone. I

wouldn't recommend the idea to anyone, but under deprived

circumstances it has been done. Indviduals who have lived for

lengthy periods of time under those conditions showed no signs

whatsoever of protein deficiency, though other vitamin and mineral

deficiences have occured. "

I'll type more about protein & calcium tomorrow.

Have a good evening.

Hugs, Janice from Ohio (KOPS)