More on The Protein Myth: protein combining
Since I’ve started mentioning to friends and family that I am considering going vegan, several well-meaning but misguided folks have warned me about about getting enough protein or suggested I eat lots of beans with rice to make sure I got all my essential amino acids in the right combinations.This combination theory comes from the immensely popular book Diet for a Small Planet
According to The Vegetarian Resource Group:
Even if you ate only one food and not the variety of foods typical of a vegan diet, you would probably get enough protein and essential amino acids. Remember, almost all protein sources of non-animal origin contain all of the essential amino acids.
If you’re still holding on to animal products in your diet because you’re worried about getting enough or the right kinds of protein, I encourage you to do your own research and decide for yourself where myths end and reality begins.
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5 opinions for More on The Protein Myth: protein combining
Jackie
Oct 31, 2006 at 4:55 pm
I still have my copy that I got in the 70’s. It was always useful to give people the facts in those days as saying you were vegetarian or vegan for humane reasons was never accepted.
Jul
Oct 31, 2006 at 5:46 pm
That’s interesting, Jackie. Did you have to defend your diet choices a lot back then?
I should be thankful that I don’t have to defend my vegetarian diet much these days - except for while we were in Japan, I can’t remember the last time someone asked me why I don’t eat meat.
Celine
Nov 28, 2006 at 5:48 pm
So are you saying that it is difficult to be a vegeterian or vegan in Japan? I am planning to go there in the next 2 years and was wondering whether there is a lot of meat in their diet. I guess there is always good old Miso soup to the rescue!
Jackie
Nov 28, 2006 at 6:14 pm
Even now in South Africa being a big meat eating place like Texas due to herds of cattle plus of course hunting for buck (deer) it is still unusual for anyone to be vegetarian so being vegan they regard as very weird and crackpotish.
Wow I thought Japan would be great seeing tofu, edible seaweed and eggless noodles come from there. Of course they also are now murdering dolphins and whales to satisfy their cruel blood lust. Plus the men there it appears are impotent as they kill our seals in Namibia to eat their genitals so they can perform…..shame they cannot take viagra !! As you will note I am not very diplomatic these days…..
Anyway I am a bit off topic :)
The only thing they do need to do is stop destroying our oceans. Very evil these days. Wo’t go into but I now boycott anything from that country as next to the Chinese they are the most cruel people on earth. (My days of being diplomatic are over).
Jul
Nov 28, 2006 at 6:25 pm
Hi Celine - I have an upcoming post planned about some of my food experiences in Japan. Watch this space…
Meat is not particularly prominent in the Japanese diet, but fish sure is. Alas, even miso soup is often prepared with fish stock. The key to sticking to a veg*n diet in Japan is a lot of advanced planning (unless you happen to speak Japanese - then it would be pretty easy to figure things out as you went along, I would imagine).
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