Comments | silva_star511: Protein Sources...for those who say not eating meat does not allow you to have enough protein.

silva_star511

Protein Sources...for those who say not eating meat does not allow you to have enough protein.

Jul 23, 2006 15:31

While just about every vegetarian food contains some protein, the soybean deserves special mention, for it contains all the essential amino acids and surpasses all other food plants in the amount of protein that it can deliver to the human system. In this regard, it is nearly equal to meat. The human body is able to digest 92 percent of the protein ( Read more... )

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silva_star511 July 23 2006, 22:13:00 UTC

Niki McNaught and Maegan Kellas were both arguing that you cannot get enough protein from not eating meat, or even red-meat. I'm glad there's at least one person I know who's not an idiot, thanks Steph for your comment.

ex_counterat577 July 24 2006, 01:57:39 UTC

It is still very hard to get it and it does lack alot of stuff, yes you can make up for it elsewhere but alot of people have trouble doing it and just don't bother. Meat is just an excelent sourse of it as well as other vitamins.

If people wanna eat meat, fucking let them.

missabob July 24 2006, 03:17:52 UTC

Correct me if I'm wrong...but I got the impression that you weren't trying to convince other people to not eat meat. That you were more just trying to show people that you know what you're doing, and that you can stay healthy without eating meat.
It SOUNDS like they were trying to convince you that you can't eat healthy and be a vegetarian, and you were just trying to defend yourself.

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missabob July 24 2006, 01:30:51 UTC

I think...it can be hard to get enough protein if you're vegetarian and DON'T know what you're doing. Which, unfortunately, there are a lot of people like that. They don't realize that if you just looked it up on the internet you can find lots of places to find protein.
I do agree with Steph though. It's not so much finding protein that is the problem. It's finding the other nutrients and certain vitamins. It can also be hard to keep your diet BALANCED. Like any diet, you can get everything you need. You just have to know what you're doing. And like I said, a lot of people don't know what they're doing.

silva_star511 July 24 2006, 03:35:40 UTC

that's true.

system_86 August 10 2006, 06:11:58 UTC

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silva_star511 August 10 2006, 06:33:00 UTC

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