Ask A Vegan Anything.

[Dee Dee Ramone]

I think it's a troll using silly photos of a random goofy boy, maybe a classmate, so therefor I think the real chucklee is beyond pathethic.

Edit; Not that I am the real Dee Dee ofcourse, he's dead and much cooler than me.

[BGChuckLee]

(I have been vegan for 2 years, I eat an extremely high carb/low fat diet.

My daily diet is something like:
5-15 bananas
A kilo of rice
Vegetable Curry or Stew
2 litres of Orange Juice
2 litres of banana/berry smoothie
10-20 dates
Half a Pineapple

No beans? Do you check to make sure you're getting enough protein?

How much exactly is enough protein?

[TaraJo]

No beans? Do you check to make sure you're getting enough protein?

How much exactly is enough protein?

5 1/2 ounces per day, at least. If it's all coming from plant sources, you'll probably need more because the body doesn't process plant protein as well as animal protein (however, for some reason, the body does better with it if you eat beans and rice together than it does if you eat beans alone. Not sure exactly why).

Here's a list of protein foods. Your list has none of these. No, things like apples, bananas and pasta do NOT have protein in them.

http://www.choosemyplate.gov/foodgroups/...table.html

[BGChuckLee]

How much exactly is enough protein?

5 1/2 ounces per day, at least. If it's all coming from plant sources, you'll probably need more because the body doesn't process plant protein as well as animal protein (however, for some reason, the body does better with it if you eat beans and rice together than it does if you eat beans alone. Not sure exactly why).

Here's a list of protein foods. Your list has none of these. No, things like apples, bananas and pasta do NOT have protein in them.

http://www.choosemyplate.gov/foodgroups/...table.html

Where are you getting that number from? That's way too much.

The world health organization published a study in the 70s, detailing exactly how much protein we need- it was over 100 pages, and concluded that we need at least 5% of calories to come from protein.

Bananas, and all foods contain protein:

http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/frui...ces/1846/2

most fruit contain 4% of calories from protein.

So, I am getting a healthy amount of protein- since my diet is 80/10/10, that's double the required protein recommended by the world health organization.

[TaraJo]

Where are you getting that number from? That's way too much.

Textbooks, my nutrition teacher and websites that are regularly updated with the newest nutritional findings. Which seems to be a much more reliable source of information than a site that seems focused on fad diets and studies that are over 30 years old.

[The Grand Nudger]

5 1/2 ounces per day, at least. If it's all coming from plant sources, you'll probably need more because the body doesn't process plant protein as well as animal protein (however, for some reason, the body does better with it if you eat beans and rice together than it does if you eat beans alone. Not sure exactly why).

Because leguminous crops contain toxic substances to which we are not yet very well adapted. The "we" is variable for population samples, some are better adapted to legumes than to grain, and it almost always coincides with the agricultural history of the population sample.

Animal protein is healthy, some if it is "healthier" or "less healthy" but to use words like "need" we have to put a bunch of qualifiers. You can survive for quite some time on cardboard, sugar packets, and water, for example, but no one would say that all you "need" is cardboard, sugar and water. The "need" bit comes from whatever a researcher or proponent has defined as the "optimal level" of this or that....which is why the numbers can vary so greatly from source to source without anyone actually looking to out-and-ought misinform anyone.

[BGChuckLee]

Where are you getting that number from? That's way too much.

Textbooks, my nutrition teacher and websites that are regularly updated with the newest nutritional findings. Which seems to be a much more reliable source of information than a site that seems focused on fad diets and studies that are over 30 years old.

No offence, but you look overweight in your dp (if that's you), so naturally I am hesitant to take your advice, and if you are eating 5 1/2 ounces of protein... holy shit... you will blow out like crazy. No athlete would eat that amount of protein unless they were doing weight lifting or bodybuilding and such.

[The Grand Nudger]

"Looking fat" isn't exactly a unit of measurement that will get much traction. Nor is it going to tell you much about a persons overall health (or diet). I had a wonderfully plump vegan girlfriend once upon a time, tipped the scale on me.. so-to-speak. Girl just loved to eat...and I just loved to feed her, lol.

[BGChuckLee]

"Looking fat" isn't exactly a unit of measurement that will get much traction.

I've got two eyes, I'll use them.

[The Grand Nudger]

I would hope so, but your eyes aren't exactly instruments designed to pierce the veil of human nutritional requirements or health, rgr?