RE: Ask A Vegan Anything.
January 9, 2013 at 4:06 pm
(This post was last modified: January 9, 2013 at 4:10 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 9, 2013 at 3:39 pm)TaraJo Wrote: 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.
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