This makes total sense to me: (from rawschool/raw-food-basics/#proteincalcium) Where do raw fooders get their protein, calcium, etc.? The story on protein has been so hopelessly and deliberately obfuscated by commercial propaganda that it’s always the first question that is asked about diets that include no animal products. It is surprising for most people to learn that human protein needs are actually very small. Overconsumption of protein presents a far greater threat to our health than not getting enough. The truth is, it’s practically impossible to not get enough, and actual cases of protein deficiency are almost nonexistent in our culture. Our true protein needs can be ascertained quite definitively by examining the relative protein content of human mother’s milk. When we are infants we grow faster than at any other time in our lives. Consequently our relative protein needs are the greatest at that time as well. Yet breast milk contains a very small amount of protein — 1-4%, depending on the age of the infant (percentages change at various stages of development). It is no coincidence that fruit contains roughly the same percentage of protein on average: 1-6%. The reality about all the various nutrients in food, including protein, calcium, vitamin b12, EFAs and the others, is that we needn’t concern ourselves at all with getting enough of them. What we need to do is determine what our real, natural foods are and just eat them. None of the other animals on Earth fret about getting enough of each nutrient, they just eat the foods that naturally appeal to them. We can do the same. Nature has it all worked out for us. As previously mentioned, it is not a mystery or a matter of theory which foods we’re supposed to be eating. This has been determined with as much certainty as whether we should drink water instead of Kool-Aid or breathe oxygen instead of carbon monoxide. Further, it has been estimated that only a small percentage of the nutrients in food have been isolated and identified. It may well be that the ones yet to be discovered are even more important than the ones we unnecessarily obsess about getting enough of. Like most other misconceptions about health, the fear of nutrient deficiency does not originate from true scientific evidence but from the advertising efforts of the industries which stand to gain from our confusion – the meat, dairy, egg, medical, pharmaceutical, herb and supplement industries, to name a few. These ideas and fears need to be discarded in favor of rational thinking and sensible, fact-based information.
Posted on: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 23:59:07 +0000
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