Comments on: Provide All Your Protein Needs

By: Fiona@Busy-Vegan

Fiona@Busy-Vegan — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:33:29 +0000

While it is absolutely true that we actually need far less protein than the USDA would have us believe, I agree with Michael that fruit may not always be the best plant source of protein. I also eat a lot of goji and spirulina as protein sources, but hemp seeds are one of the few complete plant proteins – high in omega 3 too! 6 tbsp of hemp seeds with a little almond milk contains 22 grams of fabulous plant protein – you’re covered for the whole day!

By: Sanna

Sanna — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:03:16 +0000

Hi, i just want to point out for everyone that apriccots have 1,4% protein, not 10%. The diagram on Nutridiary.com that sais it is 10% shows Calorie Distrubution. 10% of the calories in apricots comes from protein, but if you look to the left of the diagram it clearly sais that there are 1,4 g protein in 100 grams of apricot. That makes a total of 1,4 % protein. The same goes for all the things listed.

By: diet-plan-recipes

diet-plan-recipes — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:35:09 +0000

Hello, nice and enlightening article. I wish to add a few mentions. If you have superior cholesterol, then you may wonder, will a low fat diet lower cholesterol? This is a critical question, because it is a easily known fact that the most capable way to lower cholesterol is straightforward diet. Certainly one factor of a diet for lowering cholesterol will include follows low in fat. Merely this is simply part of the history. It is critical to project that it is the concentrated fats that you want to decimate it from the foods you feed.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:05:25 +0000

Michael –

Thanks for sharing. I’m still experimenting myself and I do believe that people have different needs. Some do better with more greens, and some do better with more protein and fat, etc. I think some of this has to do with our body and some has to do with the quality of the produce we happen to have available to us.

For example, someone eating organic home grown fruits and veggies in Ecuador may be fine with a high-produce diet.

Someone in America trying to live off apples and oranges is going to do much better with additional foods! I don’t have the best produce (grown in the best soils) by a long shot, available to me. So I do appreciate your addition to the blog so people can see all sides.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:25:00 +0000

I have heard all of these ideas expressed by many raw foodists, and I do think they have a point. This approach of low protein may work for some people, at least in the short term. But it does not work for everyone. Many people need more protein than this in order to really thrive. I am one of those people. If I had taken a high-sugar, low protein approach, yes there would have been many immediate health benefits, but long-term I notice people’s nervous systems having problems. For example, Paul Nison, Arnold of Arnold’s Way restaurant, Doug Graham, and many others. Very lean, very fit, but not very well in my opinion. I have found great healing through high-protein raw foods like spirulina, hemp seeds, other raw nuts and seeds and some of the high-protein berries like gojis. My brain chemistry is MUCH more balanced when I eat this way.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:10:22 +0000

I have diabetes, eating more protein let me being in control of it without taking any medicaments. Doesn’t it mean that I have a too great intake of carbohydrates eating only fruits resulting in inundating the body with too much insulin which can’t be taken by the cells then?
By the way, I am vegetarian and in my opinion the meat industry can vanish and all the animals which are “produced for slaughter” have a happy life!!!

By: Christopher

Christopher — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:01:09 +0000

Edith –

Thanks for sharing your example. Last evening for dinner I had a head of lettuce, 4 peaches, a mango, and 5 bananas.
You probably have better fruit in Jamaica where you are. Enjoy it.

By: Edith

Edith — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:17:43 +0000

You know it is always said that eating too much of one thing will damage you? is this true, because i strongly believe that i can survive on fruits, i will sit and eat 5 mangoes, or 2 bananas, papayas, oranges i will eat a dozen and i am filled.

By: Gen

Gen — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:10:16 +0000

Great idea! I was a practicing vegetarian for years BUT the key is to combine plant proteins, so as to have all 17 amino acids present, so the body can assimilate the amino acids as protein. As I understand it, unless all the amino acids are present, the body can’t absorb them as protein.

I have seen way too many vegans who eat nothing but fruit and forget to combine proteins so their body can get the small-but-very-necessary protein it needs for optimal health.