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Vegitarians and supplements

Posted by blindboy, 58 days ago

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hello i was wondering since vegitarians dont get alot of protein because the main source of protein from meat is gone, is it okay to take protein supplements to maintain your protein levels? or are there other ways of getting protein like beans and cheese? Reply to this article / Report this article
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Vegitarians and supplements by duncan, 784 days ago

Just to follow up on this, The Guardian newspaper in the UK have just published an article on raw food. Normally their 'lifestyle' articles are a bit thin on the ground, but this one takes the subject pretty seriously and is a good read:

"I have been challenged by my editor to eat entirely raw for a week, and reading up online has left me veering between mild enthusiasm and intense scepticism. Proponents attribute massive benefits to eating only raw foods, including increased energy, weight loss, emotional balance, and even the prevention of cancer and heart disease. They claim that raw, unprocessed food contains enzymes essential for digestion which are destroyed in the course of cooking - many even believe that cooked food is actively toxic.

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I also have my suspicions, though. One concerns the argument advanced by many raw-foodists that their diet is best for us because the human digestive system was founded on a raw vegan diet. This is disputable - many prehistoric communities (including the Inuit) are thought to have lived primarily on meat and fish, while archaeologists have traced cooking back more than 1.5m years. Even without such evidence, though, these ultra-Luddite arguments annoy me. Many prehistoric humans also lived in caves, never brushed their hair and had a perilously low life expectancy, and I don't fancy that much, either."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/food/story/0,,1947951...

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