Comments on: Are you getting enough protein in a raw vegan diet? http://www.habitguide.com/protein-raw-vegan-diet How to be Happy & Healthy Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:25:23 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Mike Kinnaird http://www.habitguide.com/protein-raw-vegan-diet/comment-page-1#comment-7898 Mike Kinnaird Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:11:34 +0000 http://www.habitguide.com/blog/?p=58#comment-7898 That's interesting Laurie, thanks. Not heard that argument before. That’s interesting Laurie, thanks. Not heard that argument before.

]]> By: Laurie Thomas http://www.habitguide.com/protein-raw-vegan-diet/comment-page-1#comment-7897 Laurie Thomas Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:08:06 +0000 http://www.habitguide.com/blog/?p=58#comment-7897 It's silly to worry about proteins being "denatured" by cooking. They get also get denatured and even digested by the acid and enzymes in the stomach and intestines. The fact that proteins can be denatured by cooking can actually be a good thing. I know people who have such bad allergies that they can't eat any fruit unless it's cooked. It’s silly to worry about proteins being “denatured” by cooking. They get also get denatured and even digested by the acid and enzymes in the stomach and intestines.

The fact that proteins can be denatured by cooking can actually be a good thing. I know people who have such bad allergies that they can’t eat any fruit unless it’s cooked.

]]> By: Mike Kinnaird http://www.habitguide.com/protein-raw-vegan-diet/comment-page-1#comment-7896 Mike Kinnaird Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:15:08 +0000 http://www.habitguide.com/blog/?p=58#comment-7896 Hi Brittany, I'm with you in that my heart is with raw foods and I do think it's the future. HOWEVER, you don't hear much about the failures to stay with raw foods and there have been MANY people who believed in it, who wanted it to work but it didn't. So, we need to know WHY. The truth is that every other animal, every other life-form eats raw, that is FACT. So something is wrong somewhere. It may be as simple as a B12 problem or it maybe because of not enough calories or because supermarket fruit is NOT wild fruit, it has more sugar, less minerals and less protein in general than wild fruit. It maybe because there's not enough protein. So... Raw is NOT to be recommended right now because we don't have all the data, we don't have a reliable way of making it work. In the future, I think it will happen, but that future is a good way off because we need GOOD science, i.e. not funded by people with an agenda, and so we're not getting any science because there's no independent funding. We have to come at this nutrition problem from the angle of "what is a natural diet for humans" and go from there. That's the only sane angle but that is not happening either. ~ Mike Hi Brittany, I’m with you in that my heart is with raw foods and I do think it’s the future. HOWEVER, you don’t hear much about the failures to stay with raw foods and there have been MANY people who believed in it, who wanted it to work but it didn’t. So, we need to know WHY. The truth is that every other animal, every other life-form eats raw, that is FACT. So something is wrong somewhere. It may be as simple as a B12 problem or it maybe because of not enough calories or because supermarket fruit is NOT wild fruit, it has more sugar, less minerals and less protein in general than wild fruit. It maybe because there’s not enough protein.

So… Raw is NOT to be recommended right now because we don’t have all the data, we don’t have a reliable way of making it work. In the future, I think it will happen, but that future is a good way off because we need GOOD science, i.e. not funded by people with an agenda, and so we’re not getting any science because there’s no independent funding.

We have to come at this nutrition problem from the angle of “what is a natural diet for humans” and go from there. That’s the only sane angle but that is not happening either.

~ Mike

]]> By: Brittany Marie http://www.habitguide.com/protein-raw-vegan-diet/comment-page-1#comment-7895 Brittany Marie Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:45:39 +0000 http://www.habitguide.com/blog/?p=58#comment-7895 So long as we consume a variety of nuts, grains, legumes, veggies and fruits, we should be in the clear because our bodies are fully capable of combining the different amino acids to form their own proteins. Though there is little substantial evidence to support it, my heart is with the raw diet. However, I do believe you should include this in your article: When our foods are cooked, whether they be meats, vegetables, or beans, the proteins within them are denatured. I believe that this one argument alone is reason enough to agree that eating raw foods will provide the human body with more useable nutrients than cooked foods. So long as we consume a variety of nuts, grains, legumes, veggies and fruits, we should be in the clear because our bodies are fully capable of combining the different amino acids to form their own proteins.
Though there is little substantial evidence to support it, my heart is with the raw diet. However, I do believe you should include this in your article: When our foods are cooked, whether they be meats, vegetables, or beans, the proteins within them are denatured.
I believe that this one argument alone is reason enough to agree that eating raw foods will provide the human body with more useable nutrients than cooked foods.

]]> By: Godfada http://www.habitguide.com/protein-raw-vegan-diet/comment-page-1#comment-6975 Godfada Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:32:22 +0000 http://www.habitguide.com/blog/?p=58#comment-6975 For those of you looking for more guidance about the 80-10-10 Diet Book you can go to www.30bananasaday.com there is a whole community and movement towards this diet. Cheers! For those of you looking for more guidance about the 80-10-10 Diet Book you can go to http://www.30bananasaday.com there is a whole community and movement towards this diet.
Cheers!

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