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Carole
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A lot of weight loss diets say to maintain protein
consumption because muscle burns fat. But how much protein
do we need and what is the right mix of vegies/fruit to
carbs and protein?
The following article states 40-80 grams of protein a day.
Let's see. 1000 grams (1kg) / 40 = 25 days' (3+ weeks)
protein from 1kg of meat. How many people would stick to
this regime? Most people would eat 1kg of meat in less
than 1 week.
The development of latent "acidosis"
http://www.euroamericanhealth.com/how.html
"We need protein, obviously, but all we need is 40 grams a
day, a training athlete may need 80 grams a day. The average
American diet on the other hand contains as much as 200
grams of protein per day, that's bacon and eggs for
breakfast, etc.. We all know that the "richer" we became as
a civilization and more "advanced", the more meat we eat.
Plato knew this in ancient Greece and toward the end of that
civilization I'm sure they had all the 'modern' degenerative
diseases that plague us today and, "fast foods".
"This is a reason postulated for the extinction of the Mayan
Indians, their skeletons are demineralized, as if they too
had been soaked in excess acid. Maybe toward the end they
became so rich they ate Big-Mac Hamburgers too."
Carole http://www.austarmetro.com.au/~hubbca/health.htm
consumption because muscle burns fat. But how much protein
do we need and what is the right mix of vegies/fruit to
carbs and protein?
The following article states 40-80 grams of protein a day.
Let's see. 1000 grams (1kg) / 40 = 25 days' (3+ weeks)
protein from 1kg of meat. How many people would stick to
this regime? Most people would eat 1kg of meat in less
than 1 week.
The development of latent "acidosis"
http://www.euroamericanhealth.com/how.html
"We need protein, obviously, but all we need is 40 grams a
day, a training athlete may need 80 grams a day. The average
American diet on the other hand contains as much as 200
grams of protein per day, that's bacon and eggs for
breakfast, etc.. We all know that the "richer" we became as
a civilization and more "advanced", the more meat we eat.
Plato knew this in ancient Greece and toward the end of that
civilization I'm sure they had all the 'modern' degenerative
diseases that plague us today and, "fast foods".
"This is a reason postulated for the extinction of the Mayan
Indians, their skeletons are demineralized, as if they too
had been soaked in excess acid. Maybe toward the end they
became so rich they ate Big-Mac Hamburgers too."
Carole http://www.austarmetro.com.au/~hubbca/health.htm