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    Is pasta healthy?

    in Health & Nutrition Programs

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    Read "Grain Damage" sometime, or any of the other books about the detrimental effects of grains; there are nutritional schools that completely avoid grains. You might want to check them out.

     

    Even brown rice and quinoa?

     

    I have never been convinced that bread is in any way good for the body and it makes me put on weight like crazy.

    soy steaks and seitan instead of protein powder?

    in Health & Nutrition Programs

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    All these complicated methods of determining protein quality seem to be subject to quite a bit of criticism, e.g.

     

    The PDCAAS method may also still be considered incomplete, since human diets, except in times of famine, almost never contain only one kind of protein—however, calculating the PDCAAS of a diet solely based on the PDCAAS of the individual constituents is impossible. This is because one food may provide an abundance of an amino acid that the other is missing, which means that in this case the PDCAAS of the diet is higher than that of any one of the constituents. To arrive at the final result, all individual amino acids would have to be taken into account, though, so the PDCAAS of each constituent is largely useless.

     

    For example, grain protein has a PDCAAS of about 0.4 to 0.5, limited by lysine. On the other hand, it contains more than enough methionine. White bean protein (and that of many other pulses) has a PDCAAS of 0.6 to 0.7, limited by methionine, and contains more than enough lysine. When both are eaten in roughly equal quantities in a diet, the PDCAAS of the combined constituent is 1.0, because each constituent's protein is complemented by the other.

     

     

    Still, it would seem soy isolate is still the best vegan protein out there, using these 'PDCAAS' and 'Biological Value' scales. Soy and rice both seemingly having a higher 'Biological Value' than beef and fish!! However the BV scale is still subject to criticism:

     

     

    The BV method uses nitrogen absorption as a basis. However, it does not take into account certain factors influencing the digestion of the protein and is of limited use for application to human protein requirements because what is measured is maximal potential of quality and not a true estimate of quality at requirement level.

    Veg/Hemp/Rice Protein v. Whey Protein, Muscle Thickness

    in Bodybuilding/Strength Training

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    In my personal experience (lifting heavily as a meat eater and whey drinker in the 1990's compared to vegan lifting in the 2000's), I think you make greater gains and much faster using whey, for sure. Your muscles get pumped up faster in just a few weeks, and you can lift heavier. But, once you go "off" the whey shakes or stop lifting for a while, your muscles rapidly go to almost nothing, or just a bit higher than the base of where you had started.

     

    This is very interesting. If hemp is as a good a protein as people say, what properties does whey possess that enables such better gains?

    Meat & Protein:Dispelling the Myths

    in Health & Nutrition Programs

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    Try these for size, they are said to contain the highest level of 'life force', being high in minerals and mostly eaten raw:

     

    Wheat Grass

    Phytoplankton

    Raw chocolate

    Seaweed

    Almonds

    Raw Cacao

    Spirulina

    Lemons

    Goji Berries

    Mangosteen

    Limes

     

    2nd highest 'life force' foods, from the trees:

     

    Apples

    Blueberries

    Coconut

    Avocado

    Melons

    Raspberries

    Pineapple

    Mango

    Strawberries

    Bananas

    Peaches

    Lychees

    Grapes

    Cherries

    Oranges

    'Raw' nuts

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    Chlorophyll as a food?

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    I recently purchased Marcus Patrick's DVD and Food Pyramid and right at the top is listed phytoplankton, wheatgrass and chlorophyll, described as 'chemical sunlight' and the most nutrient dense foods available. This has left me a little confused, as I know chlorophyll is in green plants but never thought of it as a food in itself?

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