This
is undoubtedly the most common question asked of vegetarians.
It's a fair question given
society's conventional education about protein.
Here's the interesting and
pivotal point on this.
Proteins are complex chains of amino
acids; you've likely heard that wording. Wikipedia states it as:
Proteins are large biomolecules, or macromolecules, consisting of
one or more long chains of amino acid residues.
Enzymes ARE amino acids,
and enzymes are found in all raw foods, as explained on the home
page here.
So, while we seek protein for
protein's sake, what our bodies actually use from protein--the amino
acids--are found in all raw plant foods.
However, eating cooked
protein requires the body to break down the protein to usable amino
acids, and that digestive process is deleterious to the body. Any
amino acids found in animal proteins are substandard to those found
in raw plant foods.
Tim VanOrden says it very well in
his four-minute YouTube video, The
Protein Myth,
providing additional data points.
Questions or comments? Feel free
to contact me: glenn@glennwarren.com
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