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So why shouldn't I eat meat? As man I'm an omnivore. I try to eat a healthy balanced diet. I don need more raw veggies, raw fruits isn't enough, but overall I never really understood why people push it...convince me.
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I was like you man. I thought it was sissified for any grown man to not eat meat. I was stupid when it came to that. I have recently became a vegetarian. Well to the best of my ability.Originally Posted by bboy1827
So why shouldn't I eat meat? As man I'm an omnivore. I try to eat a healthy balanced diet. I don need more raw veggies, raw fruits isn't enough, but overall I never really understood why people push it...convince me.
Originally Posted by DCAllAmerican
I was like you man. I thought it was sissified for any grown man to not eat meat. I was stupid when it came to that. I have recently became a vegetarian. Well to the best of my ability.Originally Posted by bboy1827
So why shouldn't I eat meat? As man I'm an omnivore. I try to eat a healthy balanced diet. I don need more raw veggies, raw fruits isn't enough, but overall I never really understood why people push it...convince me.. Currently in week 2 but I slipped up and ate a piece of fish at a food demonstration.
But over the years, I didn't eat much meat at all, at most 2-3 times per week.
Cholesterol found in animal foods.
The inhumane, disgusting, and out right wrong practices at these meat factories.
I have recently tried to become more respectful of the earth as a whole and I feel like I am disrespecting my animal brothers by supporting the commercial meat industry. I am a pet owner and it bothers me imagining someone doing the things to my little warriors that people do to these cows, chickens, turkeys, and pigs. And fish.
A book that caused me to open my eyes was : http://byanygreensnecessary.com/
Can you cite some of this research that you mentioned regarding high protein diets being the cause of many of America's health problems? The Wikipedia excerpt simply explains that if you eat above your caloric maintenance, you will put on fat. Obesity isn't caused by eating too much protein, it's caused by eating above one's caloric maintenance. People eat above caloric maintenance, because they eat foods that aren't filling and are dense in calories. Sure, it's very difficult to eat above caloric maintenance if all you're eating is fruits and veggies, but that doesn't mean high protein diets are bad. The benefits of eating protein for weight loss that you are ignoring include the fact that consuming protein results in greater satiety and thermogenesis (see the following paper: http://www.jacn.org/content/23/5/373.short). This is the evidence used to support high protein diets for weight loss. In short, no "high-protein" diets are not the cause of a lot of diseases that plague society today.No it doesn't.
High protein diets are being exposed as the cause of a lot of the diseases that plague American's today.
Research has shown that only about 25% of the protein that the average American intakes, is absorbed by the body. The rest is eliminated in your waste.
And if you require extra protein for bodybuilding reasons, there are an abundance of natural sources.
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After that stage, the body will produce fat from the excess protein, turning it into fat cells
The study you posted actually addresses high protein diets and renal function.Can you cite some of this research that you mentioned regarding high protein diets being the cause of many of America's health problems? The Wikipedia excerpt simply explains that if you eat above your caloric maintenance, you will put on fat. Obesity isn't caused by eating too much protein, it's caused by eating above one's caloric maintenance. People eat above caloric maintenance, because they eat foods that aren't filling and are dense in calories. Sure, it's very difficult to eat above caloric maintenance if all you're eating is fruits and veggies, but that doesn't mean high protein diets are bad. The benefits of eating protein for weight loss that you are ignoring include the fact that consuming protein results in greater satiety and thermogenesis (see the following paper: http://www.jacn.org/content/23/5/373.short). This is the evidence used to support high protein diets for weight loss. In short, no "high-protein" diets are not the cause of a lot of diseases that plague society today.
I understand the appeal of raw food diets in that you're eating real, unprocessed foods. That's all well and good, but there are plenty of other "diets" that allow for this - i.e. paleo/primal diets.