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By : Dr. John A. McDougall, M.D.

Plants--the Original Sources of Protein and Amino Acids

Proteins are made from chains of 20 different amino acids that connect together in varying sequences—similar to how all the words in a dictionary are made from the same 26 letters.   Plants (and microorganisms) can synthesize all of the individual amino acids that are used to build proteins, but animals cannot.  There are 8 amino acids that people cannot make and thus, these must be obtained from our diets—they are referred to as “essential.”  

After we eat our foods, stomach acids and intestinal enzymes digest the proteins into individual amino acids. These components are then absorbed through the intestinal walls into the bloodstream.  After entering the body’s cells, these amino acids are reassembled into proteins. Proteins function as structural materials which build the scaffoldings that maintain cell shapes, enzymes which catalyze biochemical reactions, and hormones which signal messages between cells—to name only a few of their vital roles.  

Since plants are made up of structurally sound cells with enzymes and hormones, they are by nature rich sources of proteins.  In fact, so rich are plants that they can meet the protein needs of the earth’s largest animals: elephants, hippopotamuses, giraffes, and cows.  You would be correct to deduce that the protein needs of relatively small humans can easily be met by plants.

People Require Very Little Protein

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that men and women obtain 5% of their calories as protein.  This would mean 38 grams of protein for a man burning 3000 calories a day and 29 grams for a woman using 2300 calories a day.  This quantity of protein is impossible to avoid when daily calorie needs are met by unrefined starches and vegetables. For example, rice alone would provide 71 grams of highly useable protein and white potatoes would provide 64 grams of protein.

Our greatest time of growth—thus, the time of our greatest need for protein—is during our first 2 years of life—we double in size. At this vigorous developmental stage our ideal food is human milk, which is 5% protein.  Compare this need to food choices that should be made as adults—when we are not growing. Rice is 8% protein, corn 11%, oatmeal 15%, and beans 27%.  Thus protein deficiency is impossible when calorie needs are met by eating unprocessed starches and vegetables.

The healthy active lives of hundreds of millions of people laboring in Asia, Africa, and Central and South America on diets with less than half the amount of protein eaten by Americans and Europeans prove that the popular understanding of our protein needs is seriously flawed.

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 Ingredients:
 1.5 cups cooked quinoa (mix red and black)
 heaping half cup hummus
 1 small carrot
 half bell pepper (color of choice)
 a 1/4 small red onion
 half a small zucchini
 1 tablespoon Braggs liquid Amino (or soy sauce)
 2 tablespoons ground CHIA seeds
 4 tablespoons whole wheat flour (or gluten free flour of choice)
 
Directions:
 put vegetables into food processor and chop them up
 add hummus and the rest of ingredients and process on pulse until all ingredients are well combined but not mush. frigerdate for 60 minutes. form into patties. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper (no oil needed) bake at 400 degrees 15 minutes each side. served with chipoltle veganaise...(1 cup veganaise +2 chip peppers in blender) it made 5 large burgers or 20 sm burgers (1/8 cup measure) ]]>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:52:08 GMThttp://www.clemmons.com/blog/new-movie-coming-outlooks-like-a-good-one-it-will-air-free-march-21-312012
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