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FACT CITY 16 - Exceeding Protein Allowance [rec.food.veg #57607]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (elsiedee@MIT.EDU)
Mon Jan 23 19:56:33 1995
From: elsiedee@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 95 19:53:33 -0500
To: vsg@MIT.EDU
------ Forwarded Article <3fmhtg$mfn@mango.aloha.com>
------ From jai@aloha.com (Dr. Jai Maharaj)
Last year in Hawaii, we started perhaps the nation's only
govenment-sponsored campaign to include more plant-based foods in
our diet.
The taxpayer-funded nutritional education program targets kids and
parents alike in our public school system.
What is more, the Physicians Commitee for Responsible Medicine,
Washington, D.C., has concluded that not only is an animal-based
diet unnecessary, but is actually harmful.
The benefits of the healthy, plant-based food culture contrast
sharply the terrorism the animal-eating habit wages on our body,
others and the environment. That is a future we can all live with.
Here is more information about some aspects of the food we eat:
. Fact City 16 Exceeding NAS Protein Allowances
Can You Easily Get Enough Protein
Without Meat, Eggs or Dairy Products?
YES! Without Even Trying
Example of All-Plant Food Diet
Total Protein
Calories (grams)
BREAKFAST: 1 cup orange juice 111 1.7
1 cup cooked oatmeal 148 5.4
1/2 oz. sunflower seeds 80 3.5
1 T. brown sugar 52 0
3 T. raisins 87 0.9
LUNCH: 2 T. peanut butter 172 7.8
2 slices whole wheat bread 112 4.8
1 T. honey 64 0.1
1 apple 87 0.3
2 carrots, small 42 1.1
DINNER: 1 cup cooked beans 236 15.6
1 cup cooked brown rice 178 3.8
3 stalks broccoli (1-1/3 c.) 52 6.2
4 mushrooms 28 2.7
2 T. light vegetable oil 248 0
1 cup apple juice 109 0.3
1/2 banana 64 0.8
SNACK: 1-1/2 cup popcorn, with oil 123 2.7
_____ ____
TOTAL 1,993 57.7
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Recommended Allowance for
a 128-pound woman 2,000 44.0
calories protein
Note: Men might wonder whether they would get enough protein from
this diet. They would indeed, since caloric needs and
protein needs rise hand in hand. What matters is the
percentage of the total caloric intake derived from protein.
Men, eating proportionately more calories than the above
example of a 128-pound woman, would get proportionately more
protein, and be covered.
- Lappe, F.M., "Diet For A Small Planet"
Ballantine Books, 1982
- Robbins, John, "Diet for A New America"
Stillpoint Publishing, 1987
*-=Om Shanti=-* Jai Maharaj
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