Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
Garth Davis M.D.amazon.com
Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
The other Blue Zones also featured a predominantly plant-based diet. None of them were fully vegan or vegetarian, but meat and dairy and eggs were luxuries enjoyed regularly only by the wealthy, and just on festivals and special occasions by everyone else.
Howard Jacobson • Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
Here’s something else to consider: the RDA recommendations are actually optimal values, not minimal needs. Since some people require more protein than others, the USDA chose as their recommendation a value that assures adequate protein for 99 percent of the country. Based on the assumption that too much is safer than not enough (not true, as you’ll
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The key message here is not “zero meat” but rather “more plants.” More than 100 percent dietary purity, I want you to shift your overall dietary pattern.
Howard Jacobson • Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
also read Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals, an open and hard-hitting answer to the author’s sincere question, If I really knew the realities of animal agriculture, could I still eat meat? At the book’s conclusion, Foer couldn’t. And now, no longer, could I.
Howard Jacobson • Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
When I tell them to eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, it’s not that they actually object. They’re just so focused on getting more and more protein into their diets that they don’t have room for plant-based foods.
Howard Jacobson • Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
One part of the report did survive: the suggestion to reduce saturated fat. Unfortunately, most people didn’t know what that meant, and they certainly weren’t aware that every kind of animal product includes this type of fat—even lean meats. The only way to reduce your intake of saturated fat is to cut back your consumption of animal protein.
Howard Jacobson • Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
I discovered that all the pro-protein studies have a couple of things in common. First, they’re all really short. As in, they follow their subjects for days or weeks—seldom longer than a year.
Howard Jacobson • Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
A Glut of Information and a Famine of Wisdom
Howard Jacobson • Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
a book by John Robbins, onetime heir to the Baskin-Robbins ice cream fortune who renounced his inheritance when he discovered the harmful effects of animal product consumption at every level. In his epic The Food Revolution (an update to his earlier, groundbreaking Diet for a New America), Robbins lays out as clearly and forcefully as possible the
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