"Carmen" > wrote
> The body can make proteins. It can make half the amino acids it needs
> to make proteins and get the other half from a diet of nothing but
> grains and beans. Does that magically make that diet perfect? No. It
> just demonstrates - as does gluconeogenesis - how adaptable humans are.

Exactly.

Gluconeogenesis is just an evolutionary response in humans to "cover
themselves" in the case that they couldn't find or scavenge an adequate
supply of carbohydrates.

God bless the smart people in this thread.