"Steve Pope" > wrote in message
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> cybercat > wrote:
>
>>"Julia Altshuler" > wrote:
>
>>> When Lappe came out with _Diet For A Small Planet_, she made it sound
>>> like
>>> exact protein combining was necessary or deficiencies would result. In
>>> later editions of the book, she updated her information. If you're
>>> getting rice and beans over the course of a week, you're getting
>>> complementary proteins. They don't have to be eaten at the same meal.
>
>>Yes. I'm frequently amazed by the ignorance people exhibit regarding basic
>>nutrition.
>
> Does one of you have a reference for the "one week" figure cited
> above? That seems rather a long time. The complementary amino
> acids need to be in the liver at the same time for protein synthesis
> to occur. And my understanding is that the liver doesn't really store
> amino acids or proteins in the same way that it stores glucose/glycogen.
>
> Steve
>>of nutrition studies and their own need to oversimplify to keep it easy,
>>think, "Fat Bad. Meat Bad. Vegetables Good."
>>
>>It's just not that simple.
>>
>>As for the OP, the dish he gave as an example had no rice, no beans,
>>no dairy, and I saw nothing in his post to suggest that he eats those
>>things.
>>Or that he doesn't, as a matter of fact.
>>
>>Hell, maybe he will respond, we'll see what his take on it is. heh
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these conversations remind me of here in the u.k. some years, ago doctors
discovered an old lady who had lived for the last ten years or so, on
nothing but rice pudding !