Proteins
Proteins
Proteins are a combination of hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen atoms, and are the building blocks of the animal kingdom. Our bodies use about 50,000 different proteins, all made up from just 22 amino acids, 8 of which are ‘essential’. The problem with the ‘essential’ ones, is that we cannot make them ourselves and must therefore get them from food, but if only one is missing in our diet we can’t process any of them.
Proteins cannot be utilised properly without the fat soluble catalysts in dietary fats. That is why protein and fats occur together in animal products. Meats, seafoods, eggs, and wholemilk dairy produce contain not only all of the amino acids, but also the vitamins and minerals that are necessary for the body to process them. They are partially present in vegetables, particularly legumes and grains, and with some very careful combinations can provide all that we need. Vegetarians, therefore, can be at greater risk of deficiency, particularly when they are at their most vulnerable. This is during their growing years and their childbearing years in both male and female.
The amount of protein required in any individual’s diet depends on various factors including their constitutional type.
Successful vegetarian cultures round the world gain much of their, ‘essential’ amino acids from live or cultured foods where the micro-organisms provide what is necessary. Unfortunately we now live in a culture that is obsessed with creating a clinical environment that is actually making it sterile. That actually upsets our natural ecology and especially within the gut.
Diets in which unnatural isolated powdered proteins from soy, eggs or milk that are fed to animals or consumed by humans can cause a negative calcium balance that can lead to the likes of osteoporosis. All the more reason for foods to be fresh and wholesome.
Any discussion of meat eating should include the observation that temporary abstinence (fasts) from animal products is very useful as a cleansing process in healing.
If you choose not to eat meats, just ensure that you get enough dairy products (preferably live) and seafood or eggs.
Prof. Steve Russell
For The Restoratory, 10 Dundas Street West.
Saltburn. TS12 1BL. Tel: 01287 207787
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