Quote from Spydertrader:
You come equipped with incisor teeth. You think those are for eating dandelions? Your body chemistry comes equipped with pepsinogen, and when in the presence of Hydrocloric Acid (HCL), pepsinogen becomes pepsin required for the digestion of protein.
You either have reading comprehension issues, or you've intentionally misunderstood my point. Evolution has provided all humans with the necessary tools required for protein digestion. To suggest otherwise, or better yet, to suggest removing protein from one's diet provides an evolutionary benefit, represents fantasyland logic.
ALL plants contain protein? calorie for calorie spinach contains as much protein or more than an equal serving of beef. .. w/o the heart destroying saturated fat and cholesterol.
When your body needs energy (measured in 'calories'), it does not care whether that unit of energy (calorie) came from alcohol, sugar, crabohydrate, fat or protein. Energy is energy. When you need energy, it is either readily available in the blood (glucose levels) or it has to be obtained from reserves (cholesterol, or adipose tissue [fat cells]).
By mass, a pound of sugar contains more energy (calories) than a pound of fat, and that pound of fat contains more energy (calories) than a pound of protein. Again, any organism requires energy, but that organism doesn't care how it obtains the energy. Energy is energy.
An organism doesn't 'burn' sugar, fat or protein. The organism burns calories.
i doubt you or anyone is getting too few calories
besides your point is off-topic Eat fewer calories per unit time, and the organism weighs less and remains more healthy. The most efficient method for doing so is by eating the same mass of food, but use more of the fewest calorie food products - protein - in that consumed mass.
This concept doesn't require a PhD in Astrophysics to understand. Grade School kids learn this stuff.
Of course not because you are one of those people who already know all there is to learn. Any opinion contrary to your own represents flawed thinking. You know best. Everyone else represents the unwashed or the unenlightened.
Heart Attacks didn't exist in North America until 30 years after the introduction of refined carbohydrates into the American Diet. Over a hundred years ago, people used to eat loads more meat than they do today. Yet, next to no heart attacks. How could this be? Americans started eating more and more refined carbohydrates (Wonder Bread, etc.) and BAM. Corconary Artery disease skyrockets.
As for science, During the Korean War, all returning casualties underwent autopsy for the purposes of improving scientific understanding of human anatomy and physiology. Ninety- Five percent of all those killed in the Korean war showed 50% or greater occlusion of their coronary arteries.
This study took place at a time in this country well before America went 'Super-Sized.' Today, huge numbers of Americans fall into the 'obese' or 'morbidly obese' catagory. You believe all this came from saturated fat??
Use your brain. Evolution did provide you with one.
- Spydertrader
Yes, BEEF (meat) has been the staple of the Western Diet for many decades that includes the years of the "korean War". What do you think clogged all those young arteries that you mention.. carrots? ROFL.
You still have not provided ONE shred of eveidence that saturated fat is beneficial, or even failing that does no harm.

