Food Choices Page #3

the promoters of

the sports drinks,

and the food bars, and

all these kinds of things,

insist and market to

the public that they

absolutely must

have more protein.

It's just not true.

In practical sense,

and in reality,

the way we humans operate,

we get ideal loads of

protein if we just get it

from plants.

When we consume animal foods,

to get that protein,

if you will,

what we're actually

doing, we're displacing,

the consumption of

those foods that matter.

And foods that

matter are plants.

- The amount of

animal protein we eat

is the problem.

You know, in rural China,

and Japanese populations,

and healthier

places in the world,

people eat a little

bit of animal protein,

but for economic reasons,

it's very, very, very tiny.

They use one little

piece of meat,

they slice it up,

and it seasons a dish

for eight people.

Here in this country,

we have one gargantuan

piece of meat, we

put it on a plate,

with a tiny little

bit of vegetables,

we call that a meal.

The problem is that when

you eat too much protein,

of any type, you

stress your kidneys,

you stress your liver, and

when it's animal protein,

you increase your

risk of cancer.

And we see cancer is

geographically distributed.

The more animal food

consumed in a society,

the more cancer, more

heart disease, you get.

- And it's amazing all

the animals that we choose

in this country to eat

for protein and calcium,

are vegetarian animals.

Where's the logic in that?

And I always like

to remind you, also,

when you're eating your garbage,

you never ask , "where

am I getting my protein,

"and my calcium."

It's only when you come

into the healthy world

that all of a sudden

you're concerned

with where it's coming from.

- We're in the midst of

this amazing protein push.

Everywhere you look,

the message is clear.

Protein, protein, protein.

This idea that you

need massive amounts

of protein, to

simply breathe air

in and out of your lungs,

you know, and to be healthy,

or to perform as an athlete.

- Prior to making

this dietary change,

like my main nutritional

strategy in a day

was to see how many

grams of protein

I could get in, like about that,

the only calculations

i ever really did,

I didn't count calories,

i didn't count anything,

was just like trying to

get in exorbitant amounts

of grams of protein in my day.

Just because there

are grams of protein

on the nutritional

content of something,

doesn't mean that

your body can actually

process all of those grams.

- Protein does

some other things.

It elevates blood

cholesterol levels,

which most people

have not heard of.

But that's about 100

years old, that idea.

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