Flexitarian Commenters Set Me Straight on Meat (Or Lack Thereof)

How much protein/nutrients does a person need daily or weekly

The real qeustion in eating and living healthfully is nutrition.

What is the minimum recommended grams of protein and other "meat nutrients"? How do I know I'm getting the "right kind" of protein?

The usual issue with vegetarian diets is the "type" of protein is insufficient. Ff people were educated so they might understand scientifically the nutritional advise - grams & milligrams; and then could conveniently get information about the constituent nutrients and the macro ones too, everyone could intentionally eat better.

However, publishers keep the math and science out of the story/recipe. Why? Is it a way for "experts" to stay employed? Of of they thinking the "average folk" wouldn't understand?

Educate the children and adults in authentic uses of math and science (like maintaining health through nutritional "numbers") and learning math and science would have greater meaning too. A child who can learn bean burritos are as good as steak can also learn why and how that is valid. Better education in authentic concerns will bring a healthier citizenry.

Also, we need national educational policies and practices that encourage people to be responsible for their own health and well-being and know how to do that as part of elementary school curriculum. And as for adults, if your BMI (or a more scientifically measured fat to other body mass measurement) is over optimal, then an additional payment into a health care company. If you don't take care of your own health, then you pay someone to do it for you ('Nanny' support for the "too busy" or disinterested or unknowing).

If health is a national priority; then it must be a personal one too. And that doesn't mean the government should tax animal protein at higher rate either...which is the usual way to "fix a problem" because taxes aren't directly applied to a specific area, but put into a pot that is divided according to "policians' priorities". For all reasons. it'd be better not to make it about money - but to make it about being able to contribute to everyone's benefit rather than funding government "fix-it" coffers. Only if vegetable protein is eaten in the right combinations can it replace animal proteins. Flestrition or not.

mrusso @ Jan 10, 2009 17:17:45 PM