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1.
“If you don’t eat meat, where do you get your protein?”
3.
“But don’t carbs make you fat?”
4.
“But isn’t olive oil a good fat?”
Not
coincidentally, the World Health Organization recommends 4.5% protein in
our diets for human health.
Answer #2: Look to nature for commonsense answers. Where do cows,
horses, giraffes, apes, and large elephants get their protein to grow
and maintain big, strong muscles? They don’t eat cows, pigs, lambs,
chickens, fish, eggs, protein bars, or protein drinks. They eat
unrefined plant foods, and not a huge variety at that. If they can get
plenty of protein from plants, we can too! Meat is a choice, not a
necessity.
2.
“If you don’t drink milk or eat cheese, where do you get your calcium?”
Answer #1: Plant foods. Where do cows, horses, giraffes, apes, and
elephants get their calcium for strong bones and teeth? Plants. They
certainly don’t drink milk (once weaned) and another mammals’ milk at
that. Cow’s milk is made for baby cows, not for baby people much less
grown-up people. Period. The only milk made for baby people is mama’s
milk.
Answer #2: Unrefined plant foods contain all the nutrients you need,
including calcium. Nature is so smart. Where does calcium come from? The
soil. Calcium is dissolved in water in the soil and absorbed by plants.
Plants transform inedible, unusable calcium from the soil into usable
calcium needed by all mammals. Eating plants is the most direct way of
getting calcium, and without the fat, cholesterol, animal protein, milk
sugar, hormones, antibiotics, toxins, and pus (yes, pus!) that come in
dairy products.
3.
“But don’t carbs make you fat?”
Answer: All carbohydrates are not created equally. There are good carbs
and bad carbs. Good carbs are sourced by whole, unrefined plant foods,
as in fruits, vegetables, grains, and legumes, the best-for-you foods.
The good carbs you ate yesterday give you the fuel for your body and
your energy today. (No, protein doesn’t give us energy.)
Bad
carbs are sourced by refined plant foods, such as white sugar and white
flour products – breads, cookies, pastries, doughnuts, bagels, cake,
candy, desserts, soft drinks, store-bought drinks, and many processed,
packaged foods. Too many calories from bad carbs are changed into fat
that adds to your fat.
4.
“But isn’t olive oil a good fat?”
Answer #1: Your body makes all the fats it needs, with only two
exceptions which are sourced by a variety of plant foods. Therefore, it
serves no purpose whatsoever to add more fat to the ready-made fat,
especially highly concentrated, refined oils that come without any
nutrition. All added oils, even olive oil, offer you one thing only:
calories, and those calories come with a fat price tag – more fat to add
to hips, tummies, thighs, and arms. That makes olive oil a bad fat.
Answer #2: Look to nature for simple answers. Where do elephants get
their necessary fats? Olive, canola, or flax seed oil? Of course not.
Plant foods provide all of our essential nutrients, including fats.
Grapefruits contain 2% fat, oranges 4% fat, oatmeal 15% fat, broccoli 9%
fat, apples 4% fat, Romaine lettuce 10% fat, and cabbage 6% fat.
Am I
implying that you “have to” give up meat, cheese, goodies, and Queen
olive? Not at all. I’m simply saying that they are choices, not
necessities, which sabotage weight loss, health, and fitness.
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