I am interested in feedback for my problem described below. However responses based upon religious fanaticism or fundamentalism or prabhupad saidisms or vedic or bible quotes and other such jnanik (knowledge-based) ideas will not be helpful. However anyone with vijnanik (experiential knowledge) of this topic Id be delighted to hear from you. Over the years I have found the diet I was raised with (Quasi-North Indian/Bengali Temple/Laborer food) to be horrifically detrimental to my health and well being. I have since discovered that I am severely protein diffeciant and was advised to add red meat to my diet. I however, cannot do it. I have tried all the unhelpful vege options, finding only and only garbanzo beans to even come close to being helpful. Urad dhal= fail. Meanwhile I struggle to keep up my energy levels as the years go by and my workload is ever increasing. Not only that, my work impacts the lives of millions of people yet I am nearing my ropes-end. I no longer feel I have the energy levels required to match the intensity and continuity of the repeated crisis confronting the people and society. How is it possible that a man with the genetics of a meat-eating bloodline spanning thousands of years can ever be healthy eating a diet based upon a tropical, south- asian body-type and environmental paradigm? I do not want to eat red meat, and I could Never eat cows or pigs or lambs. And I do not have the funds or time to enter into some exclusive Beverly Hills style health regime. All I got now is eating sprouted garbanzo beans and it can only go so far. Anyone with some helpful ideas?? LMK Please read entire article at link below. Dr John Douillard writes, Though it is my personal belief that a vegetarian diet may be the healthiest, it seems there is something in the way we are doing it that leaves us vulnerable to protein deficiency and its consequences...Interestingly, many Asian cultures seem to do well eating a vegetarian diet. So why can’t we eat that same way and thrive? No doubt our genetics have something to do with it... Ayurvedic Meat Eaters: Solving Protein Deficiency Ayurveda is a vegetarian system of medicine. In fact, cows are sacred and it is just not cool to eat them. But in the case of protein deficiency, Ayurvedic doctors will prescribe the medicinal eating of red meat. The prescription I learned to resolve a protein deficiency is this: Eat 4 ounces of red meat a day for two weeks. As a medicine, not a way of life. I have used this recipe numerous times for protein deficiencies and have yet to see anything short of a miracle. That said, not all of the vegetarians I have treated were willing to do this, so below I have suggested alternative protein rebuilding strategies. While these vegetarian strategies do work, they never deliver the truly miraculous results I see with the 2 week red meat therapy. Why Red Meat? Red meat is the most acidic of all meats and of all protein sources in general. The more acidic a substance, the deeper it penetrates the tissues and the better is stores. Legumes, beans, seeds, nuts, eggs, chicken, fish, and red meat go from more alkaline to more acidic in this order. Alkaline foods are great cleansers. They flush the lymph and help the body detoxify. The more alkaline a food or diet, the more efficiently it will remove waste and toxins. On the other hand, the more acidic a food, the less easy it will be to remove or detoxify. While we tend to associate the notion of acidic foods with mostly toxic or comfort foods, many acidic foods are actually very healthy and essential. This is nature’s way of balancing: we help rebuild the body in the fall and winter with naturally occurring acidic foods and cleanse the body in the spring and summer with naturally occurring alkaline foods. If a squirrel ate only broccoli in the winter, the squirrel would freeze to death. Luckily, nature does not make broccoli available in the colder winter months. The harvest during a cold winter was traditionally loaded with meats, grains, and root veggies”all primarily acidic, rich in protein, and rebuilding. This principle of eating naturally with the seasons is the main focus of my book, The 3-Season Diet. Options for Treating Protein Deficiency 1. Red Meat. Even the Dalai Lama and many of the monks in Kashmir eat meat. If you are not totally offended by this option try the two week red meat blood plan to rebuild protein and stabilize blood sugar: a) Eat 4 ounces of red meat a day for 2 weeks, preferably at lunch. b) Have an extra protein source as part of a balanced breakfast and lunch, such as a protein shake (when buying protein powder, look for concentrates rather than isolates). 2. If eating meat is not an option for you, try the following: Have 3 whey, pea, rice, or hemp protein powder shakes a day; one with each meal for a total of 75g of extra protein per day. This is in addition to your regular balanced diet. Eat off the winter grocery list and emphasize the vegetarian proteins and fats listed. Balanced Diet While everyone is different and has different needs based on many different factors including age, body type, blood type and cultural background, for most people, a balanced diet consists of about 50% veggies, 25% non-processed starches (whole grains, starchy vegetables such as potatoes, yams or corn), and 25% protein. Non-Vegetarian Protein Sources: Meat Poultry Fish Dairy Vegetarian Sources of Protein Seeds Nuts Beans Lentils Whole grains: quinoa, buckwheat, amaranth, wheat, rice, corn, oats. Soy Peas Peanuts Spinach Potato Sweet potato If you have these symptoms and suspect you may not be getting adequate protein, please see your primary healthcare provider for a blind test and evaluation of your total serum protein. lifespa/protein-deficiency-the-hidden-signs/
Posted on: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 23:35:14 +0000
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