by Pumpkin Pete » Thu Feb 04, 2016 2:59 am
Actually I found the article to be mostly factual aside from the use of the term "complete protein". It's not necessary and continues to perpetuate the need of having to consume '"complete protein". If you read on you Dr. Seres clears this up.
Vegetarians can get their daily 55-or-so grams by eating varied grains and legumes, which together constitute a “complete” protein, with the nine essential amino acids the body requires to function optimally. Dr. Seres notes that it isn’t necessary to consume a complete protein at every meal, or even every day. “Your body has a great ability to store these proteins for days,” he says.
What I don't agree with is the following;
Vegans can get all the proteins they need from grains and legumes, Dr. Seres says, “but you still have to supplement with an animal-derived B12 to be healthy.”
I did like the following though;
People seem to have a dietary bias toward protein, Dr. Seres notes. “Carbohydrates and fat have both been vilified, by people with real credentials and by some quacks,” he says. He believes the federal dietary guidelines—which recently changed to recommend that adult and teen males consume slightly less protein every day from meat, poultry and eggs, and that everyone cut back on sugar—are still probably higher than necessary.
He concluded with the following;
To keep things simple, Dr. Seres doesn’t recommend a hard and fast number of grams of protein a day. Instead he has this advice for vegetarians: “Go for the bean and the grain, and you should be fine.”
Indeed, that's pretty consistent with McDougall principles.