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[jianantonic]

I love leftovers. You pay for it once, and get several meals out of it. Indian food is the best, though the rice doesn't reheat well. Right now I'm waiting for my Indian food to cool. It's so yummy. I was reading in a magazine I picked up at the Vegetarian Festival that if you change your diet, your taste buds will actually change, and you'll no longer crave the stuff you stop eating. That's definitely true for meat. I don't need tacos and fried chicken anymore...but I don't know how long that took...I'm just wondering, if I keep myself totally off sweets for, say, a month, is that long enough for the taste buds to stop wanting it? That's how long detox lasts, so that should work for chocolate, right? Probably not...I'm afraid it'll have to be longer. I know it's okay to have one cookie every now and then...but it's better not to...

Anyone with legitimate nutrition knowledge, please feel free to address my concerns. My food is ready for my mouth now.

Peace.

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[flamingophoenix.livejournal.com]

When I used to give up dessert for Lent, I would start wanting it less and less. It's crazy.

[flamingophoenix.livejournal.com]

By the way...according to a website I found (which I can't verify, but here it is)

http://www.thefruitpages.com/contents.shtml
Peaches have 1 gram of protein, and pears 0.3.

The Dole website doesn't list protein for fruits.
http://www.dole5aday.com/ReferenceCenter/NutritionCenter/Chart/R_NutrChart.jsp?topmenu=1

Does anyone know how to figure out what sort of protein that is? (For example, if you eat only rice, you will be malnourished, but if you eat beans AND rice, you're set.)

One cup of black beans has 15 grams of protein.
http://www.jtcwd.com/vegie/nutrition/beansblack.html
Other beans: http://www.jtcwd.com/vegie/nutrition/beans.html

So, you can eat fifteen peaches, forty-five pears...or one cup of black beans. ;-)

(That's not saying it's bad to eat peaches and pears, not by a LONG stretch...just pointing out that they're not substitutes for real protein.)

Dude. This comment totally belongs on one of your other posts. Ah well.

RDA of protein for you and me is 46 grams a day.
http://www.time-to-run.com/nutrition/rda.htm
However, that is a high estimate (says the site).
....Wow. That site is really poorly worded. I'm trusting it less and less.

Again, I have no way of verifying these specific chunks of Teh Intar-web. Just thought I'd share. :-)

[jianantonic.livejournal.com]

I don't really buy those numbers. This is why I ask advice of knowledgeable nutritionists instead of just surfing the web.

It's possible that peaches and pears weren't what the Veg fest tent had. I know they had rice and beans, and several fruits and veggies. But they had all this info about how Americans get way too much protein and it increases the risk of heart disease or attack, which is the #1 cause of death in the US.

[(Anonymous)]

USDA: http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/etext/000105.html
links to http://www.iom.edu/includes/DBFile.asp?id=7300 ("Macronutrients")
for tables about intake. Protein RDA is indeed 46 grams per day.

No word yet on actual protein content of fruit.

Complementary incomplete proteins still rule. I loves me some beans and rice.

[artsygeek.livejournal.com]

I still want chicken or lamb every now and then, like maybe once a week or several times a month. Mostly, I'm vegetarian out of economic reasons (both on the grounds of my own affordability of meat, and also my own beliefs regarding world-wide affordability of reasources in light of the price of them, as influenced by the production of meat).