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Joseph Berne wrote:
> All living things contain proteins. Proteins are long molecules made of
> amino acids, the way a lego pirate ship is made out of lego building
> blocks. The amino acids are the blocks. Amino acids come in different
> types, some of which we can manufacture in our bodies (the non-essential
> ones) from other amino acids and some of which we can't (the essential
> ones).
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> Not all proteins have every type of building block, which is how you get the
> so-called "incomplete" proteins - they are missing some of the essential
> amino acids, so you can't get all the building blocks you need by ingesting
> those proteins.
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Like some boats don't have all the hull needed to keep the water out.
I'm not buying such a boat, nor the argument that a useless collection
of amino acids qualifies as protein.
This is after all the paleoFOOD list, and if it ain't food, it's a
veggie plot.
William
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