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Md> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
Md> Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 02:24:27 -0800
Md> From: Swedish Vegetarian Society <[log in to unmask]>
Md> To: Michael Clingman <[log in to unmask]>
Md> Subject: Re: veg-raw: re: too much protein (fwd)
Md> About protein...
Md> And this is my respond to that:
Md> Anybody who weighs 150 pounds consists of more than 100 pounds of
Md> wasser, (that is water in english) so the actual body weight of solid
Md> mass is less than 50 pounds - is this correct or not? Please check:(
Md> )-Yes ( )-No
Goodhart and Shills in Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease give
the composition of the human body as:
water 62.3%
protein 16.4
fat 15.3
mineral 5.8, so the non-water (solid) weight of your 150
lb body would be about 57 lbs.
Md> My calculation gives this:
Md> A 40 pound baby=3D13 pounds of protein
40 lbs x 0.164 = 6.7 lbs protein. What is 3D13??
Md> ... and if this has to be replaced in one year
Md> the baby must eat 0.03 pounds a day for replacement only. Add to that
Md> the new mass it has to build - well how fast do the little people
Md> really grow? 7 pounds a year at an average is somewhere close to the
Md> truth. this gives a growth of 2.3 pounds of real body weight every year
Md> the way I see it or 0.006 pounds a day. Totally this gives 0.036 pounds
Md> a day or close to 0.04 pounds, yeehaw! Correct( ) Incorrect( )
Our bodies recycle about 75% of our protein internally, so only
25% needs to be replaced, thus:
replacement of 25% of 6.7 lbs = 1.7 lbs
16% of 7 lbs gross growth = 1.1
TOTAL 2.8 lbs / year = 0.0077lb/day,
or 3.5 grams/day. This assumes that 100% of protein consumed is
assimilated. The US RDA for a 40 lb child is 30 grams protein/day.
This adds extra for lack of efficient digestion, and no doubt a safety
margin consistent with our cultural beliefs about being a rich
country. Other countries have significantly less RDA's.
Md> 1998 or 1999 a group of 33 crazy, courageos swedes - and actually
Md> anybody is welcome to join - are about to go to a tropical island and
Md> live there together for three years, eating fruits only. The one and
Md> only criteria for joining this group is to try to live on nothing else
Md> (except for severe crisises, that is). Please contact FUN (Fruitarian
Md> Universal Network) for more details ...
What is FUN's address??
I would like to stay in touch with these fruitarian pioneers, for
it is my long-term plan to establish a global network of tropical
fruit-oriented communities; I just have to get extremely wealthy first
so I can provide the physical infrastructure.
"Tutti fruitti, well all rootie!" Little Richard
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