On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Ben Balzer wrote:

> There is a maximum protein intake that the body can cope with due o the
> liver's maximum capacity to process urea- once you hit this you feel crook.
> This is one of the big problems with high protein diets- I've only just
> started reading Protein Power and it hasn't been overtly stated yet.

It doesn't have to be, because in PP one's appropriate protein
intake is determined by lean body weight and is not unrestricted.
Diana Schwarzbein, in _The Schwarzbein Principle_ notes that
protein intake tends to be self-limiting for the reason you have
stated above.

> "it should be 65% energy from animal foods, 35% from fruits,
> vegetables and nuts."

Strictly speaking, this is irrelevant from the standpoint of
avoiding protein overload.  You can get 100% of energy from
animal foods without getting too much protein if most of the
calories are from animal fat.  Protein overload is avoided by not
eating too much protein, and this can be done at any level of
animal food consumption.

Todd Moody
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