On Wed, 1 May 2002 13:38:38 -0700, Brian L. <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>.., teens and adults who take the time to learn
>about vegetarian eating and food combining, rather than just dumping meat
>from their diet and eating whatever the heck they want, _adults_ can live
>fairly decently _in the city_ on a vegetarian diet.
Some 150 years ago, in the small village where I live, the people who lived
there where reported to be "odd". Because they refused to eat anything alse
as their simple own production, some wheat and cabbage (sauerkraut).
Hardly anything else. They were poor. And healthy.
Combine wheat and sauerkraut, and in the case you add some carrots to the
kraut, you get a perfect diet with many vitamin scores between 200 and 300
percent (RDA).
And 94 g protein at 2400 kcal. That's 174% RDA.
With the simplest and cheapest vegetarian diet you miss *nothing*,
not protein, no vitamin, name whatever you want.
Probable exception vitamin b12. Which is found in sauerkraut, in milk
products and is produced in human intestines, a healthy flora provided.
Worked for people doing hard work, and for a lifetime.
Ray, if you want to increase the profits of corn monoculture producers, then
just go on buying meat in the supermarket.
That is the pathway where over 50% of all grain and even more of all corn
ends up.
The only plausible dietary reason I know *not* to eat a whole grain based
diet are their content of lectins and phytin. Both are reduced by soaking
and fermenting, commonly used techniques since the earliest days (but now
almost forgotten).
A diet that worked for 10000 years, but is now almost forgotten
even among muesli-ists of today.
Amadeus S.
What follows is the analysis of the most simple
land diet, how it might have been.
Try a monospaced font like courier to see better.
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Analysis of the diet plan
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Food Amount Energy
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Sauerkraut fresh cooked 700 g 117,1 kcal
Meal analysis: 117,1 kcal ( 5 %) Carbohydrate: 4,2 g ( 1 %)
Wholemeal wheaten bread 1100 g 2337,2 kcal
Carrots, braised (4) 50 g 20,7 kcal
Meal analysis: 2357,9 kcal ( 95 %) Carbohydrate: 457,1 g ( 99 %)
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Result
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Nutrient analysed recommended percentage
value value/day fulfillment
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energy 2475,0 kcal 1958,6 kcal 126 %
protein 95,9 g(16%) 57,8 g(12 %) 166 %
carbohydr. 461,3 g(77%) 279,6 g(> 55 %) 165 %
magnesium 1072,5 mg 400,0 mg 268 %
manganese 24,6 mg 3,5 mg 704 %
iron 33,8 mg 10,0 mg 338 %
zinc 24,5 mg 10,0 mg 245 %
niacine 39,1 mg - -
Vit. B6 3,7 mg 1,5 mg 249 %
Vit. B2 1,7 mg 1,5 mg 110 %
Vit. B1 1,9 mg 1,3 mg 149 %
tot. fol.acid 441,0 µg 400,0 µg 110 %
biotine 79,0 µg 45,0 µg 176 %
potassium 3689,0 mg 3500,0 mg 105 %
Vit. A 642,0 µg 1000,0 µg 64 %
Vit. C 73,3 mg 100,0 mg 73 %
Vit. E 12,4 mg - -
linoleni C18,3 1,1 g - -
linolic C18,2 7,6 g - -
carotene 3,2 mg - -
calcium 706,5 mg 1000,0 mg 71 %
phosphorus 3067,0 mg 700,0 mg 438 %
Vit. B12 0,0 µg 3,0 µg 0 %
fructose 2,7 g - -
tryptophane 1,0 g - -
phenylalanine 4,2 g - -
fat 19,3 g(7%) 66,4 g(< 30 %) 29 %
alcohol 0,0 g(0%) - -
iodine 46,5 µg 200,0 µg 23 %
copper 5,1 mg 1,3 mg 405 %
pantoth. acid 8,6 mg 6,0 mg 144 %
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