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