The one question I get about our Raw food lifestyle is: "Where to you get your protein?" or "Do you get enough Protein?" Of course my answer is always yes, but I decided to back it up with an excerpt from an expert!

"There is Enough Protein in Vegan Foods"

Excerpt from Spiritual Nutrition by Gabriel Cousens M.D.

The biggest fear generated by pro-meat eaters and new vegetarians is about not getting enough protein. The real problem is just the opposite: we take in too much protein. According to the Max Planck Institute for Nutritional Research in Germany, considered by Paavo Airola to be the most respected and reliable nutritional research organization in the world, there are many vegetable sources of protein which are superior or equal to animal proteins. The Max Planck Institute found complete vegetarian proteins, those which contain all eight essential amino acids, to be available from almonds, sesame, pumpkin, and sunflower seeds, soybeans, buckwheat, all leafy greens, and most fruits.  Fruits supply approximately the same percentage of complete protein as mother's milk.  Airola feels "it is virtually impossible not to get enough protein, provided you have enough to eat of natural, unrefined foods."

Twenty-five to thirty grams of protein are more than sufficient for our protein intake. If the protein is taken in its live-food form, even less is needed. In many cases, as our system changes with meditation, fasting, eating lighter, and increasing live-food intake, our basement membranes become clear, more porous, and thinner, so the protein we take in moves into the cells more readily.With reduced blockage, more of the protein we eat pushes itself through the basement membrane into the cells, so our protein needs spontaneously drop. Perhaps over time we might find that no more than the 1.4 percent protein in mother's milk is all we need. The lower limits are not clearly established on the materialistic plane for one who is undergoing a spiritual metamorphosis.

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