Friday, March 9, 2012
I've met none. So weird that this protein deficiency thing is such a problem (according to people who have never researched veganism) yet I haven't met a single vegan with a protein deficiency. Maybe I'm just meeting the lucky ones. ;)|||It is extremely easy to get adequate protein on a vegan diet and very rare for protein deficiencies to occur in places where people have access to a variety of plant foods. Protein deficiencies occur primarily in places where people don't have much access to food and they don't eat much variety (for example, they only eat rice).|||Notice how you ignored my personal experience and went with someone who accept your narrow view which also has been give no sources, only anecdotal evidence...
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|||Yes you have met the lucky ones...the ones who live in the West where food choices never farther than the nearest grocery and are not a daily struggle for survival.. I have met many people with protein deficiency.. they too live on a " vegan" diet not because they choose to but because there is nothing else to eat.. It was on the local news last week that 8 family members of an indigenous tribe died after eating wild yams.. the yams are edible but only if properly cooked.. a local feeding program started supplementing the diet of the surviving younger children with a milk formula and the rest with meat (mainly fish and chicken) and riceBy the way, you cannot physically tell if a person has protein deficiency unless it is severe as in concentration camp/POW camp severe..|||None that i am aware of.|||None. As long as you are a proper vegan who has a well balanced diet there is no reason to have protein deficiency.|||The only people who develop protein deficiencies are people who live in poor countries and anorexics. An anorexic chimed in and someone mentioned the third world country.|||haha thats a really good point. no i never met anyone with a protein deficiency.
people with PROTEIN deficiency have kwashiorkor its easy to identify they have bloated stomachs from edema. i don't think anyone in usa or europe has had that in 250 years.|||Um, little girl, you may not meet people with protein deficiencies in the western world because we have one of the richest soil and our diets consist of a variety of foods. But Protein deficiency is a serious cause of ill health and death in developing countries. It is extremely rare to meet one most especially in the U.S. or Canada. Protein deficiency plays a part in the disease kwashiorkor, an acute form of childhood protein-energy malnutrition characterized by edema, irritability, anorexia, ulcerating dermatoses, and an enlarged liver with fatty infiltrates. War, famine, overpopulation and other factors can increase rates of malnutrition and protein deficiency. Protein deficiency can lead to reduced intelligence or mental retardation, see deficiency in proteins, fats, carbohydrates.
In countries that suffer from widespread protein deficiency, food is generally full of plant fibers, which makes adequate energy and protein consumption very difficult[citation needed]. Protein deficiency is generally caused by lack of total food energy, making it an issue of not getting food in total. Symptoms of kwashiorkor include apathy, diarrhoea, inactivity, failure to grow, flaky skin, fatty liver, and edema of the belly and legs. This edema is explained by the normal functioning of proteins in fluid balance and lipoprotein transport.
Moringa trees are known to overcome protein deficiency in developing countries as the leaves and other parts of the tree contain comparably to soy bean high amount of crude proteins and amino acids.
http://www.nutrition-partner.com/index.c鈥?/a>
Dr. Latham, director of the Program in International Nutrition at Cornell University claims that malnutrition is a frequent cause of death and disease in third world countries. Protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) affects 500 million people and kills 10 million annually!!!! Does this not sound like a lot to you!!! In severe cases white blood cell numbers decline and the ability of leukocytes to fight infection decreases.|||The experienced vegans I've met were all so thin, and seemed to get shorter and more hunched much quicker with age.|||Ummm... Me...
So you fail.
When i went vegetarian it failed because i ended up with a protein and iron deficiency.
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