Calories in Food: Good analysis of vegetarian calorie benefits

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It's BROCCOLI that has more protein calorie-for-calorie than a steak, not

zucchini.

 

Tue, 22 Jan 2002 21:22:48 -0700

" Shelly Eades " <SGeades

RE: Jenna...tell your parents

 

> <In fact, zuchini has more protein than a steak.>

>

> This made me curious, and it's something I'd like to tell my

> mom next time she gives me a hard time because of not eating

> meat and the omnipresent " where do you get your protein? " , LOL

>

> Can you give me a reference to support this statement? I'd like to make it one

of my staple answers, LOL

 

I'm not sure about zuccini, but take broccoli....it has about 44.8% protein.

A Sirloin Steak is only about 21.6% protein. Since there is no carbs in

Steak that means that about 79% of it is fat! All green vegetables

(including zuccini) have much more protein per calorie than animal flesh.

 

Now we are talking about calories here, not portion size. If you eat X amount

of calories of broccoli, vs X amount of calories from Steak, you are going to

eat twice as much protein. Also tell your mom, there is no phytochemicals in

steak, no fiber, no antioxidants, no Vit C, no Vit E. and that there is

saturated fat, cholesterol, arachadonic acid, etc, etc.......

Then do give the steak some credit. Tell her that there are some calcium, iron,

magnesium, potassium, zinc, and some B vitamins. But then tell her that for

every one of those vitamins and minerals, there is about 2-3 times as much in

broccoli (except B12). If she thinks that's stupid to compare per calorie, then

ask her how many calories she eats and tell her you eat about the same. It

doesn't take a scientist to figure out who is getting more nutrients! Animal

foods are calorie rich and nutrient deficient, period.

 

The mathematics won't lie. If one gets a good portion of his/her calories from

green vegetables, then one is going to get tons of nutrients! The key is eating

a good sized amount each day. Unfortunetely most don't. I had a physician tell

me to eat 1 pound of steamed greens every day and about 1 pound of salad (with

focus on romaine lettuce) every day. After 6 weeks of

doing that....WOW could I feel the difference! I could not get tired at the

gym!

 

Shelly

 

P.S. You can go to http://www.nat.uiuc.edu/mainnat.html and do an analysis to

check the actual numbers.

Remember that you get 4 calories for every gram of protein or carbohydrate and 9

calories for every gram of fat.

 

 

 

 

 

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