so deprives the starving children of the world of the protein that would save their lives. Incidentally, it makes you pay 30 percent of your already bloated food bill for protein you will never use. If you are an average American family, it will cost you about $ 60 a month to unnecessarily pump up your protein intake. That puts another $ 40 billion a year in to the pockets of the protein producers.IV. There is no question that meat and dairy products and eggs are high in protein. But the average American consumes 90 to 120 grams of protein per day while the ideal intake for a human being is 20 to 40 grams per day. We are worried about getting enough protein but in fact we are eating more than necessary and far more than is healthy.V. Human mothers milk provides 5 percent of its calories as protein. Nature seems to be telling us that little babies, whose bodies are growing the fastest they will ever grow in their entire lives, and whose protein needs are maximum, are best served when 5 percent of their food calories come from protein.VI. According to the American journal of clinical nutrition protein also plays a major role in osteoporosis. One out of every four 65-year-old women in our culture has lost over half her bone density. Today, more women die from the effects of osteoporosis than from cancer of the breast and cervix combined. We are told Milk it does a body good and that drinking milk will make our bones stronger, but in a study published in the journal of nutrition they found two things 1 low protein diets create a positive calcium balance meaning bones are not losing calcium. And 2 high protein diets create a negative calcium balance, meaning osteoporosis is developing. Regardless of how much calcium we take in, the more protein in the diet, the more calcium we loose. Dr John McDougall summarizes the medical research on osteoporosis this way I would like to emphasize that the calcium-losing effect of protein on the human bo...
