Blasting Protein Lies (Part 3): Eating More Meat Boosts Energy

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Contrary to popular belief, unrefined carbohydrates, sourced
by plants, super charge us with energy. Not meat protein.

Meat, fish, eggs, cheese, yogurt, and milk don’t perk you up.
In fact, too much protein does the opposite—zaps your energy.
(Peek at the 4th blog post in this 4-part protein series.)

Think of your body as a car.

Protein, critical for growth and repair of cells, can be
compared to the engine of a car. No matter how
well built its engine, a car can’t run without fuel.
Gasoline.

Same for your body. No matter how perfectly the cells are
built, the cells and your body can’t function without fuel.
Unrefined carbohydrates.

Your body’s ideal source of energy:
Unrefined carbohydrates,
not protein.

Power-packed with plenty of unrefined carbs, plants are
nature’s ideal fuel to make you go!

Fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains
and beans,
as well as unsalted, unroasted
nuts and seeds.

Yet, we continue to hang on to unfounded, meat and protein
propaganda that sabotages the health and lives of an entire
culture, generation after generation.

Why?

Two reasons we’re muddled about protein:

1. Since 1956, with the inception of the Four Food
Groups, the profit-hungry meat, egg, and dairy
industries, along with other commercial food interest
groups, shoved misinformation, myths, and lies
down our throats—literally.

When a whole culture is brainwashed to believe the same
protein deception for decades, it’s difficult to blast through
that deception and see the truth.

2. To our own demise, we’re happy to believe
the lies the protein promoters spin because
we eat what we love to eat and aren’t willing
to give up those foods.

Pure and simple.

We love our hamburgers, steak, chicken,
processed meats, cheese, eggs, and
convenient, newly concocted protein
shakes and bars.

Give up our food faves? NEVER! Our spoiled
taste buds ruthlessly overrule clear,
commonsense
thinking.    


Tired of Being Tired?     

Fill up on whole plant foods, and you will get energized
by all
the unrefined carbs you need.

Whole, fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains (like brown rice,
NOT breads), legumes (like black beans), nuts, and seeds.

Check out the percentage of carbohydrates
in these plant foods.  

  • Sweet potatoes consist of 90% carbohydrates.
  • Grapefruit: 88%
  • Oranges: 87%
  • Brown Rice: 87%
  • Oatmeal: 69%
  • Carrots: 36%

On the other hand . . .

Check out the percentage of carbohydrates
in these animal-sourced foods?

  • Beef: 0% carbohydrates
  • Chicken: 0%
  • Turkey: 0%
  • Pork: 0%
  • Lamb: 0%
  • Fish: 0%

Big, fat 0 carbohydrates in meat and fish.

Simple equation: 0% carbs = 0% energy.

Bumping up your consumption of meat gives
you no more energy
than eating no meat at all.

No wonder folks on high protein diets get tired. They’re filling
their bellies with too much meat and other animal protein,
leaving no room for unrefined carbohydrates, our mighty energizers.

Time to rip off those protein blinders, flip our thinking, and eat
more whole, fresh fruits and vegetables every day, as well as
whole grains, beans, nuts, and seeds.

The more carbohydrates we eat, the more
energized we get.

 

**Remember, unrefined carbs DO NOT INCLUDE foods made
from refined flours and sugars: breads, including so-called
“whole wheat,” pasta, sugar snacks, boxed cereals, desserts,
candy, pastries, and most processed foods. You get it—all
the junk we love to eat.

We’ll talk more about the tug-of-war between good carbs
and bad carbs in another blog post.

Suffice to say, good carbs energize.
Bad carbs deplete and destroy.