On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:38 AM, mad_casual <ademlookes@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 26, 7:57 pm, Nathan McCorkle <nmz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Care to elaborate a bit more? Do you eat the same meal everyday, a la
>> Warren Buffett (who is said to eat the same thing every day)?
>
> Sure, breakfast and lunch are relatively fixed. I'm not a machine, I
> eat "normal" dinners and I make a fair number of "exceptions" for
> vacations, holidays, charitable breakfasts, etc. I'd conservatively
> guess 75-90% of my breakfasts start as a powder and probably 90-95% of
> my lunches. It's pretty easy to get a custom-made nutrient-saturated
> meal for less than $1-2 that takes < 10 min. to prepare today. Many
> people, instead, choose to eat $6-7+ meals and drink $4+ coffee drinks
> that are void of nutrition if not 'anti-nutritious'.
>
> If you wanted me to elaborate about protein choices; Dairy and egg
> proteins tend to produce better nitrogen retention (Biological Value)
> and have better utilization (PER/PDCAA). I don't abundantly monitor
> myself personally for these traits (yet) and the personal data I do
> have is sparse, highly variable, and obviously anecdotal. Soy isn't a
> bad protein, but there are non-essential amino acids (taurine,
> creatine, carnitine) that are found in other sources that support
> higher mental function and better nutrient allocation/metabolic
> function. Again, not saying soy is bad by any means; 'soy protein' is
> a vague term ranging from soy flour to soy protein isolate and 'a diet
> composed of' vs. 'a diet supplemented with' make it hard to generate
> 'good' vs. 'bad' labels. Personally, I value soy as a cheap source of
> the essential amino acids and lecithin, the protein in-and-of itself
> is rather worthless, IMO.
Wait, how can you say you 'value soy as a cheap source of the
essential amino acids', but think 'the protein in-and-of itself is
rather worthless'... the 'worthless' protein is composed of the amino
acids you 'value'.
To me that's like saying gold necklaces are worthless, but I value
melting them to make gold wire traces for circuit boards.
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