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Protease Inhibitors – The gapping hole in “Vegan” logic.
Given that many hypnosis practioners are looking at weight management as a field of concentration, I thought I would share an excerpt from a recent seminar I gave to medical professionals on healthy eating. The excerpt was in response to a question about potential difficulties with some trendy raw and vegan diets. I don’t expect everyone to agree with it, but I do hope it will give some a bit of food for thought. Anyway for what it’s worth here are some issues you and your clients might consider before deciding to mimic rabbits and gophers at the diner table,
Protease inhibitors inhibit some of the key enzymes that help us digest protein. The best known of these protease enzymes is trypsin. Most of the USDA studies performed over the years have looked at trypsin inhibitors in soybeans, but these anti-nutrients are also found in other beans, grains, nuts, seeds, vegetables of the nightshade family (potatoes, tomatoes and eggplant) and various fruits and vegetables.
Traditionally, few of these foods caused health problems because they were rarely eaten every day and because cooking deactivates most of the protease inhibitors. But given the growing tendency to fill up on plant foods (ie salads), and the fashionability of al dente cooking and “live food” (raw) vegan diets, more and more people are eating foods with their protease inhibitor content intact. Proponents of plant-based diets generally believe their diets provide plenty of protein, but this premise fails to take into account the fact that protein swallowed is not the same as protein digested when protease inhibitors are in the picture. Without high-quality, usable protein, growth, repair, immunity, hormone formation and all metabolic processes will suffer.
The protease inhibitors in soybeans are not only more numerous than those found in other beans and foods, but more resistant to neutralization by cooking and processing.5 Only the old-fashioned fermentation techniques used to make miso, tempeh and natto come close to deactivating all of them. With all other cooking processes, some trypsin inhibitors remain. The levels of active protease inhibitors remaining in modern soy products vary widely from batch to batch, and investigators have found startlingly high levels in some soy formulas and soy protein concentrates.
You are what you eat. I hope some will find this useful.
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Comment by Hugh Cole on February 9, 2012 at 12:45pm -
I am sure it is in several other places. AJ, I am a regular subscriber to Dr. Mercola. (Although I find him a touch commercial). The meat vs, vegan thing has been going on a long time. As with anything else .. life is a balance. Our bodies were meant to survive and we are omnivores so meat eating and plant eating processes exist within our bodies to keep us running through good times and bad. Healthy eating to me means understanding what you are putting into the system and how the body uses it. There are a lot of different roads to your ideal weight but some of them will bust your axle and tear up your front end before you get there.
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Comment by docregal.com on February 9, 2012 at 10:52am -
I have seen this info elsewhere, Hugh. Dr.Mercola posts a lot on this same topic. Great to hear it from another source. Best regards!
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Comment by Hugh Cole on February 6, 2012 at 7:26pm
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Thanks Barry I an glad it was useful to you. ... Hugh
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Comment by Barry Neale on February 6, 2012 at 3:02pm -
Thanks for this. I have always had concerns about soy being this wonder health food when in fact it is a waste product from the soya oil industry.
Doubters always cite the fact that many Asians consume soy every day so therefore it must be healthy, but the fact is they are consuming fermented soy and they dont eat huge amounts of it.
I also read an interesting article recently that said the about 75% of people who become vegetarians go back to eating meat after a few years because of health problems.
I know this first hand. In my 20's I went veggie and suffered with lack of energy (almost certainly B12 problems) and bloating and weight gain.
I know it works for some people but not for me.
thanks again for the article!
barry
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Comment by Iacobet Cosmin on February 6, 2012 at 2:09pm -
Nice article, some really interesting food for thought here :)
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