Guest guest Posted May 8, 2004 Report Share Posted May 8, 2004 Dear Mary, YOU WROTE I would caution you, however, in one thing. Since you are of child-bearing years, I strongly recommend you either keep fish in your diet or make seaweed a regular part of your diet...for the sake of any future children you might have. Would you please elaborate on this as to why you think fish and/or seaweed are necessary? Also, you have written about " eating protein " as if it is a separate food. You must be referring to meat. Raw meat is disgusting. Raw foodists get their protein from plants, as one of the three macronutrients. Even bananas have protein in them, about the same percentage of protein as mother's milk. ~Jenny of NW WA ______________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 8, 2004 Report Share Posted May 8, 2004 Jenny, When a woman is pregnant, her body passes nutrients to the baby through the umbilical cord. When she is nursing, she passes nutrients through her milk. When a baby is a fetus, its body learns how to assimilate nutrients from the nutrients it gets from the mother. If a mother never gets any iodine in her diet and she doesn't have an adequate store of iodine, the fetus' thyroid does not learn how to EASILY assimilate iodine. I am not stating the baby cannot assimilate iodine...only that it cannot do so easily. To be healthy, we each need to identify the nutrients we have DIFFICULTY assimilating. The foods containing these nutrients are the ones we need IF FOOD is to be our medicine. Iodine is a very important part of the diet. without it, the thyroid cannot do its job (which is two-fold). the one job is to influence metabolism. the other is to protect the brain from toxic waste. Iodine can only be gotten naturally from the ocean. It is in ocean fish and seaweed. Although all plants contain protein, not all contain the same amount. fruit is generally only 1% protein. Herbs are generally only 1-2% protein. Legumes and grains can be up to 4% protein. seeds and nuts are the highest in protein (generally at least 20%). If a pregnant or nursing mom is not going to eat any animal flesh or animal products (which are very high in protein), she must eat seeds and nuts to insure that she gets the 5% the baby needs as well as the 5% she needs. Our bodies can recycle 95% of its protein. We need to get at least 5% from our diet. While you individually could get your 5% without large amounts of nuts/seeds, it would be difficult to get the 10% needed for you and your baby (fetus or nursing) without seeds/nuts. mary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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