Protein % - Human Breast Milk WAS: Protein powder is poison [s]

[Guest guest]

rawfood , tev treowlufu <coac2002> wrote:

> Interesting aside query:

>

> Isn't the protein content of human breast milk

> 5-8%?

>

> tev

>

 

Hi Tev...

 

human breast milk varies, as follows:

 

From 8th to 11th day: 2.38%

From 20th to 40th day: 1.79%

From 70th to 120th day: 1.49%

At the 170th day and later: 1.07%

 

and its average Protein Percentage is described as 1.6%, and human

newborns take ~180 days to double their weight vs. a calf taking 47

days with a protein of 3.5%.

 

one of the quickest to double its weight is the cat, at 7 days, with

an average protein of 9.5%.

 

interesting....says Shultz...very interesting....

or was that Goldie Hawn? lol!

 

all the best,

 

Bob

 

source: Proteins in the Diet, by Mike Benton. From The Life Science

Health System, part II: The Nutritional Bases of Life, Lesson Eight -

proteins in the Diet, p. 208.

[Guest guest]

Thanks for the detailed chart, Bob.

 

I remember reading an online article by John Coleman,

a raw chemist in the UK. His studies produced an

average of 2%. Others I have read posted a 5% average.

 

I am inclined to believe the 2% figure (which your

information seems to confirm)--and which should tell

us

something about the relative importance of protein;

and what ratio we can thumb for as near-ideal.

 

If the food of a growing baby (during a time most

crucial in its life) returns such percentages, how

does that inform us about how we should think of our

own protein ratios as adults?

 

That is the question I would pose to those who insist

on unusually high protein percentages; or who

relentlessy ask: " Where do you get your protein? "

Perhaps even to those who descry that our degraded

food supply no longer has the proper percentages.

 

Thanks again.

 

tev

 

--- Bob Farrell <rjf2 wrote:

 

> human breast milk varies, as follows:

>

> From 8th to 11th day: 2.38%

> From 20th to 40th day: 1.79%

> From 70th to 120th day: 1.49%

> At the 170th day and later: 1.07%

>

> and its average Protein Percentage is described as

> 1.6%, and human

> newborns take ~180 days to double their weight vs. a

> calf taking 47

> days with a protein of 3.5%.

>

> one of the quickest to double its weight is the cat,

> at 7 days, with

> an average protein of 9.5%.

>

> Bob

 

 

[...there'll be love and laughter,

and peace ever after,

just you wait and see...

---Vera Lynn]

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

rawfood , tev treowlufu <coac2002> wrote:

 

hey Tev, and others!

 

> Thanks for the detailed chart, Bob.

 

You're welcome, Tev.

 

 

> I remember reading an online article by John Coleman,

> a raw chemist in the UK. His studies produced an

> average of 2%. Others I have read posted a 5% average.

>

> I am inclined to believe the 2% figure (which your

> information seems to confirm)--and which should tell

> us

> something about the relative importance of protein;

> and what ratio we can thumb for as near-ideal.

 

I think they can both be correct, depending upon whether we're

talking about and measuring by dry weight or by total grams, " as is " ,

wet...

Bob Avery had responded to me thusly:

 

 

You are looking at total percentages here, not dry weight. Fruits are

even lower in protein if you don't factor out the water, so you are

comparing apples and oranges, so to speak.

 

By dry weight, human milk does indeed average about 5 1/2 % protein.

 

Bob Avery...

 

and Elchanan had also responded talking about the same thing.

 

>

> If the food of a growing baby (during a time most

> crucial in its life) returns such percentages, how

> does that inform us about how we should think of our

> own protein ratios as adults?

yes, I agree, and find the analogy most interesting, and pertinent,

especially considering the huge growth demands of the body in a human

early infancy.

>

> That is the question I would pose to those who insist

> on unusually high protein percentages; or who

> relentlessy ask: " Where do you get your protein? "

 

agree, since we now know that it comes from food sources, turned into

amino acids, and from what the body manufactures from the amino acid

pool.

 

> Perhaps even to those who descry that our degraded

> food supply no longer has the proper percentages.

 

yes, and I think that's one of the true tragedies: what we're doing

to our natural resources...

 

 

>

> Thanks again.

welcome again, and thanks for some encouragement!

>

> tev

 

all the best,

 

Bob

 

>

> --- Bob Farrell <rjf2@t...> wrote:

>

> > human breast milk varies, as follows:

> >

> > From 8th to 11th day: 2.38%

> > From 20th to 40th day: 1.79%

> > From 70th to 120th day: 1.49%

> > At the 170th day and later: 1.07%

> >

> > and its average Protein Percentage is described as

> > 1.6%, and human

> > newborns take ~180 days to double their weight vs. a

> > calf taking 47

> > days with a protein of 3.5%.

> >

> > one of the quickest to double its weight is the cat,

> > at 7 days, with

> > an average protein of 9.5%.

> >

> > Bob

>

>

> [...there'll be love and laughter,

> and peace ever after,

> just you wait and see...

> ---Vera Lynn]

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