Protein Protein is made up of different amino acids, they are in most foods. Meat, fish and poultry are complete proteins. Black beans and rice are as well. Other foods contain incomplete proteins that group with other foods to form complete proteins. Decades ago, it was believed that you needed to eat all the amino acids at once to form your own proteins. That was disproved long ago. Your body can  only use a small amount of it, say, one piece of meat a day, one the size of a deck of playing cards. More than that does not just leave quietly, it overworks your kidneys. Stones can start forming as soon as 6 weeks on a high protein diet. And/or chronic dehydration kicks in, something that can stimulate your appetite in its own strange, unhealthy way. The notion that you need to eat a lot of protein, powder form or other, to form muscle mass is a problem. As if eating meat will go straight to your upper arms? Think of a horse, strength, grace and beauty, runs on plant material. This is not to push vegetarianism, but to get at what bulking up as well as low carb diets are made of, and it isn't horse meat. Meat eating mammals have short intestines, like dogs do. Plant eaters have long intestines. Humans have long intestines.
	copyright Susan Lee Ottevanger 2005

Proteins are digested with acids. Carbohydrates are
digested with alkalis. Let them takes turns. Eat carbs, eat
protein, in the same day, but not in the same meal.

When your digestive system is confronted with pastrami
on rye, you send out the acid squad to process the
pastrami and the alkali squad out to work on the rye. They
run into each other and can't help but cancel each other
out. Since there is still pastrami and  rye around,
reinforcement are produced and sent out. This reruns
several times. Lots of enzymes, especially acid is
produced for this event.

When you have eat say, a salad with some cheese in it, no
croutons, OR a pasta salad with no cheese, ONLY one
squad is sent out. Mission accomplished in one take. You
can digest food in one third the time, which saves a lot of
energy. You can actually feel alert after lunch instead of
exhausted and sleepy, because not so much or your blood
stream is drawn to the lower battlefield and more can go
to your head.