People always ask me...Where do you get your protein?
This is the big question I get about being on a raw food living diet.

My answer is this: I get more than enough protein from whole, plants-based foods like greens, vegetables, seeds, nuts, fruits and grains in their raw and un-cooked “living” form.

I start my day with a green smoothie: 1 bunch of fresh kale or spinach, some fruit and water in a blender. Pound for pound Greens have more protein than chicken. Greens of all kinds (lettuces, kale, chard, bok coy, spinach, arugula, beet greens, carrot greens, parsley and endive to name some) have an abundance of high-quality protein that allows for a slow and steady synthesis of new proteins, which is the healthiest type of protein to eat because your body can actually USE it.

So for example, in my green smoothie today, I had:

Plants            Grams of protein

2 cups Kale             5
2 cups Collards       8
2 cups Chard          6
2 bananas               2
1 cup blueberries    1
1 apple                    2

Total grams of
Protein                  24

A women needs only 30 grams of protein per day, so before lunch I’m 80% to my daily requirement! A man needs only 40 grams per day.

I also love to snack on sprouted and dehydrated sunflower seeds which I spice-up with a yummy sweet curry seasoning. 1/2 cup of this snack packs 16.5 grams of protein!

My point is, it’s very easy to get well over 40 grams of high-quality plant-based protein each day my just eating fruits, veggies, nuts and seeds!

The idea that “high-quality” protein is only found in and is synonymous with "animal meat" is a myth and marketing concept that we’ve all been “sold” for decades, if not centuries!  Now that I'm all veg, I actually have much more sustainable energy and strength throughout my day, which includes more energy in my workouts! Before adopting a raw plant-based diet, I was a self proclaied "meat-girl"! So that fact that I don't eat meat anymore is shocking to me. But without the animal fleah, I feel much more "powerful" in every way. If you think about it, many of the strongest and muscular animals, such as horses, also eat only plants!

I don't "miss meat", either. Reading Doctor T. Colin Campbell's Book The China Study taught me about all the bad, disease-causing stuff that comes with animal protein.  What's that phrase?....Ignorance is bliss? Well, I'm not ignorant anymore, so I can't blissfully enjoy a steak, hamburger or peice of crispy bacon ever again...not now that I am informed. I highly recommend this book. It changed my life and I even went so far as to get Plant-Based Nutritiion Certified through Dr. Campbell's graduate program taught by Cornell University.

   

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