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[Guest guest]

WHAT IF you ate your vegetables and fruit, like a vegetarian, and got ALL

your protein from protein shakes? Everyone is saying that you can only

absorb protein from the protein shakes because they are predigested and if

that is the case, meat is a waste of time. So, WHY NOT drink 120 grams or so

of protein shakes a day PLUS eat your vegetables and fruit and forget about

meat and eggs?

[Guest guest]

I think if you enjoyed protein shakes, fruit and vegetables, the diet you

described would be healthy, as long as you made sure you got plenty of B

vitamins, either in the shakes or with supplements.

By the way, I don't believe that it's necessary for most weight loss surgery

patients to supplement protein. Let's say you could only get protein from

shakes. Then people like me, and about 98% of my doctor's patients, would have

severe protein defeciencies. We would have suppressed immune systems and very

bad wound healing, for starters.

My immune system is great. After my wound complication they (my non-wls surgeon

and wound care nurse) were amazed at how quickly I healed. I replaced the blood

lost more quickly than they anticipated. They think part of the reason I didn't

get toxic shock syndrome from the lost wound packing was that I just be one of

those people " born with a great immune system. "

Certainly, some people have problems absorbing protein. I'm proof that not

everyone who has had a proximal/medial roux-en-y gastric bypass needs to

supplement protein.

BTW, some vegetarians appear to be pretty healthy and don't get what many

nutritionists think of as " enough " protein. Other vegetarians have problems

with poor immune health and anemia. Our bodies are different, even when we

don't have weight loss surgery. Some physicians are using the term " cheese

pizza vegetarians " to refer to people who become vegetarians casually, without

reading about non-meat sources of protein. Those people tend to have problems,

but I know some very healthy vegetarians who eat don't supplement their protein

at all. They just choose protein rich foods at meals.

In a message dated Thu, 5 Sep 2002 11:42:30 AM Eastern Standard Time, PATISINKY

writes:

> Everyone is saying that you can only

> absorb protein from the protein shakes because they are

> predigested and if

> that is the case, meat is a waste of time.