Chicken is bad for you

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  • neandermagnon
    neandermagnon Posts: 7,436 Member
    There's just enough fact in her story to make it credible. If someone was hunting wild rabbits to survive, they may have expended too many calories hunting them to benefit from eating them. That can happen when you live off wild game during the times of year that they are naturally lean. (That's essentially what happened to Chris McCandless/Alexander Supertramp of "Into the Wild" fame.) But chicken is a whole different animal, so to speak. It has plenty of natural fat under its skin and provides plenty of protein even skinless. Your mom needs to do some fact-checking. ;)

    that's not due to lack of calories. You can get enough calories from lean meat, but your liver can't cope with the metabolic waste from metabolising so much protein from energy. The upper limit for the amount of protein the liver can cope with is about 400g for a healthy man in his prime.... though you need to adjust that upwards or downwards depending on someone's size. The problems come from that. The human body needs a certain percentage of calories to come from another macronutrient - either carbs or fat - to avoid this problem.

    Rabbit and caribou/reindeer meat are known to be too lean for humans to live off as their sole source of nutrition.


    ETA: fat is essential in the diet for other reasons besides this - just reread and realised it could be interpreted that humans can live off just protein and carbs - they can't. You can survive on just fat and protein, although you'll function better in terms of maximum performance, when you have enough carbs in the diet.
  • bd0027
    bd0027 Posts: 1,053 Member
    My mom used to tell me if I went to bed with my hair wet, I would wake up blind.:laugh: Mom's are funny like that.

    A.C.E. Certified Personal Trainer
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    Oh so thats why I'm going blind

    My grandma always said blindness was caused by *kitten*. But wet hair is a new one!

    That explains me needing glasses then. Glad I found that out.
  • gary241069
    gary241069 Posts: 255 Member
    Why did I read this page? All it's done is make me hungry....:grumble:
  • HeyMae75
    HeyMae75 Posts: 18 Member
    At the time my daughter was born I had been a vegetarian for about 10 years. My daughter did not eat any meat until she was about 7 when I slowly began introducing seafood & then poultry into our diets. She is now 19 & has never eaten red meat in her entire life. She is still alive.
    I think you will be fine.
  • MaiLinna
    MaiLinna Posts: 580 Member
    I'm gonna be okay. Got it.

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