Posts by kona_scott

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Vegetarian	Vegetarian teen, need protein?	May 09 2008 01:31 (UTC)	6
Egg whites are great, less then 5 cal/gram of protein. Egg whites are what I use to top off my daily protein needs, without them many days I would be short 15-20 grams of protein. Scott
Vegetarian	Refried Beans	Apr 30 2008 22:00 (UTC)
I love refried beans, but the canned ones have a huge amount of salt in them, almost 5 grams of salt for one can. I have made my own using black beans and they have come out pretty good, still working on perfecting them. They are good as the base for a dip or things like burritos, they are not bad as a source of fiber.
Recipes	cook out ideas! help!	Apr 30 2008 21:48 (UTC)	7
I make a potato salad that is pretty low in calories. I use cream cheese and sour cream in place of the mayonnaise and only use the whites of eggs. I put in a bit of curry powder to spice it up. The last batch I made had around 1.1 cal/gram. Scott
Vegetarian	Just a random question about raw foodies...	Apr 29 2008 17:52 (UTC)	6
I don't know about the nutrients but some fish just tastes better raw. Here in Hawaii raw fish is a pretty normal dish, and very tasty. Scott
Vegetarian	protein sources and how to fix them?	Apr 25 2008 13:53 (UTC)	6
I keep very close track of my protein each day, if I am running low I will make a dish with egg whites in it to get me up to the level I want to be at. I will often do a very simple dish, rice egg whites, just a bit of cheese and a bit of onion, it comes out sort of like a risotto. I also make potato salad with egg whites, it is very easy to adjust the amount of protein in the dish with egg whites. Scott
Vegetarian	does sea food count as meat?	Apr 20 2008 02:03 (UTC)	17
If seafood did not count then dolphins would be vegetarians, which of course they are not. I eat some seafood, but don’t count myself as a vegetarian. Scott
Health & Support	Renal/Diabetic/Cancer Prevention diets - Help	Apr 19 2008 01:08 (UTC)	2
Kidney cancer is very treatable if caught early enough, I had a kidney removed last year from kidney cancer and so far it looks like I am now cancer free. The main thing is don’t freak out too much. If you don’t have cancer then the main thing to keep your kidneys healthy is keep your weight down, keep you blood pressure under control and keep your diabetes under control. You probable should also have your creatinine level checked as well as protein in your urine, both will help tell if your kidneys are working well. Scott
The Lounge	Who's from Hawaii out their? And what Island?	Apr 19 2008 00:52 (UTC)	7
I live on the Big Island, in Kailua Kona. Lot of vog here for the last few weeks. Scott
Vegetarian	how many grams of protein do you eat in a day?	Apr 18 2008 23:30 (UTC)	6
I am eating between 60 to 70 grams of protein a day, I try to keep it closer to 70 then 60. Scott
Weight Loss	too much fiber?	Apr 10 2008 00:00 (UTC)	3
30 to 45 grams of fiber is not all that much. I try hard not to go below 30 grams of fiber and would be happy with 45. Scott
Foods	Weighing food	Apr 09 2008 23:51 (UTC)	1
Original Post by purpleorchid89: Yes, that's right. By the way, if you type it into Calorie Count, you'll see that they mostly list ".... rice, cooked" etc. and that matches with the info you have. 186 grams is nothing. If you know your kilograms, then you know that it takes 1000 grams to equal 1 kilogram. 1 kilogram is 2.2 pounds. This is about 0.4 pounds. One cup of uncooked rice is so much heavier, at LEAST around 2 pounds. And right now I am guessing, because I never weighed my rice before. But I've had to carry bags of uncooked rice, and those things are heavy! Calorie-count shows one cup of uncooked rice weighting 185 grams, which seems about right to me. http://www.calorie-count.com/calories/item/20 036.html Scott
Vegetarian	Easing Back into Vegetarianism	Apr 08 2008 02:46 (UTC)	3
Know how much protein you are getting a day. The normal lower limit is given as 0.8 grams a day per Kg of body mass, but some feel you can go as low as 0.6 grams per Kg of body mass, I would stick with 0.8 grams a day if I were you. Know how much protein you are getting a day. The normal lower limit is given as 0.8 grams a day per Kg of body mass, but some feel you can go as low as 0.6 grams per Kg of body mass, I would stick with 0.8 grams a day if I were you. Make sure you are getting enough of the essential amino acids, it seems Lysine is the main one most people worry about if you are not eating meat. Beans are very good, I like to use dry ones, never from a can, it is cheaper and I don’t need all the salt that is in the canned ones. Beans take some planning ahead but are easy to cook, I really like black beans myself. I find it hard to get enough protein with zero meat, I will tweak the amount of protein I get in a day with just a bit of meat, it does not take much at all. Scott
Vegetarian	milk alternative?	Apr 02 2008 02:06 (UTC)	10
I use rice milk from time to time when I am cooking. I also sometimes use coconut milk, high in saturated fat but it sure tastes good. Scott
Foods	How BIG is your breakfast?	Mar 29 2008 02:01 (UTC)	9
I eat around 550 calories for breakfast, I don't feel at all bad about this, in part because I walk 3.5 to 4 miles in the morning before breakfast, which burns up about 400 calories. I find that if I don’t eat enough for breakfast I snack on high calorie foods before lunch. Oh, and I am eating 2300 calories/day and lossing weight at the rate I want to. Scott
Vegetarian	Meat in moderation?	Mar 29 2008 01:42 (UTC)	3
Original Post by mikelane: You eat 70g of meat and get only 15g of protein? The only other nutrient in meat is fat so you're getting 55g of fat per day. You said that 15g of protein (60 calories) is 20-30% of your protein calories in a day which means you consume 200 to 300 calories from protein per day. Your 55g of fat would be 495 calories on its own. Sorry, Scott, something just doesn't add up here. Your diet is either very odd and extremely high in saturated fats or you got your math and/or estimations wrong. The fact is that 20-30% of your calories coming from animal protein is a problem and will lead to ill health later in life no matter what amount of total calories you consume. You may want to take a more realistic view of what you're actually eating instead of guessing at it. The meat I eat is mostly water, as is most meat, look it up. I never said that 20-30% of my calories are coming from animal protein, what I said was 20-30% of my protein was coming from animal protein. I eat 50-60 grams or protein a day, which is much lower then the norm. 70 grams of meat is about 2.5 oz, that is not much meat at all. Scott
Vegetarian	Meat in moderation?	Mar 27 2008 23:29 (UTC)	5
Original Post by mikelane: Original Post by kona_scott: I am in much the same position, I eat far less meat then most people, normally 70-90 grams/day. I keep my meat intake low for heath reasons but see no reason to drop it to zero, moderation is a good thing, IMO. Only eating 70-90 grams of meat a day means most of my meals are meatless, which is why I check out this forum from time to time. I figure that about 4% of my calories come from meat, but 20% to 30% of my protein comes from meat. I eat virtually no milk, or milk products or eggs, so the only animal protein I get is from meat. The world seems to mostly divided into people who eat no meat and people who eat a fair bit of meat, it seems like there are no that many of us who eat very little animal protein but that do eat some. Scott The average American consumes 70g of animal protein per day. Sorry, you're not eating far less meat than most people, you're eating the same or more meat than most people (in the US at least). The world is divided into the developed nations where people's diets consist of large amounts of meat and underdeveloped nations where people's diets consists mainly of plant-based foods. The people in developed nations tend to die of things like heart disease, cancer, and autoimmune diseases, the people in underdeveloped nations tend to die of diseases of poverty like communicable diseases and diseases relating to poor sanitary conditions. Consuming 20-30% of your protein in the form of animal protein means you are putting yourself at extreme risk for those diseases of affluence which kill 2/3rds of people in the developed world. Hmm, I am eating 70g of meat, not animal protein, I don't get 70g of protein in a day. I get around 15g of animal protein a day. 20-30% protein from animal protien might be a problem if I were eatting 200 grams of protein a day, but I normally am getting 50 to 60 grams a day. Scott
Vegetarian	Why is vegetarianism so much more expensive?	Mar 27 2008 22:01 (UTC)	3
I have dropped to meat consumption to very low numbers, about 3 oz/day, from this I have seen my food cost drop by a huge amount. I also buy very little processed food cooking most things from scratch, this is mostly to keep my sodium intake to a somewhat reasonable level, but it also helps to keep food cost low. I would guess my average food cost to be something like $3.00-$5.00/day. And it is fruit that makes up a lot of that cost. I use a lot of rice, beans and onions, all of which are very cheap. For beans I used dried beans, never canned, the canned ones have more salt and less flavor and cost way more, what sense does that make. Scott
Vegetarian	Meat in moderation?	Mar 27 2008 21:39 (UTC)	7
I am in much the same position, I eat far less meat then most people, normally 70-90 grams/day. I keep my meat intake low for heath reasons but see no reason to drop it to zero, moderation is a good thing, IMO. Only eating 70-90 grams of meat a day means most of my meals are meatless, which is why I check out this forum from time to time. I figure that about 4% of my calories come from meat, but 20% to 30% of my protein comes from meat. I eat virtually no milk, or milk products or eggs, so the only animal protein I get is from meat. The world seems to mostly divided into people who eat no meat and people who eat a fair bit of meat, it seems like there are no that many of us who eat very little animal protein but that do eat some. Scott

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