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excess.
Fifth: Unanswerable--to be proved later by personal experiments.
In addition, they say that animal protein is more easily digested, that
97 per cent is assimilated because it is animal, and so it is much more
to be desired, especially by children and convalescents; that vegetable
protein is enclosed in cellulose, and only 65 to 75 per cent is used by
the system; thus the diet is apt to be too bulky if the proper amount is
taken.
[Sidenote: _Strong Vegetarians_]
It has been proved, however, by several endurance tests, that the
vegetarian contestants had more strength and greater endurance than
their meat-eating competitors, so there is no reason why we should be
worried by one or two, or even more, meatless days, especially when
animal product protein, such as milk, eggs, cheese, and the vegetable
proteins, as in the legumes and the nuts, are available.
[Sidenote: _A Confession_]
I confess that for quite a while after studying vegetarian books I took
a dislike to meat, but now I am in the comfortable state described by
Benjamin Franklin in his autobiography. It seems that he had been
converted to vegetarianism and had decided that he never again would eat
the flesh of animals that had been ruthlessly slaughtered, when they so
little deserved that fate.
But he was exceedingly fond of fish, and while on a fishing party, as
some fish were being fried, he found they did smell most admirably
well, and he was greatly torn between his desire and his principle.
Finally he remembered that when the fish were opened he saw some smaller
fish in their stomachs, and he decided that if they could eat each other
he could eat them.
[Sidenote: _Most Noted Picture of B. Franklin Extant_]
_Protein Calories in 100 C Portions of Food_
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