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May. 26th, 2008 02:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
watertankNYT: Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler
The article talks mostly about energy impact of meat consumption in the US and the rest of the world.
The reason I highlighted the paragraph above is that it explains the American habit of drinking a lot of water, which often baffles Europeans, especially, the French. ( why water, not wine?!!!) We drink water not only because we are afraid to get dehydrated in a hot climate ( a typical explanation in California), but also because high consumption of protein ( meat, poultry and fish) damages liver, unless it is accompanied by plenty of water.
We have to over-drink water because we over-eat meat :)
п.с. водка ( алкоголь) с мясными закусками должна сильно бить по печени, потому что водка обезвоживает, а протеин грузит печень.
Americans are downing close to 200 pounds of meat, poultry and fish per capita per year (dairy and eggs are separate, and hardly insignificant), an increase of 50 pounds per person from 50 years ago. We each consume something like 110 grams of protein a day, about twice the federal government’s recommended allowance; of that, about 75 grams come from animal protein.Mark Bittman. NYT, January 27, 2008
The article talks mostly about energy impact of meat consumption in the US and the rest of the world.
The reason I highlighted the paragraph above is that it explains the American habit of drinking a lot of water, which often baffles Europeans, especially, the French. ( why water, not wine?!!!) We drink water not only because we are afraid to get dehydrated in a hot climate ( a typical explanation in California), but also because high consumption of protein ( meat, poultry and fish) damages liver, unless it is accompanied by plenty of water.
We have to over-drink water because we over-eat meat :)
п.с. водка ( алкоголь) с мясными закусками должна сильно бить по печени, потому что водка обезвоживает, а протеин грузит печень.
