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Originally Posted by cha59
4) - just to be clear - doesn't have to be meat - fish and eggs are as good as meat protein, but I think you know that.
This is my belief, yes. Not sure it's exactly what my lurker friend thinks. I assume there may be some minor differences in type of meat vs. eggs but I have a hard time imagining without convincing researching that they matter much.
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Also, 4 eggs ~ 1 tilapia fillet ~ 1 scoop whey as far as protein content.
Awesome, thanks. I was trying to kind of figure it out but couldn't remember the actual protein info of my fish, or of an egg. I assumed it would be ~3 or 4 eggs, not sure I can pile 4 onto a sandwich, but I could easily get 4 if I just eat a hard boiled one with the sandwich, for example.
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They quality of the protein in whey is excellent. You are just missing out on micro nutrients and variety by getting most of your protein from whey.
The micro nutrient content of meat/dairy/eggs vs. the micro nutrient of what I already eat, imo, is a no-contest. If I had to create a scale it'd be something like:
1) spinach
80) meat
90) whey protein
Which doesn't mean I think meat isn't going to give me something that's missing from whey, but I think it's actually much less of a big deal, than for example, the difference between juicing an apple and eating the apple. My guess is the extra fiber and non-broken down content of eating the apple is probably a bigger "win" than having meat vs. whey protein.
I'm not sure I'm right about this, but it's what I think.
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100) - I dunno. Its hard to prove. Would it hurt to remove soy entirely from your diet for ~ a month and keep doing most everything else the same to see what happens?
Yeah I could. But that would mean that I'm only replacing the ~60-80 calories or whatever of soy milk I eat each day with regular milk or some other breakfast entirely. I really really really don't think that is going to be more helpful than just eating more. And if I do both, I won't really know if changing the soy milk did anything at all.
If having less than 3% of your diet from soy milk actually stunts muscle growth my guess is that eating larger amounts (which plenty of ppl do) would cause all sorts of weird ****. So far the only evidence I'm familiar with that soy is a problem for muscle growth has to do with large amounts of it.