Protein Quotes - Page 6

• Skin is made in large measure of a protein called collagen.

  Michael Behe

  Skins, Made, Collagen

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• I've found that a person does not need protein from meat to be a successful athlete. In fact, my best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.

  Carl Lewis

  Athlete, Successful, Years

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• People feel poorly because they are nourished by foods you wouldn't feed to your dog and cat. The rich western diet is full of fat, sugar, cholesterol, salt, animal protein - all the wrong foods for people.

  John A. McDougall

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• It appears that a simple rule, of something adhering to another similar idea, repeated, leads to stabilities. This seems to be a function of relational data sets, linked to rules, like in DNA chains that have infinite adaptability for sequencing proteins. Out of only four bases, which in turn are further limited by two rules of complimentarity, a myriad of forms arise.

  Cecil Balmond

  Simple, Dna, Data

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• What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period. That's it. Animal protein is bad for you. Dairy is bad for you. Forget the ads: Milk and eggs are bad for you.

  Roger Ebert

  Animal, Vegetarian Diet, Eggs

  Roger Ebert (2011). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2012”, p.188, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Advocacy of leaf protein as a human food is based on the undisputed fact that forage crops (such as lucerne) give a greater yield of protein than other types of crops. Even with conventional food crops there is more protein in the leafy parts than in the seeds or tubs that are usually harvested.

  Norman Pirie

  Yield, Giving, Tubs

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• To invoke the origin of the DNA/protein machine by invoking a supernatural Designer is to explain precisely nothing - for it leaves unexplained the origin of the Designer.

  Richard Dawkins

  Dna, Machines, Designer

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.141, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract. Matter changes hands, atoms flow in and out, molecules pivot, proteins stitch together, mitochondria send out their oxidative dictates; we begin as a microscopic electrical swarm. The lungs the brain the heart. Forty weeks later, six trillion cells get crushed in the vise of our mother’s birth canal and we howl. Then the world starts in on us.

  Anthony Doerr

  Mother, Heart, Cells

  Anthony Doerr (2014). “All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel”, p.468, Simon and Schuster

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• When I tell people that I'm vegan, the first question asked is, 'How do you get enough protein?' This immediately tells me that they are uneducated and know little or nothing about nutrition.

  Robert Cheeke

  Bodybuilding, People, Littles

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• Everyday I attempt to consume 4,000 Calories and 200 grams of protein. I don't always reach that mark but when I go to bed at night I know that I did the best I could given my schedule and the circumstances that day.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Bodybuilding, Night

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• We now had impressive evidence that low protein intake could markedly decrease enzyme activity and prevent dangerous carcinogen binding to DNA.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Dna, Enzymes, Decrease

  T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell (II.) (2013). “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-Term Health”, p.57, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we're made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only way to recruit these carbon atoms for the molecules necessary to support life-the carbohydrates, amino acids, proteins, and lipids-is by means of photosynthesis. Using sunlight as a catalyst the green cells of plants combine carbon atoms taken from the air with water and elements drawn from the soil to form the simple organic compounds that stand at the base of every food chain. It is more than a figure of speech to say that plants create life out of thin air.

  Michael Pollan

  Taken, Mean, Simple

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.15, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made.

  Paul Berg

  Transition, Molecular Biology, Becoming

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• I always felt slightly grubbier than most American people. I was never quite as groomed as everyone else, never quite as fit as anyone else. I didn't have my protein shake and my vitamins.

  Ashley Jensen

  People, Never Quit, Vitamins

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• The ideal human diet looks like this: Consume plant-based foods in forms as close to their natural state as possible (“whole” foods). Eat a variety of vegetables, fruits, raw nuts and seeds, beans and legumes, and whole grains. Avoid heavily processed foods and animal products. Stay away from added salt, oil, and sugar. Aim to get 80 percent of your calories from carbohydrates, 10 percent from fat, and 10 percent from protein.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Animal, Vegetables, Nuts

  T. Colin Campbell, Howard Jacobson (2013). “Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition”, p.17, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• As your body deteriorates, your natural talents start to go a little bit. You have to bring in physical working out, building, taking protein and doing extra stuff.

  Ben Roethlisberger

  Natural Talent, Work Out, Littles

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• As can be seen even by this limited number of examples proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions.

  Michael Behe

  Numbers, Example, Function

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• I always advise eating regular meals — a mix of healthy carbs, protein and fruits and veggies.

  Gunnar Peterson

  Healthy, Meals, Fruits And Veggies

  "Scary Celeb Diet Tricks No Woman Should Try!" by Shaun Dreisbach, www.glamour.com. February 3, 2008.

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• Casein [the main protein found in dairy], in fact, is the most 'relevant' chemical carcinogen ever identified; its cancer-producin g effects occur in animals at consumption levels close to normal-striking ly unlike cancer-causing environmental chemicals that are fed to lab animals at a few hundred or even a few thousand times their normal levels of consumption.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Cancer, Animal, Environmental

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• He also knows what king of protein I like, what T-shirts I like, how I like my dry cleaning to be done. He also knows how I like my stuff folded and put away into drawers.

  The Miz

  Kings, Wwe, Dry Cleaning

  "Banking on The Miz". Skysports Interview, www.skysports.com. November 15, 2010.

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• Nutrition science, however, suggests that golden rice alone will not greatly diminish vitamin A defi-ciency and associated blindness. [”¦] People whose diets lack [fats and proteins] or who have intestinal diarrheal diseases -- common in develop-ing countries -- cannot obtain vitamin A from golden rice.

  Marion Nestle

  Country, People, Disease

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• I played around with vegetarianism back in the '70s. One thing, my physiology just got to have animal protein. I get hypoglycemic, I get all light-headed unless I eat animal protein.

  Temple Grandin

  Animal, Light, Vegetarianism

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• Space and time, not proteins and neurons, hold the answer to the problem of consciousness. When we consider the nerve impulses entering the brain, we realize that they are not woven together automatically, any more than the information is inside a computer.

  Robert Lanza

  Space, Brain, Together

  "Robert Lanza doesn't seem to be kidding" by Adam Rogers, www.wired.com. March 08, 2007.

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• I usually eat six times a day, small meals. For breakfast, an egg and a corn tortilla, salsa and cilantro, and some ham. For snacks, I'll have an apple, some string cheese, a yogurt. For lunch I'll have salad with protein in it and for dinner usually steamed vegetables and chicken or fish.

  Sprague Grayden

  Eggs, Lunch, Apples

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• Back in the 1970s, I ate a high-protein diet to get bigger and stronger. As a senior at Utah State, I weighed 218 pounds with eight percent body fat, and threw the discus over 190 feet. Then I got some advice from the people at the Olympic Training Center. I needed carbs, they advised, and lots of them. They pointed to studies done on the American distance runners. Being an idiot, I took the advice to eat like emaciated, over-trained sub-performers. It took years of high carbohydrate grazing to learn the evils of this advice.

  Dan John

  Senior, Workout, Distance

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