Granarianism
I quite dislike the label "vegetarian" since this leads people to
think that we eat, or only need to eat, vegetables. In fact
vegetarians need no more vegetables than carnivores do. The only
slightly extra nutritional care to be taken concerns proteins, especially
amino acids.
The simple rule for nutritional health is "combination for completion".
There are four classes of protein supplying foods:
- dairy products (milk, cheese, eggs, yoghurt)
- grains (rice, corn, bread, pasta)
- legumes (beans, pulses, peanuts)
- seeds and nuts (N.B. peanuts are not nuts)
All one must do is combine two adjacent groups - e.g. bread and
cheese (pizza), rice and beans - as basic or elaborate as you like.
(The one exception is soybeans, or less commonly sea vegetables, which
are complete in themselves.) Since it is rare to cook with seeds and nuts
the rule essentially becomes: always include a grain. That is why
I prefer the name granarian to vegetarian.
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