Most of What You Know About Protein Is Wrong

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Dr. David L. Katz and Mark Bittman
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5 min readJun 18, 2019

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Let’s begin with some statements: Choose true or false.

  • Only meat and other animal foods contain “complete” protein.
  • The average American gets less protein than he or she needs.
  • Vegan diets are deficient in protein quantity, quality, or both.

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Dr. David L. Katz and Mark Bittman
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Dr. Katz is the director of The Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center and Mark Bittman has written about food and cooking for nearly 40 years.