Dana Carpender wrote:
> Carmen wrote:
>
> > Dana Carpender wrote:
> >
> >>Krusty wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>"Dana Carpender" > wrote
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Except that they are exactly that -- inessential.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Cite?
> >>>
> >>>This I gotta see.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluconeogenesis
> >>
> >>http://web.indstate.edu/thcme/mwking...eogenesis.html
> >>
> >>The body is perfectly capable of making glucose with no dietary
> >>carbohydrate whatsoever. That makes carbohydrates inessential by
> >>definition.
> >
> >
> > The body can make proteins.
>
> The body can make some proteins. It cannot make the eight essential
> amino acids, making those essential in the diet.
>
The body can make any proteins it requires, using amino acids. It can
get the ones it cannot make from grains and beans. I said all this in
the post you replied to, except you cut all that out. In order to have
a meaningful discussion you cannot evade inconvenient facts Dana. Here
it is again, so you can reply in a more relevant fashion:

> The body can make proteins. It can make half the amino acids it needs
> to make proteins and get the other half from a diet of nothing but
> grains and beans. Does that magically make that diet perfect? No. It
> just demonstrates - as does gluconeogenesis - how adaptable humans are.

Carmen