Hi StayHealthy2009,
Let us talk about the protein myth first - I don't think it is a myth but in order to prove it is a myth we need credible research not just just some fellow parroting off on YouTube - this fellow is 39 and claims not to eat any protein other than what he gets from enzymes, which he incorrectly claims have their amino acids destroyed by heat. From memory it is the shape of the enzymes that is altered by heat stopping their function, but their amino acids are still there undamaged, somebody correct me if I am wrong, I am a student too.
This fellow could drop off the perch at some young age because of an amino acid he is not getting.
Vegetables and Fruit in particular do not supply all of the amino acids necessary to be called a complete protein and they are not even close to the amino load of meat or fish. They are partial proteins apart from soybeans which is being considered a complete protein by a lot of researchers now.
I been involved in sport at high levels as well as pursuing education in a few different fields, and from my observation vegetarians never look healthy, in martial arts and boxing I have trained several of them and they always look scrawney and pasty faced, and as they age they seem to look older and sicker, this is my observation, nothing based on science. Several sites suggest they are healthier and live longer and I know one that made 100 years, he was a bean eater and extremely religious, no smoking or drinking or other bad habits, so we can not rule out the possibility that his good habits carried him across the line, not his diet.
No studies have been done that I can find on a Gorillas strength, but I agree with you they are incredibly strong, estimations of their strength compared to ours are somewhere between 5 to 20 times stronger than us so you could probably agree with the expert and say about 10 times. Diet probably has nothing in the world to do with this, I would be more inclined to blame evolutionary selection of body type to fit in a niche.
Read this.
"Wild Animals - Gorilla strength
Expert: Jonathan Wright - 5/21/2007
Question
i was wondering: exactly how strong is a (silverback) gorilla?
most sources seem to be pretty inconclusive. I've heard claims of anywhere from
1 to 27 times as strong as the average human male. I've heard that a gorilla can
lift 4600 pounds above its head. i have little doubt that a gorilla is stronger than
a human, but I'm wondering how much stronger.
Get the answer below
Answer
Dear Zach
Thanks for your question. I also wish to thank the authors of the websites I used.
Creation versus Evolution (http://www.evcforum.net/cgi-bin/dm.cgi?action=msg&f=14&t=1376&m=1 and
http://www.evcforum.net/cgi-bin/dm.cgi?act...1376&m=196) is a discussion forum. LudoRaphaim says that there may have been no study to determine a gorilla’s strength. One book says it is 4-8 times stronger than a man, while the "Animal face off" show says it is 20 times stronger and LudoRaphaim says it is 20 times stronger in its upper body. Nigel Marvin says it is 5 times stronger. "The Most Extreme" on Animal Planet suggested that a gorilla can lift two tons above its head and may be eight times as strong as an Olympic weight lifter. A gorilla may deadlift twice as much as the world's strongest human.
Thomas M. Greiner (http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/2001-07/995155256.Zo.r.html) considers the problems of defining gorilla strength. He says that most human strength activities, such as weight lifting, involve a degree of skill as well as strength. It is possible that a human could bench press more weight than a gorilla, but that a could tear the arms off the human. Gorillas and humans have variable strengths. The gorilla has very strong arms, compared to a person.
One reader (Abortion) at
http://www.comixtreme.com/forums/archive/i...hp/t-19908.html says that the gorilla is 20 times stronger than an average adult human and could lift 200 pounds (about 1 ton), while PukeDunk says it could lift 2 tons and can tear up trees.
African Wildlife Foundation (http://www.awf.org/content/wildlife/detail/mountaingorilla) says that a mountain gorilla is about 10 times stronger - than the biggest American football players.
Looking at this conflicting information, it seems that a silverback gorilla is 5-20 times as strong as a human and that 10 times seems to be a fair estimate. It is a pity that there is so much speculation rather than any definitive answers."
You can get all of the amino acids to make complete protein by eating a wide range of foods so you get foods containing high levels of an amino acid and blend it with another food that is low in that amino acid, like wheat is low in lysine but put peanut butter on it and you have complete protein. So by blending part proteins you can get complete proteins but I don't think you can store amino acids on their own, so you would need to get them daily.
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=881IQh...sition+of+aminoThis is a quickly evolving area of study so it is possible that some of this information is incorrect.
Can some of you dietitians/nutritionists look this over and tell me if I have made mistakes please.
Cheers