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The following sources were found to support the importance of combining at a meal:
The law of the minimum was tested at University of Southern California in 1947. [1] "The formation of protein molecules is a coordinated tissue function and can be accomplished only when all amino acids which take part in the formation are present at the same time." It was further concluded, that "'incomplete' amino acid mixtures are not stored in the body, but are irreversibly further metabolized." Robert Bruce Merrifield was a laboratory assistant for the experiments. When he wrote his autobiography he recounted in 1993 the finding:
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Rgdboer ( talk) 02:43, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
It's 2023, and this article is still biased against widely-recognized facts about protein combining. This despite many edits over more than 16 years.
The current structure is (simplifying, obviously):
The structure should be (again, simplifying):
The current article (June 4, 2023) drives home the general feeling of discreditedness by using words like "theory", "purports", "outdated", "dogmas", and "supposed". It buries the only aspect of the idea that has been discredited (that you have to combine proteins in the same meal) halfway through the second paragraph.
The fight over the idea that we need complementary proteins in every meal was ended in 1981, when Frances Moore Lappé withdrew her support for the idea in the second edition of Diet for a Small Planet. I don't know why people are still fighting this fight in 2023, but most of the articles that I find anywhere on the net (not just Wikipedia) have the same emphasis.
Wikipedia should be a countervailing force to shed light on the idea, not repeat biases found elsewhere. No further references and evidence are needed; we just have to structure it differently, to emphasize what's widely recognized to be true, and to put a 40-year-old resolved debate in its proper position (strictly historical). JamesHAndrews ( talk) 19:54, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
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The following sources were found to support the importance of combining at a meal:
The law of the minimum was tested at University of Southern California in 1947. [1] "The formation of protein molecules is a coordinated tissue function and can be accomplished only when all amino acids which take part in the formation are present at the same time." It was further concluded, that "'incomplete' amino acid mixtures are not stored in the body, but are irreversibly further metabolized." Robert Bruce Merrifield was a laboratory assistant for the experiments. When he wrote his autobiography he recounted in 1993 the finding:
References
Rgdboer ( talk) 02:43, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
It's 2023, and this article is still biased against widely-recognized facts about protein combining. This despite many edits over more than 16 years.
The current structure is (simplifying, obviously):
The structure should be (again, simplifying):
The current article (June 4, 2023) drives home the general feeling of discreditedness by using words like "theory", "purports", "outdated", "dogmas", and "supposed". It buries the only aspect of the idea that has been discredited (that you have to combine proteins in the same meal) halfway through the second paragraph.
The fight over the idea that we need complementary proteins in every meal was ended in 1981, when Frances Moore Lappé withdrew her support for the idea in the second edition of Diet for a Small Planet. I don't know why people are still fighting this fight in 2023, but most of the articles that I find anywhere on the net (not just Wikipedia) have the same emphasis.
Wikipedia should be a countervailing force to shed light on the idea, not repeat biases found elsewhere. No further references and evidence are needed; we just have to structure it differently, to emphasize what's widely recognized to be true, and to put a 40-year-old resolved debate in its proper position (strictly historical). JamesHAndrews ( talk) 19:54, 4 June 2023 (UTC)