Quest 4 Quality with Joe Higgins

Back in the early 1920’s in America, researchers concluded that rats who were not fed enormous amounts of protein eventually died early in their lives. Ever since that report hit the newspapers, Americans began to see protein as a miracle food. It sustained life and therefore you could never get enough of it they thought. This started a lifelong romance with any food deemed to contain protein, especially meat. Unfortunately, after they discovered that the studies were not applicable to humans, as rats need 10 times as much protein as we do, this update was never really assimilated by the population.  Today the average American gets nearly three times as much protein as they need every day and as a result it has had very dire consequences on our health. Protein deficiency is extremely rare in this country, so rare in fact that most of us have never known anyone who died of a lack of protein. At the same time we all have been through heart attacks, cancer, diabetes and stroke with someone close to us. This podc