FACT: Look to nature for simple answers. Where do elephants get their necessary fats? Olive, canola, or flax seed oil? Of course not. Plant foods provide all of our essential nutrients, including fats. Grapefruits contain 2% fat, oranges 4%, oatmeal 15%, broccoli 9%, apples 4%, Romaine lettuce 10%, and cabbage 6%.

MYTH: You must eat meat to get enough protein.

FACT: Animal products, even so-called lean ones, come automatically packaged with artery-clogging, disease-causing saturated fat and cholesterol. Beef is 67% fat, skinless, white chicken 38% fat, salmon 48% fat, cheddar cheese 73% fat, eggs 62% fat, and 2% milk 35% fat. As for the cholesterol, chicken, fish, and dairy products are right up there with beef. Meat, dairy, and fish can quickly hike up those fat calories, sabotaging weight loss and weight maintenance.

Question: But don’t we have to eat meat to get enough protein?

Answer: What is protein for? Protein is for lots things, but simply stated, protein is for growth. When do we grow the most? From birth to one year old. When do we need the most protein? From birth to one year old. What is the best food for growing babies? Breast milk. How much protein is in breast milk? 4.5% protein. That’s all!

Not coincidentally, the World Health Organization recommends 4.5% protein in our diets for human health. Oranges have 8% protein, broccoli 45%, Romaine lettuce 36%, brown rice 8 %, kidney beans 26%. Plant foods give us plenty of protein, without the fat and cholesterol that come with animal protein. Two more protein points: 1. Plant protein is not inferior to animal protein. 2. Plant proteins don’t have to be mixed and matched to make a "complete" protein.

FACT: Look to nature for commonsense answers. Where do cows, horses, giraffes, apes, and large elephants get their protein to grow and maintain big, strong muscles? They don’t eat cows, pigs, lambs, chickens, fish, eggs, protein bars, or protein drinks. They eat unrefined plant foods, and not a huge variety at that. If they can get plenty of protein from plants, so can we.

MYTH: You must drink milk and eat cheese to get enough calcium.

FACT: Because dairy products are packed with fat, not to mention other ill-effects, they are not your allies in the weight loss game. Most cheeses are 70% fat or more and even skim milk has 4 to 7% fat.

Question: But don’t we need to eat dairy to get our calcium?

Answer: Where do cows, horses, giraffes, apes, and elephants get their calcium for strong bones and teeth? Plants. They certainly don’t drink milk (once weaned) and another mammal’s milk at that. Cow’s milk is made for baby cows, not for baby people much less grown-up people. The only milk made for baby people is mama’s milk.

FACT: Unrefined plant foods contain all the nutrients, vitamins, minerals, and micronutrients you need, including calcium. Nature is so smart. Where does calcium come from? The soil. Calcium is dissolved in water in the soil and absorbed by plants. Plants transform inedible, unusable calcium from the soil into usable calcium needed by all mammals. Eating plants is the most direct way of getting calcium, and without the fat, cholesterol, animal protein, milk sugar, hormones, antibiotics, other toxins, and pus (yes, pus!), which can come in dairy products.

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