I ate tons of beluga lentils. Sometimes 1kg (cooked) a day. That wasn’t enough. However, now I switched to eating 600g (cooked) soybeans every day, and that was a very significant improvement (like solving the problem to 75% or so). Soy is a complete protein. Soy beans are also very cheap.
Just to verify, you were also eating rice with those lentils? I’d expect to be differently protein deficient if you only eat lentils. The right combo is beans and rice (or another grain).
I probably did it badly. I would eat hole grain bread pretty regularly, but not consistently. I might not eat it for 1 week in a row sometimes. That was before I knew that amino acids are important.
Would you personally answer Should we be concerned about eating too much soy? with “Nope, definitely not”, or do you just find it’s a reasonable gamble to take to eat the very large qty of soy you describe?
Btw, thanks a lot for the post; MANY parallels with my past as more-serious-but-uncareful-vegan until body showed clear signs of issues that I realized only late as I’d have never believed anyone that healthy vegan diet is that tricky.
I watched this video, and I semi trust this guy (more than anybody else) about not getting it completely wrong. So you can eat too much soy. But eating a bit is actually healthy, is my current model.
Here is also a calculation I did that it is possible to get all amino acids from soy without eating too much.
I ate tons of beluga lentils. Sometimes 1kg (cooked) a day. That wasn’t enough. However, now I switched to eating 600g (cooked) soybeans every day, and that was a very significant improvement (like solving the problem to 75% or so). Soy is a complete protein. Soy beans are also very cheap.
Just to verify, you were also eating rice with those lentils? I’d expect to be differently protein deficient if you only eat lentils. The right combo is beans and rice (or another grain).
I probably did it badly. I would eat hole grain bread pretty regularly, but not consistently. I might not eat it for 1 week in a row sometimes. That was before I knew that amino acids are important.
Would you personally answer Should we be concerned about eating too much soy? with “Nope, definitely not”, or do you just find it’s a reasonable gamble to take to eat the very large qty of soy you describe?
Btw, thanks a lot for the post; MANY parallels with my past as more-serious-but-uncareful-vegan until body showed clear signs of issues that I realized only late as I’d have never believed anyone that healthy vegan diet is that tricky.
I watched this video, and I semi trust this guy (more than anybody else) about not getting it completely wrong. So you can eat too much soy. But eating a bit is actually healthy, is my current model.
Here is also a calculation I did that it is possible to get all amino acids from soy without eating too much.