{"id":2183,"date":"2009-03-07T05:11:06","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T10:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=2183"},"modified":"2009-03-07T05:11:06","modified_gmt":"2009-03-07T10:11:06","slug":"how-do-non-meat-eaters-get-their-protein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/how-do-non-meat-eaters-get-their-protein\/","title":{"rendered":"How do non meat eaters get their protein?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Saturday, March 7, 2009<\/em>.\u00a0 A friend asked the other day where did I get protein from when I didn&#8217;t eat meat.\u00a0 I told her, first of all, while I don&#8217;t eat 4 legged critters, I do eat poultry and seafood a few times a month.\u00a0 What she didn&#8217;t realize is that even bread, rice, pasta, grains, breakfast cereals, and potatoes have protein in them.\u00a0 <em>You don&#8217;t have to eat flesh or exist on dairy and beans to get protein and be healthy.<\/em> I figure for my size and lifestyle, I only need about 60 grams a day of protein, and fat for that matter. \u00a0 And having cholesterol that hovers around 170 and triglyccerides at 70: priceless.<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/how-do-non-meat-eaters-get-their-protein\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=How do non meat eaters get their protein?&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/how-do-non-meat-eaters-get-their-protein\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/how-do-non-meat-eaters-get-their-protein\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/how-do-non-meat-eaters-get-their-protein\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=How%20do%20non%20meat%20eaters%20get%20their%20protein?&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/how-do-non-meat-eaters-get-their-protein\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, March 7, 2009.\u00a0 A friend asked the other day where did I get protein from when I didn&#8217;t eat meat.\u00a0 I told her, first of all, while I don&#8217;t eat 4 legged critters, I do eat poultry and seafood a few times a month.\u00a0 What she didn&#8217;t realize is that even bread, rice, pasta, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}