Plant protein preferable
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2011-10-26

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DESCRIPTION: Since foods are a package deal, Dr. Walter Willet, the Chair of Harvard's nutrition department, recommends we emphasize plant sources of protein rather than animal sources. Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/plant-protein-preferable/ and I'll try to answer it! Please feel free to post any ask-the-doctor type questions here in the comments section and I'd be happy to try to answer them. Be sure to check out all the videos on dietary guidelines (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/dietary-guidelines/) and heart disease (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/heart-disease/). If you're worried about the gassiness of beans, check out my blogpost Clearing the Air (http://nutritionfacts.org/blog/2011/12/05/beans-and-gas-clearing-the-air/). And as always, there are 1,449 subjects (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/) covered in my other videos--please feel free to explore them!

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