Friday Favorites: Are BCAA (Branched Chain Amino Acids) Healthy?
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 13/10/2023

Why we may want to strive not to exceed the recommended intake of protein.

So rather than Do Vegetarians Get Enough Protein?, the question shifts to how do omnivores not get too much?
This may help explain some of the benefits of plant-based proteins:
• What Diet Should Physicians Recommend? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/what-diet-should-physicians-recommend)
• The Okinawa Diet: Living to 100 (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-okinawa-diet-living-to-100)
• Do Flexitarians Live Longer? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/do-flexitarians-live-longer)
• Caloric Restriction vs. Plant-Based Diets (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/caloric-restriction-vs-plant-based-diets)
• Plant-Based Diets and Diabetes (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/plant-based-diets-and-diabetes)
• Plant-Based Diets Recognized by Diabetes Associations (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/plant-based-diets-recognized-by-diabetes-associations)
• Animal Protein vs. Plant-Based Protein (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/animal-protein-vs-plant-based-protein/)
• The Environmental Impacts of Plant-Based Meat Substitutes (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-environmental-impacts-of-plant-based-meat-substitutes/)
• Are Beyond Meat and the Impossible Burger Healthful? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/are-beyond-meat-and-the-impossible-burger-healthy)
• Are Pea and Soy Protein Isolates Harmful? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/plant-based-protein-are-pea-and-soy-protein-isolates-harmful/)
• Plant-Based Meat Substitutes Put to the Test (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/plant-based-meat-substitutes-put-to-the-test)
• The Health Effects of Mycoprotein (Quorn) Products vs BCAAs in Meat (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-health-effects-of-mycoprotein-quorn-products-vs-bcaas-in-meat)
• What About the Heme in Impossible Burgers? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/what-about-the-heme-in-impossible-burgers)
• Does Heme Iron Cause Cancer? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/does-heme-iron-cause-cancer)
• Heme-Induced N-Nitroso Compounds and Fat Oxidation (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/heme-induced-n-nitroso-compounds-and-fat-oxidation)
• Is Heme the Reason Meat Is Carcinogenic? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-heme-iron-the-reason-meat-is-carcinogenic)

Of course the best way to treat type 2 diabetes is to get rid of it by treating the underlying cause: How Not to Die from Diabetes (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-not-to-die-from-diabetes/).

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