This translates into one serving of salmon or four servings of tuna or like fish per week. All the recipes found in the book have equal numbers of protein, carbohydrate and fat blocks. While beans are richer in protein compared to most vegetables, they also contain massive levels of carbohydrates. Furthermore, the high fiber content in beans prevents a significant amount of the protein from being digested. Therefore, disregard the protein content of beans and all other vegetable and grains when constructing a meal or snack.
Complete protein has a complete spectrum of amino acids.
It is only vegetarians who have to be concerned about getting complete protein. For vegetarians, the new generation of fractionated soybean protein isolates contain all the essential amino acids. Always look back to your last meal. You're making too many bad eicosanoids due to an increase in insulin secretion that has taken you out of the Zone. Simply make that same meal in the future but reduce the carbohydrate by one block.