How Do I Get Enough Protein If I Am a Vegetarian? (0:34)
Dietitian Julieanna Hever explains how you can get protein in your diet if you are a vegetarian. Watch Julieanna Hever's video for tips and information on healthy eating.
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It's pretty much impossible not to get enough protein if you're eating a whole food plant based diet, there is so much protein in the plant based kingdom, it's really impossible to avoid. You only need about 10% of your calories to come from protein, and if you look at foods like leafy greens which have almost half of the calories coming from protein, you can enjoy those and beans and legumes and there is even protein, even like almost like 9% or 10%, the calories in brown rice come from protein, so things that are considered cabs really do have a lot of protein, so if you need eat enough whole foods, you're going to automatically get just enough protein to keep you healthy.
Julieanna Hever, MS, RD, CPT, is an advocate of the plant-based diet. As the Executive Director of EarthSave, International, she brought plant-based nutrition to the forefront of efforts to improve the current global health crisis.
