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Message: <blockquote data-quote="uart" data-source="post: 955153" data-attributes="member: 41696">To be honest I would change that to: "I think the human body is designed to function properly with either".We definitely need a certain amount of protein in our diets, because it's needed for tissue repair/growth and other vital biological functions. However we can't get all of our dietary energy requirements from protein because long terms it's just too much strain on the liver and kidneys to process anything more than about half (at most) of our daily calorie requirement in protein. (The liver has to convert the amino acids in to glucose, and the kidneys have to clean up the amine byproducts of that conversion).As long as our daily protein requirements are meet however, the bulk of our daily calories can be made up from either fats or carbs or a combination of both. Humans haven't survived and thrived in just about every region and every climate on Earth because they have highly specialist dietary requirements. It's happened because they have a very broad range of dietary possibilities.</blockquote>

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