Donna, Thanks for recounting your experiences; personal experience is _more_ not less valuable to someone trying to familiarize herself with the real everyday life of a Parkinsonian, so please don't apologize. I am still not sure whether I have said in a post for public distribution that this request for low protein is tied to the drug SINAMET which my father has been prescribed. In other words, it seems not a suggestion to do with Parkinson's itself, but Parkinson's treated with this drug and its cousins, the -dopa's. Best wishes, and thanks Susan [log in to unmask]