I’ve read this stated before and I don’t see how it’s true.
us RDA is based on weight and we’re a fat country. It looks like I’d need to eat 5 chicken breasts/day. Unless there’s a lot of hidden protein in my diet, That never happens
most of this is backlash against gymbro recommendation with much higher protein levels to build muscle, that’s not really evidence based. Sure the specific levels are questionable but it does makes sense that some amount more is better: maybe I need to eat 6 chicken breasts in a day if I started exercising . That also never happens
us RDA is based on weight and we’re a fat country. It looks like I’d need to eat 5 chicken breasts/day.
There is literature supporting this should be your ideal body weight rather then total weight for obese people (i.e. based on your non-fat mass)
A complicating factor is the guidelines are calibrated for people eating poorly digested non-complete proteins, must labels for protein are based on crude protein - a rough nitrogen estimate, not actual amino acid measurements. If your eating 100g of beef protein vs 100g of wheat protein you are getting very different levels of meaningful protein.
I’ve read this stated before and I don’t see how it’s true.
There is literature supporting this should be your ideal body weight rather then total weight for obese people (i.e. based on your non-fat mass)
A complicating factor is the guidelines are calibrated for people eating poorly digested non-complete proteins, must labels for protein are based on crude protein - a rough nitrogen estimate, not actual amino acid measurements. If your eating 100g of beef protein vs 100g of wheat protein you are getting very different levels of meaningful protein.