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Originally Posted by Pinner
I don't get the whole "protein" thing ??? I thought we ate too much protein.
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If you don't exercise, 0.8 g protein per kg of body weight is plenty to avoid deficiency.
Current recommendations are 1.2 g/kg - 1.4 g/kg for (significant) endurance athletes, and 1.6 g/kg - 1.8 g/kg for (significant) strength/weight training. Unfortunately these recommendations are based off of a method used to determine deficiency prevention, rather than what would maximize strength/endurance gains. Therefore they may be too much or too little, but they're the best guess at this point.
Based on those recommendations there are a lot of people who get way too much protein.