Not exact matches
In fact, most people could get their entire daily
protein intake from one cup of spirulina (
about 60g), but that's a really tall order.
As a standard recommendation,
about 20 % of your daily energy
intake should come
from protein, but high
protein diets typically consist of 30 %
protein.
If we worry
about it enough, we will probably counter any benefits we might get
from choosing the «right» level of
protein intake.
4) In contrast to these high
protein intakes, Kitavans (Lindberg, 1997) were estimated to consume only
about 10 % e as
protein, mainly
from fish and roots.
This article summarises what I can find
about the optimum proportion of energy
intake in humans that should come
from protein.
It may require hugely elevated IGF - 1 which of course comes
about from their massive animal
protein intake.
Basically we want
about 10 - 20 % of our dietary
intake to be
from protein.
Here's one of my recent logs
from MyNetDiary, taken on a day for which I wanted to verify that I was eating
about 100 grams of carbs to keep my body in «ketosis» (screenshot of my daily fat /
protein / carb
intake from MyNetDiary above).
I am not too worried
about the calorie that I eat because I don't have a weight issue but I will do the math this weekend to figure out my calorie
intake from the foods I usually eat and figure out the ratio of
protein to calorie to see how close or far I am
from the 10 % number.
After reading Dr Rosedale's diet,
from 28th Feb, I cut my
protein intake to below 75gm / d (I weigh
about 55 kg) and have since maintained FBG between 75 - 85 (below 4.5 mmol / L)
from 5th Mar onwards.
Since soybeans contain approximately 3.5 milligrams of isoflavones per gram of
protein, and since one cup of cooked soybeans contain
about 29 grams of
protein, we're talking
about intake of approximately 100 milligrams of isoflavones
from 1 cup of cooked soybeans, or an amount
about 40 % less than the supplemented amount that was found to have no impact on thyroid function.
If it's more recreational running I would not care
about the
protein intake for recovery because you probably don't have problems to recover
from easy jogging anyways.
In individuals with kidney disease they will likely benefit
from a decrease in
protein intake... but they need to address one of the aforementioned factors if they want to REGAIN kidney function, which we will talk
about soon.
The first concern
about protein intake is often any health danger
from what feels like «high»
protein diet.
You'd have to go down to 1000 - 1200 calories, ideally by decreasing your fat
intake to
about 100 g and slightly decreasing carbs and
protein and stay at
about 80 - 90 % calories
from fat.
Apart
from this our common sense tells us that there's no relationship between
protein intake and diabetes, so there's no cause for concern
about high -
protein diets.
The other major change I've made recently is reducing my
protein intake by
about 50g per day since I decided to take some time off
from the gym for systemic recovery.
Because an instruction only to restrict carbohydrate
intake could theoretically create a diet containing any level of daily energy
intake from protein and fat, confusion exists among researchers and the lay public
about what constitutes an LCD.
The USDA recommends that
about 15 - 20 percent of your total calorie
intake comes
from protein.