All it takes is one 16 - ounce soft drink to reach the 50 -
gram daily maximum.
Not exact matches
The 16 ounce drink contains 470 calories and 59
grams of sugar, 21.5
grams more than the
maximum suggested
daily amount.
One group received twice -
daily oral doses of creatine, up to a
maximum of 30
grams per day, the other received placebo.
All told, the average rural Chinese citizen consumes 12
grams of salt
daily, according to the 2010 Global Burden of Disease study; the average American takes in 9
grams, while the
daily maximum recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) is 5
grams.
A 1998 survey found that the average
daily amount of soy consumed in Japan was about 8
grams for men and 7 for women — less than two teaspoons.40 The famous Cornell China Study, conducted by Colin T. Campbell, found that legume consumption in China varied from 0 to 58
grams per day, with a mean of about 12.41 Assuming that two - thirds of legume consumption is soy, then the
maximum consumption is about 40
grams or less than 3 tablespoons per day, with an average consumption of about 9
grams, less than two teaspoons.
The average American now consumes an average of 130
grams of sugar per day — for reference, the
daily recommendation for women is a
maximum of 20
grams a day!
«I should note that the
maximum recommended amount of
daily protein intake according to the Dietary Reference Intake data from the USDA is 0.9 to one
gram per pound bodyweight,» says Bonci.
In fact, the USDA recommended
daily «adequate intake» for adults is 1.5
grams for adults up to age fifty, 1.3
grams per day for adults between fifty and seventy years, and 1.2
grams for adults older than seventy years.2 The figure cited by Cordain of 2.3
grams is the USDA recommended
daily maximum intake.
Therefore, 2.3
grams per day is the
daily maximum.
According to the Institute of Medicine, children ages 4 to 18 should obtain no more than 30 percent of their
daily calorie intake from dietary protein, which is a
maximum of 120
grams of protein per day for children consuming 1,600 calories a day.
It is ideal to get your protein in 2 - 3 different servings
daily with a minimum of 15
grams and a
maximum of 50
grams per meal.
Authors of this review suggest a
maximum safe
daily intake of protein is 2.5
grams per kilogram of body weight, or about 1.14
gram of protein per pound of body weight each day.