Gym - Goers: people who attend the gym, and weight train, generally require more
protein than the average woman.
Not exact matches
Despite the study labeling the group that ate 6 % of their total daily calorie consumption from
protein, a «low -
protein» group, and the diet containing a lot fewer
protein than the RDA (Recommended Daily Allowance), —
averaging at 0.7 grams per kilo of bodyweight (adults» RDA is 0.8 grams per kilogram of bodyweight)-- the total of daily
protein consumption,
averaging at 48 grams a day, was slightly less
than CDC recommendation for men, which is just 55 grams of
protein a day and the value for
women is even smaller, just 45 grams.
On
average we eat 70 grams of
protein daily, which is more
than one and half times the amount typically recommended for
women.
Growing children / teens, pregnant / breastfeeding
women, people with traumatic injuries or severe infections, and people eating a low - carbohydrate diet have higher
protein requirements
than the
average person.
In the Nurses» Health Study, for example,
women who ate more
than 95 grams of
protein a day were 20 percent more likely to have broken a wrist over a 12 - year period when compared with those who ate an
average amount of
protein (less
than 68 grams a day).
Other considerations may also be important; growing children and teenagers, pregnant
women, and persons recovering from illness all need more
protein than the «
average» person.
Another consideration is that the vegans in the UK may eat lower amounts of
protein than those in the U.S. Adventist Health Study - 2 found an
average protein intake of 71 g / day for men and
women combined, considerably more
than in EPIC - OXford (link).
The researchers found that men and
women in their 60s with higher -
than -
average levels of blood sugar (glucose) or insulin — two signs of type 2 diabetes — are between three and six times more likely to have certain
protein deposits in their brains a decade or more later, according to the study, which appears in the journal Neurology.