Sentences with phrase «suggest average protein»

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The most widely cited Dietary Reference Intake suggests the average sedentary adult needs 0.75 to 0.8 grams of protein / kg of body weight.

In fact, the typical American diet is extremely meat - heavy, having risen dramatically over the past century.9 Previous research has suggested the average American consumes about 1.5 grams of protein per kilo of total body mass (lean mass plus fat).

Several decades ago, vegan health professionals suggested that eating too much protein, like the amount that the average American eats, was bad for bones.

Both the current US macronutrient intakes and suggested healthful levels differ considerably from average levels obtained from ethnographic (20) and quantitative (21) studies of hunter gatherers in which dietary protein is characteristically elevated (19 — 35 % of energy) at the expense of carbohydrate (22 — 40 % of energy)(20,21).