What is the actual amount of protein I need to function properly in life?
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Powders can be good, but they can also be garbage. It depends on the brand. But with whole foods like legumes or animal meats, you can be sure you're getting quality protein.
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The body eats up muscle as the first response to being deprived of substance.
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I havent seen the research showing that the body eats muscle when not consuming carbs.
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I don’t mean to pry but sausage in general, especially seemingly chili cheese sausage, has an incredible amount of fat (that is not to say the fat is bad, subtypes and fatty acid chain length are important to note), wouldn’t this be counter to your point? Unless the chili cheese smoked sausages are some Franken-Sausage (lol) that is super lean.
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Is "grams per pound" really the way you say it?
Like, if you know the concept of gram, why do you need a pound?
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People dont always calculate their total protein intake correctly, because things like wheat (12% protein) and rice and potatoes (3%) have protein although thought of as carbs.
Studies say 50g of protein per day is ok, but some people say more is better, particularly if trying to build muscle mass etc -
Not carbs in specific. But muscle along fat is very quick on the cut list of things your body does away with when having deficiencys. Just look at people doing hunger strikes
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In the US, we weigh ourselves in pounds. But nutritional information about food is in grams.
Imo, the fact that the numerator and denominator units are incompatible isn't a big deal since the message "eat .08% percent of your body weight in protein each day" is not the intuitive way to think about how much to eat. It's much easier to use a unit in the numerator that is common measuring nutrition and a unit in the denominator that is common for measuring body weight.
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Carbs are the basic molecules used in your energy metabolism (i.e. almost everything gets converted into glucose through one pathway or another).
If you'd try to meet your calorie requirements with a high peotein intake you'd just put unnecessary strain on your kidneys and I don't think you'd enjoy your food as much (don't get me started on keto people) -
(don’t get me started on keto people)
Please! I want to know more
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My question is essentially as to why you use two systems at once
If you know what gram is, you can imagine a kilogram as well: the conversion is easy, measurements are consistent with each other and the entire world, and it makes it very clear both units are tied together and represent mass.
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Oh, I was just taking a breath - I hadn’t finished…)
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Same reason we know what a liter is but still use pints and gallons. Because we recognize the value of the easy precision of metric when it's needed but prefer imperial for our day to day lives.
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People get a significant amount of their protein intake from sources that aren't usually considered "proteins". Lentils (and mung beans if you don't think of them as lentils), wheat, rice etc all have significant amounts of protein (especially lentils). Yogurt and cheese has lots of it too. Not sure what part of India you're in or what sort of food you're mostly eating but my guess is you're getting more protein than you realize.
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I am... ALMOST sure they're making a joke about farting keeping them awake.
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Do you eat enough in general (eg 3 meals a day, you don't feel hungry most of the time)? It's not hard to meet the basic nutritional goals by just eating what you want when you want. Protein is in everything so it'd be quite hard to be significantly deficient if you're not starving.
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Quark yogurts are your friend, I get some that have 25g of protein per serving for only around 130cal, I top them with a bit of muesli so they're less boring and the whole snack is then like 180/190cal and way more filling and more protein than a bar with similar calories (they're already flavoured as well)..
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Just eat more beans, put milk in tea, some meat if you eat that, you don't need protein powder. Food will give you more nutrients than a protein isolate. A balanced diet is the way to go.
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It's not actually that intuitive when you don't use kilograms. An American might know what a gram is, but mentally multiplying the conception of one gram by 1000, it's hard to imagine. You really need experience with kilograms to understand kilograms.
As an analogy, say you don't know Fahrenheit. I can tell you that 32 °F is the freezing point of water, and 100 °F is a really hot day. Is 300 °F the right temperature to cook chicken at? In theory, you can mentally extrapolate, but in reality it's hard to say without direct experience with Fahrenheit in cooking (it's not right, it's too cold).
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A lot less than Americans think. Going from memory it's about 6-8% of calories.
