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100 g of protein
It's crazy seeing how out-of-touch people today are with how much protein they need. The protein craze has got people on a Western pattern diet worried they're protein-deficient.
This woman could use 100 grams of protein like I could use a half-carton of orange juice for Vitamin C. God damn.
It's a joke.
It's plainly within a joke, but look around you. Ultra-processed foods manufacturers are scrambling to get in on the scare. Oreo has a protein bar. Kraft has protein mac and cheese.
Never in my life have I seen people so singularly obsessed with protein, and 100 g/day, as absurd as it is for most people, is well within the range I've seen people say they think they need. Seriously look around sometime; there's an enormous corporate push to get people worried that they're protein-deficient.
Oreo has a protein bar. Kraft has protein mac and cheese.
Pfft. At my grocery store, they’re selling protein water and protein soda these days.
That sounds unpleasant
Exactly. And it's been wild for me to watch as it began with "protein is low calorie to how filling it is compared to the fatty carbs a lot of people eat a lot of." Not necessarily the full "eat like a power lifter" (carefully portioned chicken breast and rice with spinach until full), but less chips. And yeah there's been the anti carb people, but it's gotten ridiculous. I'm seeing people claim you need protein supplements when you aren't even exercising, much less the high intensity muscle building that is associated with actually needing to supplement protein.
And that's before we get into the carnivore diet people who insist that an extreme diet of exclusively animal products is good for them without them having a serious medical condition necessitating it and that all carbohydrates should be replaced with protein and fat. These are people who look at the powerlifter diet and think that the problems with it are the rice and spinach and the lack of fat.
Hell most people are surprised that I'm very capable of building muscle on a mostly vegetarian diet (I eat seafood less than once a week). I eat enough beans to build muscle. Mushrooms help too. It's really not that hard to get enough protein unless you only eat ultra processed carbs. Have a bean taco, or some mushroom ziti, or some bean based soup and it'll be easy.
The only protein I gro crazy for is my BF's protein :3
Maybe you just spend too much time in front of screens.
You sound like you need to go up to 1 g/kg. You are coming off like you're at 0.6 g/kg.
Could be a typo and it's supposed to be 100 mg.
Yes and no. If you're a fully healthy individual, new recommendation is between 1.2 and 1.6g/kg. Then there is some evidence people with one of the most common autoimmune diseases (Hashimoto's thyroiditis) benefit from high protein diet. Unfortunately, this area is severly understudied still and should be taken with a grain of salt, but it is out there. But yes, most healthy people don't need that much protein a day.
new recommendation is between 1.2 and 1.6g/kg
Says literally who?
You're clearly talking about the 2025–30 DGA, and it's published by the USDA. Specifically, those 2025 guidelines are signed "This is the foundation that will Make America Healthy Again" by RFK Jr. It's so obviously a financial response by animal agriculture and a social one by Republicans to the rise of plant-based dieting (whose health benefits can easily be numerous) that it's excruciating.
RFK Jr. is the same man who had an inverted pyramid introduced to the HHS. So yes, I'm going to say you're absolutely, categorically delusional if you take those numbers at face value. By all means, though, I'm sure bear corpse is packed with protein if that's your thing.
I think it was on Harvard website, but they might be referencing these new guidelines you mentioned.
Not sure why you're being so aggressive. I'm neither delusional, nor a Republican, not even an American. I'm just trying to navigate my own poorly researched health issues, and it doesn't help that searching in English has become unreliable due to dear Americans electing insane people into power.
I can’t speak for them, but when I get angry and frustrated it can come through as aggressiveness, and I am very angry and frustrated with what has been done to the HHS (to say nothing of the rest of the US federal government). At this point, I would double check the source of any health claim, and ignore it if it comes from the HHS in 2025 to now. I’ll be getting my health information from the NIH or Health Canada for the time being. I don’t know that they are as well funded or reliable as the HHS has been historically, but at least the guys in charge of them are not literally insane on matters of health.
Understudied, yes, but… it’s a very simple way to grow, at least for me - during bulk, if i manage to get my daily 250g of protein, I bulk the fuck up and I feel like a brick.
They do actually. Sort of.
I used to get this mix of low dose xanax LSD THC to cause cotton mouth and vitamin c. I asked and my dealer did start putting it in the form of a fiber bar instead of a gummy. I miss that jerk.
Another would put weed butter into the BBQ sauce for his exceptional ribs.
Its just big government at the DEA getting in the way of things we all want.
i think she's talking about weed + Kebab. Maybe that doesn't exist where she lives?
Because they want you to buy them separately because if they charge you all at once then you'll say it's too expensive so they split them and can keep milking you till your dying breath, except the will to live, they don't care if you have that as long as they get as much money from you as possible.
Eh, living is overrated anyway. Just ride it out kid, it won't last forever. And then if there's an afterlife (probably not but we can't be 100% sure) you can say that at least you stuck it out till the credits rolled.