Losing Weight, Protein, & Insulin sensitivity

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"High-protein diet curbs metabolic benefits of weight loss"

Science Daily

"Dieters sometimes consume extra protein to stave off hunger and prevent loss of muscle tissue that often comes with weight loss. But in a study of 34 postmenopausal women with obesity, researchers found that eating too much protein eliminates an important health benefit of weight loss: improvement in insulin sensitivity, which is critical to lowering diabetes risk."

Steve

 

[so lucky]

It's always something! But the article changed adjectives from "extra" to "too much". How much extra? How much too much?

 

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Harvard Medical School

"The Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for protein is a modest 0.8 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight. The RDA is the amount of a nutrient you need to meet your basic nutritional requirements. In a sense, it’s the minimum amount you need to keep from getting sick — not the specific amount you are supposed to eat every day.

To determine your RDA for protein, you can multiply your weight in pounds by 0.36, or use this online protein calculator. For a 50-year-old woman who weighs 140 pounds woman and who is sedentary (doesn’t exercise), that translates into 53 grams of protein a day."

For me, it came up 67 grams of protein.

There are 6 grams of protein in an egg. Hmmm, I may want to eat the hen ... One cup of diced chicken, about 4 ounces of meat, has 38 grams of protein. There are 8 grams in a cup of cow's milk or in soy milk, 39 grams in a cup of garbanzo beans. Hey! However, vegetable protein isn't human protein so there would need to be additional protein from other sources to balance that. A slice of whole wheat bread has 3.6 grams ...

Steve