Posted on 04/06/2025 6:20:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Has TikTok got you worried you’re not eating enough protein to keep you healthy? Here’s how much you really need, and what that looks like throughout a day, says health expert Nick Fuller.
In the ever-changing wellness industry, one diet obsession has captured and held TikTok’s attention: Protein. Whether it’s sharing snaps of protein-packed meals or giving tutorials to boost your intake, the message is clear: Maximum protein consumption is essential for weight management and wellness.
Supermarkets have fed this obsession, stacking the shelves with protein-packed bars, shakes and supplements, and protein-boosted versions of just about every food we eat. But is all this extra protein as beneficial as it’s made out to be? How much protein do we really need?
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Bugs have protein, right?
Eat More Bugs?
Everything I’ve seen there is steak and 4 fried eggs, things like that.
Eat more eggs and you will be fine. LIFE comes from an egg!!
I am skeptical of any health advice the *experts* give.
The natural health community has been proved right far too often over the decades to trust in establishment medical consensus who are wrong more often than not.
This idea that you have to eat your weight in grams of protein every single day is completely false. Even if you lift weights regularly.
Eat protein, vegetables and fruit (you get your carbs from fruit).
Cut out ALL BS carbs (cereal, breads, chips, tortilla’s, sweets, sugar drinks...).
Cut out most dairy (most people are lactose intolerant to some degree).
Stay away from highly processed food (it’s dead - much of the nutrition is lost, tends to be heavily salted and sugared besides being loaded with preservatives, colors, stabilizers, aromatics).
You have stereo scopic vision for depth perception, like all predators.
You have canine test and incisors for cutting “meat” like a carnivore.
Cave man didn’t have the ability to mix his rice with beans, that he got from a grocery store in December, to get a complete protein.
That said, the best proteins are from fish, then chicken, pork, and finally beef.
You are NOT meant to live on some vegan UN and animal rights group / celebrity approved quack diet.
Before we shipped, trucked, flew, froze, canned, and green housed food, you would DIE if you tried to eat some of these fad diets recommended today where it would have been impossible to feed yourself if you exclude animal products.
“A woman weighing 72kg, for example, should consume 54g of protein daily, while a man weighing 87kg should consume 73g.
Our recommended protein intake changes as we age, with adults aged over 70 requiring 25 per cent more protein than younger people – or around 67g of protein daily for women and 91g for men.”
the above is pretty much in line with the RDA for protein ...
the problem is that only meat can provide the recommended daily amount of protein without also including an exorbitant amount of calories
i recently looked at a chart of various foods which listed both their protein content in grams and calorie content.
Only meat and seafood have a calorie/gm-protein ratio of 6-8 calories per gram protein ... dairy products have a ratio greater than 8 calories per gm protein ... eggs are 12 calories to 1 gm protein, nuts are in the range of 25 calories per gm protein ... most legumes are 15 to 1 ... grains are in the range of 25 calories per gm protein ...
everything you were told about how nuts and beans and grains were good sources of protein is bullshit when you look at the actual numbers ...
thus, even without the massive amount of sugars that most folks consume, it’s no wonder almost everyone is porked out: it’s nearly impossible to obtain the required protein without also consuming MASSIVE anounts of calories unless the diet is mostly meat ... people are basically starving for protein and it drives them to eat huge quantities of foods that are poor sources of protein ...
see my post 8 ...
The best proper human diet, carnivore, is too often mistaken as a protein diet. It’s NOT.
It’s recommended to be predominantly rich in animal fat, up to 80% by calories. The more fat, the better for healing (anti-inflammatory, lower insulin peaks, readily available for hormones production...).
“Eat protein, vegetables and fruit (you get your carbs from fruit).”
As to “processed food= evil”, you are just repeating the latest mainstream hysteria. A can of sardine or ham (ultra processed food) is much healthier than a dish of strawberries (”health” food).
A proper diet must be simple, logical and based on facts, not dependent on rules pulled out of the hat (salt is bad, fish proteins are better than beef proteins...) or self contradictory (refined carbs are bad, carbs from fruits or whole grains are good) or trotted out by the latest diet fad (ultraprocessed food is poison).
“the problem is that only meat can provide the recommended daily amount of protein without also including an exorbitant amount of calories”
“Not counting the fact that the bioavailability of plant proteins is like crap, literally.”
VERY good information! ... thanks for posting that!
I suspect that most Americans need to eat less of everything. Ok, I’m off to breakfast...
Carbs are NOT bad for you. You need them too. Just not in the quantity and from the refined (nutrient poor) and energy dense foods people get them from. Hence, fruit is a good source. An apple, banana, pear, even a strawberry is far better than an Oreo or Snickers bar.
Processed foods as a rule, are loaded with sugars, heavy on the salt, preservatives, stabilizers, and when they over cook, irradiate, pasteurize, homogenize, they kill, break down or dilute everything in it, including good things.
Yes, berries and nuts are great. I included them in my mind under fruit.
Unless you go to the local farm to get your food or you grow it yourself, you’re left with highly processed junk, or foods that are slightly better and marketed as healthy but still processed.
You can’t escape the event horizon of the big agra and the major food manufacturers if you shop at a normal grocery store (even Whole Foods).
You can simply choose to eat horrible junk that kills you, or slightly better but massively overpriced foods marketed as natural and healthy foods that are still mass produced and modified if you get your food from a grocery store.
BTW, since you seem to be on a protein fad. To much protein gives you gout, is hard on the kidneys, and most livestock are fed antibiotics (most antibiotics are used on animals, not humans), growth hormones, have unnatural diets, they may even be cannulated, don’t get enough movement. When some animals are mass slaughtered, they produce stress hormones that are still found in the meat: cortisol.
The problem is really that when you want to make things cheap and have high profit margins, you need to get the maximum out of the ground per acre, have animals ready for slaughter quickly, be able to store the stuff a long time with minimal product loss. All of that creates a sort of “gas station” food. The foods you see at your local gas station are the perfect example of industrial mass produced low spoilage foods.
‘Carbs are NOT bad for you. You need them too’
Carbs downsides are too long to list, if you want to know, listen e.g to prof Tim Noakes, an ex advocate for carbs in professional sports but who is now carnivore or Paul Mason, a carnivore doctor who takes care of olympic athletes.
Once a Freeper told me how broccoli was terribly unhealthy.
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