• schnokobaer@feddit.de
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    7 months ago

    Eating 76 kilograms of protein seems slightly excessive, would change my body drastically no doubt. /s

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      7 months ago

      They might be referencing the rough math for daily protein consumption. It works out to about 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight for men and half a gram per pound for women.

      Or they could be a bat

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          7 months ago

          On US nutritional labels fats, carbs, and proteins are listed in grams, but we generally measure everything in pounds.

          When calculating your macro nutrition for weight gain the general recommendation comes out to about 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight. This is just a coincidence, but makes finding out how much protein you need to gain muscle mass pretty easy if you know how much you weigh and given that all of our labels have that info in grams.

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          This is a pretty common calculation for people who track protien intake in the US, since most people weigh themselves in pounds, and most nutritional information is provided in grams.

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        7 months ago

        A gram per pound is overshooting it quite a bit unless you’re a vegan not minding your protein quality intake. The maximum effective protein intake is ~1.6g/kg (0.72g/lbs), more than that will just go to “waste” (energy/energy storage). If you’re steroids the limit is higher, but there’s currently no exact number on it.