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Protein consumption is related to muscle weight, not total body weight. And yes eating too much protein can hurt. It's does damage to your kidneys.
If you could produce one clinical study to support this I would be VERY happy to read it - every study I have ever read on high protien diets (up to 50% of total nutrient intake) (which include proper amounts of carbs and fat) over the long term has shown that they cause not one single ill effect. Not even a vitamin deficiency.
High protien doesn't mean you eat a brontosauraus at every meal, it just means you eat protien at every meal. I weight about 210lbs so I need to eat 210g of protien per day - that only equates to about 120g of chicken in a meal, or one scoop of protien powder. I also eat lots of vegetables, fruit and grains.
The basic g per lb method of estimating protien intake is the most commonly accepted in the bodybuilding community and there is a track record of it building successful physiques. If you don't want to take my advice that is FINE but don't go taking the high road and telling me that my advice is hurting other people or poorly researched. I would NOT be giving this advice, or following it myself without properly researching the concept and reading the studies.
Do your own damn study! Eat only one portion of meat a day, but keep your calorie amount the same I guarntee you wont gain or lose a thing by this. If the bodybuilding community is your source for "scientific" information you got problems, if they told you to eat dog shit and bull testicles to gain muscle youd do it just like you do when they tell you to take that garbage whey protein shakes which is a by-product (waste) of the cheese making process. The fitness industry is a business there suggestions (dogma) are not for your benefit but theirs$$$$. Bottom line eat a balanced diet train intensly and progressivly and allow enough time to elapse enough for you to recover and adapt (grow).
I'm not saying I don't want to do my own study, or that the fitness/bodybuilding industry is my "scientific source" I am saying that they bodybuilding industry supports what I am saying, and that I have no (in my own research that I have already done) seen not one single shred of evidence to suggest a high protien diet is bad. I would GENUINELY be happy to read anything to the contrary - I simply haven't found it yet.
I might add that I was in no way suggesting that you should eat more than 1-2 serves of meat per day - high protien diets (like all diets) are best if thier nutrients come from a variety of sources. Eggs, nuts, fish, chicken, yoghurt, cheese (particulalry cottage cheese) and protien supplements are all excellent sources of protien and should be combined to make a diet that is both healthy and high in protein.
You can say what you like about the fitness industry (and you are right to a degree, there is a large amount of unscrupulous profiteering and marketing people products that they don't need) but at the end of the day the fundamental principles accepted by the members of the community (not the producers or marketers), are accepted because they work. They are trialed and failed/suceeded by hundreds of highly dedicated individuals, many of whom (like me) do thier own research into the clinical and laborotory evidence behind the theories and draw thier own conclusions. I have said in other threads that protien supplements are NOT essential but they ARE effective and they ARE convienient. With that in mind, what profit does the fitness industry have to make from encouraging people to eat chicken/fish/cheese etc etc. The answer (you will find) is none.
Once again I extend an open invitation for you to show me clinical evidence to support anything of what you are saying, I am certain if you look (and I have), you will find plenty to support what I am saying. I say this because I have not found any such evidence but would be happy to expand my perspective if shown some.
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Eat only one portion of meat a day, but keep your calorie amount the same I guarntee you wont gain or lose a thing by this.
What you are forgeting is that in the process of improving thier bodies they are looking to gain and lose things. Namely gain muscles and lose fat. And while you are not going to drop muscle of an average male frame by not eating a high-protien diet. Someone who has worked thier ass off in the gym day in and day out has very different requirements as the amount of muscle that they are carrying exceeds what thier genetic make-up want them to have - it takes work to gain muscle and keep it.
I hope you and the mods don't think I am trying to start a flame war here. I am not. However I have spent literally hundreds of hours researching this kind of thing and I am not ok with someone who has asked for help and then accepted mien, then being given additional, inaccurate advice which will not assist them in reaching thier goals.
I hope you don't take that personally.
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