Can you have too much protein?
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Just for example, I often eat a boneless, skinless chicken breast, at the leanest brand I found. It is still only around 83% protein as a percent of calories (23 grams protein, 1.5 grams fat).0
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coreyreichle wrote: »Yes, you can. Excessive protein consumption (As a percentage of total caloric intake) will cause kidney problems.
http://www.medicinenet.com/how_much_dietary_protein_to_consume-page2/views.htm
I totally disagree with the numbers this article gave. It says:
"Adult women need, on average, 46 grams of protein a day, while adult men need about 56 grams" Maybe if you are 90 yrs old and sitting in your rocker all day.
I think this is way too little, especially for those who do weight training. As time goes on they are finding more and more benefits to a diet high in protein, such as lowering the chance of developing cardiometabolic disorders. Some are now recommending 1 to 1.5 grams per lb of body weight.
As far as the OP, I know she hasn't responded yet...I wonder if she was confused about the 90%. Could she have meant 90 grams/day??
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Great video post [75]75 - so much misinformation out there on protein and protein synthesis.0
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I'm having difficulty picturing 90% protein out of this.I track what I eat here and MFP is saying 90% protein if you look at the daily nutrition charts. So it could be a smidge off?. I thought my diary was open but I guess not. Here is what I'm eating this week:
Breakfast: 1/2 c vanilla Greek yogurt
3 rice cakes
1 c fruit
Lunch: shredded chicken with bbq. (I made 4 pounds (precooked weight) and divided it into 5 equal portions.
2 rice cakes
Dinner: whatever I make. I always try to have a veggie, carb, and protein.
If I have cals left over and hungry, I have a protein shake with water with some fresh veggies or fruit.
He eats pretty much eats what I do but in larger quantities. I just feel it might be imbalanced and I'd like to figure it out and come to him with suggestions.
What would be an example grams for the day or per meal for carbs, fats, protein?
Me neither. If that is 90% protein then I am the Queen of England. I imagine MFP says 90 gms, not percentage.
75% of all statistical percentages are made up...0 -
If it turns out their family is sponsored by IsoPure, I'm going to have to start calling you your majesty.
I'm having difficulty picturing 90% protein out of this.I track what I eat here and MFP is saying 90% protein if you look at the daily nutrition charts. So it could be a smidge off?. I thought my diary was open but I guess not. Here is what I'm eating this week:
Breakfast: 1/2 c vanilla Greek yogurt
3 rice cakes
1 c fruit
Lunch: shredded chicken with bbq. (I made 4 pounds (precooked weight) and divided it into 5 equal portions.
2 rice cakes
Dinner: whatever I make. I always try to have a veggie, carb, and protein.
If I have cals left over and hungry, I have a protein shake with water with some fresh veggies or fruit.
He eats pretty much eats what I do but in larger quantities. I just feel it might be imbalanced and I'd like to figure it out and come to him with suggestions.
What would be an example grams for the day or per meal for carbs, fats, protein?
Me neither. If that is 90% protein then I am the Queen of England. I imagine MFP says 90 gms, not percentage.
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Dr. Norton is a beast.0 -
cwolfman13 wrote: »
I'm having difficulty picturing 90% protein out of this.I track what I eat here and MFP is saying 90% protein if you look at the daily nutrition charts. So it could be a smidge off?. I thought my diary was open but I guess not. Here is what I'm eating this week:
Breakfast: 1/2 c vanilla Greek yogurt
3 rice cakes
1 c fruit
Lunch: shredded chicken with bbq. (I made 4 pounds (precooked weight) and divided it into 5 equal portions.
2 rice cakes
Dinner: whatever I make. I always try to have a veggie, carb, and protein.
If I have cals left over and hungry, I have a protein shake with water with some fresh veggies or fruit.
He eats pretty much eats what I do but in larger quantities. I just feel it might be imbalanced and I'd like to figure it out and come to him with suggestions.
What would be an example grams for the day or per meal for carbs, fats, protein?
Me neither. If that is 90% protein then I am the Queen of England. I imagine MFP says 90 gms, not percentage.
75% of all statistical percentages are made up...
And 56% of those are cleverly ironic.0 -
Not to the 5 out of 4 of people who don't understand fractions.Carlos_421 wrote: »cwolfman13 wrote: »
I'm having difficulty picturing 90% protein out of this.I track what I eat here and MFP is saying 90% protein if you look at the daily nutrition charts. So it could be a smidge off?. I thought my diary was open but I guess not. Here is what I'm eating this week:
Breakfast: 1/2 c vanilla Greek yogurt
3 rice cakes
1 c fruit
Lunch: shredded chicken with bbq. (I made 4 pounds (precooked weight) and divided it into 5 equal portions.
2 rice cakes
Dinner: whatever I make. I always try to have a veggie, carb, and protein.
If I have cals left over and hungry, I have a protein shake with water with some fresh veggies or fruit.
He eats pretty much eats what I do but in larger quantities. I just feel it might be imbalanced and I'd like to figure it out and come to him with suggestions.
What would be an example grams for the day or per meal for carbs, fats, protein?
Me neither. If that is 90% protein then I am the Queen of England. I imagine MFP says 90 gms, not percentage.
75% of all statistical percentages are made up...
And 56% of those are cleverly ironic.
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I have to watch protein intake to keep my blood glucose reading where is should be since about half of protein can be converted in the body to glucose. I know some do live on meat however.0
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I'm having difficulty picturing 90% protein out of this.
What would be an example grams for the day or per meal for carbs, fats, protein?[/quote]
Yesterdays was (day) Fat: 42.1 Carbs: 138.2 and Protein: 6,899.3
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could you open your diary so we can SEE what it says?
I'm consistently low, so I'd love to see what you're eating that's jacking you up so high.0 -
I wonder if one of your diary entries has a glitch in it.0
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I think there's got to be a bad data base entry somewhere in the equation.0
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Diary is open. Im just giving you what MFP says. If I am putting in something wrong, please, by all means help me out. I put literally everything I eat in to it.
Edited to add: Just started eating this way on Monday. Went on a little hiatus from MFP last month.0 -
I'm having difficulty picturing 90% protein out of this.
What would be an example grams for the day or per meal for carbs, fats, protein?[/quote]
Yesterdays was (day) Fat: 42.1 Carbs: 138.2 and Protein: 6,899.3
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This would have you eating over 28,000 calories. There's something wrong with one of the entries you're using.
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obviously the shredded bbq you are logging does not have 6800 grams of protein in 450 calories.................
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not everything in the database is accurate so you need to look at the nutrition and verify0 -
Diary is open. Im just giving you what MFP says. If I am putting in something wrong, please, by all means help me out. I put literally everything I eat in to it.
The BBQ shredded chicken is a bad entry, did you create it yourself, or did you find it in the database? Protein is 4 cals per gram, so if the calories in that are correct, even if it is 100% protein it would be 106 grams, not 6,998.
Based on the total goals, MFP has you set at 30% protein.0 -
PeachyCarol wrote: »
Yesterdays was (day) Fat: 42.1 Carbs: 138.2 and Protein: 6,899.3
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This would have you eating over 28,000 calories. There's something wrong with one of the entries you're using.
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Dream bulks are made of these...
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smdh0
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The recipe for the shredded BBQ is just 4 pounds of boneless skinless chicken breasts, a few tbsp of bbq, and an onion. Maybe the chicken in the database is incorrect? Anyone know what it is supposed to be so I can check into that?0
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just search for...
Chicken - Boneless Skinless Breasts
and some bbq sauce0 -
The recipe for the shredded BBQ is just 4 pounds of boneless skinless chicken breasts, a few tbsp of bbq, and an onion. Maybe the chicken in the database is incorrect? Anyone know what it is supposed to be so I can check into that?
Not sure how I can see your recipe (or if I even can) but whatever chicken is in there has to be really wrong.0 -
"chicken-breast, broilers or fryers, skinless, boneless, meat only, raw," with no asterisk, is the good entry, assuming you weighed the chicken when it was raw.
It has 96 grams of protein in a whole lb.
There are a lot of wacko and just plain wrong chicken entries on MFP. Others too, of course, but chicken seems particularly bad, no idea why.
Anyway, now that has been clarified, it appears that you are eating a perfectly reasonable amount of protein.0 -
The recipe for the shredded BBQ is just 4 pounds of boneless skinless chicken breasts, a few tbsp of bbq, and an onion. Maybe the chicken in the database is incorrect? Anyone know what it is supposed to be so I can check into that?
Not sure how I can see your recipe (or if I even can) but whatever chicken is in there has to be really wrong.
That was probably my problem. I redid it and it looked a little more reasonable. So that was my issue. But still, curious to know if too much protein is harmful. And I got my answer. Thank you Senecarr and others for not being jerks in your response since it was users error. Makes me feel less silly for not double checking my recipe.0 -
If I ever find these mythical chickens and they cost the same per pound, I'm buying all I can and portion very carefully.lemurcat12 wrote: »"chicken-breast, broilers or fryers, skinless, boneless, meat only, raw," with no asterisk, is the good entry, assuming you weighed the chicken when it was raw.
It has 96 grams of protein in a whole lb.
There are a lot of wacko and just plain wrong chicken entries on MFP. Others too, of course, but chicken seems particularly bad, no idea why.
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The recipe for the shredded BBQ is just 4 pounds of boneless skinless chicken breasts, a few tbsp of bbq, and an onion. Maybe the chicken in the database is incorrect? Anyone know what it is supposed to be so I can check into that?
chicken is closer to 0.8 grams protein per g chicken0 -
The recipe for the shredded BBQ is just 4 pounds of boneless skinless chicken breasts, a few tbsp of bbq, and an onion. Maybe the chicken in the database is incorrect? Anyone know what it is supposed to be so I can check into that?
Not sure how I can see your recipe (or if I even can) but whatever chicken is in there has to be really wrong.
That was probably my problem. I redid it and it looked a little more reasonable. So that was my issue. But still, curious to know if too much protein is harmful. And I got my answer. Thank you Senecarr and others for not being jerks in your response since it was users error. Makes me feel less silly for not double checking my recipe.
Ah, I save being a jerk for being legitimately denying science.0
https://youtu.be/mjmV8BlsJTQ
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