Is Whey Protein Powder a waste of money?

joelguerra93

Here is an answer I've seen off of Yahoo! Answers:

The answer was; does whey protein powder actually work?

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No. If you get sufficient protein with your diet - and most of us do - it won't do anything for you. It will go into the toilet and be a complete waste of your money. Protein supplements are a bad idea for most of the people who take them. Here's why.

Your body does not store protein as it does fat so there's no point in dumping a large amount of protein into your system at one time. You need protein in small amounts throughout each day so a protein shake will be mostly lost through excretion thereby making the calories in the shake wasted and of minimal nutritional benefit. Here's how much protein you need --> http://www.cdc.gov/nutrition/everyone/ba… and you can get that easily with a glass of milk and a chicken breast or piece of meat.

If you get 150 grams of protein a day that amounts to 10 pounds at the end of the month. Bodybuilders may gain a half a pound of muscle in a good month. The rest of the 10 pounds goes into hair, skin, sinew, organs, and most of all the toilet.

Protein supplements have almost no fiber which means they will do little to give you the satisfaction of a normal digestive process and will not have any appreciable appetite suppression. They are refined foods with all the nutrition taken out of them except protein which makes them a bad addition to any diet. Some manufacturers add flavoring, sugar, and other junk to the protein to make the "shake" more palatable and more marketable which makes them an especially bad choice for any diet.

Here's why protein shakes should be avoided:

- They are not controlled by the FDA like foods and drugs.
- May have harmful or undesirable side effects
- May contain metabolically unavailable proteins
- Will probably provide more protein than you need with the rest going to waste
- Provide you with extra calories
- May contain junk food ingredients to make them tastey
- Possibly provide you unwanted contaminants or toxins
- Wastes money
- Replaces what you really need - good food!
- Perpetuates the myth

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Here is another answer from my friend that replied on my Facebook status:

Friend: Eat real food. Shakes should be the last thing you want... Protein shakes... It's gmo produced food. Eat chicken, steak, turkey, beef real food. Protein shakes give bloat muscle... Ask any bodybuilder, they don't. I've meet Kai Greene, jay cutler and a **** ton of others and they all say the same thing. Get it all from food.