Sugar............

Why are women's requirements lower...? Is it percentage based or something?

Highly doubt anyone who isn't actively avoiding sugar meets these standards as they put sugar in everything including chicken noodle soup now

In the 1950's, the average American ate 50 grams of protein. The average American now eats about 150 grams of protein. Add this with the excess sugar and the potential problems escalate quickly.

Georgia Hunter said...
In the 1950's, the average American ate 50 grams of protein. The average American now eats about 150 grams of protein. Add this with the excess sugar and the potential problems escalate quickly.

What would 50 grams of protein look like in one day’s worth of eating?

WalkingbyFaith said...

Georgia Hunter said...
In the 1950's, the average American ate 50 grams of protein. The average American now eats about 150 grams of protein. Add this with the excess sugar and the potential problems escalate quickly.

What would 50 grams of protein look like in one day’s worth of eating?

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https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/medialibraries/urmcmedia/ctsi/resources/crc/documents/visualizeyourportionsize12-01-09.pdf

If a deck of cards was a steak, it would be about 3 oz of meat and have about 23 grams of protien. A 4oz steak if you ever saw those little boxed "no name steaks" is about 28 grams of protien.

Chicken breast is harder to guestimate since the odd size, variable weights and thicknesses but its similar protien/weight/size ratio as beef steak.

One shot glass size of mixed nuts is about 3-4 gms of protien.

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jb1994 said...
I have a hard time believing they just had 50g?? I mean the standard bacon and eggs breakfast is already a substantial amount of protein.

Seams a little low, Ive only had that much per day though many times.

Say, a homemade deli meat sandwich...it can be filling if loaded up with "fixings"and generally wont have much meat.

Meat was expensive in the 50's, there were no commercial livestock farms like today..

Chicken from what Ive heard was even expensive.

Two eggs have 12grms of protien.

The 50's marked the beginning craze of junk food too - carbs and sugar.

People didnt eat as much either, the population as a whole was almost skinny. What chemicals were starting to get into foods did not alter next generation genes yet. We have fat babies today, its now in the genes.

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They can do it, but wont as there are not enough concerned buyers to make it worth while. If I wanted chocolate in my snack bar, Id just get a chocolate candy bar, whats the point?

People get lower body parts cut off as a result of sugar. Is this not enough reason?

Sugar is actually inflammatory and releases cytokins in the blood. WHAT??..nooo!!........YES!! So dump that sugar coffee latte down the drain too!

Cytokine are the first step in immune response.. Sugar (did not specify cane or sugar beet) was in the top five on my blood tested list to avoid.

I just counted 99 articles that I have saved as references under the tab of eating protein. I like you guys but I'm not going to go through all 99 articles and find where it says they averaged 50 grams of protein in the 1950's. If I remember correctly, I believe the actual number was 40 grams but I erred on the side of caution. I don't advocate not eating animal protein because I want to, that is what the literature points to. My name "Georgia Hunter" came from me being a hunter and I was on too many pro staffs to count. I no longer hunt because I won't kill it if I'm not going to eat it. I'm the last person that should advocate eating less animal protein because my agenda was the exact opposite of what I advocate.