{"id":474371,"date":"2026-02-14T11:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/474371\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T11:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:27:09","slug":"how-much-protein-is-it-safe-to-eat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/474371\/","title":{"rendered":"How much protein is it safe to eat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the UK, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nutrition.org.uk\/nutritional-information\/protein\/\" class=\"ssrcss-15td0ur-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">British Nutrition Foundation, external<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/media\/5a749fece5274a44083b82d8\/government_dietary_recommendations.pdf\" class=\"ssrcss-15td0ur-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Government, external<\/a> say that adults should be aiming for 0.75kg of protein for every kilogram of bodyweight. That works out about 56g\/day for a 75kg man and 45g\/day for a 60kg woman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If you&#8217;re aiming for the above (and don&#8217;t fancy dragging out the scales), that roughly looks like two palm-sized portions of meat, fish, tofu, nuts or pulses a day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some experts though, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/food\/articles\/c20dg2yw979o\" class=\"ssrcss-15td0ur-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">argue we should eat more<\/a> &#8211; with dietitian Dr Linia Patel explaining &#8220;There are newer methodologies to estimate protein needs that have come into play, focusing on improving health \u2013 not just on avoiding poor health. These predict the intake for adults should actually be 1\u20131.2g.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the National Diet and Nutrition Survey, many of us, are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nutrition.org.uk\/nutritional-information\/protein\/\" class=\"ssrcss-15td0ur-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eating more than either, external<\/a> of the two recommendations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With some people getting their protein fix in one go via powders and shakes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0002916525002540?\" class=\"ssrcss-15td0ur-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is there a limit to how much protein you should consume, external<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the UK, the British Nutrition Foundation, external and Government, external say that adults should be aiming for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[49,48,84,395],"class_list":["post-474371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}