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[–] 2 points 4 months ago

us RDA is based on weight and we’re a fat country. It looks like I’d need to eat 5 chicken breasts/day.

There is literature supporting this should be your ideal body weight rather then total weight for obese people (i.e. based on your non-fat mass)

A complicating factor is the guidelines are calibrated for people eating poorly digested non-complete proteins, must labels for protein are based on crude protein - a rough nitrogen estimate, not actual amino acid measurements. If your eating 100g of beef protein vs 100g of wheat protein you are getting very different levels of meaningful protein.

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