How Much PROTEIN You Really Need to Prevent Disease and Stay Strong

Protein Myths: A New Look HAVING READ OF the vast resources we squander to produce meat, you might easily conclude that meat must be indispensable to human well-being. But this just isn’t the case. When I first wrote Diet for a Small Planet I was fighting two nutritional myths at once. First was the myth that we need scads of protein, the more the

Nutrition is relatively simple, actually. It boils down to a few basic rules: don’t eat too many calories, or too few; consume sufficient protein and essential fats; obtain the vitamins and minerals you need; and avoid pathogens like E. coli and toxins like mercury or lead. Beyond that, we know relatively little with complete certainty. Read that s

This means eating generous amounts of foods such as oily fish, seafood, chicken, some red meat, eggs, tofu, beans, pulses, dairy and nuts. If you are a vegetarian or vegan there are alternatives (see page 101). You need at least 50-60g of protein a day, every day. As you get older, you need more.