Protein: how much and how to eat enough?
Posted by kathryn in Uncategorized
Checking through your Skribit suggestions, there are a couple of questions about protein:
- How much protein does the average person really need a day; and
- How to get more protein in your diet
I’ve written a fair bit about protein before, so thought I would tie these two up by linking to some old posts.
How much protein do you need?
- Protein basics: Last year I wrote a couple of posts on protein and vegetarians. Regardless of whether you’re vegetarian or omnivore, the first post in the series contains some basic information on protein. Why you need it; an overview of amino acids; the main sources and how much protein you actually need. Protein and vegetarians
- The nutrients you need: While we’re on the subject, you also may be interested in this post what nutrients do you actually need?
- Portions: For an idea of how to structure your evening meals with protein vs grain-foods vs vegetables take a look at what should your dinner plate look like?
How to get more protein in your diet?
There are lots and lots of ways to get more protein in your diet.
- For vegetarians: The second post in the protein and vegetarians series includes a list of suggestions on how vegies can increase their intake. Protein and vegetarians part 2
- For non-vegetarians: While this post is responding to a question on gaining muscle mass, there are some protein-filled meal suggestions at the end. How to gain muscle mass
- Which foods contain protein: There’s a quick protein quiz here which gives an indication of the range of foods containing protein – the answers are in the comments. There’s also a round-up of the quizzes here.
- Breakfast: For ways of making your breakfast better in general – which includes adding a bit of protein – take a look at this post: make a better breakfast each morning.
- Avoiding carb addictions: If your diet is overflowing with carbohydrates and grain foods, at the expense of protein and vegetables, then this post might help. How to deal with a carb addiction in 5 steps.
How Skribit works
If you want to ask me a nutrition or food question, then you can do so via Skribit. Skribit enables you to ask questions, and also vote on other peoples’ questions – so I know what you’re interested in.
You can register your question anonymously. However if you do login, when I answer the question you’ll be sent an email.
There’s more information about using Skribit here.
10 December, 2008
Comments
Hi, Kathryn:
How are you liking SkriBit? I wonder how it would do on my blog. The idea /theory behind it sounds fun and useful. I love the idea of my readers/visitors telling me what they want to see/read.
Great article on protein. There is one on my blog also written recently by my writer Jason. Link to blog is below.
http://www.groovyvegetarian.com
Missy.
I get so many questions about protein! Thanks for the compilation of links.
Missy: I am finding Skribit useful. My original aim was to find an alternative to Q & A Thursday – which was becoming too big and unwieldy for me to continue with.
However I wanted to maintain a question mechanism. One which didn’t lead to me being swamped and also gave me a better idea of what the broader spectrum of readers wanted to find out about.
And Skribit fulfills this remit very well – although there is a time lag between someone asking a question and me answering it. But overall, yes I am happy with it.
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