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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You should ask a nutritionist. If the boy is an athlete, he ought to have a meal plan with his macros.[/quote]

So, you are on the side of "Kids can't be trusted to listen to their bodies.  You need a target that's calculated by an adult."  We've used a dietician for other things, but they were very clearly not on that side.

Where are you on the other issues, as far as variety of protein, and whether processed protein foods are OK?

-- OP[/quote]

"Listen to your body" works for basic things like hunger and thirst, maybe the feeling of low blood sugar. Not getting enough protein is probably going to manifest in the short term as simply feeling hungry, but in the longer term in things like anemia, lethargy, and muscle degradation (for a high-level athlete). Getting a performance-focused set of macro targets from a registered dietician isn't telling your child they can't be trusted, it's giving them the information they need when they're making food choices. It's not "either/or" regarding processed and unprocessed food, it's "I should probably have a protein bar with these grapes if I want to make it through 90 minutes of sportsball this evening".

For my kids (ES age), too much whey or soy protein causes stomach upset, so we don't do most protein-enhanced foods. Kodiak Kids used to make frozen waffles where the protein boost was from whole wheat gluten, but I haven't been able to find them recently. [/quote]

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