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[quote=Anonymous]The trend of adding protein to everything is just that - a trend. Do you remember fat free wow potato chips with olestra, 100 cal snack wells that were almost 100% sugar? We cannot exist without a nutrition trend to glom onto. People are mistakenly categorizing food nearly into carb and protein categories without realizing that wheat and other grains contain protein. One slice of wheat toast has more protein than a slice of bacon, but people will instinctively reach for bacon with its saturated fats and nitrates, instead of a humble piece of toast.

The consensus is that the body can utilize 20-40 g of protein in one meal for muscle synthesis. Ingesting 80 g of protein at once is not beneficial. I predict a rise in kidney stones as people continue to pile on the protein.

I have swimmers and we give them a balanced diet, 30-40 g protein at dinner, lunch is at school so I’m not sure what they have there, post practice recovery with a mix of carbs, fats, and proteins, and many many many carbs before races or hard practices. Energy comes from carbs, primarily and secondarily. The body only utilizes protein for energy after exhausting carb and fat reserves, ie in starvation. Read about

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