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Normal person? What about abnormal athletes, or people who do weight training? How many peas are required if you want both a calorie surplus and 1 to 1.5 gram

Normal person? What about abnormal athletes, or people who do weight training? How many peas are required if you want both a calorie surplus and 1 to 1.5 grams of protein per lb of body weight?

mantoto 7y ago
And do you think this is a real problem because a relevant amount of people are doing weighttrainig? I don't think so. I would even bet that the amount is way below 1%
- mancerayder 7y ago
  "Normal people" are dying not just because of their poor diets, but because of their lack of activity. The "normal person needs X protein" comment above doesn't consider this, because "normal people" are doing it wrong. They're statistically sitting at desks in in cars, so it doesn't matter what they need. Not to mention that is a pulled-out-of-a-hat cherrypicked statistic. No one agrees on how many grams of protein is needed, anyway.
sprflyprgrmrguy 7y ago
Seems to be 4g of protein per 85g (1/2cup) of peas. I weight ~72 kg (~160lb); recommendation is 1.5-2g of protein per kg, so I'd need 142g of protein per day on the high end, which equates to roughly 3017.5g, 71 cups, of peas daily. Frozen walmart sweet peas are .84c per bag, each bag contain 4 servings, roughly $7.45 in peas per day. For comparison, chicken breast @ 100g (3.5oz or .45 lb) is 31g of protein. I'd need 458g of chicken breast, around 2.25lbs. I can get it for $1.99/lb, but the better quality stuff is $6.99/lb, so $4.48 to $15.72/day. When I'm eating to put on muscle I buy the cheap crap and slow cook it and toss hot sauce on it. Lentils are a better choice than peas, you'd probably need half as much. I'd rather eat chicken than copious amounts of a plant alternative, but I have started eating more lentils b/c they're not at all as bad as I thought they'd be. I hate peas though.
- davidivadavid 7y ago
  I'm not sure how realistic eating 3kg of peas per day is. People would just get bored real fast, if they even manage to ingest that volume of food.
  - sprflyprgrmrguy 7y ago
    it would be awful. carbs are 11g per serving, I can't imagine how crappy you'd feel eating 71 cups of peas in a day.

Normal person? What about abnormal athletes, or people who do weight training? How many peas are required if you want both a calorie surplus and 1 to 1.5 grams of protein per lb of body weight?

mantoto 7y ago

And do you think this is a real problem because a relevant amount of people are doing weighttrainig? I don't think so. I would even bet that the amount is way below 1%

mancerayder 7y ago
"Normal people" are dying not just because of their poor diets, but because of their lack of activity. The "normal person needs X protein" comment above doesn't consider this, because "normal people" are doing it wrong. They're statistically sitting at desks in in cars, so it doesn't matter what they need. Not to mention that is a pulled-out-of-a-hat cherrypicked statistic. No one agrees on how many grams of protein is needed, anyway.

sprflyprgrmrguy 7y ago

Seems to be 4g of protein per 85g (1/2cup) of peas. I weight ~72 kg (~160lb); recommendation is 1.5-2g of protein per kg, so I'd need 142g of protein per day on the high end, which equates to roughly 3017.5g, 71 cups, of peas daily. Frozen walmart sweet peas are .84c per bag, each bag contain 4 servings, roughly $7.45 in peas per day. For comparison, chicken breast @ 100g (3.5oz or .45 lb) is 31g of protein. I'd need 458g of chicken breast, around 2.25lbs. I can get it for $1.99/lb, but the better quality stuff is $6.99/lb, so $4.48 to $15.72/day. When I'm eating to put on muscle I buy the cheap crap and slow cook it and toss hot sauce on it. Lentils are a better choice than peas, you'd probably need half as much. I'd rather eat chicken than copious amounts of a plant alternative, but I have started eating more lentils b/c they're not at all as bad as I thought they'd be. I hate peas though.

davidivadavid 7y ago
I'm not sure how realistic eating 3kg of peas per day is. People would just get bored real fast, if they even manage to ingest that volume of food.
- sprflyprgrmrguy 7y ago
  it would be awful. carbs are 11g per serving, I can't imagine how crappy you'd feel eating 71 cups of peas in a day.