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That's way more than the US RDA, which is 0.8g/kg. I try to hit 2g/kg when I'm actively training as an athlete, and it's not that easy, and the tradeoffs to di

That's way more than the US RDA, which is 0.8g/kg. I try to hit 2g/kg when I'm actively training as an athlete, and it's not that easy, and the tradeoffs to diet probably aren't worth it for most people.

OisinMoran 1y ago
And how's that going for the US? Public health recommendations have a notoriously poor record (take the food pyramid for example), so RDAs aren't exactly the way to build a healthy diet. [0] For example, here's a paper uncovering a statistical error in the calculation of the RDA for Vitamin D (600IU), resulting in it being over 10x lower than it should be (~9000IU). [1] [0] From Harvard Health website: "The RDA is the amount of a nutrient you need to meet your basic nutritional requirements. In a sense, it's the minimum amount you need to keep from getting sick — not the specific amount you are supposed to eat every day." [1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4210929/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4210929/