{"id":4224,"date":"2015-07-27T13:44:06","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T18:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4224"},"modified":"2015-07-27T17:59:23","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T22:59:23","slug":"current-dietary-protein-recommendations-are-too-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/current-dietary-protein-recommendations-are-too-low\/","title":{"rendered":"Current dietary protein recommendations are too low<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recommendations for protein intake in healthy populations may be incorrect, according to researchers who point to a meta-analysis reviewing the latest findings.\u00a0Current recommendations may not be sufficient to promote optimal muscle health, especially in aging populations prone to muscle loss.<\/p>\n<p>Consuming moderate amounts of high-quality protein at each meal, rather than a larger quantity once a day, may offer an effective strategy for protecting muscle mass.<\/p>\n<p>Recommendations for protein intake are based on older techniques that underestimate protein needs because they overestimate nitrogen intake and underestimate nitrogen excretion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrcresearchpress.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1139\/apnm-2014-0530#.Vba3O_lVhBc\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in\u00a0<em>Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>July 22<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Rajavel Elango, Department of Pediatrics, &amp; School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, British Columbia<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recommendations for protein intake in healthy populations may be incorrect, according to researchers who point to a meta-analysis reviewing the latest findings.\u00a0Current recommendations may not be sufficient to promote optimal muscle health, especially in aging populations prone to muscle loss. Consuming moderate amounts of high-quality protein at each meal, rather than a larger quantity once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[125,51,650,476],"class_list":["post-4224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-british-columbia","tag-health","tag-nutrition","tag-public-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-168","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4225,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224\/revisions\/4225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}