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What's all this talk about protein one of our viewers wants to know. It's in the media
everyone's buzzing about protein and that's because we've learned in the weight loss world
that when protein is part of your meal and snack, it helps you feel fuller so it's a
very important function that helps us eat less, be more satisfied with the food that
we eat and keep our hands out of the cookie jar. So make sure that you always have protein
at every meal, meal and snack. Sources of protein are both animal and plant. So animal
we have dairy, lean meats, seafood, and then in the plant sources, nuts, seeds, soybeans,
legumes, any kind of legumes, and in fact, legumes are probably the highest source of
protein so one cup of dried beans you get 16 grams of protein. That's cooked. That's
an amazing amount. A cup of milk has 8 grams of protein, a cup of yogurt 11 grams of protein,
three ounces of cooked meat would have 21 grams of protein and ladies need about 56
grams a day and guys need about 46 and most of us get that. The elderly tend to be maybe
shy in that area but you want to make sure you get enough protein because every cell
in your body is made of protein. It's important to wound healing. It's important to keep your
muscles strong. It's important for muscle recovery so after you workout that you have
a source of protein in addition to your hydration. So it's an important nutrient. It's always
been an important nutrient. There's some new research that suggests that maybe if you start
the day with 25 to 30 grams of protein and have that at breakfast, lunch and dinner it
might set up this cascade of hormonal events that help you lose weight. So the way in which
you use the fatty acids in your body. So protein's important, make sure it's at every meal. And
it doesn't matter if it's plant or animal or a combination of both.