How much meat should you eat a day?
The adequate intake for meat, according to the USDA, is about 2-3 ounces per serving, which looks like a deck of cards. If someone has a bet, how many people eat meat the size of a deck of cards? – Almost none. Most stakes served in restaurants are 2-4 times larger than that.
One of the main reasons people eat meat is for the protein. From the time of birth to about one year of age is the most rapid growth that occurs during life. Therefore, it can be assumed that breast milk naturally has a lot of protein. In truth, breast milk has about 6% protein. Much less than people had assumed. Most vegetables and fruits have more protein than that.
Even for bodybuilders who think it takes a lot of protein to build muscle, protein intake should be rethinked. All-time champion bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger said: “Most people think they need 50-70% of their protein intake of their total calorie intake to build the body. However, that doesn’t “That’s right. According to my formula, 1g of protein per 1kg (1000g) of body weight is enough.”
Since 1 kg is approximately 2.2 pounds (2.2046226218 pounds to be exact), if one weighs 150 pounds, 150/2.2 = 68.18 kg. So one needs 68.18 grams of protein. How much is that? 1 ounce is approximately 28.3 grams. So 68.18/28.3 = 2.4 ounces. One needs about 2.4 ounces of protein a day. The USDA recommended amount of meat consumption is about 2 to 3 ounces per serving, which looks like a deck of cards.
Plants already have that much protein though, if you eat too much meat, which most Americans are, you will make your blood acidic due to excessive protein intake, which causes loss of calcium in your bones. .
People often think that humans should eat meat because we have always been and they are considered omnivores. That is not true. Meat has not been a significant part of the human diet, they invented equipment to kill animals. That’s not that long. Although tens of thousands of years may be a long time, it is only a brief moment on the time table of the evolutionary scale.
If you look at the human diet from the evolutionary scale, humans are primates. The diet of all primates consists of 95-99% raw fruits and vegetables, except for humans. When children who have not yet developed an addiction to food are presented with food, their natural choice is fruit, although next to it is a gourmet dish prepared by the senior chief. All primates naturally like fruits, including humans.
Of all the primates, none eat meat like humans do. The gorillas are 100% vegetarian. Orangutans eat a small number of insects, bonobos eat meat, but less than 1%. Chimpanzees eat less than 5% meat in their total diet. Despite this, all the canines of these primates are sharper and longer than humans.
While most humans are “behaviorally” omnivores, when examining the anatomy of the body, humans are certified herbivores. Herbivores and humans have to chew food a lot with side-to-side mouth movements before swallowing. Carnivores and omnivores swallow their food whole without much chewing. Omnivores like pigs swallow everything including the skin when they eat fruits like bananas, while primates always peel fruits when they eat, just like humans.
Among primates, you don’t see diabetes, arthritis, cancer, high blood pressure. You only see that in human society. Interestingly, you see the same disease when you feed herbivores animal diet. Incidentally, the clinical study shows that when herbivorous animals switch to human diet, they get diseases that modern humans get, such as diabetes, cancer, high blood pressure, heart disease, arthritis, etc.
The USDA meat recommendation is about 2 to 3 ounces per serving. I would say that the adequate intake of meat should not exceed 5% of the human diet.