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Originally Posted by patns
"The body can only break down 5 to 9 grams of protein an hour. Any excess that is not burned for energy is converted to fat or excreted, so it's a ridiculous waste to be recommending so much more than you really need," she says.
At my goal weight of 130 from what I read I should have 65 grams of protein a day. If this statement were true I should break down what I eat to small meals 6-7 times a day with small amounts of protein at each time.
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The quote above is misleading and wrong.
First - protein is never converted to fat in humans. In theory the pathways for this to happen exist but in reality it simply never happens. Also, in humans carbs are almost never converted to fat and stored. We get fat because fat is absorbed and stored when we consume excess calories. This has been studied quite extensively and not really up for debate.
As for protein, it is very much true that we can only process so much at once but there are a number of misleading aspects to the quote above. Lyle Mcdonald has a fantastic series of articles on this topic but the very short version is.
Protein digests very slowly. A very high percentage is digested depending on the source. When you eat a lot of protein it simply takes longer to digest. Very little is wasted. This is why eating 6-7 times a day is not needed.
A couple links:
Lyle's article on protein which debunks the above quote completely.
Leangains client results. (These guys follow a specific dieting protocol, never eat breakfast and normally eating only twice a day ... while not scientific it provides great visuals that make it fairly obvious protein doesn't need to be spaced out over 6-7 meals to maintain muscle)