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Old Sun, Apr-19-09, 15:38
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Originally Posted by awriter
And Dr. K's ratios are different than Groves'. He says you should eat a gram of protein for every pound of lean body mass.

Lisa

Nope. I have the book in front of me. Groves says 1 - 1.5 gm. protein for each kilo of lean body mass. That's for each 2.2 lbs. of lean body mass. In your example of someone with a lean body mass of 200 lbs. (very few people have a lean body mass of 200 lbs! unrealistic example!), it would be 91 - 136 gms protein. But again, a rare few people have 200 pounds of lean body mass, that applies to almost no one. A person with 105 pounds of lean body mass (150 pound person with 30% body fat) would eat 48 - 71 gm. protein.

His macronutrient ratios are:

carbs: 10 - 15% of calories
protein: 15 - 25%
fat: 60 - 70%
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