It is common that people wonder about the amount of nutrients that they should be in taking so as to maintain a good overall health. While there is no definite answer to this question, there are ways to find the exact quantity of these nutrients out. There are many factors on which the intake amount depends such as age, gender, height, weight, medical history etc.
It is also common to find that men and women are conscious about how many grams of protein shall they be consuming on a per day basis to make sure that sufficient amounts are being entered into the body. This depends upon the level of the activities that you perform and also on other physical statistics and details. There is quite an easy way to find out the number of protein grams that is right for a person and the details of it have been given in the following part of the article:
To find out the protein intake amount, take your weight in pounds and then divide the total figure by 2.2 to know the weight in kilograms. Now multiply this figure by 0.8 through 1.8. Here 0.8 and 1.8 are the counts of the level of physical activity you engage in every day.
While 0.8 stands for lower activity, 1.8 is for higher activity. As a general rule, the USDA’s average requirement in adults for protein is 0.8 grams per kilogram of body weight per day.
The USDA’s average protein requirement in women aged between 31 and 50 is 46g/day. But this figure varies depending upon many factors such as whether or not the woman is pregnant or not or how much physical work she engages in.
In a very detailed way, if your body weight is 36.4 grams, the protein requirement per day is 36.4 grams if you are not active or pregnant and 59.2 grams if you are active or pregnant. But in case you have this body weight and you are extremely active or in training then your protein requirement per day is 81.9 grams.
On the other hand if you body weight is around 54.5 grams, then your protein requirement per day is 43.6 grams, 70.9 grams and 98.1 grams if you are not active or pregnant, if you are active or pregnant and if you are into training respectively. These figures increase according to this ratio and as per the calculation method provided above.
