Sports Nutrition Series [Part 1]: What is a High Protein Diet?

Popular weight loss plans have promoted high protein diets (HPD) which is also widely practiced among athletes and fitness enthusiasts🏃🏾. Typically, this diet offers wide range of choices for protein rich foods 🍗🍳, but are restrictive on other food groups like carbs.

🤔Do you know that you may use your weight to estimate your daily protein requirement? 👉It is around 1g protein/kg body weight (e.g. 50 kg ~ 50g of protein), but requirements do vary based on age and body's condition like pregnancy, illnesses or physical training.

If you want to try high protein diet.. 👉The International Society of Sports Nutrition defines HPD as 1.4-2.0 g protein/kg body weight as sufficient for muscle building and maintenance. But..is this diet suitable for everyone? Stay tuned to find out more! 😉

近期流行的減肥計劃提倡了“高蛋白飲食”，這種飲食在運動員和健身愛好者中廣泛被採用。通常，此飲食提供多種富含蛋白質的食物選擇，卻在碳水化合物等其他食物類別方面極為限制。 你知道你可以用體重來估算每日蛋白質需求量嗎？算法約為每公斤體重吃1克蛋白質（例：50公斤〜50克蛋白質），但需求量確實會因年齡和身體狀況（例如懷孕、疾病、鍛煉）而異。 如果你想嘗試高蛋白飲食…… 國際運動營養學會將之定義為：每公斤體重吃1.4-2.0克蛋白質，就足以建構和維持肌肉。

但是……這種飲食適合所有人嗎？敬請期待更多關於這方面的資訊！