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!±8± Nutrition Tools - Protein Comparison Chart

Sometimes I'm amazed that despite the wealth of information available online, it can be remarkably difficult to find useful nutrition resources. I'm not really sure why this is the case. Maybe it's because there are infinite ways to classify the relative "goodness" or "badness" of foods, depending on your nutrition belief system.

If you talk to an Atkins devotee, they'll tell you that all protein and fat foods are fine, as long as you avoid carbohydrates. Conversely, if you find yourself talking to someone with vegan leanings, you'll hear that the human body has no use for animal products and can live off vegetables alone.

But arguing about whether a food is inherently good or bad is typically only an activity for the foolish... or the naïve. To rehash a famous quote, "one man's food is another man's poison." Human kind has a near miraculous ability to survive off of a wide variety of foodstuffs, the key is figuring out how you as an individual works best.

Of course, some foods are clearly better than others (i.e. a can of tuna is superior to a bowl of fruit loops) but figuring out what foods to fill your diet with can be a somewhat confusing exercise. That's why, over the next few weeks I'll be releasing a few tools to help get you sorted out.

The first tool is a protein cheat sheet I put together a while back for my clients. It's a handy guide to give you an idea of how much protein are in common servings of protein. Later on I'll release a kind of grading system that expands on protein, but for now establishing how much protein are in the foods you are eating is key.

Personally, and for many of the clients I've worked with, I've found that increasing dietary protein tends to be one of the more effective strategies for weight loss. It's not the only strategy that works, but teaching people about the value of consuming quality proteins on a regular basis tends to do more to control hunger than any other intervention. And as we know, if you control hunger, you control body weight over the lifespan.

You often hear that for optimal body fat control, eating 1 g of protein per lbs of body weight should be your goal. Although I think this is a bit of an oversimplification, it's actually decent advice.

If you are trying to maintain a body weight of 200 lbs, you would want to eat about 200 grams of protein, spread out over 5-6 feedings. Keep in mind you want to establish a protein goal based on your desired weight, not your current one. Therefore if you are 170 lbs and trying to get to 130 lbs, you should be figuring out a way how to get 130 g of protein into your diet, not 170 g.

If you are currently struggling with your weight, you'll want to print out this sheet and keep it somewhere handy, like pasted on your fridge. This way, each time that you eat something, you'll be reminded that you need an ample serving of protein in that meal.

Try this for a few weeks and you will start to experience pretty significant changes in energy levels, mood and body composition!

To download your copy of this tool check out:

http://graemethomasonline.com/nutrition-tools-protein-comparison-chart/