You Probably Never Have To Worry About Not Getting Enough Protein

I’m not a certified nutritionist, but I can read labels and studies as well as the next person. Not only that, I am capable of looking around me and making some observations about what I see. So let me share something both the data and my own observations are telling me: people eat way more protein than they need.

Let’s put aside any ethical reasons for why people might not want to indulge in so much animal products, though I would think that should be an issue for everyone to consider to at least a small degree. I would think everyone would rather be drinking water with less pig shit in it, would rather have there be less farmland in order that there might be more natural spaces, would rather have better bowel movements, less stinky body odor, and less risk of colon cancer. But none of those issues apply to the argument at hand.

I look around me and I see two things: people eating way more protein than ever before, and a population that is more obese than any other I’m acquainted with. I’m not suggesting there is a direct and complete correlation between a high protein diet and obesity, but I think it would be foolish to dismiss the idea out of hand. I myself do not suggest that a diet high in protein causes obesity, simply that a diet high in protein is not helping reduce obesity in society at large. And…