Protein Calculator – Calculate Your Protein Intake
Protein Calculator For Your Weight In Pounds And Kilograms
Calculate Your Protein IntakeCalculate your daily protein intake based the recommended daily allowance for both men and women of .8 grams of protein for every kilogram or .37 grams of protein for every pound of body weight. (Note: Research indicates that pregnant women should eat 20 grams more a day and weightlifters should get twice the recommended number.)
Proteins are compounds that are part of our muscles, bones, blood cells, hair, skin, nails, and tissues, and proteins are necessary to build and repair them. Our bodies also use proteins to make enzymes, hormones and antibodies, to transport nutrients to the cells, and to regulate water. Proteins are made up of varying combinations of 20 different amino acids, and our bodies can make 11 of the 20 amino acids. We need to get the other 9 amino acids from foods. Some of the combinations of amino acids from proteins like keratin, a protein found in the skin, hair and nails, hemoglobin, a protein that carries oxygen throughout the body, and myosin, a protein which helps to contract muscles.
Many people are under the misconception that vegans, vegetarians, and people in general can’t get enough protein from a plant based diet which includes: vegetables, fruits, nuts, legumes, seeds, and grains. This is very far from the truth, and even women who are pregnant and athletes who need extra protein can satisfy their protein requirements eating a plant based diet. Body builders often supplement with protein powders and their supplements can be plant based, and they can use pea protein.
Find vegetable protein sources here.
Enter a value in the "Pounds" field and then click 'Calculate' |
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Enter a value in the "Kilograms" field and then click 'Calculate' |
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Useful calculator, thanks! A great way to add value to this page would be to then offer examples of proteins that could be used to reach the recommended amount.
Hi Katie. I am glad you found the calculator helpful, and thank you very much for the suggestion. I have now included a link above that takes you to a page for vegetable protein sources. Thanks again.
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This is a neat protein intake calculator! I think the amt of protein one needs also may depend on one's blood type, or maybe it is more that the type of protein needed depends on that?
Hi Eva. I haven't come across anything that says the amount of protein needed depends on one's blood type. I have found information that supports that women who are pregnant need more protein and bodybuilders. It would be helpful if you could post links to the information that blood-type dictates protein intake. Thanks
Well, the Blood Type Diet (from "Eat Right 4 Your Type" by Peter D'Adamo) says the different types of blood cells require different types of protein, type O preferring animal protein. But while I think there is something to the differences in blood type and what foods are most compatible with types, I don't believe all type O's have to eat meat to be healthy.
According to William Wolcott and Trish Fahey in "The Metabolic Typing Diet: Customize Your Diet to Free Yourself from Food," Carbo Type individuals tend to eat small amounts of food throughout the day. They tend to be busy, energetic people. Protein Types have big appetites and cravings for salty, fatty foods.
Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/552267-carb-type-vs-protein-type/#ixzz1z0LhyXh6
Hi Eva, I have issues with this "Eat right for your blood type theory." I have started of as a heavy meat, carbohydrate, sugar, eater, salt, fatty food eater and throughout my life I have fit into all the categories. Through my life I have used discipline to change my eating habits, and have removed meat, dairy, reduced starches, reduced sugar, unhealthy fats, and salt, ans all do without have cravings for them. I took one of those "find your type "online tests, and it told me I fell in the vegetarian category, but it told me that because of the way I answered the questions. If I answered the questions saying I ate meat and salts a lot I would have fallen into another group. the thing with protein is that we don't need animal protein, what we need are complete proteins. Complete proteins are proteins that contain all of the essential amino acids that can be used to build all the other amino acids we need. All types needs all the essential amino acids, as they are all used to perform different functions in the body.
For me, i don't believe in this typing. I feel our will is stronger that what our body's are enculturated to want. Studying how are body's and mind's are enculturated, we set patterns from what we do. When the body gets used to doing something, it wants to continue to do that, whether it is good for it or not. Again, i have been through all off these "types" or situations. And as I willed, I changed. I reset the patterns in my body and mind, and then those patterns called for different things to fortify the patterns.