I opened my eye up to this after I went on carnivore for a while back in 2020. Been messing around with diet a lot and protein is super important and really the only thing I "track" of sorts these days, whereas carbs and fats is not tracked, but I am still very much low carb 90% of the time just out of preference.
When I see people such as my parents eat maybe.... 20g of protein in a day I am mentally in a lot of pain. :/ I tried telling them in various ways how important protein is, especially as you get older, but nothing seems to really budge them as they love their carbs too much.
Fat is, unsurprisingly, rich in fat-soluble vitamins and plays an essential role in transporting these throughout the body.
Fatty parts of food sources is where you'll get additional cholesterol which is a basis for some/most hormones and cell walls.
Fat as an energy source gives the most stable long-term blood sugar
Fat has around double calories (energy density) as compared to protein (and carbs)
So you'd want to eat enough fat to meet your nutritional needs without ending up with a caloric intake greater than your caloric output.
But in all honesty I think getting that much fat in your diet is likely a hard thing to achieve unless you eat a lot of processed "food" or have a very sedentary lifestyle.
2. Calories, when talking about food, is a measurement of energy density (energy/gram) and as mentioned earlier fat has around double the energy density.
As such, measuring in grams wouldn't give a useful comparison.
IIRC Joseph has gone through these things in his other videos & articles.
I think these two are the most relevant ones to your questions
I opened my eye up to this after I went on carnivore for a while back in 2020. Been messing around with diet a lot and protein is super important and really the only thing I "track" of sorts these days, whereas carbs and fats is not tracked, but I am still very much low carb 90% of the time just out of preference.
When I see people such as my parents eat maybe.... 20g of protein in a day I am mentally in a lot of pain. :/ I tried telling them in various ways how important protein is, especially as you get older, but nothing seems to really budge them as they love their carbs too much.
It was a huge eye-opener to me
a) that amino acids are fed by proteins
b) *exactly* what and how much amino acids do. I just vaguely thought I knew they had something to do with muscles and nitrogen balance
c) that there's no known upper ceiling to the benefits from protein intake.
Questions:
1) What's the relationship between fat intake and protein intake? Does there need to be a certain amount of fat per amount of protein?
2) should these food sources really be measured in calories, or would grams be better?
1. Just some things off the top of my head.
Fat is, unsurprisingly, rich in fat-soluble vitamins and plays an essential role in transporting these throughout the body.
Fatty parts of food sources is where you'll get additional cholesterol which is a basis for some/most hormones and cell walls.
Fat as an energy source gives the most stable long-term blood sugar
Fat has around double calories (energy density) as compared to protein (and carbs)
So you'd want to eat enough fat to meet your nutritional needs without ending up with a caloric intake greater than your caloric output.
But in all honesty I think getting that much fat in your diet is likely a hard thing to achieve unless you eat a lot of processed "food" or have a very sedentary lifestyle.
2. Calories, when talking about food, is a measurement of energy density (energy/gram) and as mentioned earlier fat has around double the energy density.
As such, measuring in grams wouldn't give a useful comparison.
IIRC Joseph has gone through these things in his other videos & articles.
I think these two are the most relevant ones to your questions
Protein is not protein. Here's why
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJNF2_dCWkg
30 eggs a day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hh25TRG8p4
https://josepheverettwil.substack.com/p/what-900-eggs-did-to-my-body-and
On a related tangent; Substack could really do with introducing tags or at least categories for posts.