Today on the exam room. It was a headline from a Vox article that said you're probably

eating too much protein. So by and large, I mean are we really eating more than we need?

The answer undoubtedly is yes, I mean there's statistics.

We don't have to guess at certain things.

Nutrition science is always tough.

Nutrition science gets beat up because there's so many what we call epidemiology

studies and relatively few randomized studies of course very honestly but

when you come to protein needs and protein intake

and protein deficiency there's all kinds of data and there's got to be something to

fight about how much protein what what kind of protein, is America getting unhealthy because

it's a protein deficient society and it's misinformation.

I mean that's a word that you know we throw around but it is misinformation we got good

science America is not protein deficient America is fiber deficient and

nearly nobody in America that's actually measured to be protein efficient and it's

estimated they're only about 7% of Americans get enough fiber so let's break

some of this stuff down. Commission's committee. Hi, I'm the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs, coast to coast,

and around the world in great cities like Grand Rapids, Michigan, Baltimore, Maryland, and

Belgrade, Serbia. Wherever you you are we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place.

This is episode 19 of season 7 number 518 overall. And today's question is this, are you eating too much protein?

We live in a protein obsessed nation and today we are actually feeding that obsession

but we're doing it from a scientific and a factual standpoint so that we can

get a clear answer to that question, are you overdoing it in the

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