us RDA is based on weight and we’re a fat country. It looks like I’d need to eat 5 chicken breasts/day.
There is literature supporting this should be your ideal body weight rather then total weight for obese people (i.e. based on your non-fat mass)
A complicating factor is the guidelines are calibrated for people eating poorly digested non-complete proteins, must labels for protein are based on crude protein - a rough nitrogen estimate, not actual amino acid measurements. If your eating 100g of beef protein vs 100g of wheat protein you are getting very different levels of meaningful protein.
There is literature supporting this should be your ideal body weight rather then total weight for obese people (i.e. based on your non-fat mass)
A complicating factor is the guidelines are calibrated for people eating poorly digested non-complete proteins, must labels for protein are based on crude protein - a rough nitrogen estimate, not actual amino acid measurements. If your eating 100g of beef protein vs 100g of wheat protein you are getting very different levels of meaningful protein.