I’m a 6’2″ 235lb, low/moderate activity adult male.
According to the government I’m supposed to eat 3303kcal per day.
That amounts to at least 11 cups of solids and 16 cups of water.
Including 85 grams of protein. Which is extra hard to do because even “texture vegetable protein” is at best only half protein. And good luck getting it at a price that isn’t hipster vegan Starbucks insanity.
I don’t think I’ve met this requirement more than 5-10 times my entire adult life. And I can’t be alone.
My mind is blown. No wonder I’m disabled. I’m apparently starving to death? No wonder men die sooner, the ones taller than 5’8″ are all likely starving too. That square cube law is an absolute predator.
Even if I could afford to eat like this, I couldn’t stand executing it. It would have to be tasteless for starters or I’m exploding my salt/sugar intake. My teeth would implode, I’d have a gal bladder attack every day, and I’d go mad from chewing 60% of my waking day and grocery shopping and cleaning up the other 40%.
So, as of 2019-08-07 this is more or less what I do/will eat a day more or less:
Look at the gap between what I’m supposed to eat and what I actually eat. And I haven’t even started on the TVP yet, I just ordered it this morning. My main priority now is hitting my protein target per day. I’ll also dig down into the vitamins after I hit my other personal targets.
Obviously you can’t trust gov’t guidelines and recommendations in a for-profit system. Their motivations aren’t for us to be healthy but for us generate the most capital. “Eat food, mostly vegetables, not too much”
Yeah good advice and point. The overall calorie count certainly seems high, but maybe not the protein numbers. We’ll see how my upcoming meal plan makes me feel and go from there. It’s interesting that you imply a trust issue, when that could go in the other direction too, like society is cool with men starving to death and dying early. Kinda where I was leaning. It didn’t even occur to me that the numbers given were corrupt XD But yeah, that may well be the case. Big Farm/Pharm has clear motivation to fudge recommendations upward.