Suddenly we’re being told we’re not eating half as much protein each day as we should. Professor Stuart Phillips, an expert in muscle growth from McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, said that the recommended level of protein intake in midlife must be at least doubled to save us from frailty and premature death.
Doubled? As a health journalist of more than 30 years’ standing, my lip curled at the news. Countless times I’ve heard medical-expert evangelists declare that we’re perilously deficient in some vitamin X or nutrient Y, only to discover that they’re quietly taking money from a supplement company or have a mad fad diet plan about to hit the shelves. Moreover, how on earth would we manage to our protein intake without spending our wholean extortionate dependency on bodybuilders’ powders?
