Amid the latest trends in online health advice and newly revised federal dietary guidelines, experts from the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine’s Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology are weighing in on what makes for a nutritious diet.
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Dietetics April Davis, PhD, MS, RDN, ACSM-CEP, spoke with the Inlander about how much protein you actually need.
She noted the new dietary guidelines essentially recommend double the protein, which is “a significant shift.”
“Overall the evidence does not support that significant of a shift for the average sedentary adult,” she told the newspaper.