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The thing about nutrition is there are a few general things that any "health focused diet" will agree on and then there are a few million things they all disagree on. And then even the things they all agree on can actually differ for people if they have certain health issues. No one size fits all.

Protein is important but most people overstate the amount needed. Itll matter whether you want just optimal health or if you are going for muscle/body building. Take average male. He isnt going to really need mote than 50-60g a day for optimal health. Now if you do strength training then you could double that for good results. But people who say 2g/lb of body weight are being ridiculous. For me 1.5g/kg of body weight produced good results. I would go up to 2/kg of body weight if I got to a higher intensity level (intermediate to advanced lifting as opposed to beginner and lower intermediate). But you really need to find a baseline and then experiment. Id suggest starting at a lower level like 1.5g/kg and adjust overtime based on what you find works for you. Start too high and youll find yourself either consuming tons of powders or obsessing about your food intake down to every gram of food which isnt substainable if you care about a health lifestyle since stress is going to negatively impact you.

I would suggest focus on what you should eat and not what you cant. That is, dont make a rule like no pizza or no sugar. Instead make goals of what you should intake. Like 600g of veggies a day or X amount of seeds/nuts. It is more positive and prevents thr "I cant have X so now I want it". You can have that cookie, but lets see how much you actually want it after you had like 6table spoons of various seeds, 600g of veggied, 2 cups of berries, etc. Its all a mental thing but it worked much better for me than when I was approaching food with the mindset that I cannot eat this or that.

Oh but ultimately anything you read, including my advice, always seek out to see if there are studies supporting it. Too many people see some "nutrition expert" on youtube spouting some dumb fad and suddenly think they know everything about nutrition.

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