Question

CJ is a healthy 19-year-old college student who is sedentary, stands 1.8 m (5'11") tall and weighs 80 kg (176 pounds). How many grams of protein would you recommend he consume each day in keeping with the RDA?

Answer 1

Answer: 64grams.

Required daily allowance (RDA)of protein is that amount of protein CJ needs inorder to achieve adequate nutrition intake of protein.

The Dietary Reference Intake (DRI) is 0.8 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight, or 0.36 grams per pound. This amounts to 56 grams per day for an average sedentary man and 46 grams per day for an average sedentary woman.

Explanation: convert weight to kilograms,

( 175/2.2=79.5 )

Then multiply weight kg by recommended protein 8 per kilogram.

79.5×0.8= 64

=64grams.