The Necessity of Protein in your Diet

Protein is very essential for the growth of your body and process of repair inside your body. You can get 10-15% of energy from protein, energy is required to exhilarate your body from daily tiredness. It is important for the process of repair and growth of your bones, skin, hair, eyes and muscles and also other important tissues of the body. Without protein, metabolism and digestion process of your body will not work properly as it supplies important hormones and enzymes necessary for these systems to function.

 Protein comes under second top most plentiful substance in our body, 1^st place is taken by water, so it is very important keep your body healthy and fit. Protein helps in fighting infections since it is responsible for relieving antibodies to protect immune system. Protein helps to fix the damaged tissue. The most important and huge advantage of adding more protein into your food is that it assists you in losing body fat. This is done by generating more muscle in the body and your body will burn more fat that is stored. High protein foods are also low in calories, unhealthy fats and carbs, they also make you feel full, this helps you in reducing additional calories from your diet.

 Around 50% of protein required by the body is generated by the immune system in natural way but rest of the protein has to come from the food we eat.

 The quantity of protein required by every person differs according to your weight, sex and age. On an average, an adult needs somewhere around 0.6 to 0.8 grams of protein for every kg of his or her body’s weight. For example, 42 to 56 grams of protein is required everyday by a person who weighs around 70kgs. It increases by 1 to 2 grams per every kilogram of body weight if a person is thinking of increasing his lean muscle.

 Your daily intake of protein differs depending on your sex, it differs something like this:

Average female should consume 37-50 grams of protein every day and average male should consume 48 to 63 grams per day.