List Of High Protein Foods: Your Ultimate Weight Loss GuideHealth experts, dieticians and nutritionists alike have their own list of foods high in protein for various reasons. While some list contains protein-rich foods for those who want to stay healthy, other provide their list to help people loss weight, avoid disease and so on and so forth. This article focuses on the list of sources of good quality protein designed for a regular serving. Foremost, when you eat food high in protein, you tend to eat a little less and your body utilizes the energy to transform protein to carbohydrates. This is what we call gluconeogenesis. Yes, protein can indirectly be changed to fat and accumulated like carbohydrates. This nitrogen-containing protein is a chemical necessary in producing antibodies. A study published in the International Journal of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders revealed that a high-protein diet can "sustain weight maintenance after body weight loss in human." It is likewise recommended to give pregnant women and growing kids 10 grams more of protein than women who are not. Thus, a pregnant woman should have at least 60 grams of protein in her diet per day. The United States Food and Drug Administration provided the following list of high protein foods to guide people in planning a balanced diet. 1. Chicken, duck, turkey - meat only, which is either cooked, stewed, roasted, simmered 2. Fish halibut, salmon, haddock, rockfish, tuna - cooked, dry heat 3. Fast foods like hamburger, hotdog, cheeseburgers, taco, submarine sandwich with tuna salad or roast beef 4. Cottage cheese, ricotta 5. Lamb, veal (lean only) 6. Soybeans, cooked without salt 7. Pork, lean only 8. Beef, separable lean only 9. Crustaceans, cooked 10. Mollusks, scallops cooked 11. Wheat flour 12. Peas 13. Oat bran, raw 14. Beans 15. Cowpeas 16. Spaghetti 17. Beef macaroni 18. Rice, raw enriched 19. Potatoes 20. Milk shakes 21. Yoghurt 22. Corn meal 23. Chickpeas 24. Pie-crust Just how much protein does our body need? A person's protein needs depend on his age, size and daily activity. Nutritionists estimate our daily protein requirement by multiplying the body weight in kilograms by .8 or .37 his weight in pounds. Meanwhile, Laura Dolson, a clinical psychologist has also made a list of protein-rich foods for information, here's her list: Beef - Hamburger patty, Steak, Most cuts of beef Chicken - Breast, thigh, Drumstick, wing, Chicken meat Pork - pork chop, pork loin, Ham, ground pork, bacon Eggs and Dairy - eggs, milk, cheese (soft, hard, medium) Beans - most beans, tufu, soybeans, soy milk, split peas Nuts and Seeds - peanuts, almonds, cashew, sunflower, pumpkin and flax seeds |