The Great Protein Debate Heats Up

As popular diets push heavy protein intake, experts weigh the long-term health implications

Markham Heid
Heated
Published in
6 min readJan 6, 2020

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It’s tough to know precisely what Americans are eating from year to year. Collecting accurate diet data is notoriously tricky; people tend to under- or overestimate the amount of a specific food or nutrient they consume, and national nutrition figures…

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Markham Heid
Heated

I’m a long-time contributor at TIME and other media orgs. I write mostly about health. I grew up in Michigan, but these days I live in southwest Germany.