Moderate amounts of protein per meal found best for building muscle

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - 07:21 in Health & Medicine

For thousands of years, people have believed that eating large amounts of protein made it easier to build bigger, stronger muscles. Take Milo of Croton, the winner of five consecutive Olympic wrestling championships in the sixth century BC: If ancient writers are to be believed, he built his crushing strength in part by consuming 20 pounds of meat every day...

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