The protein food group consists of meat, seafood, and poultry, eggs, beans and peas, soy products, seeds, and nuts. All pretty good for you, but if you are not eating some or all of these, how do you naturally gain protein from food? Two tablespoons of powdered nutritional yeast will give you nine grams of protein. This is equal to around one ounce of beef, or a cup of whole milk. Protein is fuel for the body, and we need a lot as we burn so much of it through energy and using our muscles.

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