I can sympathize I have a very similar story, but its too boring to actually go into detail about, basically an old nutrition lecturer of mine would on many occassions poke fun at all those silly bodybuilder who ate too much protein and risk damaging their kindneys blah blah blah…
O.K mention to her that the point of the exercise was not to grade you as a person on your dietary habits but on the recommendations or whatever it was etc.
Then state that the these concerns regarding your high protein consumption are unwarranted due to the fact that any excess protein would be borken down, the nitrogen excreted as urea and the remaining keto-acids are either used as an energy source or converted to carbs (gluconeogenesis) or bodyfat. intakes beyond 2g/lb are not recommended for people with impaired renal function or those who voluntarily dehydrate. Also state that during phases where caloric intake does not meet expenditure that there are many studies highlighting the neccessity of a higher protein intake.
You may also want to mention that increasing muscle mass may occur for the most part via increased protein synthesis neccessitating a higher protein intake.
For the most part dietary recommendations are just that, recommendations and all prescriptions should be based on the individual.
Look up any work done via
Lemon, P.W.R (in INternational journal of sport nutrition), volek, J.s (in strength and conditioning) and maybe walberg, med sci in sport and ex.
THis ones real simple. How decent a judge of character are you?
Assuming you are a decent judge and can tell whether or not the professor is the type of person who would welcome evidence that your protein intake is not excessive or harmful ect. ect. and my in fact be beneficial. AND it’s actually worth the effort to show him, then I’d persue it. If you think he’s a smug jerk-off just looking to bait you and break your balls, then just smile fix it and laugh at the fact that most likely he’ll never know what it’s like to bench double his bodyweight, have multiple girls ask to touch is abs, or just turn a few head in general simply because he’s wearing a t-shirt and some nice fitting jeans.
Yeah he’s a goofy little fuck. Still you need to pick your battles wisely. Btw, I hope you have alot of rubbers on hand because I hear that Rutgers is well known for numerous std’s, and I know last time I visted sluts.
[quote]WideGuy wrote:
Btw, I hope you have alot of rubbers on hand because I hear that Rutgers is well known for numerous std’s, and I know last time I visted sluts. [/quote]
haha,slutgers. I’m watching my ass, don’t worry.
I’m not too worried about backing up my point about increased protein intake. I’m pretty sure that if I show concern about my paper and explain some areas where I got points off I can grab back a few points.
Most of the time these professors are pretty nice about helping you out if you show some concern about your grade.
It just pisses you off when you hear so much positive evidence about increased protein diets and your professor bashes you for believing it.
Sometimes I believe nutrition professors take pride in bashing people with increased protein diets. Not all of them, but my God, my professor is a twig. I don’t see how she could truly give accurate advice about nutrition for strength and power athletes without ever experiencing it for herself, but thats just a feeling I get sometimes. I know she is a PhD and deserves respect.
[quote]jtrinsey wrote:
Dude, where did you go to college?
The_Grim_Reaper wrote:
Christomopher wrote:
The_Grim_Reaper wrote:
That is a load of crap.Thats YOUR PERSONAL CHOICE.He’s can’t force HIS opinion down YOUR throat.Don’t be a pussy man.Fight back! For us!
Yes he can actually, being that the professor decides the grades. But from sounds of it they are being reasonable and giving the OP a chance to discuss the issue.
No,a professor grades tests based on facts,not THEIR personal opinions.It’s like saying a teacher thinks 5 and 5 = 6 when it doesn’t.No matter what,since she’s the teacher,she’ll grade the test based on her opinion,even though it’s a fact that 5 and 5= 10,not six.So if I put 10,although it’s right,she’ll give me a bad grade just because it was her opinion.
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If the teachers at your school are grading tests based on their opinions and not facts then they shouldn’t even be teaching,in my opinion. Teach from the book and facts;not your point of view.
This is pretty funny. I go to Springfield College in MA and had a nutrition teacher get on me everyday about protein shakes, creatine, powerbars…basically anything. We went to battle more than once during class. She stated over and over again how products like these didn’t work, and I argued the fact that they actually did. The funny part was she had no personal experience with any of them. Apparently she thought we should all just have a balanced diet with no supps. Well some of us actually take weight training seriously, not make fun of it like this lady. Next powerlifting competition Im at Im willing to bet the guys agree with me and not her.
I had my meeting today. I whooped the shit out of my professor, put her in a headlock and then body slammed her through a table.
Seriously though we went through the paper and I got the real reasons why she took points off. I ended up with a 92.5 on the assignment, which is great.
I actually got her to take a look at John Berardi’s website.
Believe it or not, there is a lot more literature out there that body builders and power/strength athletes do not need more than about 2g protein per kg of bodyweight than studies that say that more protein could be better. Doesn’t mean I’m changing my dietary habits.
She is just following what the current literature says, but she has nothing against consuming extra protein.
[quote]AlbertaBeef wrote:
Hmm… I went to the University of Alberta and my Exercise Physiology textbook stated that high-level sprinters and olympic lifters had optimal performance gains at 2.0g/kg bodyweight, which roughly equates to about 1 gram per pound of bodyweight. :)[/quote]
Yeah, but that’s canadian beef. I mean, across the border doesn’t that equate to like .8g/lb?
