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While you could also say the bigger story is that women who ate "higher protein" , about 23% protein or almost 100 grams, ate less, weighed less, and aged healthier based on 11 tests, both physical and cognitive. Versus the women who ate less protein, about 13% or only 58 grams. The baseline diet and health status was 1984 vs 2014/16. Only 7.6% of nurses (who are educated, know health care, etc) were considered healthy 30 years later!
But the numbers pulled out of this huge WHI database appear to support the concept that Protein Leverage works well for older women. (they were age 50-79 in 1984)

Am I reading this correctly? The nurses were between 50 and 79 in 1984 when they started this? They would have been between 80 and 109-111 at the end of the study in 2014/16.

Please tell me that's a typo... (which is fine. I make typos all the time, and don't notice them until sometimes weeks or months later when the thread comes up again).

I'm just trying to figure out how many of the nurses would have even still been alive in 2014/16 if they were already at least 50 in '84, especially if they were trying to show a correlation between protein consumption and post-menopausal health.

Also, if it's not a typo, how much of the results had to do with the oldest nurses being so old that they were in nursing homes by then - since nursing homes are notorious for serving very low protein/high carb diets.

Also this:

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Also 12-13% protein is the current US consumption that has likely contributed to the obesity seen now.

Definitely contributed to the obesity problem.

I don't doubt that there's a lot of people getting even less protein than 12-13%, especially if you average in those of us doing LC and body builders who consume at least the recommended 50%, perhaps more. It's being replaced by fats (seed oils) along with more and more starchy carbs in the typical food consumption pattern of so many people.