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I eat healthly for the most part lots of vegetables, fruits, and lean meat. I was wondering if I should be eat more protien? I prefer veggies and Fruits but I want to make my diet more effiecient. I was just wondering if anyone knows whether I should be eating more protein cause I usually eat more veggies than meat. Any suggestions.

A good way to think of it is to, at each meal, fill half your plate with vegetables, 1/4 with complex carbohydrates and 1/4 with lean proteins.   Protein can be animal-based... meat, fish, dairy products, eggs... or vegetable.... beans, lentils, chickpeas, tofu, quorn, nuts, seeds.   It's important to get a good balance and plenty of variety....  aim for about 15-25% of your daily calories from protein sources and 50-65% from carbohydrates such as fruit, vegetables and grains.

i read somewhere that if you take your body-weight and divide it by two, that's the number of protein grams you should aim to intake a day.  i'm not 100% sure on that though.

vegetables and fruit are important, but they aren't more or less important than protein. protein helps to build and repair muscle tissue, keeps you fuller longer, and with a lack of protein in your diet, you could experience anemia, hair-loss, constant fatique, etc.

go here 

http://www.healthcalculators.org/calculators/ protein.asp

it's a calculator that'll tell you based on your age, weight, height, etc. how much fat, protein, and carbs you should have in a day. i weigh 142 and this calculator recommends me to have 70g of protein. i'm not sure if that's a coincidence that my recommended protein intake is my weight divided by 2...but i would just go to that website and find out