Exactly, an average person's diet barely ever meets the RDA
I have seen how people eat, maybe tbombz has forgotten how normal people eat?
1 gram per Kg about 0.5 gram per pound is enough
I'm not going out of my way to consume 500 grams of protein everyday
for those who are "living the dream" so be it 
tbombz, you're not Ronnie Coleman.
and the study that you showed me is from very low calorie diets, and the effect of protein
you know the less than 800 calorie diets
it doesn't prove anything, I said excess protein doesn't help, the amount that you get on a VLCD is enough, not excessive.
Who exactly is insisting that you eat 500 grams of protein per day?
I don't recall seeing Tbombz saying anything to that effect (unless, I missed a post of his).
The bottom line is that "enough" is not a magic number. It's the amount of protein it takes for YOUR body to repair your muscles from training and get them to grow.
If that amount is 215, so be it; if it's 315, so be it.
darksol, I appreciate the theory, but what about sucessful people with demanding careers? Should they interrupt board meetingd to ge their 40.9230497823g of protein every 2.3434hrs?
I see many guys at 250+ who eat 4 times a day. Lean and pushing amazing poundages.
What I'm saying is that you're overthinking the whole thing.
You forget that plenty of trainers who post here have regular jobs. You don't need to interrupt board meetings to consume protein (that's why RTDs and protein shakes exist). How hard is it to grab a bottle of Isopure or mix a shaker of Myoplex BEFORE A MEETING, and consume it while your co-workers are downing coffee and soda in their respective mugs?
