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by hyperpape 4449 days ago
I think the point is that protein concentration is staying almost constant but people are achieving it by eating more over all.
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s/concentration/consumption/

Protein consumption is staying constant, because concentration has dropped, and people eat more total food to bring total protein back up. Acc to the article.

Which is a win/win for industrial food. The article says industry is incented to replace protein with cheaper fat and sugar. So a volume of food sold costs less to produce. And then people turn around and eat/buy even more, to make up for the lower protein concentration.

I sometimes feel played.

You could interpret the comment as protein concentration in humans stays constant.
Yeah, silly typo.