Hi, Kathrynne Holden, MS, RD calculated: > ... a 150 pound person.[needs] 55 gm protein per day ... For those of us who for whom absorption of sinemet in the gut is delayed by dietary fat and entry of levodopa to the brain is limited by dietary protein, and who have gotten out of the practice of old-fashioned manual arithmetic, there is an on-line calculator of dietary protein requirements at http://phys.com/d_magazines/01self/affirm/protein.htm and a list of the protein and fat contents of 1000 different foods at http://www.ntwrks.com/~mikev/ Phil Tompkins Hoboken NJ age 61/dx 1990