Question

Are protein replacements, ex. shakes, bars, and powders a drawn-out trend? Or are they actually beneficial for your fitness health?

Answer 1

For an ordinary individual who takes a balanced diet, who is not a professional athlete, body builder, amateur sportsmen, or an individual recovering from surgery or is frail due to old age, there's actually no need of protein supplement in any form. The balanced diet they take have appropriate amounts of proteins needed for the wear and tear of the cells of their body, for the growth of the body and for having better health. Even if they exercise regularly they get the necessary amount of proteins from their balanced food. Thus, they are topping up their protein intakes due to the hyped marketing strategies and growing trend for these supplements for the sake of fitness health, which is not very essential and are not very beneficial as claimed. All they have is the convenience of ready to consumed.