New Delhi, May 3 -- Despite the dominance of protein-enhanced products in supermarkets and fitness culture, researchers and nutrition experts caution that many adults still fail to consistently meet levels associated with optimal physiological maintenance. The issue is not acute deficiency, but long-term underconsumption that accumulates quietly across years.

This concern is gaining renewed attention as evidence suggests that dietary habits in many urban populations are increasingly skewed toward convenience foods, irregular meal composition, and protein distribution that is uneven across the day. The result is a subtle erosion of metabolic stability rather than immediate clinical symptoms.

The silent progression of protein imbalance

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