Special Needs for Training at MiddleAge? No idea...

[Zen]

So the conclusion they drew was that post-menopausal women need to eat more protein than pre-menopausal women, or men of any age.

Just to clarify, that would be for cellular repair and maintenance. Both men and women start to lose muscle mass after about age 30 no matter what your lifting routine.

Vegetables are your friends for weight loss and nutrients. Meat should be treated as a side dish. Unless you do some savvy complementary protein planning you do need some meat for B12 and iron.

In the words of Michael Pollan:

"Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much."

Check out his books.

Eat food = eat real food, as real as possible, as unprocessed as possible.

Yup.