The 10 grams of protein that most of us get from cereal and milk at breakfast, he added, is not enough to get the bodyâs muscle-building machinery working at full throttle. For that, we would need to eat about 25 to 30 grams of protein, the amount in a three-egg cheese omelet.
For example, the prefix kilo means times a thousand or one thousand of the units in question. So  kilometre means one thousand metres and kilogrammeans one thousand grams.
The prefix kilo is derived from the Greek word ÏÎ¯Î»Î¹Î¿Î¹ (chilioi), meaning thousand.It was originally adopted by Antoine Lavoisier 's research group in 1795, and introduced into the metric system in France with its establishment in 1799.t uses kilo as meaning 2 10 = 1024, because of the mathematical coincidence that 2 10 is approximately 10 3. The reason for this application is that binary values natively used in computing are base 2 and not the base 10 which is used for the SI prefixes.