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- means 1000, so there are 1000 meters in 1 kilometer. We generally measure larger distances in kilometers. If you were measuring the length of something small, such as a the length of a person's foot, how thick a cellular phone is, etc., you would use a smaller unit. There are many to choose from, but the two that are used most often are the centimeter and the millimeter. Centi- means 1/100, so there are 100 centimeters in 1 meter.