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.
Each prefix name has a symbol which is used in combination with the symbols for units of measure. For example, the symbol for kilo- is 'k', and is used to produce 'km', 'kg', and 'kW', which are the SI symbols for kilometre, kilogram, and kilowatt, respectively. Prefixes may not be used in combination.