Sous vide chicken and sautéed sugar snap peas. Chicken is a good source of high biologic value protein.
P.D. Mangan makes an argument for high-protein diets for those hoping to shed pounds of fat:
In humans, data collected from 38 different trials of food consumption that used widely varying intakes of protein, from 8 to 54% of energy, showed: “Percent dietary protein was negatively associated with total energy intake (F = 6.9, P < 0.0001) irrespective of whether carbohydrate (F = 0, P = 0.7) or fat (F = 0, P = 0.5) were the diluents of protein. The analysis strongly supports a role for protein leverage in lean, overweight and obese humans.”
In obese humans, substitution of carbohydrate with protein leads to far greater weight loss, nearly twice as much.
In a human trial, decreasing the percentage of protein in food from 15% to 10% led to increased calorie intake of 12%. However, increasing the protein percentage from 15 to 25% did not affect calorie intake, which shows that humans may target a certain amount of protein, and eat no more or less when they get it.
There’s more at the link.
Source: Higher Protein for Greater Weight Loss – Rogue Health and Fitness
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