High Protein Meals Help Overweight Burn Fat

New study shows that high-protein meals may help obese people burn more fat.

According to a recent Australian study, obese men and women burned more post-meal fat when they ate a high-protein breakfast and lunch than when they had lower-protein meals. According to Dr. Marijka Batterham of the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, "Our research suggests that people with higher body fat burn fat better after a high-protein meal than people with lower levels of body fat,". This may be because protein is better in suppressing appetite than fat or carbohydrates.

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Having "Good" Fat is Better

More and more children and adults are gaining more weight that in turn leads to obesity. But recent study shows that having "good" fat inside our bodies may be a new key to fight against obesity.

Fats are classified into 2 kinds. White Fat and Brown Fat. Researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston said they used a single molecular switch to turn immature muscle cells into brown fat cells in the lab, suggesting that brown fat may be more akin to muscle cells than conventional white fat cells.Meanwhile another team found a protein that stimulates the growth of brown fat tissue.

According to Julie Steenhuysen from Reuters "A person who is obese has large stores of white fat, and researchers think if they can coax the body into making more calorie-burning brown fat, this might help people obese people lose weight."

More and more researchers are looking into this topic with the aim to find a way to prevent obesity.

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