Even though alcohol, protein, carbs, and fat affect your metabolism differently, eating any of them in similar amounts doesn’t make you feel hungrier or fuller, or change how much you eat next.

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Meals with similar energy densities but rich in protein, fat, carbohydrate, or alcohol have different effects on energy expenditure and substrate metabolism but not on appetite and energy intake

Cross-Sectional Study

Human

2003 Jan

Even though different meals (alcohol, protein, carbs, fat) made bodies burn energy and hormones behave differently, people still felt just as hungry or full and ate about the same amount afterward — so the claim is right.

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Meals with similar energy densities but rich in protein, fat, carbohydrate, or alcohol have different effects on energy expenditure and substrate metabolism but not on appetite and energy intake

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DOI: 10.1093/AJCN/77.1.91

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