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Just eating more protein doesn’t make you less hungry — but if you take out carbs and add fat instead, you feel much less hungry.

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Presence or absence of carbohydrates and the proportion of fat in a high-protein diet affect appetite suppression but not energy expenditure in normal-weight human subjects fed in energy balance

Randomized Controlled Trial
Human
2010 Nov

The study found that when people ate a high-protein diet with no carbs and lots of fat, they felt less hungry than when they ate a high-protein diet with carbs—even though both had the same amount of protein. So, swapping carbs for fat made the diet even better at curbing hunger.

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Presence or absence of carbohydrates and the proportion of fat in a high-protein diet affect appetite suppression but not energy expenditure in normal-weight human subjects fed in energy balance

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DOI: 10.1017/S0007114510002060

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