Obese men feel less hungry after eating high-protein meals and eat less afterward when they eat meals with more protein, no matter if it's high-protein or just enough protein.
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In obese men, high-protein meals are associated with reduced hunger compared to high-fat, high-carbohydrate/low-protein, and adequate-protein meals, and both high-protein and adequate-protein meals are associated with lower subsequent energy intake than high-fat and high-carbohydrate meals.
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Cross-Sectional StudyHuman2012
In obese men, eating meals with more protein made them feel less hungry and led them to eat less later, compared to meals with lots of fat or carbs—even meals with just enough protein didn’t reduce hunger as much as high-protein ones.
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Obese men feel less hungry after eating high-protein meals and eat less afterward when they eat meals with more protein, no matter if it's high-protein or just enough protein.
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In obese men, eating meals with more protein made them feel less hungry and led them to eat less later, compared to meals with lots of fat or carbs—even meals with just enough protein didn’t reduce hunger as much as high-protein ones.
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