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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Effects of fat, protein, and carbohydrate and protein load on appetite, plasma cholecystokinin, peptide YY, and ghrelin, and energy intake in lean and obese men.

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Human

2012 Jul

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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Effects of fat, protein, and carbohydrate and protein load on appetite, plasma cholecystokinin, peptide YY, and ghrelin, and energy intake in lean and obese men.

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DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00478.2011

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