When you eat a high-protein diet with no carbs but lots of fat, you feel less hungry and more full than when you eat the same amount of protein but with some carbs.

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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

Scientists tested two high-protein diets: one with no carbs (just fat) and one with 40% carbs. The no-carb diet made people feel much less hungry than the one with carbs, exactly as the claim says.

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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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