Lose weight With higher Protein Intake

December 23rd, 2010 posted by admin
Lose weight With higher Protein Intake

Protein is a necessary building block for blood, muscle, hair, skin and nails. It is very essential for repairing muscles, building natural immunity, and for steady and proper growth. It is believed that a protein rich diet would boost weight loss because of its metabolic impact.

Protein contains the highest thermic effect ranging between 20 to 30%. Hence, the energy consumed during digestion / absorption of the protein comes around 20 to 30% above the energy content of food. It takes more energy to digest and absorb protein than the calories it holds. That’s how a rich protein diet causes fat loss.

A high intake of protein helps to boost the metabolism and burn more fat apart from assisting in building and preserving lean muscle tissue. The American Journal of Physiology recently published a study related to high protein diet. In the study, one group of people were fed with a diet rich in protein and the second one were fed with protein diet that almost equals RDA. It was found that people who consumed more protein were able to burn more fat than the other group.

Further, when you add more protein, your metabolism rate increases considerably. Our body needs more calories to digest protein than to process carbohydrates. When you take more protein, more fat can be burnt apart from increasing the metabolic rate.

A general protein intake calculation has been given below:

0.36g (Standard protein recommendation) X your weight in lbs = gms of protein each day

0.68g (High protein recommendation) X your weight in lbs = gms of protein each day

Now keep in mind that you will have to be consistent with this diet to lose weight. You also have to eat the right foods. So do your research just like you would when buying jewellery online

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