Example (70kg x 1.2) / 0.22 = 382g of meat, fish, seafood or poultry. In reality this is only a large chicken breast (or 2 small breasts) a large fillet or salmon and a couple of eggs – not exactly a “high protein” body building diet, and easily consumable throughout the day. By the way the systematic review concluded the relation between protein intake and bone mineral density at the main clinically relevant sites were significant and positive (i.e. the more protein that was consumed – the better the bone health) but this is a whole different debate.
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Dietary truths or marketing disinformation? Red meat
A new piece of research has been published by The New England Journal of Medicine (2010, 363: 2102-2113) that supports my high protein low GL carbs approach.
Researchers, enrolled overweight adults from eight European countries who had previously lost weight on a low calorie diet and assigned them to one of five maintenance diets:
- A low-protein and low-glycemic-index diet
- A low-protein and high-glycemic-index diet
- A high-protein and low-glycemic-index diet
- A high-protein and high-glycemic-index diet
- A control diet.
Those participants on the high-protein and low-glycemic-index maintenance diet put on the least amount of weight compared to the other groups after coming off their low calorie diet.
If you want to lose weight or maintain weight you have already lost from dieting see a weight loss specialist or try this eating plan.
