Nutrition & Food Science

Eat well without the noise

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Protein leverage hypothesis

If your meal is protein light, your body keeps you hungry until you find more, often as extra carbs and fat.

Definition

The idea that the body keeps eating until a protein target is hit, so low protein diets quietly drive overeating of carbs and fat.

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