This one’s for those of you who are using high protein diets as a weight reduction program.
Scientists have discovered the scientific evidence of such diets. Based on their studies involving normal-weight and obese people as well as knockout mice, incorporating high amounts of protein in your diet staves off hunger by triggering the production of a hunger-fighting hormone called peptide YY (PYY).
Pyy null mice (photo, right), genetically modified such that it is unable to produce the PYY hormone, showed to be selectively resistant to the satiating and weight-reducing effects of protein.
The findings show that PYY deficiency can cause obesity and …read more