Is High-Protein Fasting Better Than the Heart-Healthy Diet?
If weight loss is your goal, it can be discouraging when it feels like you’re doing everything right but not making much progress. New research suggests that even among healthy eating plans, some may be better for weight loss than others. Here’s the scoop.
High-protein or heart-healthy? There are many approaches to weight loss. Two eating plans—heart-healthy and high-proteinintermittent fasting—both yield results, according to a study recently published in the Obesity Journal. But the small study found that high-protein diets, in conjunction with intermittent fasting, resulted in more weight loss than heart-healthy eating plans.
Here’s the gist: The study’s 39 participants all consumed and burned a similar amount of calories overall over the course of the trial. All participants were overweight or obese and lived sedentary to lightly active lifestyles.
Excerpted from mind body green
