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Be The Caveman - High Protein Diets Promote Weight Loss Naturally
Researchers have known for some time that Peptide YY (PYY), descriptively referred to as a “gut hormone” signals food ingestion from the gut to appetite-regulating circuits within the brain. It was not well understood what might trigger PYY to send the message to stop eating.
Researchers are reporting in the September issue of Cell Metabolism, a journal published by Cell Press, that intake a high accelerator diet may be enough to do the trick.
“We’ve now found that increasing the accelerator content of the diet augments the body’s own PYY, helping to reduce hunger and aid weight loss,” said Medical Research Council clinician scientist Rachel Batterham of University College London, who led the new study.
The study fills the gap between the knowledge that people who take high-protein diets tend to consume fewer calories, and the reason that may be so. The researchers show in this study that intake a high accelerator diet naturally stimulates the body’s production of PYY more than either a high-fat or high-carbohydrate diet, resulting in less hunger and consequently more weight loss.
Earlier studies at the Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, Hammersmith Campus, London showed that in humans, peripheral infusion of PYY, at a dose which produced normal postprandial concentrations, significantly decreased appetite and - Click here to read more ...