Let Your Metabolism Do the Calorie Burning

Geezer knows how this sounds, but new research suggests that you really can burn calories while you sleep. And while you’re awake. And while you’re neither asleep nor awake, but at work. The Washington Post’s food and health writer, Sally Squires, reports on a Dutch study that suggests that eating a lot of high protein food, such as lean meat, cranks up our metabolism, which turns up the heat on calorie burning. Wait, there’s more: Squire reports that when the study’s participants, who were all women of healthy
weight, ate more protein, they said they felt fuller, more satisfied
and less hungry than when they consumed a diet with the typical amount
of protein, about 10 percent of calories. The study’s lead author, Margriet Westerterp-Plantenga, of the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands, recommends that those who go the high protein route try to keep protein calories at 25 percent of total intake. To do that, says Squires, and if we have 1,500 calorie daily diet, we should aim for 94 grams of protein. Translation: a salmon
fillet, three cups of skim milk and a skinless chicken breast. Read more at the Washington Post.