Posted on 09/05/2023 2:17:37 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
Humans, like many other species, regulate protein intake more strongly than any other dietary component and so if protein is diluted there is a compensatory increase in food intake. The hypothesis proposes that the dilution of protein in modern-day diets by fat and carbohydrate-rich processed foods is driving increased energy intake as the body seeks to satisfy its natural protein drive—eating unnecessary calories until it does so.
This paper shows that observational, experimental and mechanistic research increasingly supports protein leverage as a significant mechanism driving obesity.
The authors outline published studies that span mechanisms of protein appetite to show how the protein leverage effect interacts with industrially processed food environments and with changes in protein requirements across the life-course to increase the risk of obesity. These include, for example, changing requirements for protein at certain life stages (such as the transition to menopause), as well as a combined impact with changes in activity levels or energy expenditure (e.g., retiring athletes or young people moving towards more sedentary lifestyles).
Because data indicate that children and adolescents also show protein leverage, the authors discuss the potential impact of exposure to a high-protein diet in preconception or early life (for example through some infant formula feeds) in potentially setting up increased protein requirements and greater susceptibility to lower protein, processed diets in later years.
With WHO declaring obesity as the largest health threat facing humanity, the authors argue that there needs to be a focus on integrative approaches that examine how various contributors interact in obesity, rather than looking at them as competing explanations.
The authors conclude, "It is only through situating specific nutrients and biological factors within their broader context that we can hope to identify sustainable intervention points for slowing and reversing the incidence of obesity and associated complications."
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Your body is probably calling for more protein, but you are eating donuts, instead. Consequently, your body will ask for a lot more donuts to get the protein it needs.
Why read this? Stop stuffing down fast food, soda and processed crap.
Refined sugar is poison.
Stop putting it in your body.
Problem solved.
Nonsense.
Is this article a predictive programming propaganda ploy for us to accept less protein...”because that what’s best for us” and also prepare us for the alternative... ze bugz?
I drink a protein shake in the morning and eat protein bars when flying. I’ve maintained my height/weight ration with a good BMI.
Eat food (i.e. real food, not factory processed crap), mostly plants (some animal products but keep it minimal), and not too much (because even vegans can get fat through bread, pasta, excess calories).
And MOVE. Do something, even walking. As we age we naturally lose muscle mass making us weaker. Find some form of exercise and do it.
Your body is only calling out for Protein due to the fact that it understands Protein usually goes hand in hand with Fat.
Fat is where it’s at.
You’re fulfilling my lowest expectations. I knew your comment was quack nutrition and it follows that you are a low IQ moron to buy into it.
No, no, no, no & no. Appalling.
smh
and some people consume way too much protein, not enough other nutrients and screw up their body anyway.
Exercise is very important. It keeps your cardiovascular system in condition. The ability to move around to increase the burning of fat is limited by those who are experiencing inflamed joints. Joint damage from streignous work demands before retirement limit the ability to exercise. Painful inflammation creates a sedentary relief. The real culprit is the inflammation which creates more damage.
There are ways to control inflammation:
O Supplements: Certain vitamins (vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin D) and supplements (zinc) may reduce inflammation and enhance repair. For example, your healthcare provider may prescribe a fish oil supplement or vitamin(s). Or you may use spices with anti-inflammatory properties, such as turmeric, ginger or garlic.
O Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs): These over-the-counter medicines lower inflammation. Your healthcare provider may recommend ibuprofen (Advil®), aspirin (Bayer®) or naproxen (Aleve®). These drugs can be for some people hard on the liver or the kidneys. A doctor’s consultation is needed.
O Steroid injections: Corticosteroid shots decrease inflammation at a specific joint or muscle. For example, if you have rheumatoid arthritis that affects your back, your healthcare provider may give a steroid shot in your spine. You should not have more than three to four steroid injections in the same body part per year.
I’ve gone down that path starting about a month ago and lost 24 pounds.
The happy pills that I was taking caused me to be heaviest I have been. The pills helped stop the reruns of my hospital time when I was laid up for a few weeks.
My medical person tried another medication and that stopped a lot of cravings for sugar.
Energy is steady too.
Neighbor worked for a large engineering firm that was awarded the contract to add more bench seats at a major university football stadium. I don’t recall the exact measurements but I recall him saying that the bench seats built in the 1930’s allocated XX number of inches per person but with today’s obesity, they were adding XX more inches to accommodate for the extra size.
“Stop stuffing down fast food, soda and processed crap.”
It goes way beyond that. Bread, potatoes, corn, bananas - all good at making one fat. Most people try for 15-20% protein, but if you then eat 50% carbs and 35% fat...it is easy to gain fat.
I’m not buying the eat some protein and what else you eat doesn’t matter argument. I’ve always eaten plenty of protein, but trying to eat “Low Fat” for decades led to yo-yo diets and an upward trend.
Cutting carbs (without adding protein) turned it around. I’m the leanest now at 65 that I’ve been since a baby - and kept it off for 5+ years.
And I never stuffed myself with “fast food, soda and processed crap”. Oh - and I ran 5 miles a day for most of my adult life.
“mostly plants”
Why? Writing as a near carnivore who is the leanest I’ve ever been and in many ways in better shape in my 60s than I was in my 30s.
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