Increase Your Metabolism And Decrease Your Appetite With This Fat-Burning Food Group

Increase Your Metabolism

December 20th, 2007 by Tom Venuto

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Increase Your Metabolism And Decrease Your Appetite With This Fat-Burning Food Group
By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS
www.burnthefat.com

There have been countless studies performed on the role of protein in the muscle growth process to try and determine exactly how much protein you should consume to build muscle mass. Recently, several studies have looked at the role that dietary protein plays in helping you lose fat, and more importantly, helping you keep it off!

One thing scientists have discovered is that eating lean protein foods is important for regulating body composition because it decreases your appetite.

In a 2003 study reported in the journal, Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition And Metabolic Care (2003; 6(6): 635-638), protein was shown to be more satiating (made you feel fuller) than both carbohydrate and fat both in the short term and the long term.

Eating more lean protein foods has also been proven as an effective strategy to help you burn fat and keep it off because of something called, “dietary thermogenesis” (also known as the thermic effect of food).

In a study published in the British Journal of Nutrition in 2005 (93(2): 281-289), researchers followed a group of 113 overweight subjects after 4 weeks of a very low calorie diet, through a 6 month period of weight maintenance. The subjects were divided into a protein group or a control group. The protein group was simply given an extra 30 grams of protein per day on top of their usual diet.

The researchers found that during weight maintenance, the group with the higher protein intake was less likely to regain the lost weight, and any weight gain in the protein group was lean tissue and not fat. The results were attributed to higher thermic effect and a decrease in appetite.

Although calories will always be the bottom line when it comes to fat loss, studies such as these are confirming what bodybuilders have known for a long time: That calories are not the only factor that can influence your body composition. Your protein intake and your ratios of protein relative to carbohydrate and fat can clearly play a key role in helping you lose fat and keep the fat off.

None of this is news to bodybuilders or to anyone who is already familiar with bodybuilding-style nutrition programs such as Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle. But it’s interesting that such positive results were achieved in studies where protein was increased so conservatively - as little as 30 additional grams of protein per day or a 20% increase above traditional protein recommendations.

Many bodybuilding-style diets (such as Burn The Fat and Body For Life) call for as much as 30%-40% of the total daily calories from protein and some competitive bodybuilders crank up the protein (temporarily) to as much as 50% before competitions.

I’m curious to see if any research is ever conducted with these more aggressive protein intakes. If so, my guess is that we will find once again, that the bodybuilders are ahead of the science when it comes to the manipulation of diet for improving body composition.

The take home lesson is simple: If you remove some carbs and put in some protein - nothing too radical; even as little as trading 30 grams per day of carbs for 30 grams of lean protein - this small change in your diet may decrease your appetite, decrease your body fat and help you keep the fat off after you lose it.

About the Author:

Tom Venuto is a natural bodybuilder and author of the #1 best selling e-book, “Burn the Fat, Feed The Muscle,” which teaches you how to burn fat without drugs or supplements using the little-known secrets of the world’s best bodybuilders and fitness models. Learn how to get rid of stubborn fat and turbo-charge your metabolism by visiting: www.burnthefat.com. To get Tom’s free fitness newsletter, visit: www.tomvenuto.com

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Weight Loss By The Numbers.
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Fit Over 40.
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Muscle Building And Fat Loss Program.
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A Physician's Weight-Loss Secret.
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Christian Weight Loss.
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The Low Gi Diet Breakthrough.
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Practical Weight Loss.
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Vegetarian Diet Info.
Diet and Weight Loss Advice for Vegetarians.

The Ultimate Fat Burning Diet Primer.
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Eating In Freedom! Overcome Overeating!
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Fastest Way To Permanent Weight Loss.
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Weight Loss God's Way.
7-week weight loss program based both in scripture and clinical research.

The Fitness Site - Fat To Fit.
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Lose Weight - 6 Week Body Makeover.
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The Grape Cure.
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The One Low-Carb Diet That Always Works.
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Negative Calorie Weight Loss Solution.
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1001 Beauty Tips, Secrets And Techniques.
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No-Effort Weight Loss Through Hypnosis.

Yoga Weight Loss Secrets.
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HypnoSoft *Custom* Self Hypnosis Mp3.
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Weight Lifting For Absolute Beginners.
Weight lifting exercise program for the absolute beginner.

Ketosis Plan - 30 Days To Weight Loss.
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Gain Weight Now.
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Diet With An Attitude.
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Get Thin For Life.
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Fast, Healthy Weight Loss.
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My Low Carb Success.
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Scientific Weight Loss.
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Healthy Australian Weight Loss Diet.

The Guaranteed Weight Loss Diet.
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Weight Lifting Routine.
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Wow! Program For Weightloss.
Unique Christian-oriented weight loss program.

Lose Weight Without Dieting.
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Losing Weight For Life.
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Ten Steps To Losing Weight.
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Fat Loss Tools.
Meal Calorie Planner, Goal Weight & Progrss Chart, Bmr, Fat Burning Zone, Excercise Log Worksheets.

Bare Minimum Training, Llc.
1 Weight Training Program & Total Fitness System - Fast Results!

Energize Your Life Using The Shock Diet.
Learn How to Lose Weight With Energy Generating Foods. 20 years proven Results.

Cease Your Struggle With Weight & Diets.
Reveals the truth about diets & why they don't work and how to be naturally healthy for life!

How To Run A Marathon Within Six Months.
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The All You Can Eat Love Diet.
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401 Diet, Health, And Wellness Tips.
Lose Weight and Look Great With My Step-By-Step Guide to Your Perfect Body.

New Weight Loss Solution.
Lose weights with no eating less, exercises or medicines.

The Ultimate Weight Loss & Fitness Bible.
Weight Loss Made Easy: Weight Loss, Diet & Fitness Secrets Of The Worlds Elite Fitness Pro's, Figure Models & Dieticians.

Quick And Easy Weight Loss Secrets.
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Life Changing Secretes.
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Living In Harmony.
Lose Weight, Fat Loss.

Glycemic Superfoods.
Change from a 'dieting tryer' to a 'weight loss achiever' . This is your body's biological nutritional inheritance.

9 Weeks To Weight Loss eBook.
9 Weeks to Weight Loss eBook with or without Workbook.

Ultimate Fitness Secrets Revealed.
Top Fitness Coach Reveals Best-Kept Health, Fitness, Weight Loss Secrets.

Cardiac Gym.
Weight loss/Health improvement.

Gluten Free Club Membership Site.
Private Membership For Gluten Free Diets & Celiacs.

Christian Weight Loss.
Helping Christians lose weight when diets don't work for them.

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Stop Cheating On Your Low Carb Diet!
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Lose Weight Now . . . Stay Slim Forever.
How to lose weight without diets, drugs, or surgery. eBook + free newsletter and teleclasses.

How I Lost 80 Lbs E-Book.
An e-book account of how I easily lost 80 pounds in a matter of months without using any special diets or drugs.

Burn Fat - Diets That Work.
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Skinny Guy Secrets To Insane Muscle Gain.
161 Page No Nonsense Muscle Building E-Book. Includes Five 30 Day Mass Diets, 26-Week Program, Email Coaching And Much More.

Cease Your Struggle With Weight & Diets.
Reveals the truth about diets & why they don't work and how to be naturally healthy for life!

Firm And Flatten Your Abs.
Quickly shrink your waistline, lose body fat, eliminate low back pain and develop a stunning set of six pack abs.

500+ Healthy Chinese Recipes Cookbook.
Learn How to Cook Low Fat & Low Carb Chinese Food from Master Chef w/ 40 years of cooking experience!

Scarsdale Low-Carb Diet.
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The Low Gi Diet Breakthrough.
Powerful weight loss and dieting secrets based on scientifically proven principles of the low gi diet.

Stop Cheating On Your Low Carb Diet!
Brand New Model Of Human Motivation Helps Dieters Stick To Their Diets!

The One Low-Carb Diet That Always Works.
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Why Do You Overeat? Get The Answer Now.
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Low Carb Fat Burning Index.
Low-carb to low-fat rotation and fat fast low carb bootcamp. 92% success rate, life-long maintenance.

Variety Plus Low Carb Cookbook.
Healthy, easy to prepare, mouth-watering low carb recipes

My Low Carb Success.
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Get Motivated - 1300+ Low Carb Recipes.
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CarbTrack.
Low Carb Diet Tracking Software.

Nutrition and Health

Nutrition, Health and Diet.