high-protein diet


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Noun1.high-protein diet - a diet high in plant and animal proteins; used to treat malnutrition or to increase muscle mass
diet - a prescribed selection of foods
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A high-protein diet included either 1.5 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight per day, at least 20 percent of total caloric intake coming from protein or at least 100 grams of protein per day.
Middleton is also rumored to follow a high-protein diet - Dukan Diet.
Adding to the mound of evidence, a recently published study by researchers at the University of Eastern Finland, who tracked 2,400 middle-aged men over the course of 22 years, reported that a high-protein diet resulted in a 49 per cent greater risk of heart failure.
A HIGH-protein diet with lots of lean meat increases the risk of heart failure in middle-aged men, a study suggests.
Despite consuming a high-protein diet for a period of 2 yrs, measures of liver and kidney function as well as blood glucose remained within the normal clinical range (Table 2).
Will practising the ninja crawl and bulking up with a high-protein diet work?
Although I thought her weight loss was due to her daily gym exercises, she was quite convinced it was due to her low-carb, high-protein diet, which she started two months earlier.
Our findings should be interpreted with caution, but it appears that following a high-protein diet may increase heart failure risk."
To validate the results of the laboratory-based research, the current trial was designed to investigate the effect of feeding two different commercially manufactured diets (standard-protein diet, 32% CP, versus a high-protein diet, 39% CP) to hybrid abalone (Haliotis laevigata x Haliotis rubra; initial weight: 3.10 g) on growth performance, feed utilization, and sales revenue under on-farm conditions.
A high-protein diet, as might be consumed during pregnancy, would contain higher amounts of L-arginine.
"I eat a really high-protein diet. I consume between seven and eight portions of 20 gram protein meals a day.