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NUTRITIONAL ASPECTS OF APPETITE CONTROL: PROTEIN AND ALCOHOL
8 May 2009
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Weight Loss
Protein is believed to be the most satiating of all the macronutrients. An intense satiety may last for 2-3 hours after a meal. Therefore if eating occurs during this period, the food intake may be reduced.
From an appetite perspective, it can be easily seen why the chronic over-consumption of dietary fat occurs with relative ease.
Light drinkers add alcohol calories to food calories resulting in higher energy intakes than non-drinkers. This is not surprising given that alcohol intake does not produce satiety. In fact, alcohol may stimulate appetite. Alcohol also lowers inhibitions and this may lead to over-consumption of readily available, high-fat food. Hence, although alcohol per se may not result in increased fatness, use of alcohol may have this result through its other effects.
This situation is different in heavy drinkers (15-40 per cent of energy intake from alcohol), who appear to bum alcohol inefficiently; in fact, alcoholics who rely on alcohol for most of their calorie intake tend to be thin and malnourished.
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