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Whether your aim is to lose excess body weight or not, adequate protein is essential to your health. As a vital part of nutrition, protein is second only to water in the body's physical composition, makes up 20% of total body weight, and is the primary component of muscle, connective tissue (collagen), skin, hair, nails and integral organs including the heart and brain. It is also required in the formation of enzymes, hormones, transport molecules like haemaglobin, and antibodies. Numerous individual amino acids are are also known to act as neurotransmitters.
It also helps with reduced weight regain, which is a common obstacle to ong term weight maintenance. A randomised, parallel study in 148 moderately obese men and women, showed that a higher protein intake, that is 18% versus 15% of energy during weight maintenance after weight loss, resulted in a 50% lower body weight regain.
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It feels like spring is finally here! You might be thinking about what you're going to wear? If you feel like you'd like to lose some weight one of the easiest things you start with is drinking more water. Sometimes we can feel hungry, but we're not really, we're just thirsty. Most of us are dehydrated with being in airconditioning or just being busy and forgetting to to have a drink of water. By the way, it needs to be water. Tea and coffee don't count! We all need about 8 glasses of a water a day. So before you reach for that high calorie, low nutrition snack, go and have a glass of water and wait 15 minutes. By that time you may even have forgotten you were on the prowl for a snack.
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