Some lean AM protein curbs hunger

Of all the macronutrients that we eat, "protein blunts your hunger the most and is the most satiating," notes Wayne Campbell, who leads a team investigating protein at Purdue University's Campbell Laboratory for Integrative Research in Nutrition, Fitness and Aging.

In October, Campbell and his colleagues reported at the annual meeting of the Obesity Society that women who added a little more lean protein to their breakfast experienced less hunger over the next four hours. Blood levels of the hunger hormone — ghrelin — also rose significantly less.

The Purdue findings are just the latest in a growing number of studies that point to some weight benefits of eating more protein.

Courtesy of LA Times

Steve - as we always say, eat a balanced breafast (including, of course, lean protein).