Eating protein throughout the day preserves muscle and physical function in dieting postmenopausal women, study suggests

Wednesday, August 10, 2011 - 15:31 in Health & Medicine

Dieting postmenopausal women who want to avoid losing muscle as they lose fat should pay attention to a new study. Adding protein throughout the day not only holds hunger pangs at bay so that dieters lose more weight, it keeps body composition -- the amount of fat relative to muscle -- in better proportion.

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