High-protein meals may help overweight burn fat

More stupidity.

"Higher-protein meals may help overweight and obese people burn more fat, the results of a small study suggest.

Research has shown that overweight people are less efficient at burning fat after a meal than thinner people are. In the new study, Australian researchers looked at whether the protein composition of a meal affects that weight-related gap.

They found that overweight men and women burned more post-meal fat when they ate a high-protein breakfast and lunch than when they had lower-protein meals. That is, the added protein seemed to modify the fat-burning deficit seen in heavy individuals."

Not even close.

Protein takes more energy to digest than other macronutrients.

So meals high in protein offer fewer net Calories than meals with, say, the same number of Calories as carbs.

So your body will burn stored energy to make up for any deficit.

So this is more bad research.

So sad.