FFF 032: Can High-Protein Diets Help You Lose Weight? – with Dr Alex Johnstone
The Food For Fitness Podcast | Nutrition | Training | Lifestyle | Healthy Living
Scott Baptie
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🗓️ 3 November 2015
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
A major goal in the battle against obesity in Scotland is to develop strategies that result in healthy and sustainable weight loss.
Dr Alex Johnstone from the Rowett Institute at the University of Aberdeen is a leading expert on how protein, from both plants and animals, can help to minimise hunger, improve metabolic health and assist with weight loss. In this episode you’ll discover the science behind why protein makes you “feel full” and other top ways to minimise hunger.
Alex will explain how different protein sources impact your body, how often we should eat protein, why protein at breakfast is a good idea and the importance of variety. She’ll dispel myths surrounding high protein diets and kidney function, why more than 30g of protein per serving doesn’t “go to waste”, her thoughts on organic meat vs conventional meat and why she thinks we should potentially be eating more protein from plants!
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| 0:00.0 | Are you tired of falling off the proverbial fitness bandwagon? |
| 0:04.1 | Join us as we share simple, realistic, and above all, achievable weight loss advice |
| 0:09.5 | based on evidence gathered from helping hundreds of people look, feel, move, and perform better. |
| 0:15.5 | You don't need to starve yourself or hop on the latest fitness craze. |
| 0:19.1 | We'll show you how the smallest change can give you the |
| 0:21.7 | largest impact. Now join your healthy living host, Scott Baptee, for the Food for Fitness |
| 0:27.4 | podcast. Welcome to episode 32 of the Food for Fitness podcast, brought to you by |
| 0:40.3 | Food for Fitness.co.com. I'm your host, Scott Baptay, and this week I'm joined by Dr. Alex |
| 0:47.1 | Johnson. Now, Alex is a researcher at the Rout Institute of Health at the University of |
| 0:52.9 | Aberdeen. Alex is one of the leading authorities on protein and satiety in the UK. |
| 1:00.0 | She's worked recently with Jamie Oliver on his new cookbook and helped design the high protein marks |
| 1:06.0 | and Spencer's ready meal range. |
| 1:08.0 | In this episode of the podcast, Alex will be talking all about how protein actually |
| 1:12.8 | helps you to feel full. Why this happens, does it depend on the type of protein that you consume, |
| 1:20.1 | how often should you eat protein, the benefits of having protein at breakfast, and she'll be |
| 1:24.9 | dispelling a lot of myths around it too like what happens and you have |
| 1:28.4 | more than 30 grams in a serving and there's a high protein diet bad for the kidneys and what even |
| 1:34.2 | is the definition of a high protein diet so this episode it covers all things protein we're |
| 1:40.2 | chatting about weight loss how does protein help you lose fat how does it help you keep you feeling full? So here we go. Episode 32 with Dr. Alex Johnson. Hey Alex, welcome to podcast. |
| 1:52.0 | Hi, Scott. Thanks for the invitation. It's always nice to talk about my latest research. |
| 1:58.7 | That's a pleasure. So Alex, can you give us some more background about you? How did |
| 2:02.2 | you get into this industry and where did it all begin? So I suppose I've really got quite a |
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