Losing Weight With Protein-Rich Diet Leads To Better Sleep Says Study

A new study has found out that overweight middle-aged adults who lose weight with a protein rich diet seem to sleep better as compared to those who lose weight with normal protein quantity, as per a report dated March 27, 2016. This paper was published in the ‘American Journal of Clinical Nutrition’.

Usually, other researches focus on the effect of sleep on weight control and diet, but this research studied that effect of diet and weight loss, mainly the protein quantity on sleep, said Purdue University’s Wayne Campbell.

They found that if low-calorie diet is consumed with a high amount of protein, there is a drastic improvement in the quality of sleep for middle-age adults. This quality of sleep is better in comparison with those who lost the same amount of weight while consuming normal protein amount.

In this study, over 44 obese or overweight participants who consumed either higher-protein or normal protein weight loss diet. A survey was completed for rating the quality of sleep each month throughout the study. These findings showed that people who consumed that people who consumed more quantities of protein and lost weight noted an improvement in the quality of sleep after 3 to 4 months.

Jing Zhou, the first author of the study, stated that compromised sleep quality and short sleep duration lead to cardiovascular diseases, premature death and metabolic diseases. Owing to the increased prevalence of such problems, knowing how lifestyle and diet can help in improving sleep is important.

As per this research, sleep quality is added to the growing list of positive outcomes of high-intake of protein while losing weight and other outcomes including improvement in blood pressure, retention of body mass and promotion of body fat loss.

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