Dietary protein increases lean mass

Via Protein Power.com

There is an old joke that goes something like this:

Question: What is Mozart doing in his grave right now?
Answer: De-composing.

The same question could be asked of the living right now who are working hard on their diets and seeming to go nowhere body weight-wise.


Question: What’s happening right now? Why am I not losing weight?
Answer: You’re Re-composing.

As you can see from the picture above, body composition matters a lot. It’s not the particularly the weight you carry as much as how it is distributed that counts. As I’m forever asking my female patients, What difference does it make if you weigh 200 pounds if you’re wearing a size 4? Although that situation is unlikely, they get the point.

A soon-to-be-published study by Donald Layman and his team at the University of Illinois demonstrates this phenomenon nicely. And shows that by increasing protein intake - even while keeping carb intake much higher than I would recommend - increases fat loss while increasing muscle and lean tissue mass.

Here is how the study was set up.

Read the rest HERE.