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Passport to Health: Improving health at work

Summary A workplace programme, called Passport to Health, was trialled at Gatwick Airport in order to assess whether offering health resources to security staff could have a positive impact on dietary behaviour, perceived health, weight management and physical activity. Security staff were...

Beneficial effects of a higher-protein breakfast on the appetitive, hormonal, and neural signals controlling energy intake regulation in overweight/obese, "breakfast-skipping," late-adolescent girls.

Abstract BACKGROUND: Breakfast skipping is a common dietary habit practiced among adolescents and is strongly associated with obesity. OBJECTIVE: The objective was to examine whether a high-protein (HP) compared with a normal-protein (NP) breakfast leads to daily improvements in appetite...

A randomized crossover, pilot study examining the effects of a normal protein vs. high protein breakfast on food cravings and reward signals in overweight/obese “breakfast skipping”, late-adolescent girls

Background This pilot study examined whether the addition of a normal protein (NP) vs. high protein (HP) breakfast leads to alterations in food cravings and plasma homovanillic acid (HVA), which is an index of central dopamine production, in overweight/obese ‘breakfast skipping’ late...

Eggs and satiety review

Introduction Eggs have long been acknowledged as a healthy food, but studies now point towards benefits for weight management, most recently from a trial presented at this year’s European Congress of Obesity. But, what makes eggs useful for controlling weight, and is the evidence...

Egg breakfast enhances weight loss

This randomized trial, a follow-up to a preliminary study documenting the satiety potential of eggs, examined the effect of egg breakfast on weight loss. Otherwise healthy overweight or obese subjects (n = 160) were assigned to Egg(E), Egg-Diet (ED), Bagel (B), or Bagel-Diet (BD) groups...