Whether you’re shedding pounds with the help of effective new medicines, slimming down after weight loss surgery or cutting calories and adding exercise, there will come a day when the numbers on the scale stop going down, and you hit the dreaded weight loss plateau.
A trial of obese, pre-diabetic people who ate the same amount of daily calories with one group following a fasting schedule and the other eating freely found no difference in weight loss or other health indicators.
Turns out, there is such thing as too much protein. "Our study shows that dialing up your protein intake in pursuit of better metabolic health is not a panacea. You could be doing real damage to your arteries,” authors wrote.