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Eggs at Breakfast May Delay Hunger

A Morning Meal With Eggs Makes You Feel Full Longer Than Cereal, Study Shows

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By Cari Nierenberg

WebMD Health News

Reviewed byLouise Chang, MD <http://www.webmd.com/louise-chang>

May 11, 2012 -- Starting your day off with an egg may help curb your

appetite better than cereal, new research suggests.

In a small study, it took longer for people who ate eggs for breakfast

<http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/most-important-meal> to show signs of

hunger than it did for those who had a bowl of ready-to-eat cereal.

Scientists suspect that egg protein

<http://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/guide/good-protein-sources> may

be better at making people feel full longer compared to the protein

found in wheat.

cracked eggs

For people hoping to shed some pounds, changing the type of protein in

the diet, rather than the amount of it, is an idea the researchers think

deserves more study as a weight loss

<http://www.webmd.com/diet/default.htm> strategy.

" This study shows that diets with higher protein quality may enhance

satiety, leading to better compliance and success of a weight loss

diet, " researcher Nikhil Dhurandhar, PhD, says in a news release. He is

an associate professor in the department of infection and obesity

<http://www.webmd.com/diet/what-is-obesity> at the Pennington Biomedical

Research Center in Baton Rouge, La.

One large egg has about 70 calories, and it contains about 6 grams of

protein, 5 grams of fat, and 186 milligrams of cholesterol

<http://www.webmd.com/cholesterol-management/default.htm>.

The research was funded by the American Egg Board, and will be presented

at the19th European Congress on Obesity in Lyon, France.

Eggs vs. Cereals

In the study, researchers tracked 20 overweight or obese people, giving

them either a breakfast containing eggs or cold cereal for one week.

Although the breakfasts offered different protein foods, the meals

themselves were equally matched in terms of calories, carbohydrates,

protein, and fat.

It's unclear how the eggs were prepared, how many were served, or what

other foods were included in the breakfast meals.

On the first and last day of the test week, people were given a buffet

lunch to eat. On those days, researchers measured how hungry or full

participants felt before and after breakfast and lunch, and they

recorded how many calories were consumed at the buffet. They also took

blood samples to determine levels of ghrelin, a hunger-stimulating

hormone, and PYY3-36, a hormone that signals fullness.

Participants then got a two-week break from the research, followed by a

second test week where they received the other breakfast food not had

during the first week.

Researchers found that people who had eggs in the morning felt fuller

before lunch, and they also ate less food from the buffet compared to

those who had cereal. Egg eaters also had lower levels of ghrelin and

higher amounts of PYY3-36 during the three hours between breakfast and

lunch. This suggests they felt less hungry and more satisfied between meals.

" Long-term weight loss trials to compare the manipulation of protein

quality without increasing protein quantity should be explored, "

Dhurandhar says.

/This study will be presented at a medical conference. The findings

should be considered preliminary, as they have not yet undergone the

" peer review " process, in which outside experts scrutinize the data

prior to publication in a medical journal./