Definition of High-protein diet

1. Noun. A diet high in plant and animal proteins; used to treat malnutrition or to increase muscle mass.

Generic synonyms: Diet

Lexicographical Neighbors of High-protein Diet

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high-protein diet (current term)
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Literary usage of High-protein diet

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Theory and practice of infant feeding: With Notes on Development by Henry Dwight Chapin, Herbert William Conn (1909)
"Blood per 100 pounds weight : High protein diet 51.2 ounces. ... Low protein diet 31.9 " Muscular tissue : One third more on high protein diet. ..."

2. Mineral Requirements for Military Personnel: Levels Needed for Cognitive And by Food and Nutrition Board, Committee on Military Nutrition Research, National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) (2006)
"Thus, the most important variable is a relatively high protein intake of 1.2-1.5 g/kg (IOM, 2006); benefits of a high-protein diet include a reduction in ..."

3. Principles of Biochemistry for Students of Medicine, Agriculture and Related by Thorburn Brailsford Robertson (1920)
"0.58 " 0.6 " The urea output, it will be seen, fell on the low protein diet to onc- sixth of that obtained on the high protein diet. The creatinine output ..."

4. Diet in Health and Disease by Julius Friedenwald, John Ruhräh (1919)
"The High Protein Diet.—High protein diets—those over llM grams—may be of use in certain conditions during pregnancy and lactation, in convalescing from ..."

5. The New Dietetics, what to Eat and how: A Guide to Scientific Feeding in by John Harvey Kellogg (1921)
"These facts show beyond any room for doubt that a high protein diet, or even the ordinary mixed diet which, by including meat, comprises an excess of ..."

6. Diseases of the Stomach and Upper Alimentary Tract by Anthony Bassler (1910)
"In the first, a high protein diet to bind the excess free acid for a few days answers well. But in the more chronic cases, ..."

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