Shedding excess fat has a number of important health benefits, including a reduced risk factor for contracting serious medical problems like type II diabetes, dementia and cancer. However, with the wide range of fitness programs and crash diets now available to consumers, it can be difficult to tell fact from fiction when it comes to weight loss.

Thankfully, this heavily annotated Authority Nutrition post offers some answers about how to achieve meaningful and lasting weight loss.

To start, the piece suggests utilizing a weight loss method that the medical establishment has come to certify in recent years; sticking to a diet that will satisfy your hunger without expanding your waistline. To do this, it’s important to cut out junk foods like sugary drinks and fat packed snacks like potato chips and make sure there’s a plentiful amount of lean protein in your daily intake.

For many of us, when we think of protein, we think of red meat. However as this article points out, it’s now possible to add the appropriate amount of protein to your diet through the use of whey powder, fish, soy rice and even peas.

Click the link below to learn more about how a protein rich diet can help you achieve your weight loss goals.

Read the full article here: https://authoritynutrition.com/protein-shakes-weight-loss/