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Health impact of whey protein in people with overweight/obesity

Whey protein has been proved to have many benefits for healthy people like enhanced immune function, weight reduction, and maintenance of catabolism of muscle mass during exercise and have some potential biological advantages for adult with overweight/obesity. Diet supplementation with milk serum protein like whey protein has been suggested as an adjunct strategy in the prevention and treatment of obesity. Whey protein have high nutritional value because it contains all essential amino acids in higher concentrations than vegetable protein sources. Supplementation with whey protein can improve blood pressure and vascular function in overweight and obese individuals. Dairy whey proteins and their bioactive components such as lactalbumin, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor and branched-chain amino acids may have an insulinotrophic effect, hypotriacylglycerolaemic effect, muscle-sparing effect  and cholesterol-lowering effect.The function of inducing satiety  , increasing thermogenesis and reducing blood glucose level  enabled the application of whey protein in the therapeutic treatment for obesity.